Gould Academy T-Bar – Sunday River, Maine

Got lucky and was able to ride the new T-Bar for the first time today!

Here is some quick info about the new lift:

Alera Group Competition Lift
Doppelmayr - 2019
Slope Length: 2885
Vertical Footage: 864
Design Capacity: 1200
Current Capacity: 1200
Design Rope Speed: 689
Current Rope Speed: 689
Design VTF/H: ?
Current VTF/H: ?

This T-Bar was made primarily for the Gould Academy ski team, but bears the name "Alera Group Competition Lift" because the Alera Group gave Gould the funding for construction of the lift. It runs skiers left of Monday Mourning, and provides private access for racers to train without taking the Barker or Locke lifts. What kinda sucks about it's line is that I went straight through the trail "Crossbow", one of Sunday River's original trails from 1959. I really wish they hadn't done that because it was honestly one of my favorite powder trails to ski, but at this point there's no way to save the trail.

I was able to ski it on this particular day because of the high winds following the snowstorm that hit yesterday (I guess management assumed that the lines at Locke and Barker would be pretty big). They don't usually open it to the public often.

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This lift was open for racers only when I was at Sunday River last week