World's First Chairlift LbNA #75764
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Add Location| Owner: | Silver Eagle
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| Plant date: | Sep 8, 2021 |
| Location: | Proctor Mountain Trail |
| City: | Sun Valley |
| County: | Blaine |
| State: | Idaho |
| Boxes: | 1 |
| Found by: | Nairon |
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| Last found: | Jul 9, 2022 |
| Status: | FF |
| Last edited: | Sep 21, 2021 |
Terrain Difficulty: Easy (slight slope, 2 mi RT)
Status: alive
The world’s first chairlift was built in Sun Valley, Idaho in the fall of 1936, and was designed by bridge engineer James Curran. Curran’s previous work making conveyor systems that ran at a continuous flow and loaded bananas on ships in Honduras inspired his design for a machine that could carry humans uphill and drop them off on top of a mountain. When the president of Union Pacific, Averell Harriman, asked Curran and his team to come up with a system that could carry skiers uphill, he thought about replacing the banana hooks with chairs. You can visit the site where it used to be and find this box on the Proctor Mt Trail.
Directions:
From Main St go north on Sun Valley Rd for 2.7 miles to parking for Hemmingway Memorial on right.
Clues:
Walk to memorial and continue across small bridge down to old road with a trail sign. Go left as it crosses a creek to a trail sign pointing left. Go left up past shelter on right to an old road. Go right and stay on Proctor Loop as it bends left and follows a valley to another jct. Go straight, passing a sign about the chairlift on the right, to sign on left saying "Proctor Lift Bottom Terminal". Go left of sign off trail to edge of concrete remains of lift and continue 12 steps to aspen tree on right. LB is at back base under a stick.
Hike length: 1-2 miles
Status: alive
The world’s first chairlift was built in Sun Valley, Idaho in the fall of 1936, and was designed by bridge engineer James Curran. Curran’s previous work making conveyor systems that ran at a continuous flow and loaded bananas on ships in Honduras inspired his design for a machine that could carry humans uphill and drop them off on top of a mountain. When the president of Union Pacific, Averell Harriman, asked Curran and his team to come up with a system that could carry skiers uphill, he thought about replacing the banana hooks with chairs. You can visit the site where it used to be and find this box on the Proctor Mt Trail.
Directions:
From Main St go north on Sun Valley Rd for 2.7 miles to parking for Hemmingway Memorial on right.
Clues:
Walk to memorial and continue across small bridge down to old road with a trail sign. Go left as it crosses a creek to a trail sign pointing left. Go left up past shelter on right to an old road. Go right and stay on Proctor Loop as it bends left and follows a valley to another jct. Go straight, passing a sign about the chairlift on the right, to sign on left saying "Proctor Lift Bottom Terminal". Go left of sign off trail to edge of concrete remains of lift and continue 12 steps to aspen tree on right. LB is at back base under a stick.
Hike length: 1-2 miles