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Some Mt Baker pictures off of Jeff's site. Looks like some nice snow up there.

That's amazing how Mt. Baker gets that amount of people being located where it is.

Look at the catenary in some of those lines. It's almost like a slow roller coaster ride.

for what it is worth One of my friends took those pics. it was is first time taking pics of skilifts.

i should be getting the Sunlight pics up tomorrow

The lift in the second pic has one heck of a loading ramp!

Liftmech, Care to comment and maybe identify all those? :)

So the alien-looking terminal is the UNI-M? That's what I'm getting out of this discussion. What constitutes a UNI-G, then?

UNI-G:

I guess that's one way to handle the bypass key....

Kicking Horse, on Jan 23 2005, 11:03 AM, said:

ahahaha!!! I've never gone to that extreme!! I find it just as easy to put a jumper across the wires in behind :)

Well something was cuzing the Iron Mountain Tramway lift to stop. And that bypass key u gotta sit there and hold it. The colorado Tramway board told them that they could do it. (they were out there for the unannouced thingy they do the tuesday before i took the pic).

All the pics i took of that place suck. So i don't think i'll be posting them. I might put them on my server just to eat up disk / data tranfer.

Allan, on Jan 23 2005, 08:45 PM, said:

That's cheating I use the crescent wrench method as well, unless I'm evacuating the line and will be removing the bypass soon.
Jeff- could you shrink the pictures down at all? It took forever to download.

NWS, on Jan 17 2005, 10:27 PM, said:

Yup.
#1- Galena terminal of Chair 3- the drive side. Note the adjustable tower for the heavy side only. Old chair 2 was designed the same way. (1968 Murray-Latta with Riblet carriers- we put those on in 2000) A photo from March 1999.  Galena_3.JPG (24.64K)
Number of downloads: 60
#2- Midstation Chair 1. Yes, Bryan, it's way off the ground. Ramp surface is 35 feet off the dirt. By March 1999 it was completely buried... (1952 Riblet) A photo from March 1999.  midstation.JPG (51.47K)
Number of downloads: 62
#3- Tower 4, chair 2 (2001 Riblet, my summer project that year) A photo from right after the helicopter placed the cap.  T_4_new_C_2.JPG (59.53K)
Number of downloads: 53
#4- Bottom of Chair 5 (2002 CTEC)
#5- More Chair 5
#6- Bottom of Chair 8 (1992 Riblet)
#7- More chair 8, from tower 3 looking down.
#8- Chair 8, tower 4-5 span. That is, I believe, the longest span at Baker. We had to bury the comline between those two towers because it would blow over the heavy side and trap cariers. There was no way to tighten it enough without actually pulling the towers together.
#9- Top of chair 8. T-19 and the top are adjustable. Patrol blows those shack windows out regularly as there is an avy slope right behind the photographer.
#10- Bottom of Chair 2. A unique terminal as Riblet had never built a height-adjustable combined drive-and-tention terminal before. The engineer on the project outdid himself designing it. It works great and was easy to understand and operate (although not to build).

The top terminals of old chairs 2, 4, 5, and 6 were all like the Chair 1 midstation- way up there. They were built before snowcats were as powerful as they are now, and as you can imagine there was soo much snow to build a ramp closer to the ground if you couldn't push it out of the way. Plus there wasn't the technology to build adjustable return terminals then. towers, yes, terminals, no.

Nice photos- makes me all nostalgic

liftmech, on Jan 24 2005, 11:10 AM, said:

i would if i could edit the post but i can't now......... Bill should have it set so we can edit your own posts all the time... and not within x amount of mins.

They should be, let me look into it.

SkiBachelor, on Jan 17 2005, 08:58 PM, said:

Not really, considering that the Vancouver metro area is one to two hours from the mountain. That's Coquitlam, Langley, Surrey, etc, with several million people right there. Not to mention Abbotsford, and then Burlington, Mount Vernon, Sedro-Wolley, and Bellingham on the south side of the border.

Just a random picture I found on ebay of the summit terminal of the single chair at Snow King, WY.
This post has been edited by poloxskier: 03 February 2005 - 04:37 PM

I can't remember where I found this:
This post has been edited by poloxskier: 03 February 2005 - 05:52 PM

Here's a couple of photos i've compiled of the Grouse Mountain Tramways.
Starting off with tower #2 on the Super Skyride, as you can see, it's quite steep after this tower, and when they're runnig the tram at full speed, you lose your stomach.

Another shot of the mighty tower #2