Stevens Pass | 7th Heaven | Ride up + Ski down Cloud 9

7th Heaven was first installed in 1960 by Riblet, providing lift service to the expert terrain on Cowboy Mountain. When first built, one would have to ride a rope tow to get to it, because of how far up it was from the Barrier lift. After many years, the lift was brought downhill, with a new Riblet overhead drive-tension unit. When Barrier was replaced with Skyline Express, the unloading station was brought uphill to better access 7th Heaven. Both of these changes eliminated the need to use a surface tow.

7th Heaven is a Riblet double chair, with center pole chairs, Riblet towers, and clips, original to the 1960 install. It also uses a Riblet overhead drive with a lifting frame added to tower 4. On February 2nd, 2020, there was a deropement at the bottom terminal when the rope on the light side of tower 1 snapped off from the sheaves. Luckily, no one was hurt. Since this accident, there have been lifting frames added to towers 5-8. 7th Heaven also features a very steep unloading ramp, and very little space in the unloading area due to the lift unloading on a narrow ridge.

Cloud 9 is one of several trails off the north face of Cowboy Mountain. All trails around this area have moguls, and are not dependent on grooming, or anything to even out the terrain a little. This is because it is all expert terrain, and usually stays unmodified (unless of avalanche danger).

Recorded on December 28th, 2020