Nutcracker Rope Tow - a bit of history!
Last year the Resort Management of Mt Buller announced the addition of a new 6 man chair lift to replace the old Abom lift from Helicopter Flat to Baldy. The project has just been completed and is ready to go for ski season 2008.
Obviously transporting people up to the ski runs is certainly an ongoing issue as the popularity of skiing, and especially snowboarding, has increased. And in order to give people maximum time on the slopes, the bigger and faster the transport, the better.
It made me wonder at how skiiers used to get up the mountain before the invention of the chair lift, or even the pomma and the T-bar, and our club is named after one such obscure method that is actually still used extensively in the NZ ski fields. The Nutcracker Rope Tow.
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