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Mount Snow, VT has begun work on the new bubble chairlift and they're well on their way to having the Summit Local/Lift 17 dismantled for the new bubble 6-Pack:

http://mountsnow.com/live-cams/
http://mountsnow.com...ry/bubble-blog/

Jonni, on 28 March 2011 - 06:31 AM, said:

Mount Snow, VT has begun/is well on there way to having the Summit Local/Lift 17 dismantled for the new bubble 6-Pack:

http://mountsnow.com/live-cams/
http://mountsnow.com...ry/bubble-blog/

Is that an In-House removal crew?
Dino

What year was Lift 17 originally installed?

The lift was installed in 1978: http://www.skilifts....snow/sl/sl.html

Twenty one years old, welding in the parking lot with Tom Nored and George Kruger building this lift.
Thought it looked familiar!
There were still two of the banana plantation chain drive lifts still in operation along with the infamous sky tram from the hotel.

Outback, on 29 March 2011 - 10:14 PM, said:

Twenty one years old, welding in the parking lot with Tom Nored and George Kruger building this lift.

Was Angelo there with his buddy Spike?

Dino

Lift Dinosaur, on 28 March 2011 - 06:55 AM, said:

Mostly

Was Angelo there with his buddy Spike?

Angelo wasn't there in Vermont. He was taking care of (raising) his grandson at the time in CA. Set my first tower with Angelo under a helicopter.....had to wake him up from a nap on the hill when the 214 was coming. I was 19-20 then, Angelo was already in his sixties and could out dig, out climb, out work ANYBODY on the crew......even Philipe! Remember Philipe won the Subaru Pro Tour at 42 years old!

Pokie was in Vermont that year with me. We drove straight through in an L/E truck from Carson City towing a welder. Got to see Slumpberger's (Father) cabin made out of 24" tower tubes. Wood stoves built into the tower tubes to heat the house.
Les Dudak (?) was our engineer at Mt. Snow. Had to tackle Les once on a hot LZ before he walked into a Carson Sikorsky 58 tail rotor! (and "Blacky" was the pilot!)
Nuts!

Our new bubble

Wow sure looks nice. Only complaint about that would be that without a gap between the seat and backrest, you'd have to hold your poles the whole way up.

Looks Nice, Question. What is the wind like along the lift line? How does it normally blow?

Some photos of tower removal at Mt. Snow, including a 1978 photo of the original tower installation: http://mountsnow.com/tower-removal/

"Le Transit" - a Doppelmayr pulse gondola going in at Le Massif, Quebec:
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New Chair 5 quad at Massanutten, VA:
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Removal of Rose Bowl at Beaver Creek, CO:
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Some copper construction shots from my my coworker Nate's Facebook page today.

Parts where packed up to go to 49deg north in eastern WA. According to 49's Facebook announcement the lift will be installed next summer after being refurbished.

Down the road it goes.... All packed up and headed northwest.

I wonder if they will find the setting bar that Matt dropped down the roof drain.

It's back in the shop, they were just cleaning the rust off the other day.

removal of the triple chair at Marmot Basin- Leitner Poma Canada crew...

Video of towers

Removal of drive-

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Nice video...and a great music selection!
Thanks for sharing.
Dino

Vertical bullwheels! Not something you see every day. These are photos of the new "Le Transit" lift at Le Massif. The unique configuration appears to be due to a very steep profile right out of the bottom terminal.