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[SkiBachelor]

From the real-estate it has been selling at both Big White and Silver Star. :)

I think this is a bad idea installing this lift next to the Ridge Rocket Express since it will contribute to a lot of slope conjestion in the area, especially when Big White has all those stupid slow skiing signs everywhere.

[Powdr]

EDIT: oops, just noticed that this was already inlcuded in the list.



Looks like Powder Mountain, Ut is getting a HSQ:



Powder Mountain Ski Area to Get Detachable Quad

Eden, UT (Friday, April 21, 2006) -

Utah's Powder Mountain ski and snowboard resort will install its first high-speed detachable chairlift this summer.
(photo: FTO/Marc Guido)

Powder Mountain, one of Utah's true hidden skiing gems, will spend $4.5 million to replace its Hidden Lake Lift this summer with a Doppelmayr CTEC, four person detachable high speed lift. The new chairlift will be the ski and snowboard area's first high-speed detachable chair.

The lift, to be named the Hidden Lake Express, is manufactured in Salt Lake City and construction will start on July 1. The mountain will be removing the old lift between now and June 30.

The present Hidden Lake lift, one of the ski area's primary workhorses, has a capacity of 1,200 persons per hour and is 30 years old. The new lift will have a capacity of 2,400 per hour.

“Everyone at Powder Mountain is excited about the lift and what it will do for our customers. This will provide our skiing and snowboarding guests better access to our 5,500 acres of real snow,” remarked Marc Paulsen, spokesperson for Powder Mountain Resort.

The new chairlift, which will follow the line of the old chair, is expected to be in operation by December.

This post has been edited by Powdr: 21 April 2006 - 08:19 AM

[mikest2]

The new lift should help with congestion as almost half of the current Ridge chair capacity is being used as an access lift ( to get to the Gem/Powder side, and back from there to the Village). I do agree about the slow signs, they don't seem to work very well. I think the best bet is to give the Patrol paint guns and then pick up the speeders in the lift line. I'll post the technical details of the new lift when I'm back at work monday.

Real Estate as well as visits, I think we are well over 600,000 visits this year.

Other stuff I forgot:

In addition to the Snow Ghost Express, Big White Ski Resort Ltd. will:

1) Upgrade the Paradise, Meadowlark, Serwa’s and Exhibition runs, allowing the resort to open earlier in the season, snow permitting.

2) Upgrade the Happy Valley beginner ski and snowboard area by installing a 400 foot Magic Carpet lift allowing for a comfortable, safe and enjoyable learning experience.

3) Complete the 70 million gallon reservoir known as Paul Lake. This $4M project will secure Big White’s water needs well into the future.

4) Continued summer grooming projects at Gem Lake, Black Forest, and in TELUS Park.

5) With the popularity of last year's new Black Forest parking lot (600 car capacity), additional capacity will be added to the Black Forest Express quad, which will have its capacity increased by 34% in order to accommodate 2,400 skiers per hour. ( 25 more carriers, TB41 )

[bachelorman]

Skier, on Apr 20 2006, 06:18 PM, said:

Here's my latest list of lifts:

49°North, Washington Used Quad Sunrise Basin
Bear Valley, California Leitner-Poma High Speed Quad Hibernation Express
Beaver Creek, Colorado DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Rose Bowl
Beaver Creek, Colorado DoppelmayrCTEC Pulse Gondola Riverfront Gondola
Beaver Mountain, Utah DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Harry's Dream
Belleyare Mountain, New York DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Superchief Express
Big Mountain, Mountain DoppelmayrCTEC Quad Beginner
Blue Mountain, Pennsylvania Leitner-Poma High Speed Six Passenger
Breckenridge, Colorado Leitner-Poma 8 Passenger Gondola Breckenridge Gondola
Burke Mountain, Vermont Leitner-Poma High Speed Quad Willoughby Express
Catamount, New York Used Quad Summit
Crested Butte, Colorado Leitner-Poma High Speed Quad East River Express
Deer Valley, Utah DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Sterling Express
Heavenly, Nevada DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad North Bowl Express
Jackson Hole, Wyoming DoppelmayrCTEC Double Headwall
Mammoth Mountain, California DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Goldhill Express
Mammoth Mountain, California DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad
Marquette Mountain, Michigan Used Triple Snowfield
Miners Club, Utah DoppelmayrCTEC Pulse Gondola
Northstar-at-Tahoe, California DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Pioneer Express
OHSU, Oregon DoppelmayrCTEC Tram OHSU Tram
Park City, Utah Used Triple Silver Star
Powder Mountain, Utah DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Hidden Lake Express
Silver Star, British Columbia DoppelmayrCTEC Quad Alpine Meadows
Ski Bromont, Quebec DoppelmayrCTEC Quad Chair 7
Snow Valley, California DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Six
Snowbasin, Utah DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Little Cat Express
Snowbird, Utah DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Peruvian Express
Snowmass, Colorado Leitner-Poma 8 Passenger Gondola Elk Camp Gondola
Snowmass, Colorado Leitner-Poma Quad Assay Hill
Snowshoe, West Virginia DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Soaring Exgle Express
Steamboat, Colorado Used High Speed Quad Sunshine Express
Stowe, Vermont Leitner-Poma Cabriolet 4 Cabriolet
Sun Peaks, British Columbia DoppelmayrCTEC Quad
The Canyons, Utah DoppelmayrCTEC Quad Dreamcatcher
The Canyons, Utah DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Six Tombstone Express
Whistler Blackcomb, British Columbia DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Piccolo Express
DoppelmayrCTEC has 24 new lifts, 65%
Leitner-Poma has 8 new lifts, 22%
There are 5 used lifts being installed, 13%

Total of 37 New Lifts

Mt Bachelor announce the Pine Marten chair would be closed this summer and "re-built". Does anybody know what this will involve? Also, does anyone know if PWDR Corp. ever plans to replace and/or build more lifts on Mt. B?

[coskibum]

vons said that the rose bowl lift at BC is a no go. you might want to remove that

[edmontonguy]

Any comments about the possible line of the SnowGhost? It's longer than the Ridge rocket by a few hundred feet so will it run slightly higher than Ridge Rocket?

[Peter]

Will the Snow Ghost 6pack be L-P or DC? They installed the new Doppelmayr Cliff chair, but Silver Star has all new Poma's, except the lift that they are building this year is a D-CTEC. Edit: I see it's a Leitner-Poma

This post has been edited by Skier: 21 April 2006 - 02:50 PM

[mikest2]

The Snow Ghost will unload in the meadow you ski through when you come from the top of the Powder to the top of the Ridge.

[SkiTimby]

bachelorman, on Apr 21 2006, 12:22 PM, said:

Mt Bachelor announce the Pine Marten chair would be closed this summer and "re-built". Does anybody know what this will involve? Also, does anyone know if PWDR Corp. ever plans to replace and/or build more lifts on Mt. B?

According to an article in the Bend Bulletin earlier this month, Mt. Bachelor will rebuild "everything that moves" on the Pine Marten Express quad. It also specifically said that no new chairs or towers would be added... meaning that the lift will be mechanically upgraded, but will remain a 2,800 pph high-speed detachable quad lift.

The lift rebuild will affect summer operations at Mt. Bachelor. Normally, the Pine Marten Express runs from July 4th through Labor Day for summer sightseers... and the Pine Marten mid-mountain lodge is open for food service. But this summer, Mt. Bachelor will operate out of the Sunrise Lodge base, and will run the Sunrise and Summit Express lifts instead... which means that visitors will be lifted all the way to the top of Mt. Bachelor for incredible views at 9,000 feet. A treat for tourists this summer only, thanks to the Pine Marten shutdown.

[liftmech]

Bachelor probably ran up against the same wall we did on the Eagle this year, with the lift running ten months out of the year and no time to tackle any big projects. Did the article mention if the lift is geting new grips, or are they in good shape still? I imagine everything else in the terminals, as well as half the line, will be removed completely and rebuilt. Fun times for that crew.

[floridaskier]

I thought Bachelor was planning to replace Pine Marten with a six pack sometime. Sounds like that's on hold for a while

[Peter]

Are the terminal skins still going to be the same? They are so ugly, they should replace that while they're at it. It seem like all the lifts at Bachelor are really really ugly.

[edmontonguy]

That is because most of the high speed lifts are quite old. Pine Martin itself is 20 years old. Their newest brand new lift is the Northwest Express and it is already 10 years old. Bachelor seems to take good care of their lifts, so i doubt any changes other than the lift's innards will be changed.

[CAski]

Here are Northstar-at-Tahoe's Summer plans:

Tahoe Bonanza

Northstar-at-Tahoe has canceled its mountain bike season this summer to allow for continued construction of the resort's new village and the addition of several lifts to the mountain.

In past summers, Northstar's mountain bike park featured two chairlifts to carry bikes to the top of the mountain and more than 100 miles of trails rated from easy to extremely difficult.

Meanwhile, the additional lifts - including the new Pioneer Chair, a surface lift to take skiers from the Pioneer Chair to Lookout Mountain and a Big Springs lift from the base to mid-mountain - are just the beginning of a lift expansion that Northstar officials say may add 10 lifts to the resort by 2009.

The ten planned chairs will add approximately 1,000 acres of lift-accessed terrain to the resort, said Northstar spokeswoman Nicole Klay. Much of the new terrain will be along Sawtooth Ridge, which the resort plans to offer as glade and tree skiing. Sawtooth Ridge is currently accessible by hiking or skiing through a backcountry gate at the resort's boundary.

"We have tons of terrain back there that will really open up the mountain," Klay said.

The mountain expansion is meant to keep up with the large-scale condominium and hotel projects at the base of Northstar. The resort will be adding more than 1,500 condos and hotel rooms to the mountain over the next several years.

"We're basically keeping up with the bed base," said Klay. "If we have the people here, we have to fit them on the mountain."

Next winter, skiers and snowboarders should find a "chondola" - a six-person chairlift that will also run a gondola cabin every third or fourth chair - instead of the two-person Pioneer Chairlift, Klay said.

The combination of gondolas and chairlifts will allow Tahoe Mountain Club members to access the Schaeffer's Camp restaurant without skis, while still providing skiers traditional lift access.

The Big Springs lift, which will leave from the Big Springs housing area and unload at mid-mountain, is a "real estate" lift - designed to get homeowners and village guests up the mountain from the base, Klay said.

Future plans include three additional lifts on Lookout Mountain, two lifts on Sawtooth Ridge and new lifts on the backside of the mountain.


Village

The Village at Northstar will remain open during the summer, Klay said, although a few shops have the option to close during the spring shoulder season.

While there will be no mountain biking, the resort will continue to operate the skating rink, either as an ice rink or a roller rink, said Klay.

Northstar plans to begin hosting events like movie nights and live music in the village in July, she said.

[Peter]

Here is a new list of lifts. Is Northstar getting a surface lift and chondola and the used trple that they bought from Deer Valley? Also, I read that Mt Baker is replacing chair 3 with a quad, so that will mean they have all quads. Has anyone heard anything about new lifts at Mammoth? What about Little Cat at Snowbasin? is that going to happen? Ans is the Canyons replacing Tombstone with a 6pack?

49°North, Washington Used Quad Sunrise Basin
Bear Valley, California Leitner-Poma High Speed Quad Hibernation Express
Beaver Creek, Colorado DoppelmayrCTEC Pulse Gondola Riverfront Gondola
Beaver Mountain, Utah Used Triple Harry's Dream
Belleyare Mountain, New York DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Superchief Express
Big Mountain, Mountain DoppelmayrCTEC Quad Beginner
Big White, British Columbia Leitner-Poma High Speed Six Snow Ghost Express
Blue Mountain, Pennsylvania Leitner-Poma High Speed Six
Breckenridge, Colorado Leitner-Poma 8 Passenger Gondola Breckenridge Gondola
Catamount, New York Used Quad Summit
Crested Butte, Colorado Leitner-Poma High Speed Quad East River Express
Deer Valley, Utah DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Sterling Express
Heavenly, Nevada DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Six North Bowl Express
Jackson Hole, Wyoming DoppelmayrCTEC Double Headwall
Marquette Mountain, Michigan Used Triple Snowfield
Miners Club, Utah DoppelmayrCTEC Pulse Gondola
Mount Baker, Washington DoppelmayrCTEC Quad Chair 3
Northstar-at-Tahoe, California DoppelmayrCTEC Surface
Northstar-at-Tahoe, California Used Triple Pioneer
Northstar-at-Tahoe, California DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Six Chondola Big Springs Express
OHSU, Oregon DoppelmayrCTEC Tram OHSU Tram
Park City, Utah Used Triple Silver Star
Powder Mountain, Utah DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Hidden Lake Express
Silver Star, British Columbia DoppelmayrCTEC Quad Alpine Meadows
Ski Bromont, Quebec DoppelmayrCTEC Quad Chair 7
Snow Valley, California DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Six
Snowbird, Utah DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Peruvian Express
Snowmass, Colorado Leitner-Poma 8 Passenger Gondola Elk Camp Gondola
Snowmass, Colorado Leitner-Poma Quad Assay Hill
Snowshoe, West Virginia DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Soaring Exgle Express
Steamboat, Colorado Used High Speed Quad Sunshine Express
Stowe, Vermont Leitner-Poma Cabriolet 4 Cabriolet
Sun Peaks, British Columbia DoppelmayrCTEC Quad
Tenney Mountain, New Hampshire High Speed Quad
Texas Fairgrounds DoppelmayrCTEC 8 Passenger Gondola Skyride
The Canyons, Utah DoppelmayrCTEC Quad Dreamcatcher
The Canyons, Utah DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Six Tombstone Express
Whistler Blackcomb, British Columbia DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Piccolo Express

[skiersage]

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this season will see the reinstallation of the outrigger chair on the backside of parsenn and it will run parallel to hi-lo.

you forgot to add the re instalation of the old outrigger lift to the parsenn bowl.

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Also, I read that Mt Baker is replacing chair 3 with a quad, so that will mean they have all quads.

Also, Mt baker still has chair one double. so there will not be all quads.

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Snowmass, Colorado Leitner-Poma Quad Assay Hill

I'd want to check if this lift will be new or used. there was a number of old falcon quad chairs on top of the old wood run drive house. It is possible that parts of this lift will be used from fanny hill. although it could be new also.

[Doug]

Castle Mountain in Alberta is adding a used double or triple on Haig Ridge.

[Kicking Horse]

skiersage, on May 2 2006, 02:35 PM, said:

I'd want to check if this lift will be new or used. there was a number of old falcon quad chairs on top of the old wood run drive house. It is possible that parts of this lift will be used from fanny hill. although it could be new also.

Used. the chairs will be the old fanny chairs and new terminal / drive (or used but not fanny drive). Remember the drive is on that double running next to the 6 pack.

[Peter]

1 Bear Creek, Pennsylvania DoppelmayrCTEC Quad F
2 Beaver Creek, Colorado DoppelmayrCTEC Pulse Gondola Riverfront Gondola
3 Belleyare Mountain, New York DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Superchief Express
4 Buck Hill, Minnesota DoppelmayrCTEC Quad Quad
5 Deer Valley, Utah DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Sterling Express
6 Jackson Hole, Wyoming DoppelmayrCTEC Double Headwall
7 King Pine, New Hampshire DoppelmayrCTEC Triple Black Bear
8 Mount Bachelor, Oregon DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Pine Marten Express
9 Mount Baker, Washington DoppelmayrCTEC Quad Chair 3
10 Northstar-at-Tahoe, California DoppelmayrCTEC Platter Platter
11 Northstar-at-Tahoe, California DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Six Chondola Big Springs Express
12 OHSU, Oregon DoppelmayrCTEC Tram OHSU Tram
13 Park City, Utah DoppelmayrCTEC Triple Spiro
14 Powder Mountain, Utah DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Hidden Lake Express
15 Silver Star, British Columbia DoppelmayrCTEC Quad Alpine Meadows
16 Ski Bromont, Quebec DoppelmayrCTEC Quad Chair 7
17 Ski Liberty, Pennsylvania DoppelmayrCTEC Quad
18 Ski Roundtop, Pennsylvania DoppelmayrCTEC Triple Robling
19 Snowbird, Utah DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Peruvian Express
20 Snowshoe, West Virginia DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Soaring Exgle Express
21 Spanish Peaks, Montana DoppelmayrCTEC Triple Cabin
22 Spanish Peaks, Montana DoppelmayrCTEC Platter Elk Ridge A
23 Spanish Peaks, Montana DoppelmayrCTEC Surface Elk Ridge B
24 Sun Peaks, British Columbia DoppelmayrCTEC Quad
25 Texas Fairgrounds DoppelmayrCTEC 8 Passenger Gondola Skyride
26 The Canyons, Utah DoppelmayrCTEC Quad Dreamcatcher
27 The Canyons, Utah DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Six Tombstone Express
28 Whistler Blackcomb, British Columbia DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Piccolo Express
29 Windham, New York DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad G
30 Wolf Creek, Colorado DoppelmayrCTEC High Speed Quad Raven Express
31 Wolf Laurel, North Carolina DoppelmayrCTEC Quad Breakaway Village
32 Bear Valley, California Leitner-Poma High Speed Quad Hibernation Express
33 Big White, British Columbia Leitner-Poma High Speed Six Snow Ghost Express
34 Blue Mountain, Pennsylvania Leitner-Poma High Speed Six
35 Breckenridge, Colorado Leitner-Poma 8 Passenger Gondola Breckenridge Gondola
36 Crested Butte, Colorado Leitner-Poma High Speed Quad East River Express
37 Snowmass, Colorado Leitner-Poma 8 Passenger Gondola Elk Camp Gondola
38 Stowe, Vermont Leitner-Poma Cabriolet 4 Cabriolet
39 49°North, Washington Used Quad Sunrise Basin
40 Beaver Mountain, Utah Used Triple Harry's Dream
41 Castle Mountain, Alberta Used Triple Mount Haig
42 Catamount, New York Used Quad Summit
43 Hawksnest, North Carolina Used Double Easiest
44 Marquette Mountain, Michigan Used Triple Snowfield
45 Northstar-at-Tahoe, California Used Triple Pioneer
46 Park City, Utah Used Triple Silver Star
47 Snowmass, Colorado Used Quad Assay Hill
48 Steamboat, Colorado Used High Speed Quad Sunshine Express
49 Windham, New York Used Triple C
50 Winter Park, Colorado Used Triple Parsenn Bowl
51 Big Mountain, Mountain Used Quad Beginner

DoppelmayrCTEC - 32 Lfts - 64%
Leitner-Poma - 5 Lifts - 10%
Used Lifts - 13 Lifts - 26%

This post has been edited by Skier: 04 May 2006 - 09:53 PM

[SkiBachelor]

Is the new HSS that's going in at Blue Mountain replacing one of the Doppelmayr HSQs?