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Limelight, on Apr 16 2007, 12:17 AM, said:

Liftline and the few new trails associated with the lift will be cut beginning in June, last I heard from the faller. Construction will be done mainly in-house under D-CTEC supervision.

Add a Doppelmayr-CTEC 4X5X4-MGFP, 3-CLF and a platter @ the Yellowstone Club.

Do you know where at the Yellowstone Club these lifts are going?

Not positive, but I think that both will be used primarily as home access lifts.

Skier, on Apr 29 2007, 09:10 PM, said:

Exact station & elevation!

Steamboat finally announces plans to install a high-speed six-pack this summer.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/othe...5515267,00.html

If there's any Steamboat guys here, sorry for jumping the gun on you...

The new lift will begin near the bottom of the gondola, have an angle station neat the existing bottom of Christie II and Christie III, and then run up the Christie II liftline to its top terminal (Christie II will be removed). I assume the angle station will be behind the existing Christie bottom terminal, unless they plan to move that uphill. Headwall, Southface, and Preview will be removed and Southface will be relocated to avoid the new lift.

Based off of the information from the article Brad posted on his web site (coloradoskihistory.com), I have created a proposed lift line for the Christie Peak Express.

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http://www.colorados...topic.php?t=929

So it looks like Christie peak express, Turns? Midway...

That's where the unloading station will be.

It looks as if they are trying to sell Preview, Headwall and Southface lifts. Are they planning on having an additional short chairlift for the beginner lift? Maybe they can use the former Sunshine triple although after re-using all of the tower uprights for the new(er) quad and the chairs on Christie 3, there might not be much left of it except for the terminals and tower heads. If they are installing another beginner chair down there, any speculation on if it will be triple or quad?

It will be one of those removed lift, probably Southface reinstalled as a triple.

Christie III is staying, so it'll be kind of hard to use it for another lift. It'll be run for the condos at its base. I was told (keep in mind there were barley beverages involved, so my recollection may be hazy) that Southface was going to stay but in a slightly different location.

yea, that's what ive heard from folks that work up there.

It looks like Heavenly will be putting in two high speed quads or one two staged hsq to replace North Bowl and Olympic. It is unclear to me whether this is happening this summer or not. I'm thinking not.

Heavenly to launch sensitive new plan
Dan Giesin, Chronicle Staff Writer

Sunday, May 6, 2007

After a skirmish with conservationists that nearly scuttled the project, Heavenly Mountain Resort has been granted approval to proceed with an ambitious agenda for on-mountain improvements.

"This plan solidifies our position as the premier snow-sports destination at Lake Tahoe," resort CEO Blaise Carrig said after the Tahoe Regional Planning District on April 25 gave the nod for Heavenly's "Master Plan Amendment." "We're extremely excited about the next 10 years."

Over the next decade, South Lake Tahoe's bi-state ski and snowboard playground will implement a three-phased plan "that will improve the resort in an environmentally sensitive way," Carrig said.

The improvement plan almost came to naught when the League to Save Lake Tahoe objected to the part that called for replacing two aging lifts on the resort's Nevada side -- the North Bowl triple chair and the Olympic double chair -- with one high-speed detachable lift. It was estimated that 1,100 trees, including more than 150 old-growth red firs with a diameter exceeding 24 inches, would have to be removed in order to install the lift.

After a series of meetings, Heavenly revised that part of plan; instead of a straight shot from the base of the present North Bowl chair to the top of the present Olympic chair, the resort will either put in two high-speed lifts which will roughly follow the current lift lines or install a two-stage "angle" lift that will make a right turn more than halfway up the mountain. (Carrig said a decision on which way to go will be made at the end of the month.)

"Although the straight shot is the one project we wanted," Carrig said, "we're fine with what we've got. It's still a great plan. And the big trees are going to be saved."

"The decision to spare the North Bowl trees is tremendous," said Rochelle Nason of the League to Save Lake Tahoe. "It was a real struggle, but it had a happy ending. We're very glad they are taking that approach."

Phase 1 of the master plan, which is expected to be completed over the next two to four years, according to Carrig, calls for the aforementioned North Bowl lift system; a couple of new trails in that area; an 1,100-seat indoor/outdoor restaurant/lodge at the top of the Powder Bowl lift; a "ski bridge" from the gondola's upper terminus to the base of the Tamarack lift; the re-grading of the Sky Line trail that connects the California side of the resort with the Nevada side, and the cutting of two intermediate trails that will descend from the Sky Line trail. The lift, trails and ski bridge should be in place by next season.

Carrig would not say how much all these improvements would cost -- Vail Ski Corp., the Colorado-based owner of Heavenly refuses to publicly divulge those figures -- but it "represents a significant infusion of capital."

When is Crystal going to start building "Northway" lift?

Tree cutting starts in June, it will be built after that.

I'm not sure if this has been said before, but I don't want to look through 19 pages of replies.

Brighton is replacing millicent lift and evergreen lift with a D-CTEC HSQ.

www.skibrighton.com

This leaves just one yan center pole double left.
This post has been edited by skierdude9450: 10 May 2007 - 04:56 PM

skierdude9450, on May 10 2007, 06:51 PM, said:

I think Brighton has a new name for D-CTEC HSQ. It is Milly.

I think that's just a nickname for it, and it's probably officially going to be called Millicent Express