I'm not sure what's clasiffied as old but LL has like skibachelor said a YAN triple though once the eagle is gone there will be no more mueller chairs. The Olympic chair is a murray Latta and still sees regular use. The Ptarmagin is a relatively late model YAN Quad similar to chair 25 @ mammoth. I beleive the summit platter is a mueller and gives the summit character by the scary ride up. Other than the beginner T-bar which i know little about that's all the lifts LL has which aren't of the HS variety.
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Gondola @ LL
Started by LiftFreak, Nov 07 2004 02:04 PM
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Posted 16 January 2005 - 02:43 AM
Is the platter a retractable like new t-bars or is it a stick design?
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Theres a place for all of God's creatures, right next to the mashed potatoes.
"You could say that a mountain is alot like a woman, once you think you know every inch of her and you're about to dip your skis into some soft, deep powder...Bam, you've got two broken legs, cracked ribs and you pay your $20 just to let her punch your lift ticket all over again"
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Posted 17 January 2005 - 02:37 PM
Hopefully somebody will get some pix of the Eagle chair before its taken out. It's got Mueller terminals and towers but the chairs and grips are Riblet.
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Posted 14 February 2005 - 08:29 PM
from the lake louise website this morning
Today's Info
Gondola now open. 6 passenger high speed Gondola 8 minute ride to top.
Number of Lifts Open: 10 Number of Runs Open: 109/113
I've heard its already been stooped for several extended periods :help:
Today's Info
Gondola now open. 6 passenger high speed Gondola 8 minute ride to top.
Number of Lifts Open: 10 Number of Runs Open: 109/113
I've heard its already been stooped for several extended periods :help:
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Posted 27 November 2005 - 06:14 PM
65 trapped on Lake Louise gondola
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Published: November 27, 2005
LAKE LOUISE, Alta. (CP) - Frantic parents erupted in anger at Louise Louise resort officials late Sunday as dozens of skiers, including crying children, were trapped on the gondola as darkness fell and temperatures plummeted.
"It's been an absolute fiasco, the lack of every kind of organization one would expect,'' a furious Michael Giuffy told a resort official who was trying to stop him from speaking with a reporter three hours after the Grizzly Express stopped working.
Giuffy's two sons, aged 10 and 15, were on the gondola when it stopped just after 3 p.m. -- shortly after the World Cup ski races ended at the resort 200 kilometres west of Calgary.
"It's minus five, minus 10 and there's been absolutely no been attempt by your organization to communicate with parents who have children there,'' said Giuffy, a pediatric cardiologist from Calgary.
"It's an absolute joke -- I think people should be terrified to have their kids here without a parent accompanying them on every single lift,'' he said, his voice shaking.
Guiffy said lights were only brought onto the skill hill to illuminate the area for those trapped on the lift after he threatened officials.
One of the safety switches on the Grizzly Express gondola tripped out about 3 p.m, leaving the skiers stranded above the resort, said Rick Werner, operations manager at Lake Louise Mountain resort.
Skiers were stranded from the bottom of the ski hill to the top of the mountain. There was no immediate word on injuries.
Werner described the malfunction as similar to a blown tire and said officials were attempting to fix it late Sunday.
Officials began evacuations about 5:30 p.m. local time, but estimated it could take a couple of hours to complete the rescues. Eight teams of ski patrollers were working to help get those trapped out of the gondola cabins.
"We've got ski patrols with headlights and (snow) cats out there so it's being handled in a safe way and as quickly as we can,'' said Werner.
"We have a very well-executed evacuation plan. It's a self-propelled unit that goes along the cable with the patroller, who then enters the gondola cabin. We hook cables and harness devices around the people and children, then we lower them to the ground and we take them down off the mountain via snow cat or skidoos.''
A tearful Jodi Vanderwerf of Canmore, Alta., said her sons Jon-Henry, 10, and Luke, 9, were on the lift and getting more upset as time passed.
