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26-661: The alpine teams train at the Dartmouth Skiway in Lyme, New Hampshire . The nordic teams train at The Dartmouth Cross Country Ski Center at Oak Hill, Hanover NH. Cami Thompson is the Director of Skiing at Dartmouth and has been a Dartmouth coach since 1989; she was a US Ski Team member from 1985-1987, and is a member of the US Ski & Snowboard Board of Directors. Dartmouth College student Fred Harris (1888-1961) founded

52-617: A Ford Model A . Wallace "Bunny" Bertram took it over for the second season, improved the operation, renamed it from Ski-Way to Ski Tow , and eventually moved it to what became the eastern fringe of Vermont's major southern ski areas, a regional resort still operating as Saskadena Six . Their relative simplicity made tows widespread and contributed to an explosion of the sport in the United States and Europe. Before tows, only people willing to walk uphill could ski. Suddenly relatively nonathletic people could participate, greatly increasing

78-439: A hill. The grade of this style of tow is limited by passenger grip strength and the fact that sheaves (pulleys that support the rope above the ground) cannot be used. A development of the simple rope tow is the handle tow (or pony lift ), where plastic or metal handles are permanently attached to the rope. These handles are easier to grip than a rope, making the ski lift easier to ride. Steeper, faster and longer tows require

104-705: A lift-served summit elevation of 1,943 feet (592 m) above sea level and a base elevation of 975 feet (297 m), yielding a vertical drop of 968 feet (295 m). Its longest trail is 1.25 miles (2.0 km). There are three lifts which serve the trails at the skiway, including the Winslow Mountain Quad, the Holt's Ledge Double, and the Magic Carpet Beginner Lift. These lifts give the ski area an uphill capacity of 3,300 skiers per hour. Snowmaking covers about seventy percent of

130-416: A series of pulleys to support the rope at waist height and hence require the use of some sort of "tow gripper". Several were designed and used in the 1930s and 40s, but the most successful was the "nutcracker" attached to a harness around the hips. To this is attached a clamp, much like the nutcracker from which it derives its name, which the rider attaches to the rope. This eliminates the need to hold on to

156-521: Is a type of cable transport for snow sports in which skiers and snowboarders remain on the ground as they are pulled uphill. While they were once prevalent, they have been overtaken in popularity by higher-capacity and higher-comfort aerial lifts , such as chairlifts and gondola lifts . Today, surface lifts are most often found on beginner slopes, small ski areas , and peripheral slopes. They are also often used to access glacier ski slopes because their supports can be anchored in glacier ice due to

182-542: The Dartmouth Outing Club in 1909, and so became "the man who put America on skis" The Nashua (NH) Telegraph notes that in 1914, a group of Dartmouth students travelled to Canada to compete against McGill University in the first collegiate ski race. The Dartmouth Outing Club's 1927 race on Mt Moosilauke is cited by the US Ski & Snowboard Association as the first downhill ski race in the country. By 1935

208-633: The Moosilauke Ravine Lodge and ending at the summit of Mt Moosilauke . The course follows the Gorge Brook Trail, and ascends 2387 feet (to 4802 feet ASL) across 3.6 miles. The course record of 36:16 was set in 2010 by Kris Freeman. Dartmouth Outing Club alumni not associated with the ski team have made notable contributions to mountaineering. For example, in 1963, Barry Bishop D53, Barry Corbet D58, Jake Breitenbach D57, Barry Prather D61, and Dave Dingman D58 all joined

234-542: The Dartmouth Skiway opened 67 years ago in 1957 with a Pomalift on one peak. For the 1960–61 season, a T-bar was also erected for a novice slope. In 1968, a new trail pod was opened with a double chairlift , located across the street on Winslow Ledge. In the 1970s and 1980s, many improvements were made to the area, including replacing the Pomalift with a Hall double chairlift and snowmaking installation. In

260-649: The Ski Hoist at Charlotte Pass in Australia dating from 1938. The first T-bar lift in the United States was installed in 1940 at the Pico Mountain ski area. It was considered a great improvement over the rope tow . An earlier T-bar was installed at Rib Mountain (now Granite Peak Ski Area ), Wisconsin, in 1937. In recent years, J-bars are no longer used in most ski areas. Some operators have combined T-bar and platter lifts, attaching both types of hanger to

286-485: The appeal of the sport. Within five years, more than 100 tow ropes were operating in North America. A rope tow consists of a cable or rope running through a bullwheel (large horizontal pulley) at the bottom and one at the top, powered by an engine at one end. In the simplest case, a rope tow is where passengers grab hold of a rope and are pulled along while standing on their skis or snowboards and are pulled up

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312-739: The area with over fifteen snowguns. There is a terrain park located on the Winslow side. The Dartmouth Skiway Ski and Snowboard School has a staff of over 35 instructors. The slopes are patrolled by the Dartmouth Ski Patrol, a joint community and student first aid volunteer organization. The Dartmouth Ski Team hosts the alpine skiing events of the Dartmouth Winter Carnival there annually. Descended from an earlier, smaller operation on nearby Oak Hill in Hanover ,

338-414: The cable, giving skiers and snowboarders a choice. Hangers designed to tow sledges uphill are installed on some slopes by operators, and some operators convert hangers in the summer to tow cyclists uphill. A variant of the platter lift is the detachable surface lift, commonly known as a “ Poma lift” , after the company which introduced them. Unlike most other platter lifts, which are similar to T-bars with

