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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.

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

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.

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.

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

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).

Silver Star has a construction diary for the Alpine Meadows quad

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

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?

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

Towers for Breck's Gondola are up.
Breck Photos

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.

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.

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

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

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