There's something about sitting side by side in a double chair that feels confessional.
At one extreme is Jurgen Bey's Kokon double chair, which fuses two regular chairs into a single Magrittean unit by covering them in skintight stretchable polyvinyl chloride.
The concept: skiers ride a 1973 double chair (which the Brills bought from Mammoth) to the top, then find their way down through a spray of 3,000-vertical-foot 3,000-vertical-foot 3,000-vertical-foot
(Mr. Kircher said his company purposefully installed a slower, $3 million double chair instead of a high-speed quad to limit the number of people who skied the area each hour).
There are no marked trails — the only lift is a 1973 Yan double chair that the couple bought from Mammoth Mountain in California for $25,000 — and the snowpack in the temperate San Juan Mountains makes the area highly susceptible to avalanches.
They snared an old double chair (circa 1973) from Mammoth Mountain for $25,000 and had it installed in the summer of 2001, via helicopter.
One broker, Mad River Lifts in Waitsfield, Vt., has 18 lifts for sale on its Web site, ranging from a 350hp 1969 Mueller double chair that's 5,600 feet long to a 100hp 1990 Yan quad chair at 1,600 feet.
Only six runs and two chairlifts were open, the Gadzoom (a high-speed quad) and the Mid-Gad (an old double chair), but that was plenty for the Thursday crowd, which was comprised of equal parts retirees and students skipping school.
Also shown in the room is the single Rocking Chair, $4,500, and the double Rocking Chair, $10,500.
It consisted of two bedrooms, each with just enough room for a double bed, chair and television set.
