{"id":807853,"date":"2020-05-27T18:09:03","date_gmt":"2020-05-28T00:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/?p=384011"},"modified":"2020-05-27T18:09:03","modified_gmt":"2020-05-28T00:09:03","slug":"skiers-share-loving-memories-of-pallavicini-lift-in-its-final-days-at-arapahoe-basin-ski-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/skiers-share-loving-memories-of-pallavicini-lift-in-its-final-days-at-arapahoe-basin-ski-area\/","title":{"rendered":"Skiers share loving memories of Pallavicini lift in its final days at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A skier gets ready to ride the Pallavicini Lift at Arapahoe Basin Ski Area on Wednesday, May 27. After more than a two-month closure due to the coronavirus pandemic, A-Basin was allowed to reopen to 600 skiers or riders per day.<\/strong>
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KEYSTONE \u2014 As Bryan Walker sat leaning on Arapahoe Basin Ski Area\u2019s trademark mountain goat statues Wednesday, the Denver resident described what it was like to ride a 42-year-old, fixed-grip, two-seat chairlift for the first time in his life. It was Pallavicini on A-Basin\u2019s reopening day.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s something incredibly charming about an old-school ski lift, especially a two-seater,\u201d Walker said through his mask. \u201cFor me, they have always been super enjoyable to ride. They can be a little tricky to get on sometimes. They don\u2019t slow \u2019em down. But they are intimate.\u201d<\/p>\n

Standing near Walker on Wednesday morning in the base area was Peggy Hiller, A-Basin\u2019s vice president of operations. She was taking a short break from scanning the printed-out raffle passes of guests at a hand-sanitizing station.<\/p>\n

Compared with Walker\u2019s one lifetime ride up Pallavicini, Hiller has ridden the lift upward of 700 times. She is one of many A-Basin employees and diehard skiers who can paint the powder-filled picture for Walker of why that slow two-seater is so special and why A-Basin\u2019s crew worked so hard through the COVID-19 shutdown to reopen Pali on Wednesday. It was to give the fabled lift a proper goodbye before it\u2019s replaced this summer by another fixed-grip, two-seater.<\/p>\n

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