"We've got a cellphone and we've been talking to back and forth but they're crying now,'' she said.
© Canadian Press 2005
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Canadian Press
Published: November 27, 2005
LAKE LOUISE, Alta. (CP) - Frantic parents erupted in anger at Louise Louise resort officials late Sunday as dozens of skiers, including crying children, were trapped on the gondola as darkness fell and temperatures plummeted.
"It's been an absolute fiasco, the lack of every kind of organization one would expect,'' a furious Michael Giuffy told a resort official who was trying to stop him from speaking with a reporter three hours after the Grizzly Express stopped working.
Giuffy's two sons, aged 10 and 15, were on the gondola when it stopped just after 3 p.m. -- shortly after the World Cup ski races ended at the resort 200 kilometres west of Calgary.
"It's minus five, minus 10 and there's been absolutely no been attempt by your organization to communicate with parents who have children there,'' said Giuffy, a pediatric cardiologist from Calgary.
"It's an absolute joke -- I think people should be terrified to have their kids here without a parent accompanying them on every single lift,'' he said, his voice shaking.
Guiffy said lights were only brought onto the skill hill to illuminate the area for those trapped on the lift after he threatened officials.
One of the safety switches on the Grizzly Express gondola tripped out about 3 p.m, leaving the skiers stranded above the resort, said Rick Werner, operations manager at Lake Louise Mountain resort.
Skiers were stranded from the bottom of the ski hill to the top of the mountain. There was no immediate word on injuries.
Werner described the malfunction as similar to a blown tire and said officials were attempting to fix it late Sunday.
Officials began evacuations about 5:30 p.m. local time, but estimated it could take a couple of hours to complete the rescues. Eight teams of ski patrollers were working to help get those trapped out of the gondola cabins.
"We've got ski patrols with headlights and (snow) cats out there so it's being handled in a safe way and as quickly as we can,'' said Werner.
"We have a very well-executed evacuation plan. It's a self-propelled unit that goes along the cable with the patroller, who then enters the gondola cabin. We hook cables and harness devices around the people and children, then we lower them to the ground and we take them down off the mountain via snow cat or skidoos.''
A tearful Jodi Vanderwerf of Canmore, Alta., said her sons Jon-Henry, 10, and Luke, 9, were on the lift and getting more upset as time passed.
"We've got a cellphone and we've been talking to back and forth but they're crying now,'' she said.
© Canadian Press 2005
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Posted 27 November 2005 - 06:24 PM
Intresting, too bad, i thought it was going to have problems cause it sure seemed like they were when i was there although no one was on the lift
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Posted 27 November 2005 - 06:45 PM
This seems to be in the mainstream media a lot, it was on the homepage of MSNBC.com and on the news.
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Posted 27 November 2005 - 08:11 PM
You're only hearing about it because the world cup just wrapped up. There is a tonne of media coverage on site, so inevitably a story about people trapped on a gondola is going to grab the public's attention. If the the news agency grabs publicity then advertisments are seen and the money rolls in. It's a vicious cycle but unfourtunatley LL is at the center of it.
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Posted 27 November 2005 - 08:50 PM
Murphy's law in action. The big stuff always breaks right at the end of the day. I would be interested to know what exactly broke. It sure ain't a "blown tire".
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Posted 29 November 2005 - 06:10 PM
Paying a journeyman $16 Cnd an hour is a start.
Lake Lousy's list of contributing factors is a long one. In fact its basically a legacy mentioned previously.
A.R.M. out
Ps that flat tire reference is by far the craziest explainantion I've ever heard. I'm surprised the media hasn't eaten them for breakfast.
Lake Lousy's list of contributing factors is a long one. In fact its basically a legacy mentioned previously.
A.R.M. out
Ps that flat tire reference is by far the craziest explainantion I've ever heard. I'm surprised the media hasn't eaten them for breakfast.
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