Stevens Pass | 7th Heaven | Ride up + Ski down Cloud 9
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- Опубликовано: 2 янв 2025
- 7th Heaven was first installed in 1960 by Riblet, providing lift service to the expert terrain on Cowboy Mountain. When first built, one would have to ride a rope tow to get to it, because of how far up it was from the Barrier lift. After many years, the lift was brought downhill, with a new Riblet overhead drive-tension unit. When Barrier was replaced with Skyline Express, the unloading station was brought uphill to better access 7th Heaven. Both of these changes eliminated the need to use a surface tow.
7th Heaven is a Riblet double chair, with center pole chairs, Riblet towers, and clips, original to the 1960 install. It also uses a Riblet overhead drive with a lifting frame added to tower 4. On February 2nd, 2020, there was a deropement at the bottom terminal when the rope on the light side of tower 1 snapped off from the sheaves. Luckily, no one was hurt. Since this accident, there have been lifting frames added to towers 5-8. 7th Heaven also features a very steep unloading ramp, and very little space in the unloading area due to the lift unloading on a narrow ridge.
Cloud 9 is one of several trails off the north face of Cowboy Mountain. All trails around this area have moguls, and are not dependent on grooming, or anything to even out the terrain a little. This is because it is all expert terrain, and usually stays unmodified (unless of avalanche danger).
Recorded on December 28th, 2020
l took a month off from work in November/December at 40 years old, never skied in my life. Practiced putting chains on my car, Drove up to stevens Pass contracted for 30 days with one of Steven's instructors, Sven was his name. He taught me how to put on the boots and skis I just bought in Woodinville. And from there I skied everyday for 30 days straight, with private lessons 3 times a week. When I was done after 30 days...I had Brooks, Hog back, 7th Heaven, Showcase and Tie Mill under my belt. BEST damn 30days of my life. My instructor said it was the first time he had taken a student from zero skills to advanced intermediate in his career. I'm now 70 years old. I've replaced my hips and knees. Don't ski any more but I have skied some fantastic mountains. Live life to the fullest you won't regret it
What an awesome story!
Hell yeah dude
You could hear the skis chatter over the typical northwest snow which is the consistacy of skiing cement. Learned to ski at Steven's.
I've only seen one season in all the year's I've worked at Steven's Pass where skiers and snowboarders ski and ride the Chairline and that was the season of 98-99, that's how deep it was,
That Chair was so scary when I was a kid, before they moved the bottom to the opposite side of barrier bowl.
i remember my first time up i was on the daisy chair my tears were frozen to my face by the end of that day lmao now me and the boys crank beers and shred brooks chair
@@zackfrench6138 gotta love that brooks chair. Last I heard it was rebuilt and let's you off in a different spot but I used it to cycle the park and drop into grace when I was still living up in the great northwest.
@@zackfrench6138 love that comment btw. That's so rad, you started off on the beginner trails and now you're out there with your (hopefully lol) grown up kids.
The ropetow! Scary!
l took a month off from work in November/December at 40 yesterday old, never skied in my life. Drove up to stevens Pass contracted for 30 days with one of Steven's instructors, Sven was his name. He taught me how to put on the boots and skis I just bought in Woodinville. And from there I skied everyday for 30 days with lessons 3 times a week. When I was done after 30 days...I had Brooks, Hog back, 7th Heaven, showcase and Tie Mill under my belt. BEST damn 30days of my life.
7th Heaven Chair,C-3,31 chair's,Riblet (tramway) Chairlift,4 cylinder Perkins Diesel Aux Engine,Last of the Riblet Chairlift at Steven's Pass Washington State.400 feet per minute.
Yoo nice!!
Never been up 7th and I now know that I don't really want to I don't have fun doing moguls like that
is this actually the steepest chairlift?
Since it’s so open do they do avalanche stuff
Hey. So would you recommend it man??
It's not as steep as you might think, but the face you're dumped out onto is very ungroomed, very rugged mogul field. Getting turns in is a bit difficult.
Is it icy? Also you should try pegasus
I am scared of chairs with bars in the middle because I have tried Kehrs a couple times and every time I get a butt full of bar and they have to stop it. Any tips on getting on consistently?
@@brettschock8585 Sevenths chair is very slow getting on. And for getting on always stand on the right/inner seat and check behind you whilst grabbing the chair :)
@@brettschock8585 Learn to ski switch, it'll help you aim your bum into the seat 🙃
next time theres a nice powder i might try that run
And what’s the point of tower 3
A reminder to pray to the trinity because the off-load is gonna suck😆
That didn’t look so bad
Yeah, the difficulty ratings at resorts varies greatly.
Thats like a hard Blue at Vail.
@@lblerg It sounds like you've never been to Stevens Pass, because this is not going to be the equivalent of a hard blue at Vail. It's most likely going to be like the steeper parts of Prima at Vail.
@@sorenjones I think the video makes it seem easier than it actually is. Lenses do that. Or your just an excellent skier that makes it look easy. lol
@@lblerg Haha, yep that's exactly the case. I decided to ski the hike-to trails on 7th Heaven, and they didn't look too difficult watching back on my GoPro footage. Then I skied it, and it was pretty scary. The early season conditions may have factored into it being harder than I remember, but definitely the footage made it look way easier than real life.
It may seem tame but I guarantee there is lots of gnar to had. Definitely not easy
I always wondered what that trail looked like. Now I know its not that fun lol
Under bad conditions, sure, but it's still the best view at Stevens Pass. On better conditions or powder, it's amazing!
@@sorenjones agree
Way better than whistlers 7th heaven in both terrain, snow quality, the people, and atmosphere