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[iceberg210]

My parents went to Napa Valley for their 24'th aniversery and were kind enough to stop by Mamounth and take a couple pics and pic up a trail map here are the pics...

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[iceberg210]

That of course is Broadway Express and I don't know what this gondola is called but if anyone knows it would help. I really like that Yan station design it looks like the back of Big Muskie or any other one of those huge draglines.

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[KZ]

Its the Panorama Gondola. The yan Brodway was actually originally a Yancake, but when doppelmayr came in to do the retrofits, someone designed those terminal coverings which are on all of the Mammoth owned yan hsq's; Canyon, Brodway, J6 and J7. Boy the place sure lost a bunch of snow in the last few weeks. Fun place, probably the best in California. If you go to the main site, under resorts, mammoth is up with almost every lift covered. I took some more pics over memorial day and those shall be added soon.

http://www.skilifts.org/ca-mammoth.htm

[floridaskier]

Was the original top terminal modified by Doppelmayr too, because it's a lot different

[KZ]

I believe it was but i am not sure. The current building seems very new, or at least the bathrooms and the other stuff. You could check the Mammoth timeline, but otherwise you would probably have to contact them to ask.

[spunkyskier01]

why is the top terminal of the canyon chair different from all of the other terminals made for the yans at mammoth and june?

[floridaskier]

What is the surrounding area like? Maybe they designed it to fit in better with its surroundings?

[spunkyskier01]

it looks just like were the top of the broadway express lift is,(you can see it from the top of the lift) their are only some trees were there are none at the top of the broadway express.just go into the picture part of this website. it is right there.looks good. http://skilifts.org/ca-mammoth.htm

[KZ]

Its hard to get a good picture of the top of Broadway, but it has no trees around it, just some massive wind guards. I also wonder why the top of canyon is different, and my most logical guess is that the original terminal had a similar design. It was built in '92, 4 years after Broadway, so they may have not built it as a Yancake. Maybe someone has a better idea, but thats my guess.

Now after looking at some Lake Louise pictures, i came across 2 of the old yan hsq, Top of the World, another yancake (as most are). Looked to be in tip-top shape during its final years.

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[KZ]

1 more blurry shot looking up the line.

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[edmontonguy]

None of he original eqipment was used for for the new sixpack but the same liftline was used and the old Yan controlrooms are still used

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[KZ]

Thats kinda wierd not replacing the control rooms. Oh well, they actually go pretty nicely with the poma terminal.

[Whistler]

All the lake lake louise operator's house's are quite nice. check out how roomy the top of the world bottom termianl one is.

[SkiBachelor]

Actually, if you look closely at the six packs supports, those are Yan's and not LP's terminal support design. :)

[snowboardguy]

I've also always wondered why the top terminal of Canyon Express at mammoth is so defferant then any other terminal there. It's just like a big black rectangle

[floridaskier]

Are you sure those are Yan supports on the terminal? There's probably not much of a chance that they would fit the Poma terminal. But Pomas usually have 3 supports or two fatter ones.

[SkiBachelor]

Yes I read in SAM that Lake Louise had to reuse the terminal foundations because the banff national park wouldn't allow them to tear them out and replace them with new ones. Just compare those terminal supports with another POMA HSS.

[edmontonguy]

I assume then that the old Tower Foundations were used too. Probably just beefed up a bit as i don't think the Yan ones could have been large enough to support a six pack

[liftmech]

That depends- the original TOW lift was a detachable quad, so the towerbases were probably plenty strong. On Poma detaches, the only difference between quad and sixpack towers is the wider sheaves on the sixpacks. Also, tower load partially depends upon rope tension, and Yan stretched the $#!t out of his ropes- way more than Poma does.

[SkiBachelor]

Here is a picture I took of the Alpine Springs lift at Aspen's Snowmass resort. The chair rail is sagging pretty bad. :---:

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