If there would be meters of snow, it could work on the lower part of the lift, but not on the final part where you cross the street, where I filmed the boy sitting on the disc. Maybe when the lift was built many years ago there was much more snow and now road in winter? We don't know, weren't much people there. By the way, the disc is a thick part of wood and a bit bigger than a usual Leitner or Poma one, so its not uncomfortable to sit on it - unless the whole thing spins, which you can't control. We guessed the tracks were from downhill skiing or they had additional ropes

Depends on the manufacture / type and (for some) how wet they are and how steep the slope is. Sometimes it's as nice as spring corn snow, sometimes its sticky or like icy artificial slopes.

it seems to be

no, not really

Ja, auch unsere Vermutung. Weil bei unserem Besuch ja schon sehr wenig Schnee lag.

About 7,50 € in 2018

Teilweise fährt man ja auch ganz normal am Boden, nur zwischendrin schwebt man. Kam mir eigentlich nicht unbequem vor - das Problem war halt nur, dass der Teller nicht fixiert war und sich drehen konnte und man dagegen ankämpfen musste, dass man wieder mit geraden Skiern auf den Boden aufsetzt. Und der Start an der Talstation war auch etwas schwierig, weil man ja keinerlei Abfederung hat und gleich auf Liftgeschwindigkeit katapultiert wird.

Not any more, thanks to corporate greed. Big manufacturers shutting down all the small ones by taking them over and dissolving them, and making ski lift operation extremely complicated by lobbying authorities into declaring that old lifts aren't safe just because their mechanical design is not as standardized or advanced as the modern ones and don't have as much safety technology as the modern lifts. When the old lifts themselves never have accidents, because if they did, they wouldn't last long at all and something would need to be done about it ASAP. The modern lifts are all the same because there are only 4 corporate global tyrants for manufacturers left, and they have made it that way so nobody CAN make different lifts. One company tried after the standardization was imposed and got shut down(taken over and dissolved) for it.

I suppose so, at least it should be old enough and doesn't look like a used one from the alps.

No sorry, but we guessed it was originally same as the "flying platter" lift a few meters away and they replaced the fixed "j-bars" with chairs.

Not directly, but not too far away, it's in Ljungdalen near the end of the valley, but not connected to the other ski resort there with the chair lift. The small ski resort near Vemdalen, next to Skistar Vemdalsskalet, is called Vargen.

Have you been to vargen, and all the resorts around it?

@@OskarEhmsen around nearly all, indeed (see the index or statistic on my blog, I visited 73 ski resorts in Sweden, that's 1/10 of all resorts I visited until now), but not Vargen, because it was completely closed 2 years ago when I had the Skistar Season Card and was a few times in Vemdalen. They want to reopen this year, but I suppose I won't be in this area then.

same! And it needed to be posted 6 years ago! And in German. ✅

Ja.. und damals ging ich davon aus, innerhalb von 3 Jahren nochmals nach Kirigistan zu kommen. Leider bis heute nicht aus den bekannten Gründen ...

Yes, but I rather don't want to trink that glass of water with 10% poison in it ;) And there is also the time problem. I still have some video clips from the last years I wanted to cut someday and upload to youtube.

@@inmontanis please do :) this is fascinating stuff!

Still safer than Yan

Worth the ride

Nö, ich bin kein Hinterlader, das ist ein anderer. Aber jeder wie er will..

@@inmontanis Hinterlader - hab ich so auch noch nie gehört :D