Mt Snow Thread

[drjeff]

Those Dopp terminals are hot.

If there was a way to get the Dopp terminal, with the wood underside that L-P does, that would be the ultimate style combo in my eyes!

 

[ctdubl07]

A couple of comments: firstly I forgot the old H-Metal double is now rechaired with triple seaters, a nice lift project side bonus that will pay off on those wind hold days when it is the only lift running.

Yes, DrJ certainly looks like the new Sunbrook base is kicked over enough that it removes the pole hazards the old lift created towards the bottom of the trail.
I wonder how close to the old top station location the new one sits?

Will be interesting to see how much of the lift line got cleaned out due to machinery traffic.....it can be a fun poach now and again with good snow.

Another bonus of these new lifts is that both of the old lifts had top terminals with steep off load ramps which suck for boarders and novice skiers...should speed things up.

 

[drjeff]

A couple of comments: firstly I forgot the old H-Metal double is now rechaired with triple seaters, a nice lift project side bonus that will pay off on those wind hold days when it is the only lift running.

Yes, DrJ certainly looks like the new Sunbrook base is kicked over enough that it removes the pole hazards the old lift created towards the bottom of the trail.
I wonder how close to the old top station location the new one sits?

Will be interesting to see how much of the lift line got cleaned out due to machinery traffic.....it can be a fun poach now and again with good snow.

Another bonus of these new lifts is that both of the old lifts had top terminals with steep off load ramps which suck for boarders and novice skiers...should speed things up.

From having hiked over to it a couple of times this off season, including after the concrete was poured for the terminal, the top terminal is essentially in the exact place it was before, and if anything, once the final grading is done, it won't be quite the drop down the ramp the old quad had

 

[Newpylong]

Got pics of the the Heavy Metal Triple? Always liked escaping Nitro on that.

 

[drjeff]

Got pics of the the Heavy Metal Triple? Always liked escaping Nitro on that.

Here's one that one of the patrollers, who owns the local, and very good I will say, Nemesis Photo studio, put up late last week with the triple chairs up on the haul rope

 

[Newpylong]

It is like it meant to be. The Yan doubles always looked weird to me. The triples on the other hand... Are those chairs from Tumbleweed and/or Sundance?

 

[drjeff]

It is like it meant to be. The Yan doubles always looked weird to me. The triples on the other hand... Are those chairs from Tumbleweed and/or Sundance?

Honestly not sure which of the fomer lifts those triples came from

 

[urungus]

That’s cool about the Heavy Metal upgrade, it has been overlooked because of the publicity surrounding the two new chairlifts. But this should definitely help out in the early season when Heavy Metal is the only chair running at Carinthia.

 

[jaytrem]

Honestly not sure which of the fomer lifts those triples came from

Looks like at least the "comfort bars" are from Sundance. Pretty sure Tumbleweed had springs (unless I have that backwards).

 

[drjeff]

Looks like at least the "comfort bars" are from Sundance. Pretty sure Tumbleweed had springs (unless I have that backwards).

I am trying to remember which one's were on each lift. Thinking back about it, they might be from Tumbleweed, as the last day I skied there last April, as they were starting to take the chairs off of Sundance, all the chairs were already off of Tumbleweed, and there were a bunch of triple chairs already stacked up next the the base of Heavy Metal near the top of the Grommet Carpet lift. Memory might be a little fuzzy on that though

 

[Newpylong]

At 2250 in length, they would need more chairs than just from Tumbleweed to fill out HM at 3200 in length. So some from both maybe? Or all from Sundance... Sundance's chairs definitely would have less hours right?

 

[jaytrem]

Tumbleweed had the springs. I checked the liftblog pics.

 

[Newpylong]

So good chance the carriers are from Sundance? Definitely enough consecutively numbered chairs off that lift lol.

 

[jaytrem]

So good chance the carriers are from Sundance? Definitely enough consecutively numbered chairs off that lift lol.

Yeah, and like you said, a lot less hours. Probably ran less than a 10th of Tumbleweed's hours, maybe even a 20th. Out of curiosity. I'd love to know the numbers.

 

[drjeff]

Guessing they renumbered many, of them, since in the online auction they had for the chairs from Tumbleweed and Sundance, people could request specific numbers if they wanted, or just get a randm numbered chair. And I know for a fact that both #50 (the "golden chair") sold as well as both #1's and a slew of other numbers that had sentimental value to folks.

And I would say that Jaytrem's estimate of 1/20th the hours on the Sundance chairs over Tumbleweed's chairs may even be on the low side of things

 

[jaytrem]

And I would say that Jaytrem's estimate of 1/20th the hours on the Sundance chairs over Tumbleweed's chairs may even be on the low side of things

Well it did run almost as much as Tumbleweed/Beaver until they shortened it. That was about a third of it's life. But even back then Beaver did open/close earlier/later in the year. Since the change Tumbleweed would be about 120 day a year a about 8 hours a day, and Sundance around 25 days about 5 hours per day. That's only around 7 to 8 times as much since the shortening.

 

[drjeff]

Well it did run almost as much as Tumbleweed/Beaver until they shortened it. That was about a third of it's life. But even back then Beaver did open/close earlier/later in the year. Since the change Tumbleweed would be about 120 day a year a about 8 hours a day, and Sundance around 25 days about 5 hours per day. That's only around 7 to 8 times as much since the shortening.

Yup, and crazy to think that's it's been probably 20 years or so since the Beaver shortening into Tumbleweed happened

 

[jaytrem]

Yup, and crazy to think that's it's been probably 20 years or so since the Beaver shortening into Tumbleweed happened

Indeed!!! Time flies!!!

 

[Newpylong]

Makes sense about renumbering - I zoomed in on the photo and the stencils look they've been recently reapplied.

Good to know pieces from both (actually three if you count Beaver) of those lifts live on though.

I'm not a lift nut by any means but are the cross arms long enough to accommodate a quad? There's a ton of YAN 4 person chairs sitting in the bushes at the bottom of the old Devil's Fiddle that maybe K would part with. That lift certainly doesn't appear to be going anywhere as a package deal lol. They probably have the Skye Peak chairs somewhere as well. Heavy Metal would need a new motor, gearbox and drive at minimum though. Big project... I know Peaks previously mentioned looking at going from a double to a quad there. The fact that were able to go to a triple is a testament to how sized the existing motor was from YAN.

 

[ctdubl07]

Guessing they renumbered many, of them, since in the online auction they had for the chairs from Tumbleweed and Sundance, people could request specific numbers if they wanted, or just get a randm numbered chair. And I know for a fact that both #50 (the "golden chair") sold as well as both #1's and a slew of other numbers that had sentimental value to folks.

And I would say that Jaytrem's estimate of 1/20th the hours on the Sundance chairs over Tumbleweed's chairs may even be on the low side of things

I can back that fact up by DrJ as its sitting in our garage up there....havent been to VT since April so no idea how "golden" it really is but I'll post a picture when live.