Rope Tows

PsychicMigration

PsychicMigration

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Anyone else really like rope tows? Maybe it's because my local hill has one and its super easy to lap the park. I wish some of the bigger mountains had random rope tows with 3-5 features so you can focus in on certain things. Basically you can lap more stuff so you don't have to spend 3 hours doing a feature like 6 times.
 
Want to be pulled up on a snowmobile or just click out and just sit on the back of the thing over and over and just get laps *trademark
 
In NZ we have a few non-profit 'club' fields where they service the whole mountain by rope tows, and they are honestly better than chairlifts if you've got a bit of upper body strength. You can get on and off wherever you want on the rope, if you just want to lap the chutes or a cliff drop all day (non-profit so no park or even groomers some fields). And they keep the crowds from coming as people see it as too difficult and tiring as they can run quickly, about the speed of a nondetachable newish chairlift, so we use a device that looks and acts similar to a nutcracker to connected to a climbing harness to pull us up. So yea ropetows are the best.
 
13977490:TimersMix said:
In NZ we have a few non-profit 'club' fields where they service the whole mountain by rope tows, and they are honestly better than chairlifts if you've got a bit of upper body strength. You can get on and off wherever you want on the rope, if you just want to lap the chutes or a cliff drop all day (non-profit so no park or even groomers some fields). And they keep the crowds from coming as people see it as too difficult and tiring as they can run quickly, about the speed of a nondetachable newish chairlift, so we use a device that looks and acts similar to a nutcracker to connected to a climbing harness to pull us up. So yea ropetows are the best.
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You hit craigeys?
 
I'm curious about the economics of a resort (I'm talking a bigger one like PC or something that doesn't already have one) running a rope tow. It's got to the point where I will hike a mellow tube like three times per run at my local mountain to learn stuff, I can't even imagine how awesome it would be to just get on a rope and hit that shit again.
 
Rope tows are my favorite thing in skiing. My buddies will all head to the main lift serviced park and then I’ll get a phone call abt 10 mins later why I didn’t follow them lol. I always say cause I stayed in the rope park cause it’s the most fun park. Sitting on a lift for 10 mins sucks.
 
13977490:TimersMix said:
In NZ we have a few non-profit 'club' fields where they service the whole mountain by rope tows, and they are honestly better than chairlifts if you've got a bit of upper body strength. You can get on and off wherever you want on the rope, if you just want to lap the chutes or a cliff drop all day (non-profit so no park or even groomers some fields). And they keep the crowds from coming as people see it as too difficult and tiring as they can run quickly, about the speed of a nondetachable newish chairlift, so we use a device that looks and acts similar to a nutcracker to connected to a climbing harness to pull us up. So yea ropetows are the best.
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Nutcracker!
 
Its almost the same speed as the slow lifts. I would take a rope tow any day. At least until they put some highspeed lifts for the park. Some day...
 
As an instructor, I find the magic carpets to be THE shit. Absolutely cannot imagine trying to get class of first timers up a rope tow.
 
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