Mt Seymour To Install New Lodge Chair
Mt Seymour to install New Lodge Chair. Say 'Goodbye' to Lodge Chairlift and 'Hello' to Lodge Chairlift 2.0.
It's faster, the chairs can carry four people at a time, and it even has a conveyor to make loading faster and easier. With a 70% capacity increase, compared to the existing Lodge Chair, you're going to have even more good times and less wait times.
They'll be working hard over the summer to get it installed and spinning ready for the 2023/2024 season.
New Lodge Chairlift
- Manufacture Doppelmayr
- Uphill Capacity 1600/hr
- Speed 2.3 meters/sec.
- Number of chairs 44
- Chair type Fixed Quad
- Travel Time 3.2 minutes
- Loading Conveyor with loading gates
- Towers 7
- Motor size 160HP AC Motor
The mountain opened for skiing in 1938 under the ownership of the Swedish emigrant, Harald Enqvist, with a cafeteria and ski rental. A few years later, in 1949, the Government of British Columbia bought the ski area. The Government did not have the experience to run a ski area, so, they issued Mr. Enqvist the first Park Use Permit to operate the area. When the permit expired in 1951, the government found a concessionaire, who was put in charge of running the lifts, ski school and cafeteria. The name Enqvist was later spelled Enquist giving name to "The Enquist Lodge" and "Enquist Tube Park" among other facilities. The government retained overall ownership until 1984, when it privatized its operation as part of a cost-cutting measure.
The ski area has been run by the Wood family since 1984. They installed the Lodge chairlift in 1986 and the Brockton chairlift in the early 1990s. Starting in the 2010s, the mountain has been more aggressively upgraded. The original Mystery Peak chairlift was removed in 2012 and replaced with a high-speed quad, while the Goldie rope tow was replaced with a magic carpet.
