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The top terminal. I didn't want to take another picture of inside because I felt like I mgiht get in trouble. Maybe later when I have clearance. B)

nice rime

That lift gets a great deal of rime- every time I've been there it looks exactly like that. The crew that opens up the lift after a day or so of downtime has to knock off quite a bit of it to run the lift. I've heard of 'ice tunnels' around the sheaves and rope on the towers; only the moving parts are warm enough to stay ice-free. Thus the necessity for the night drive...

Inside the Summit Express terminal buildings, do they have real snow or some fake stuff for the loading ramps?

Rubber mat type thing.

they had some carpet at the bottom of eagle express (the uni-g) at mamomth due to lack of snow. It was a bit stickey

Sometimes they have carpet or AstroSnow or whatever else you want to call it at the bottom of PCMR's Town lift (85 CTEC FGT) that starts on Park City's Main Street. It's really weird under your skis

We are but anyway- I've put down treated plywood an inch lower than ramp height, and then bolted inch-square bars of UHMW plastic down every foot or so. That provides a smooth surface, and also holds the snow in place.

Squaw just uses hay. I still had some stuck to my skis from Thanksgiving this Christmas.

Mt. Bachelor uses that stuff too, although only at the start of the season. I have some pictures of this on the site if you look at the Mt. Bachelor pictures. :)

DV hasnt got much of a problem with unloading ramp snow, and they don't use wooden ramps, all snow. It does get a little blown off though

Cameron, I'm going to tag a pic onto your thread here; it seemed an appropriate place.
The Yellow chair (seen in the middle between Pine Marten on the left and Red on the right) got removed, did it not?

Yes this lift was removed and only two towers remain of this lift along with the top station's lift shack. :(

Why is it resorts tend to leave stuff like operator shacks and unloading platforms?

Most don't, actually. You'd be hard-pressed to find any evidence of the old lifts at Copper unless you hiked the lines. All that remains of them are the tower footings, whether it's the Heron bolt cage or a torched-off piece of tubular steel from the Yans. The only lift I've found a terminal footing from is old I-lift. Same with Crystal and Whistler. As to why some resorts do leave things, my theory (having torn out a lift before) is that they ran out of time.

The line equipement that remains from the yellow chair is actually used. The top lift shack is used for NASTAR while the bottom tower has a Borer tube tow attached to it.

Mont St-Sauveur leaves many things whan they remove chairlifts. We still can see:

-The bottom terminal of the côte 69 double
-The unloading platform of the same lift
-Almost all the towers of the côte 71 T-Bar
-etc.

liftmech, on May 24 2004, 07:05 AM, said:

You mean hiking the lines and looking for things, and what is a Heron bolt cage?

I mean hiking the old liftline.
A Heron bolt cage is the bolts embedded in concrete that held the tower to the footing. Yan and Riblet were direct burial- the tower was placed in the hole, aligned using three small hand winches, and then concrete was poured around it. Riblet had a sleeve which was place in the hole before concrete was poured, and then once the footing set up, the tower was place in the sleeve and welded. Later they placed a piece of pipe with half of a bolted flage welded on top; the matching half was welded to the bottom of a tower. Most other manufacturers have some variation on the bolt cage. Now that we're

The Canyons has the bottom tension support for the old Raptor FGQ- a CTEC moved to Dreamscape that ran next to Golden Eagle- on the runout down to Golden Eagle. I dont know if it's still there, I didn't go down there this year.