Tales of the gun involved mining ranching of course skiing this is one of these stories here on. The near winter sports or. Area began operations for the 1st time in December of 1939 much work by local people during the summer of $39.00 and established the trails but now there was the small matter of the lift the ski club had early realize that the length and steepness of the mountain prohibited a rope toll being installed Wes McDermott traveled to many ski areas around the country during the summer and saw what was then called a chair lift powered by a large auxiliary engine he suggested to the ski club that they build one even though none existed in Colorado at the time to build a chairlift of the size needed to serve the pioneer slopes was impossible but no one count on the determination of men like Ryle Lake chunks whites or in West McDermott. To build the kind of chair lift these men it envisioned would take some kind of large aerial tram to carry the chairs WRAL Lake knew of a large mining fram of the blistered horn minute the summit of Cumberland past and idea was spawned the tram and mine were owned by a Swiss company the tram it originally cost 23000 dollars and 101151039 the mind of been shut down for 19 years the Gunnison Valley squeak road to the Swiss company requesting permission to buy the tram for the permission of a ski lift the mine present agreed and sold the tram to the club for 50 dollars the 1st chairlift in Colorado was on its way towards construction. The next major task was to get the tram from the blistered horn bind to the ski area site on cement Creek a distance of 50 miles a summer day in 1939 found ski club members and volunteers at the mine ready to move the tram alas to get those massive talers made up of 12 by 12 cedar timbers apart and down for transportation seemed impossible the group nevertheless worked for 3 hours trying to dig up the huge collar of the little success then in true story book fashion an old Sommerville miner arrived from out of the mountains to give the skiers the secret of removing those towers if you'll help me get some dynamite down here out of my cabin I'll show you how to take down those towers with these he said the old timer placed 2 sticks of dynamite at the base point of each tower lit the fuse the towers came toppling down almost perfectly intact when all 11 timers were down they were loaded on the back of an old World War One Army truck on the trip began to cement creek but would the Tom hours and tram work as a ski lift will answer that question tomorrow as we look at another episode involving the building of the 1st ski lift in Colorado. 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