The Lady and the Sultan ...

After last week's vertical record, someone suggested that I check out, let's say assess, Lady Morgan. I'm not talking about any lady and don't want lead you to believe that I casually “seize” or “assess” many of them, but that one is a Deer Valley chairlift called Lady Morgan Express. It climbs a rather steep hill very fast and gets you 1,150 higher in a short 3 minute and 30 second time, which actually might hold a slight advantage against Sultan Express, the lift we rode 60 times to garner most of our record vertical. The problem with that shorter lift is that loading and acceleration time occurs more often and the slope next to it has to be groomed or covered with enough fluffy stuff to allow for an incredibly fast descent. These facts, I believe, are not playing to the advantage of the Lady vs. the Sultan!