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I think on the webcam photos, the Colorado SuperChair's haul rope spools have arrived.

Crystal Mountain WA Chair 6 July 22 (old lift still there) and Aug 28. The old lift was removed, concrete poured and a new lift shack built. Towers are in the parking lot.
It looks like 3 or 4 new tower foundations.

Crystal Mountain Chair4 progress. It will be interesting to see how to access Boondogle from the top of the shortened lift.

I think the cams at Peak 8 base show them stringing wires for the Colorado SuperChair. They look like com lines, not the haul rope, though.

The haul rope arrived at Beaver Creek today for the new "Centennial Express Combination Lift" as it is being called on Beaver Creek's Facebook page.

(https://www.facebook...6880635/?type=1)

I see them finishing assembling the Colorado SuperChair's bottom terminal on the webcam. Speaking of which, I was wondering if anyone has access to the information that would say how many chairs the lift is supposed to have.
This post has been edited by DonaldMReif: 05 September 2014 - 09:50 AM

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Dino

Quicksilver at Crystal

Rabbit at Shawnee Peak has its towers, return, and drive terminal minus motor room standing as of 9/2.

Taos flew towers today. The new towers can be seen on the Toas web cam and there should be some Facebook pictures soon

Here are the Facebook pics from our tower day! Such an awesome thing to see these towers up there hiking down looking back at it from the original Kachina hike such an awesome piece of engineering nice and steep!!
This post has been edited by Nate214: 08 September 2014 - 08:51 PM

Nice photos. Thanks Nate.
Dino

Stole them from Facebook since not everyone here is a facebooker.

I think the Colorado SuperChair's comm line is up now. But that wood trim still looks as impressive on this lift as it does on the Kensho SuperChair.
I'm still inclined to think the lift will be counter-clockwise like the original.

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This post has been edited by DonaldMReif: 11 September 2014 - 07:29 AM

Brian Head chairs are on

sbwhidbey, on 01 September 2014 - 07:44 PM, said:

Growing up we used to access Boondoggle from wherever we felt like it. There were some fun little tree shots off Witch's Knoll (which appears to have been flattened to make a new access point for Tinkerbell from the top of the new lift). So-- I'd guess it won't be a problem.

DonaldMReif, on 11 September 2014 - 06:48 AM, said:

Looks like some base area renovation going on there as well!

They rotated the camera that faced Ski Hill Grill so that the Colorado SuperChair is front and center. It looks like the lift has loading gates. That seems kind of odd considering that the resort removed the gates from almost all of the superchairs in 2012 (the only ones that kept their gates are Quicksilver Super6 because it's a double loading lift, and the Peak 8 SuperConnect because it has a midway load station). Hopefully they won't cause extra stops and slows.

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Actually, for exciting news: that thing I circled in the previous photo? The Colorado SuperChair has a magic carpet loading belt! Yes, it's only the second lift at Breckenridge to use a carpet at the loading area, after Lift 7, and the Colorado SuperChair is also only the second detachable in North America to use magic carpet loading, after the Mountaintop Express lift. I think the Colorado SuperChair's belt actually might be made by the same company that made the Mountaintop Express lift's belt. And this also confirms that the lift is anticlockwise with inline loading because of how the belt is positioned.

Here's a better look:
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As you can see, it looks practically the same as the Mountaintop Express lift's belt. The middle spot is obviously the space for handicapped.

Compare the photo there to the appearance of the Mountaintop Express lift's belt:
https://www.youtube....h?v=zeUkbLiwx8Y

DonaldMReif, on 17 September 2014 - 10:29 AM, said:

Grand Summit Express at Mount Snow has a carpet-assist load also. I think it was added within the past 3 years or so.