Snowdon Poma???

[shwilly]

if it is a powder day, you'd find WAY more untracked at saddleback whereas loaf will be tracked out in an hour. same with burke vs. jay. etc.

Saddleback is a beautiful mountain, and sure, it holds powder for much longer than the Loaf. But that's a very figurative "tracked out in an hour" unless you just mean the main cruisers. It took several days to track out the pow dump 2 1/2 weeks ago at Sugarloaf, and there were still small pockets of freshies to be found on Reggae weekend.

Saddleback is great, but powder days on Muleskinner are all too rare.

While we're on the surface lift thread, I'll say that the Kennebago T-bar is the most brutal lift this snowboarder has ever taken. I once fell repeatedly trying to get on that lift, to the great amusement of all the skiers behind me, including the area owner. After taking that, I found glacier T-bars out west very easy.

 

[thetrailboss]

I just was perusing Ski Lifts.org's Page which includes data on the lifts at K-mart. Man, some of those lifts that are in service are pushing thirty years old or more! Some of the HSQ's are going on 20 years. I'd imagine in a few years they are going to have to do some major infrastructure improvements.

 

[Geoff]

I just was perusing Ski Lifts.org's Page which includes data on the lifts at K-mart. Man, some of those lifts that are in service are pushing thirty years old or more! Some of the HSQ's are going on 20 years. I'd imagine in a few years they are going to have to do some major infrastructure improvements.

Not exactly. The 3 original high speed quads at KMart and Pico were Yan lifts. (Snowshed, Superstar, and the Pico upper mountain lift.) The towers on those three lifts are old (some of the Superstar towers were lowered in the retrofit to get out of the wind) but everything else was replaced about 5 or 6 years ago.

Yan had accidents like the Quicksilver lift at Whistler where jamming on the emergency brake caused chairs to fall off the haul rope and sent people plumeting to their deaths. ASC replaced all the Yan chairs that had the faulty spring mechanism, the haul ropes, and the main drive works. I imagine Killington couldn't get insurance without doing this.


The fixed-grip lifts will last forever.

 

[thetrailboss]

OK, I knew that the carriers were replaced (or at least the grips), but they also did the drives on those lifts as well?

 

[Geoff]

OK, I knew that the carriers were replaced (or at least the grips), but they also did the drives on those lifts as well?

I wasn't there when they did the work so I can't say for 100% sure but that's what KMart said they did when they announced it. I don't see how they could get insurance without a total replacement.

 

[thetrailboss]

OK, I decided to split the threads seeing we had some awesome discussion on Pico. So I gave Pico their own thread and moved the relevant posts. :wink:

 

[loafer89]

It is kind of hard to see the Snowdon poma in this picture with the fog, but you can barely make out one of the lift towers in the upper left corner of this picture. Killington had 63 trails open on May 1st 1994:-o