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I am planning on hiking at Crystal tomorrow in the rain/snow, I'll post pics tomorrow night. If I hit snow on the way up, I'm turning around At least I will take pictures of the parts in the lot.

Sounds like a cold and wet hike, have fun!

Skier, on Oct 6 2007, 09:43 PM, said:

chicken!

I did make it up and there was snow, but it was no problem. Good news is that there is tons of progress. On the way down a caravan of dumptrucks with parts and the haul rope came up, along with a huge crane for top terminal assembly. The top station mast is up and the drive is on the ground ready to be installed.

Pictures!

Is that a Heli in one of your pictures? Good looks like they are making progress.

Yes, it was shuttling trees from the trails to F-Lot all day long. They also have started painting Rex in the last 3 weeks and have put the cable back on Quicksilver. I got some pictures of the Riblet grip machine thing too because they are putting the chairs back on now.

Very nice pictures! Looks like the weather was nice up there. It won't be too long now until the lift starts turning.

Is "Yellow" done at Hood Meadows?

Snoqualmie guy, on Oct 9 2007, 04:54 PM, said:

According to the Meadows' website, it's finished.

I'll have to take some pictures this winter of it.

So have they started flying any towers at Crystal now that they're delivered, and we've had some good flying weather?

They better hurry flying in those towers before winter gets here all the way. There seems to be almost no days that aren't clouded in up at Crystal in the winter.

There are only 7 of the helicopters required in all of the US and they have scheduled one for October 22nd.

I have made a time lapse of the 2 high speed quads being built this summer at Dollar Mountain:
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=Xz0YDDkqdkk

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And new pics from Brian Head:
http://www.brianhead...terconnect.html

As for Crystal, I heard from someone who was up there yesterday that they still haven't poured those top 3 breakover tower foundations. I thought that they would be able to do those towers with a crane, but apparently all 19 towers need to be done by the helicopter. So it seems unlikely to me that they will be ready to fly all the towers next Monday. As of last weekend the rebar cages were done but still down in the lot. Does anyone know how long concrete takes to cure in a tower footing? There is also snow forecast for much of this week.

This was on the TGR board: "I heard a good rumor about the new chair at Crystal. Last weekend I was visiting a friend of mine who runs a business up at Schweitzer. While I was there I struck up a conversation with a regional rep. for the Doppelmayr company (Schweitzer just installed a new Doppelmayr over the summer). The thoughts of the rep. were that the new Northway chair at Crystal would not be done in time for this upcoming winter and that the Crystal management was "delusionaly optimistic" about completing the lift on time. He said he had talked to "his guy's" at Crystal the day before our conversation and that the crew at Crystal was talking to management about getting to a good stopping point before winter set in and resuming construction next summer. The rep. said that because there are no summer roads that access the area of the new lift, everything (trees, const. materials, etc.) needed to be hauled in and out using the heli, and that Crystal only employed one heli. I guess the good news is that for our higher priced passes there is a possibility we may get one more season of northback freshies. Personaly, I hope that the snow falls early this winter and thing's pan out this way."

I think Crystal will finish the lift, but they are cutting it damn close. It is already very cold and snowy up there. We'll just have to wait and see. I am planning on watching the helicopter set the towers on Monday if it happens. I think the crucial thing for them to do is get the last footings done in the next few days and the top drive station assembled by crane before the snow makes the road inaccessible. It seems like wiring, string the cable, and hanging the chairs can all be done in the snow. The giant crane that is up there could make a cool jump though this winter if it gets snowed in!

In New Hampshire construction of the top return terminal of Loon Mountain's new UNI-GS quad Lincoln has started.
The following progress took place on Saturday 10/13

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Towers for Lincoln and the fixed grip quad Tote Road are scheduled to be flown on 10/22 & 23
This post has been edited by SuperRat: 14 October 2007 - 04:15 PM

I noticed there were some changes to the new Crystal map. Upper Quicksliver is now a square, Lucky shot is now a slow skiing area and The boundery lines were moved inward because the cliffs that were nearby used to be inbounds. Also Northway Ridge is no more.