As you hike up the widely used Five Lakes trail in Alpine Meadows,
California, you see a number of towers both below and above you,
apparently intended for a chair lift that, if it were completed, would
cross the trail at approximately a right angle, heading up in the
general direction of KT 22.

The towers themselves look quite new and modern and appear to be in very
good shape, except that there's no cable installed, and in fact no
pulley flanges on the towers.

Anyway know the origin or history of these? A project that got started
and then was disapproved or otherwise abandoned?

Do I recall correctly that there once was, quite a long while ago, a
lift in this general area that allowed skiers to ride up from Alpine and
drop down into Squaw Valley?