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[skierdude9450]

hyak.net, on Jun 3 2008, 08:50 PM, said:

Here is a photo of the old Dinosaur mid-station Murray-Latta lift from the 1960's. Check out the folks unloading left as riders are arriving to the right. I wonder how many collisions there were of people unloading into people arriving the other direction? They had a ramp down each side of the terminal area for unloading only both directions.

That's chair 3A at Baker right? What setup do they have now on the quad?

[skierdude9450]

Andoman, on Jun 3 2008, 08:25 PM, said:

WOW!!! how stink'in slow is that chair?? It looked like the t-bar was lapping the chairlift. It looks about as bad as skiing in michigan (it's a lot like a roller coaster line) 30 seconds on the run, 15 minutes in the line, and 4 minutes on the lift.

Naturally a detachable platter lift (such as the one there) will go faster than a FG lift, but indeed that was very slow. Maybe there are speed limitations to the GMM style turn where the downhill line turns to the inside.

[Peter]

No, that picture is of the Dinosaur at Snoqualmie. Here is the current setup on the Chair 3 quad at Baker

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[liftmech]

The old chair 3 midstation was exactly the same as that photo of the Dinosaur lift, except that the ramp was built of dirt. The same unloading mishaps and pitfalls occurred there too. The new one was redesigned to make unloading easier; you can see two depression towers instead of the old single one.

[Stowemass]

wow, i can't believe this thread is still going! i haven't logged into these forums in a long time. great to see it's still moving. thanks for all the clarification.

This post has been edited by Stowemass: 08 June 2008 - 09:10 AM