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Old 10-23-2017, 05:01 AM   #3
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Looks like the removal/replacement........out with the old double chair.....in with the new t-bar, up top the mountain, was happening all last week.

Looks like a huge helicopter, with very large orange and white vertical striping, maybe an old Soviet Union military helicopter (a good question?), has been hauling poured concrete by dangling a line to a concrete pour bucket below, and haul'n it up and down this mountain top project.

"....hey comrade .....you be back here quick with more concrete......we need more mud ..... nyet?.....da!" ....seems like old helicopters never die......they get maintained and maintained and maintained

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....oopsie-doopsie.....just read in www.waterville.com ... Phase II - learn more ..... that it was a 1958 Sikorsky S-55 helicopter ...... www.midwesthelicopters.com/images/IMG_1622a.jpg .....which makes it almost 60-years old ....how about that! Doesn't Sikorsky sound like a Russian name?

While the ski area, Waterville Valley, is about 50-years old, 1966 to present-2017, the helicopter used to help install a new t-bar lift up top on High Country is a 1958-Sikorsky, even older than the ski area ..... seems a wee bit unusual?

Ya know.....what I'd really like to see, up there, is a 1958-style rope tow, as opposed to a 2017-built ...... t-bar lift..... than uses a 1948 grey Ford farm tractor to power it up .......oh well!

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Sunday, Nov 26, 2017

Heard the old 1966 high country double chair got repaired and will be in use this season. While the new hi country t-bar lift had concrete lift foundations constructed with the help of a helicopter, this new t-bar lift construction project was supposedly not completed, so maybe they will continue to use the old 1966 hi country double chair, which is like the slowest chair lift ever, ever, ever, ever ..... when it works? ....... who knows?

www.waterville.com/cams/ .... two cam shots; ski area bottom of mountain area on the left with snow making ...... golf course xc skiing on the right, about two miles from the downhill ski area, with all natural snow, no snow making

.....say-hey ..... is that the Waffle House in a new location.....next to the Valley Run lift get-on......sure looks like it.

WV is so deserted during the Mon, Tues, Wed, Thurs, Fri week, maybe they should just pay people twenty dollars to show up and go skiing .....ho-ho-ho!
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