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The actual ride on the East River chair was not too bad but it did have its share of stops and slows due to people having difficulty loading and unloading the FGT. Also the chairs seemed to bounce a lot going into the lower terminal. I always thought that was a little odd and wondered if it was safe, must not have been too bad though since they always had that bounce and the lift was there since '97 with no incidents. Any word on whether or not the lift will be reused again on the mountain, maybe for Teocalli bowl??

Crested Butte's website does have a news article about the 5 year upgrading process. They plan on putting in lift out of Teocali Bowl but it doesn't say if it will be the old East River chair. Although the article is from November 2005, I would think that the upgrades are still the same since I cannot find any other articles saying otherwise.
Heres the link: http://winter.skicb.com/page.php?pname=pre...&article_id=463
This post has been edited by RideBurton: 05 August 2006 - 04:23 PM

the ER chair at CB uses parts from the old keystone triple. it was rebuilt by poma like you suggest in 97

My dad's out in Park City now and he got some pictures of Sterling at DV. It looks like the top terminal is in just about the same spot as before, and the bottom terminal was moved back a bit. The bottom terminal is mostly up, but the top isn't in yet. There's more if anyone wants

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I went by Beaver Creek the other day on my trip and saw the gondola. They have a long way to go.

Here is the base of East River at Crested Butte and Dreamcatcher at the Canyons.

Skier, on Aug 6 2006, 10:26 PM, said:

Looks like they haven't done anything in a month

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Wow, I knew Leitner-Poma terminals went up fast, but not that fast! When were the first pictures taken?

Skier, on Aug 9 2006, 03:31 PM, said:

Tuesday afternoon!

From Snowbird's website:



The top terminal of the new Peruvian Express high-speed quad. The rebar you see indicates the top of the "Vault" walls. The Vault will house the chairlift's main and auxiliary drives and be located below ground to minimize noise.

Lift Dinosaur, on Aug 9 2006, 12:20 PM, said:

Where's the midstation supposed to be?

skierdude9450, on Aug 10 2006, 10:25 PM, said:

I believe the gondola's midstation is located at the base of the former Funnel lift.

The bottom is below the village six pack, the mid terminals is located at the origanal bottom of funnel, the top terminal is located past the top of the old funnel lift buy a few handred yards.

Skier, on Aug 10 2006, 09:57 PM, said:

I didn't know vault drives were still being built. Apparently so.

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liftmech, on Aug 12 2006, 10:53 AM, said:

Snowbasin has a couple of vault driven gondolas

Here is the new Harry's Dream lift at Beaver Mountain. I think it is the old Germania lift from Alta. It appears to have a new DoppelmayrCTEC tower head on tower 1.

As well as new photos from Belleayre, NY: http://www.belleayre.../superchief.htm

Given that the new Huckelberry lift is a Doppelmayr could it possibly be the old Snowbird Peruvian lift?

Beaver Mountain's new Harry Dream lift is the old Germania or the old Collins as Beaver Mountain bought both lifts from Alta when they were replaced.