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Can't say I knew we had a camera up there

New lift location.

How do those riding the summer park lift access the lift during the summer?

I don't know. Definitely not via American Flyer. The roads down from the top of Union Creek lift might be a potential route. But it might be best to wait for Copper to make further announcements.

Same way they always have-- the bus. We've run these camps for years, it's just that they've always used vans to shuttle the campers from the bottom back up. They take a bus fro the base area to the park itself then ride in the vans. The lift is to eliminate the multiple shuttles.

Took these at Shawnee Peak after they took down the towers and return of Rabbit. The first two i snagged from their facebook page.

I was in Breckenridge last week and they have the haul rope spooled up and the pilot rope being retrieved.
Next step will be to pull test the tower foundations and prep the cross arms to be flown out. Some will have the sheave assemblies removed as they are too heavy for the KMax that will be coming.
Dino

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That spool rig looks really familiar.

No word on if they will also test the tower tubes to make sure they could carry the weight of high speed six pack crossarms and chairs?

DonaldMReif, on 25 May 2014 - 07:00 PM, said:

Tower tube widths are somewhat standard. I doubt there will be any testing, just an engineer running the numbers, and signing off on it.

DonaldMReif, on 25 May 2014 - 07:00 PM, said:

Read Dino's post.

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Removal of the Adirondack Express high speed triple at Gore Mountain has begun to make way for the new high speed quad. The chairs are off. The jagged cut up pieces of metal here prove that the lift is being scrapped, not relocated.

Those jerks.

Lift Dinosaur, on 25 May 2014 - 05:05 PM, said:

Don't pull too hard
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snoloco, on 28 May 2014 - 03:17 PM, said:

Damn. They just cut the carriers up? Very surprised they didn't sell them, I imagine there are quite a few people in that area who would have wanted one.

From a closer look at it. It looks like these are just the hanger arms. They said on Facebook that you should stay tuned for information about the chairs.

Nate214, on 10 May 2014 - 07:04 AM, said:

Here is a news video I saw on Facebook today.
http://www.koat.com/...26257542#!TJXaR

CH3skier, on 02 June 2014 - 10:43 AM, said:

Yup they came and shot that last week. Just seen it on facebook also. The Spider excavator showed up and is supposed to get to work at the top and work down.

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The haul rope is off the Adirondack Express.



Another picture of haul rope removal.


Bottom terminal deconstruction



This post has been edited by snoloco: 03 June 2014 - 11:54 AM