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Here is the first lift demolition photo of the year, hopefully there will be lots of pics from ski areas websites this summer.

Peruvian at Snowbird being removed, it was sold on the resort boneyard, but I don't know where it's going.

Here are some more new lift photos...

http://www.ski49n.com/sunrisequad.asp

http://www.belleayre...ompany/news.htm

http://www.bigwhite....otoGallery.html

http://skiroundtop.com/fifephotos.htm

So is the new lift at 49 replacing chair 1 or is it going to be the new lift in East Basin? The reason why I'm asking is because on the photo page, it says the lift will run from the bottom of Sunrise Basin to the top of the mountain, but I don't see anything called Sunrise Basin.

Not really sure what to think about the new HSS at Big White. Seems like major over kill that will lead to really bad slope conjestion. That's an uphill capacity of 5,800 people per hour in just that one area alone.

East Basin is now Sunrise Basin, that is where it will be

Looks like they removed the chairs on Sterling, hard to tell in the webcam though

http://www.deervalle...ountain-cam.jsp

Yep all 185 carriers are off line....great crew! They had them off in 2 days!

Jimmy, has DV sold Sterling yet and do you know where it might be going if it has?

Also, Peruvian at Snowbasin has been sold on resortboneyard.com, does anyone no where it is going?

On Mad River Lifts' website, it says that Peruvian still available for sale.

It was up on Resortboneyard, it was put up, sold quickly, and removed from the site, MadRiver just must not be updated.

Last I heard Brudage was interested in Sterling. SMI will be doing the demolition.....don't ask.
It was our team that had all the carriers off in 2 days as well

Here is a great webcam showing the removal of a hall double at Ski Liberty, PA. This lift will be replaced by a DoppelmayrCTEC fixed grip quad.

http://www.skiliberty.com/webcams.htm

I heard the peruvian was going to attitash, NH
This post has been edited by orangegondola: 07 May 2006 - 07:16 PM

The bullwheel and part of the terminal on Sterling at DV is gone

YEasterday afternoon, it was still assembled, so that was just today. I have been saving the cam every day, and will make a time lapse of the deconstruction and new lift construction.

Skier, once you have all the images, you should turn it into a flash animation so that it will be like a movie.

wow that was fast I didn't think that was happening till monday.

Skier, on May 13 2006, 09:21 PM, said:

Great idea. I've been watching it, but never thought about saving it

Skier, on May 13 2006, 05:21 PM, said:

Too bad the resolution wasn't better on that camera. you would have seen us out there tearing it apart. On Friday we dropped the rope off towers 2-5 and put plate clamps on the rope between towers 2 and 3 with the dead men going to tower 2. This rig allows you to let the carriage go forward and you still keep the slack in your rope at the bottom to get it off the wheel. Then yeah....yesterday we tore everything apart! First thing we fed some extra chain into the existing counterweight chain to get the counterweight on the ground...then we got all the chain outta the picture (easier said than done). Then we got the depress assemblies out. Then we rigged the bullwheel and dropped that to the ground....then rigged for the longitudinal beam (tube above bullwheel) and Ian from SMI cut that out. Then it was time for the horizontal (beam that holds depress assemblies) to come out....we dropped this on the ground and un did the U-bolts that hold the rollers in place so it would slide off the top of the two legs. All in all I think it was a pretty productive 2 days.
Ian from SMI is doing the demo of this lift and so far he's done a pretty stand up job! Really cool guy to work with as well

Ian...if its the same guy...has tons of lift experience.
Used to work with him at CTEC.
Who is getting the lift?
Some beer company?