Vordergrat Seilbahn 1,046 — 2,864 m
§ Line journal · written between hauls

The days the rope
did not turn.

The fahrdienst writes an entry whenever the line does something a passenger would want explained — a hold, a closure, a change to the interval. The good days do not need an entry.

Painted alpine winter scene in old-master oil: the modern haul rope carrying rime, a steel lattice tower half buried in drift, one gondola crossing a white col under a low sun.
Plate VI — the line in winter oil on canvas · rime on the rope, 12 mm radial
  1. What a wind hold actually is

    The line stopped for four hours on Thursday. Here is the number it stopped on, who read it, and why we would rather publish the threshold than the apology.

    6 min read

  2. The autumn rope scan, and why we close for eight weeks

    Every October the line shuts and a magnetic head runs the whole 4,180 metres of haul rope looking for broken wires you cannot see from outside.

    4 min read