View from the Tram II Mountain Station at Cannon Mountain, NH, in early March of 2022.
  • A Lift Nerd’s Photographic Dream is now Dream of a Lift Nerd!

    Hello viewers, This Web site has been renamed. This was done because it might get its own domain someday (possibly), and “aliftnerdsphotographicdream.net” is too cumbersome. “Dream of a Lift Nerd” has a better ring to it and is shorter, so it is the new name. The site will otherwise remain the same, with the exception…

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  • Veterans Memorial Recreation Area to Replace T-Bar

    A little community ski area in Franklin, NH is going to look very different in three years. The haul rope on the vintage 1953 Heron-built Constam T-bar at Veterans Memorial Recreation Area (VMRA), the last one operating in New Hampshire, is wearing out. The lift was the Summit T-Bar at nearby Mt. Sunapee from its…

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  • An Overview of the Tram II Overhaul

    Good news! The Tram II is going nowhere. It will continue carrying passengers during the summer season, as well as the following winter. At some point soon after that, however, the overhaul will commence in earnest. As the first step, the cabins, hangers, and drive mechanism will be replaced. The new cabins will be riding…

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  • Heading into the Tram II’s Last Season

    As of today, it’s 2023. This will be a sad year for us Tram II fans, as it has only three months of carrying passengers left. The Tram II has carried tens of millions of passengers by now, surpassing its predecessor within a few years. It has left an indelible mark on many of those…

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  • Hello World!

    Welcome to Liftnerd.WordPress.com, A Lift Nerd’s Photographic Dream! It is a new Web site dedicated to documenting ski lifts and other ropeways all over the Northeast USA! At some point in the future, it may cover other areas. However, this will take a while, because the author can only ski or hike so many ski…

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If you are seeing advertisements for stuff that, according to the ads, are in your town, such as apartments and car dealerships that are, in reality, most certainly not in your town, please talk to WordPress about this. Actually, if you have issues with the ads (or what is on them), please contact WordPress. I, the author, have no control over them, and if I did, those ads would not be there!

My apologies,

Liftnerd (no, that isn’t my real name)

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