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paradise is a very slow chair

Another shot of the frendly giant

Bottom terminal

Very nice. I'm wondering if the operator's cabin was included with the lift, as Whistler's Yan HSQs had that type of cabin.

I saw this lift running one of the 3 days that I visited Lake Louise last March.
On the pictures the frendly giant express was close due to the low attendance.

if its replaced i wonder what they will put in

check this chair out
its the siver queen @ silver star
observe the terminal it is what appears to be an FG version of the Yancake

Thats just like the Viking Triple at DV.

intersting

The other yan hsq's were yancakes, so it works together nicely

Well Lake Louise has plans of installing a new gondola from a new base village, however I think they should keep this lift around since it's the real last Yan HSQ.

What is a yancake ?

Its kind of a nickname. You see Yan came up with the flat terminal idea that kind of looks like a pancake, and so you add YAN+PANCAKE and get Yancake. Also been known to see LEITNER+PANCAKE and get Leitnercake. Get it? :)

lake louise had a gondi from the village several years back but it was since demolished. A smart idea might have been to hold off the six pack and replace both yans with a gondi with a midstation

That would be a good idea.

BTW: The original gondola only ran to a parking lot 1/2 way down the road from the base, not to the village.

Do you guys have more pictures of yan Chairlifts? BC, CA, UT?

I have some, most of them have already been posted on this or a previous incarnation of the NWS forum.

i hope to have one Yan Triple this weekend if i don't do a brake job.

I have a lot of Yan pictures, I will try to post them tomorrow. I've done a lot of work today with the site. Check out the new glossary. :)

http://www.nw-skilif...om/glossary.htm

nice. :)

Here's some YAN's! My trademark pic ;)

The breakover towers