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[DonaldMReif]

I seriously hope a ski resort takes to calling a high speed quad the 'Limbo Express'. Limbo even sounds like a Peak 6 trail, even though there are no trails with that name around. Albeit 'Limbo SuperChair' isn't as cool as calling the Peak 6 lift the 'Kensho SuperChair'.

[Razvan]

... complete with low horizontal bars along the way.

[DonaldMReif]

At Breckenridge, Monte Cristo on Peak 7 used to be the northern boundary of the resort. However, now that Peak 6 has been built, the northern boundary has been expanded significantly. However, I was skiing down Monte Cristo today and it's a little funny seeing the Ski Area Boundary signs on the left side of Monte Cristo prior to reaching the bottom of Zendo when you know that the boundary is now much farther north. I hope they take the signs down before Peak 6 is opened.


Also, over the last two seasons, Breckenridge has been replacing the colored arrow trail signs with new trail signs that do not use them, as there are no longer four peaks. So it is always a little funny seeing trail signs with colored arrows for "Peak 7, Peak 8, Peak 9, Peak 10".

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[NoPainNoJane]

There is large plot of privately owned land mid-mountain between 6 & 7 & Breck has to do what they can to keep their paying guests from trespassing. The land has been for sale a while & it is probably a matter of time before we either see a lodge built or an insane forest service land swap. Kind of surprised vail resorts hasn't tried to buy the land but I'm confident they have their reasons.

[DonaldMReif]

New to the Mercury SuperChair this year are standardized yellow pictogram signs. However, Breckenridge did not take down the original blue signs on towers 19 and 20, resulting in an unusual redundancy:

Tower 19:


Tower 20:




Top terminal:

[liftmech]

The new signs probably got laid on quick 18 hours before the ski season started. Signs on tower tubes suck to install and remove, better to do it out of the work chair in the summer.

[DonaldMReif]

That's interesting, considering that the Beaver Run SuperChair has had the yellow signs since at least 2007, and its signs are configured the same way they were slapped onto the Mercury SuperChair or the Rocky Mountain SuperChair.

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[liftmech]

Just a guess.

[Allan]

 liftmech, on 19 December 2013 - 07:36 AM, said:

The new signs probably got laid on quick 18 hours before the ski season started. Signs on tower tubes suck to install and remove, better to do it out of the work chair in the summer.

We use a bosun chair!

[Lift Dinosaur]

 DonaldMReif, on 19 December 2013 - 07:43 AM, said:

That's interesting, considering that the Beaver Run SuperChair has had the yellow signs since at least 2007, and its signs are configured the same way they were slapped onto the Mercury SuperChair or the Rocky Mountain SuperChair.

....depends what time of year they were installed....August or November.....
Dino

[DonaldMReif]

As chair installation on the Kensho SuperChair is complete, indicating that opening day for that is coming closer and closer, I'd expect that lift will have the yellow signs and they will not look like they were hastily put on.

Then again, I have noticed that how the yellow signs are configured differs from resort to resort. Crested Butte has the "Keep Tips Up" sign on a post in the ground to the outside of the uphill lift line at the upper terminal, while the "Check for Loose Clothing" and "Prepare to Unload" signs are on the last lift tower. On the Poma high speed quads at Copper Mountain, the "Loose Clothing" sign is on the penultimate or final tower, the "Prepare to Unload" on the last tower or first column of upper terminal, and "Keep Tips Up" on an upper terminal column. The "Keep Tips Up" is on the downhill side of the lift shack on the two Doppelmayr high speed quads and the other signs are on the last two towers. Vail does "Check for Loose Clothing" two towers from the top, "Prepare to Unload" at last tower, and "Keep Tips Up" on first column of the upper terminal.

[DonaldMReif]

This page - http://tvtropes.org/...ignsOfDisrepair - highlights numerous instances where letters broken or removed from a sign changes the meaning of the sign in question.

[DonaldMReif]

Here are two examples I found today.


Here's what happens when the king gets a little too close to that fire he was making, probably because he discovered a child named "Th" in it:



This one I saw on Lincoln Meadows, there is just no excuse for.

Zendo's a superchair? You mean that the "SuperChair" designation is no longer limited to the high speed quads and six packs on the five peaks? It now applies to fixed grip quads? I guess the people who put this sign up were consulting the online map with the rendering error that gave Zendo the line of a high speed six pack (which has been corrected on the big map boards at the top of the lifts and on the printed trail map).

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[DonaldMReif]

Here's Mendelssohn's ad for something called "The Wedding Marc". I believe it's some kind of tattoo that's widely distributed at wedding parties.

[Razvan]

We'll be right back with Mendelssohn angelic music after these messages:

NO BRAKING FLUID

[skierdude9450]

Back to actual signs...

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[Emax]

 skierdude9450, on 04 January 2014 - 09:30 AM, said:

Back to actual signs...

I suspect that Jesus had a sense of humor - his fan clubs just won't admit it.

[DonaldMReif]

"In your right hand there are pleasures forever", if you know what I mean, indeed.


Meanwhile, I hope Breckenridge corrects the sign at Zendo next season because seeing a sign reading "Zendo SuperChair" on what is obviously a fixed grip quad is just silly.

Recently, I went by the Arapahoe Crossings complex in Aurora and the big "ARAPAHOE CROSSINGS" sign at night had some letters that were not working. Specifically, they caused one side to read "ARAPAHOE CROSS", and the other to read "ARAPAHOE SINGS".

[skierdude9450]

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[DonaldMReif]

If you've heard of the Department of Redundancy Department, well, look no further than the signs on chairlifts.

This is the sign at tower 9 on the Kensho SuperChair:



It also appears on other lifts like Zendo,




the Beaver Run SuperChair,



and the current Colorado SuperChair: