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Recent content by xlr8r

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    Sunday River 22-23

    I think Les Otten Intentionally Designed some of the lift alignments at Sunday River so that lifts could be extended or replaced with longer lifts in the future. The White Heat lift alignment extended down perfectly lines up to start at the Whitecap base. The Oz Quad if extended down lines up...
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    Pass math how did everyone do?

    I'm currently at 17 days on full Ikon, will probably get that up to 20 days, so should end up just over $50 a day currently 4x Loon (probably 1 more day) 2x Killington (probably 1 more day) 2x Pico (probably 1 more day) 2x Stratton 2x Sugarbush 2x Snowbasin 1x Snowbird 1x Alta 1x Brighton
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    The "Sugarbush Thread"

    NRX closed again today.
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    The "Sugarbush Thread"

    Went to Sugarbush this weekend, Saturday spent all day at Lincoln, and Sunday was planning to spend all day at Ellen. But by 10am the lines for either Summit or GMX became too long for my taste. So for the first time ever I decided to take the shuttle bus between the two mountains. For...
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    Loon South Peak Expansion

    Just a guess, but the grading of Escape Route cutting across Stinger, might interrupt the trail into a distinct top and bottom half, where Chipper might flow through all of its intersections.
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    New lift, trail work proposed for Whiteface Mountain

    Treeline cirque at Palisades Tahoe has a double grooved bullwheel at the midstation. So it has two separate haul ropes, but they both go around the same double groove bull wheel and use a single drive. But that lift is a Leitner Poma, I do not know if Doppelmayr builds midstations the same way.
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    The "Sugarbush Thread"

    Original North Ridge was a double, and I think it was a Poma Teardrop in the same style as Sheehan at Middlebury and Chair 2 at Saskadena 6
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    Loon South Peak Expansion

    They talk about it in the Storm podcast Loon Episode. At the time of the episode they did not know whether the new lodge will be a complete replacement of the existing Governors Lodge, or just a very large expansion of the existing lodge. The work has to take place west of the current lodge as...
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    Loon South Peak Expansion

    The cut trails are already on Google Earth. A Gondola can easily go from the phase 2 end of Riverwalk to the vicinity of the new lift.
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    Offer made to buy Burke

    But the vast majority of Powder Mountains acreage is made up of the snowcat and hiking terrain. Its lift served terrain is only a fraction of their advertised 8,464 Acres.
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    Loon South Peak Expansion

    The base of the new lift is located at the escape route lot. The original plan for the south peak learning area with 2 lifts would have had the location of the lower lift's base a little bit further west than the current single quad lift base is located. But, the new lift is still located at...
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    LiftBlog Reports that Smuggs and Stowe are Exploring an Interconnect Gondola

    Agreed, I have never seen line at Slidebrook at Sugarbush or Tote Road at Loon, and have only ever had to wait a couple cabins for the Over Easy Gondola. Connector lifts do not need to be high capacity. Another thing that don't think has been brought up yet, is that there will need to be a...
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    Killllington 🎿🏂🏂🎿🎿🏂🏂🎿😀

    Superstar and Snowshed are both old Yans modified by Poma, same with Golden and Summit at Pico. Probably Snowshed and/or Superstar is going to be replaced soon and then be parted out to keep the other 2 or 3 going. Sunday River is replacing and scraping their Yan Poma hybrid this summer, Mount...
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    Loon South Peak Expansion

    James Niehues did make a sketch of the potential full buildout west of South Peak. From listening to the podcast, it seems like the do not yet have the land rights yet to develop beyond the learning terrain they are cutting this year. This learning terrain is slightly skewed in its layout...
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    Loon South Peak Expansion

    If the grate be empty put coal on If the grate be full, stop putting coal on Don't put coal on over a high fender You'd be an ass to risk it
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