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Here's Deer Valley's new evacuation training area. It's on the side of the Ontario run, near the bottom, next to DV's maintenance shop by the Judge lift. It consists of one tower, a former Yan depression tower (which I think came from the Clipper lift, as it's the only removed Yan triple from DV with a depression assembly like that) with a cable on one side tied to the ground on the other end. It's got one Yan triple chair

is that an inlet for snow making gess its an underwater exac or is the pix just flattening the area

I'm not sure what that is. It's always been there, so I dont think it has to do with evac training

While at Willamette Pass today, I finally had a chance to ride the Eagle Peak Accelerator with the 6 person carriers on it. However, it was kind of a busy day up there and the the HSS had kind of a long line for the amount of people that were riding it (5 minute wait or so) and the lift forman was telling people to please make 6s when getting on and it was pretty much impossible to do that because there were only two ski key gates (basically automatic ticket machines). Mt. Bachelor has 8 machines for each of its HSQs and here Willamette Pass only had two. Even the triples had more than the HSS which I thought was kind of funny too. I have to admint that the picture below was taken at 3:30 PM rather than at 1 PM since it would be kind of hard to take pictures of the device with so many people around them trying to get in.

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It works very efficiently if there are extra crews in the maze organizing skiiers equiped with pass readers, it essentialy kills two birds with one stone, in terms of cost it's more expensive, but a far better solution in my opinion.

That looks like a tiny maze for a lift with that capacity. The Crystal Mtn 6packs always have a huge maze with human ticket checkers.

Breck a while ago, 10+ years, had self scanning ticket machines. Theirs were a turnstile with grocery store style scanners that you scanned your own pass on. These were one of the earlist automated ticket systems but it was riddled with problems. Mostly that it wouldnt scan quite right or people couldnt figure out how to use it. They were only on the Quicksilver and then were moved to Beaver Run all said they only lasted a few years.

Solitude has automated ticket scanners. You put the ticket in a pocket on your left side and go through. PCMR has them too, for the Fast Tracks pass that lets you get to the front of the line on the busiest lifts.

I wish I could ski in this much snow.

poloxskier, on Jan 13 2006, 05:24 PM, said:

Ah yes, the old green and yellow Ski Data machines. I remember when Mt. Bachelor had those and they seemed to have lasted for a few years before being replaced with new ones. Those machiens were so bulky.

The metal things between the people just before you get on the chair are to count the ppl on the lift (theres a little eye on each post.

I got a couple of pictures of hanson hills while snowboarding today:
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The sunset through the trees with the return for the T-bar.
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A powder stash that no one was skiing. people in michigan are more used to ice.
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A ride up the T-bar. This picture is not nearly as nice looking as being there.

skiersage, on Jan 13 2006, 08:50 PM, said:

I have

That's Baker's Chair 1, either tower 14 or 15 right near the top.

That is one fat tower. Any reason it is so wide?

Look fun...

It's only fat in one view. If you look down the line it's quite skinny. Towers 10-15 on that lift are all almond-shaped to allow for snow creep- a round tower lets the snow build up pressure and possibly misalign the tower. The record-setting winter we had one tower- a round one- go out of alignment worse and worse as the winter wore on. It was on a sidehill and the massive amounts of snow actually pushed it out of whack a few degrees.

We had to do some routine grip maintenence on our HSQ last night and I was able to snap this photo. It was actually snowing pretty hard during this shot, so I was surprised that it actually came out as well as it did.

Here is a shot of another Riblet almond shaped tower.

I found a really nice shot of the top of the Orange/Red Chair at Forbidden Plateau

Here is a random Minnesota lift picture!





*This post has been edited since these pictures have already been posted in another thread*
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Skier, on Jan 30 2006, 09:50 PM, said:

Where is that lift? It looks like Crystal's old Chair 2.