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[Peter]

The Huckleberry lift is the old Larkspur lift from Beaver Creek. I wonder if Beaver Mountain is combining both lifts into one, or keeping Collins for another project.

[skier14]

Skier, on Aug 16 2006, 09:56 PM, said:

The Huckleberry lift is the old Larkspur lift from Beaver Creek. I wonder if Beaver Mountain is combining both lifts into one, or keeping Collins for another project.

I hope they keep collins for another project say maybe an expansion. Are they on forest service land? i cant remember if so they would need a master plan and approval for expansion so we would have heard about it.

[vons]

check out the galzigbahn funi construction site at Galsigbahn if you use a translator you wont be able to view the pictures in large format so blindly click the german links . they are fliing through the project. They started demo of the old tram in may well into the terminals and line now here is a sample from the site.

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[Peter]

If they can do that in one summer, why can't Jacksson build a tram in one summer?

[skier2]

To me, it seems that the main reasons were lack of practivity, lack of planning, lack of money, and difficult terrain to construct a tram on (but I'm sure there are many more).

[Peter]

Silver Star has a construction diary for the Alpine Meadows quad

http://www.skisilver...cle_ID_188.html

[Lift Kid]

Is the breck Gondi behind schedule? It seems like they are taking their sweet time. The towers are waiting to be flown and the terminal foundations are just sitting there. I know it is a big engineering job and all, but is it just me, or are they moving along very slowly?

[vons]

They might be waiting for an chopper if like you said the towers are waiting or they are finishing some line concrete work befor bringing in a bird. Once the foundations are done skilifts go up very fast last year at Beaver Creek it took us less then two hours to fly in 16 towers, granted we used a big bird, but figure no more than a week if using a k-max. Terminals go up almost as fast, figure with the L-P terminals it will take two to three days each.

[Peter]

New pics of the new high speed quad going in at Steamboat. It is the old Tombstone quad from the Canyons.

http://www.mountainresortmag.com/coppermin...ls.php?album=11

[floridaskier]

The towers from Tombstone are being reused, but apparently as of August 12 the old Tombstone terminals are still in the parking lot at The Canyons

[Peter]

Well Steamboat said because of the tight timeline, the new Sunshine Express won't be open until early to mid December.

[SkiBachelor]

And the Sunshine Express at Steamboat is pure POMA, there is no Leitner blood in it except maybe some sheave linears that say Leitner-POMA on them.

[vons]

L-P built new tower heads to fit on those old doppelmayr tower tubes though

[SkiBachelor]

That's true and that could be the reason for the lift being delayed. Leitner-POMA is very busy this summer and probably wasn't able to design the new tower heads until recently.

[Peter]

New pictures of the tower flying at Castle Mountain... http://www.skicastle.ca/photos.cfm

[poloxskier]

Towers for Breck's Gondola are up.
Breck Photos

[SkiBachelor]

If anyone is curious as to why a crane truck is lift the towers up, it's because most the helicopters that were supposed to fly lift towers this summer are off fighting fires.

[vons]

If you can get a crane to the tower locations you can save a lot of cash. Choppers are expensive so only used when access is an issue or a time crunch is pending.

[truckintr]

vons, on Aug 24 2006, 08:38 PM, said:

If you can get a crane to the tower locations you can save a lot of cash. Choppers are expensive so only used when access is an issue or a time crunch is pending.

Say you own a copter,, and the goverment wants to rent it at a out of this world price per hr. Logic says , go with the gov contract to fight fires. It's been this way for a very very long time. And most likely will be. Copters can make more in 3 days, fighting fires than they do flying towers and cement, in a week

[Lift Kid]

I better go by those towers today as it is my last day in Breck.