Washington summer ski-lifts

I don't know of any seeing as how I'm nowhere near you but a word of
caution: Many ski lift employees may try to keep you from getting on the
lift w/o a brake. If you don't have one be ready to explain the
(disgustingly simple) concept of DIRECT DRIVE. Show them that if your
legs stop moving so will your ride.

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Doesn't look like Mt. Baker, Stevens Pass, Summit at Snoqualmie, or
Crystal Mt. offer summer lifts.

Snoqualmie put out a 'Press Release'
(http://mid.summit.boothcreek.com/winter/press/?id=2203) in April 2003
stating they were discontinueing the summer lifts due to flat growth,
increased insurance costs, and increased topsoil erosion & plant
destruction from Downhillers not sticking to the trails.

'Whistler' (http://www.whistler-blackcomb.com/bike/) still has summer
lifts but I don't know their policy for unicycles.

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Bummer. I'm so glad we were fortunate enough to have two great sets of
races and rides at the Snoqualmie Pass, in 1999 and at Unicon 11 where
the whole world got to play.

I'll never forget my favorite quote from the Unicon race down the
mountain. Yuichiro Kato has a fairly limited English vocabulary. He used
to be the undisputed fastest rider in the world, but he had limited
offroad experience. So we're barreling down the first part of the
course, a really rocky, bumpy dirt road in a crowd of riders trying to
get in front of each other. As the pack started to spread out, I heard
his voice somewhere nearby: "Oh my goodness!"

Perhaps this is why there is very little lift-assisted mountain biking
in the Lake Tahoe area anymore. Squaw Valley no longer does it.
Fortunately Northstar still does. If you want to ride some lifts and
enjoy awesome trails with lots of other riders, mark your calendars for
Muni Weekend 2004, September 17-19.
http://www.unicycling.com/muni/2004/index.htm

(another shameless plug)

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UniBrier said:

*'Whistler' (http://www.whistler-blackcomb.com/bike/) still has summer
lifts but I don't know their policy for unicycles. *

In the thread below, Nathan discusses this:

http://tinyurl.com/38ep9

Sounds like at that location at least it's ok (for now).

I am definitely planning a riding weekend up there later in the summer.
While I've recently developed a taste for climbing, Miles has informed
me that Downhill is where it is at.

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I checked the 'Whistler Blackcomb mountain bike page'
(http://www.whistler-blackcomb.com/bike/) that I wrote about in the
thread Tom mentioned. Looks like there have been some improvements.
A-Line was one of the few good trails that was open after the big rain
when we visited and now it has some wooden features added. When I wrote
that, I understated how much hassle it was to actually be allowed to pay
lots to ride, but we were the first ever unicyclists there. Supposedly
unicyclists are welcome now, but I'd love to hear the experiences of the
next person to try it.

It's a shame that so many of the Calif and WA lifts are no longer
running in summer. Then again, I like the uphill too, and don't like the
cost and commercialness of lift-assisted Muni.

---Nathan

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