Choux
A volunteer-run drag lift on two portal pylons with a diesel motor, in the Jura village of Choux; it worked from the 1970s to about the mid-1980s and its ticket hut is now a hunters' cabin.
- Region
- Jura
- Country
- France
- Status
- abandoned
- Year opened
- 1970s
- Year closed
- mid-1980s
- Reason for closure
- Not documented in accessible sources. Operation is recorded as having ceased around the middle of the 1980s and the lift was dismantled in the early 1990s.
History
The ski lift at Choux, in the Jura south of Saint-Claude, stood at the lieu-dit Pré Nardet and was about as small as a lift-served ski area gets: one drag lift on two portal pylons, driven by a diesel motor and run entirely by volunteers. It was set up in the 1970s, appears in IGN aerial photography from 1978, and operation is recorded as having stopped around the middle of the 1980s, with the installation taken away in the early 1990s. The only structure left is the ticket hut, which now serves as a cabin for hunters. This is included as one of the many hundreds of village lifts that made up French skiing before the big resorts, and almost nothing else about it is documented - the piste, the lift's length and the reason it closed are all unrecorded.
Lifts
| Name | Type | Manufacturer | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Unnamed lift | Surface lift | A modest drag lift run by volunteers, carried on two portal-type pylons and driven by a diesel motor. Removed in the early 1990s |
Sources and further reading
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Location
46.3043, 5.7687