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The chairlift "down the road about a mile" is actually on Ruud and wasn't built until '38. The Proctor chair has been gone for as long as I remember which goes back to early 70s. Below is a long article by (one of) our great resident historians, Dick Dorworth to set the story straight. And the link to the complete article and to see some great old pix www.svguide.com

Proctor, Ruud & Dollar Mountains
the beginnings of modern alpine skiing
by Dick Dorworth
(The chairlift on Ruud Mountain, above, built in 1938, still stands today toward the end of Fairway Road in Sun Valley.)
It is indisputable that without ski lifts and the alpine skiing they allowed, the past and present of the entire Sun Valley area would be very different than they are. What is even less appreciated is that without Sun Valley and its contribution to the development of ski lifts, the history of skiing throughout the world would be very different.
The first chairlifts in the world were invented and built in Sun Valley by Union Pacific Railroad in 1936 at founder Averell Harriman�s instigation. One of Union Pacific�s engineers, Jim Curran, was charged with the job of creating a new and easy way to haul skiers uphill.
The first two of those lifts were installed on Dollar and Proctor mountains in 1936, the third two years later on Ruud Mountain. Of those original lifts, the only one still standing is on Ruud Mountain, named after the famous Norwegian ski jumpers, Sigmund and Birger Ruud. The Proctor Mountain lift is no longer there, though in the summer decaying remnants of the lift poles and cable can be found in places disintegrating back into the earth. Dollar Mountain is still operating, but the original lifts have been replaced several times in the last 67 years.
From the base of Ruud Mountain, looking up the lift line, one can still see the outline of Sun Valley�s original ski jump just to the left of the lift. The first operating chairlift in the world was on Proctor Mountain, beginning in a canyon just north of Ruud and ending on the ridge directly above the top of the Ruud Mountain lift. Proctor lift and Dollar lift, a short distance away, were built the same summer. Proctor was finished first, thus garnering the first place title.
Although Ruud Mountain and Proctor Mountain are part of the same geologic formation, Ruud Mountain lift was added in the summer of 1938 because the northern exposure of the Proctor lift proved �too cold� for Sun Valley�s first, fair weather skiers.
Winter or summer, one can see the old Ruud Mountain lift up close simply by driving to the northeast end of Fairway Road in Sun Valley. This is one point to begin exploring one of several routes through Sun Valley ski history, though the same terrain can be reached with better parking from Trail Creek and Corral Creek off the Trail Creek Road. Both Ruud and Proctor mountains are popular ski touring destinations.
Proctor Mountain was named for Charlie Proctor, a Nordic competitor in the 1928 Olympics for the United States. He helped Harriman get the Sun Valley resort going, and was a significant figure in the early years of American skiing including helping develop Yosemite�s Badger Pass Ski Area. Proctor�s daughter, Peggy Dean, grandson, Ryan Dean, and great-grandson, Shaw Proctor Dean, still live in the Wood River Valley.
Proctor Mountain is where it all started, American lift-serviced alpine skiing that has grown since 1936 into a huge industry and way of life that has been a direct or indirect influence on the lives of everybody reading this and many others as well. For the devout, historically minded skier, Proctor is a shrine, among the holy of holies, a place steeped in the past of Sun Valley, the larger world of skiing and a certain kind of lifestyle familiar to those living in the Wood River Valley.
While Ruud Mountain was still used into the early 1960s for at least ski races and the occasional ski jumping competition, Proctor Mountain�s lift hasn�t operated since 1950. In that year, the chilly mountain access was opened solely for Sun Valley employees.
If one looks carefully on the north side of the mountain, the lift line to the top of Proctor Mountain can still be discerned. At the top was the site of the Proctor Mountain Cabin (also known as the Hot Potato Hut).

Pretty sure the world's first chairlift was down the road about a mile (where it's still standing). Maybe locals should "merely revel" in local history a little more.