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Technology of Alpine Ski Resorts: Lifts, Snowmaking and Grooming
NEW ENGLAND SKI MUSEUM
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WINTER 2002
ISSUE #55
Technology of Alpine Ski Resorts:
Lifts, Snowmaking and Grooming
Excerpted from the Museum's 2001 Exhibit
Part One
by Jeffrey R. Leich
Connie Davis Watson rides the Skimobile at Mt. Cranmore, New Hampshire, 1940. Only one other Skimobile-style lift was ever installed,
the Homestead in Hot Springs, Virginia. The lifts proved to be reliable but somewhat more labor-intensive than chairlifts. Several cars
with snowplows ran the trestle in snowstorms, salt was spread during ice storms, and the rubber tires on each car had to be inflated or
deflated to adjust for changing weather. The Skimobile proved to be a strong summer attraction as well, producing revenue for Cranmore
in a season when most ski resorts saw little. The Skimobile was dismantled in 1989.