364-578: The first US expedition to Mt Everest . Margaret Wheeler D97 was president of the American Mountain Guides Association . Dartmouth Skiway The Dartmouth Skiway is a ski area in the northeastern United States , in Lyme, New Hampshire . Located about twenty minutes northeast of Dartmouth College , it has thirty trails from easiest (green circle) to most difficult (black diamond) on over one hundred acres (40 ha) of skiable area. The Dartmouth Skiway has

390-406: The grip attaches to the cable, the passenger's acceleration is lessened by the spring-loaded pole. A magic carpet is a conveyor belt installed at the level of the snow. Some include a canopy or tunnel. Passengers slide onto the belt at the base of the hill and stand with skis or snowboard facing forward. The moving belt pulls the passengers uphill. At the top, the belt pushes the passengers onto

416-415: The lower forces and realigned due to glacier movement. Surface lifts have some disadvantages compared to aerial lifts: they require more passenger skill and may be difficult for some beginners (especially snowboarders, whose boards point at an angle different than the direction of travel) and children; sometimes they lack a suitable route back to the piste; the snow surface must be continuous; they can get in

442-552: The next ten years a CTEC quad chairlift was installed and the new McLane Family Lodge was constructed, replacing the previous one. Like many other New England ski resorts, it hosts events and functions in the off-season. Dartmouth Skiway hosted the NCAA Skiing Championships in 1958 and 2003 . 43°47′13″N 72°06′03″W  /  43.78694°N 72.10083°W  / 43.78694; -72.10083 Surface lift#Platter lift A surface lift

468-523: The passengers uphill while they ski or snowboard across the ground. Platter lifts are often referred to as button lifts, and may occasionally feature rigid poles instead of recoiling cables. The modern J-bar and T-bar mechanism was invented in 1934 by the Swiss engineer Ernst Constam, with the first lift installed in Davos, Switzerland . J-bars were installed in the 1930s in North America and Australia, with

494-422: The rope are a series of vertical recoiling cables, each attached to a horizontal J- or T-shaped bar – which is placed behind the skier's buttocks or between the snowboarder's legs – or a plastic button or platter that is placed between the skier's legs. Snowboarders place the platter behind the top of their front leg or in front of their chest under their rear arm and hold it in position with their hands. These pull

520-505: The rope directly. This system was used on many fields worldwide from the 1940s, and remains popular at 'club fields', especially in New Zealand . This type of ski lift is often referred to as a nutcracker tow. J-bar , T-bar , and platter lifts are employed for low-capacity slopes in large resorts and small local areas. These consist of an aerial cable loop running over a series of wheels, powered by an engine at one end. Hanging from

546-518: The ski team was sufficiently distinct from the Outing Club to have its own distinct captain; the first ″ski team″ captain was Selden Hannah D35, though there were ″winter sports″ captains before that. The Dartmouth Ski Team won the NCAA national championship in 1958, 1976 (tied with Colorado ), and 2007. The team finished in second place in 1955, 1956, 1964, 1969, and 1970. The team has finished in

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572-482: The snow and they slide away. They are easier to use than T-bar lifts and Poma lifts. Magic carpets are limited to shallow grades due to their dependence on friction between the carpet and the bottom of the ski or board. Their slow speed, limited distance, and capacity confines them to beginner and novice areas. The longest carpet lift is a Sunkid carpet lift, 400-metre-long (1,300 ft), installed at Alpine Centre, Bottrop , Germany . Some other notable examples are

598-560: The stick attached to a spring box by a retractable cord, Poma lifts have a detachable grip to the tow cable with the button connected to the grip by a semi-rigid pole. Platters return to the bottom station, detach from the cable, and are stored on a rail until a skier slides the platter forwards to use it. Most detachable surface lifts operate at speeds of around 4 m/s (13 ft/s; 8.9 mph; 14 km/h), while platters and T-bars can operate up to 3.0 m/s (9.8 ft/s; 6.7 mph; 11 km/h), although are generally slower. When

624-591: The top 5 of the NCAA Skiing Championship 43 times. The list of captains of the ski teams can be found here. Dartmouth skiers have represented the US (and other nations) in the winter Olympic and Paralympic Games. The highest level of competitive ski racing takes place on the Alpine and Nordic World Cup circuits. Two times each year, the alpine and nordic ski teams complete a time trial, starting at

650-651: The way of skiable terrain; they are relatively slow in speed and have lower capacity. Surface lifts have some advantages over aerial lifts: they can be exited before the lift reaches the top, they can often continue operating in wind conditions too strong for a chairlift; they require less maintenance and are much less expensive to install and operate. The first surface lift was built in 1908 by German Robert Winterhalder in Schollach / Eisenbach , Hochschwarzwald , Germany, and started operations February 14, 1908. A steam-powered toboggan tow, 950 feet (290 m) in length,

676-644: Was built in Truckee, California , in 1910. The first skier-specific tow in North America was apparently installed in 1933 by Alec Foster at Shawbridge in the Laurentians outside Montreal , Quebec . The Shawbridge tow was quickly copied at Woodstock, Vermont , in New England , in 1934 by Bob and Betty Royce, proprietors of the White Cupboard Inn. Their tow was driven by the rear wheel of

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