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Mammoth is wasting no time starting construction of Chair 7, which apparently will be a six pack.

Winter Park has started as well with construction of the Panoramic Express, a Leitner-Poma six pack to replace Timberline.

Is Timberline still open to the public?

Yes, Timberline is still open to the public, but during low wind days during the week, it will be closed so that the helicopter can fly in concrete.

Isn't it a little early to be working on Timberline? There's still a few weeks left in the season

Winter Park agreed to remove it over snow to limit environmental damage, and considering how little snow there is, it doesn't seem too early to me.

sky cranes are cool.



northstar, fall 2007.
This post has been edited by asendr: 27 March 2007 - 04:41 PM

Skier, on Mar 17 2007, 06:21 PM, said:

chair 9*

Skier, on Mar 21 2007, 07:07 PM, said:

Not removing old Timberline until new towers fly in. Over the snow to get track vehicles up and back without damage to soils, haul large terminal pieces on sleds on the snow, tracked crane, etc. This is the reason.

Leitner-Poma has started their 2007 installations photo gallery with pictures of the Panoramic Express at Winter Park:
https://zeus.pomagro...ls.php?album=12

The Satelit terminals are finally coming to North America!!

Never mind that, it's just the regular Omega. What happened to the delete button?
This post has been edited by skierdude9450: 13 April 2007 - 01:48 PM

how do you keep the haul rope
out of the highway?

Nice. I saw them stringing the strawline but the day they pulled and spliced I was at work. That's one hell of a rigging project.

Is that Beaver Creek? I forgot that gondola has Euro style towers.

That's BC. The lift crosses US6, a very busy highway.

liftmech, on Apr 28 2007, 06:49 AM, said:

That'll be a really fun ride then!!

I'm pretty sure that those are regular towers. Most of them are two segments. European towers taper from the bottom.

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It crosses the Eagle River and highway 6 in one span.
This post has been edited by skierdude9450: 28 April 2007 - 08:03 AM

skierdude9450, on Apr 28 2007, 11:00 AM, said:

The tower heads on the BC gondola appear to be of European design. I really do like the tapering towers though. Its a really good look!

Yeah the tower heads definately are European. It even has the short compression assembely tower head.

Sun Valley has started removal of Quarter Dollar and Half Dollar to make way for two new Uni-G detachables.