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New Lift Construction Photos 2011

Started by Jonni, Mar 28 2011 06:31 AM

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#41 Lift Dinosaur

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Posted 13 August 2011 - 05:17 PM

View Postskiersage, on 13 August 2011 - 05:04 PM, said:


Similar to one of the others anyway. I know that the existing two are mis matched. One is a challenger, the other is an early omega.

True, their first lift has the TB-41 grip and the second has the Omega. LPOA could not convince them to become the Midwest Showcase for all three grips! :wink:
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Posted 14 August 2011 - 08:06 PM

Here is a video from Loveland on construction of chair #4.


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Posted 15 August 2011 - 04:14 AM

View PostLift Dinosaur, on 11 August 2011 - 01:26 PM, said:


Going to have a "Perka Building" @ top?
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P4 should go in early September, I hear. Pretty much waiting on construction of the top terminal since they've got a boom truck and/or a forklift sitting on the foundation site :) Then we get to move carpets around the bottom of the newly-contoured UC base area. Oh joy.
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Posted 15 August 2011 - 06:37 PM

My appologies for being ignorant, but what is a Perka-building?
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Posted 16 August 2011 - 07:00 AM

A Perka in Copper ops jargon is a grip maintenance building. The ones at Copper are located at the top of American Eagle (Perka #1), top of Super bee (Perka #3) and the bottom of Timberline Express (Perka 2). So far we will have one for each type of detachable grip in service at the resort. The buildings allow us to perform grip inspections and rebuilds during the season. The buildings also prevent us from having to transport grips large distances to a central shop. The buildings also keep a inventory of parts near the lift.

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Posted 16 August 2011 - 07:54 PM

Thanks. Now that you mentioned it, I have noticed the buildings at the top of T-Rex, Eagle, and Super Bee, I just did not know that is what they are called.
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Posted 17 August 2011 - 06:20 AM

View Postboardski, on 16 August 2011 - 07:54 PM, said:


Thanks. Now that you mentioned it, I have noticed the buildings at the top of T-Rex, Eagle, and Super Bee, I just did not know that is what they are called.


My Bad, boardski. I was using "Copper speak". The first grip maintenance building was built at the top of the Eagle in '89 so we could do grip service during the winter. You will notice that there are rails running from the terminals to the buildings so complete carriers can be removed from the line and put into the buildings for maintenance.
The first building was supplied by a company out of MO named Perka Buildings. The name just stuck.
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Posted 17 August 2011 - 09:44 AM

bogus basin superior july




i am stealing the bucket cam idea we are flying concrete tommarow

question is do i buy a hd gopro or stick with the standard def version i have

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Posted 18 August 2011 - 02:31 PM

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Posted 19 August 2011 - 05:06 AM

I saw one of the old Superior towers lying nearby-- are you guys flying them out as well?
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#51 Peter

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Posted 19 August 2011 - 08:45 PM

I made it over to Mt. Hood Meadows today to check out the progress on the Stadium replacement:

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Posted 22 August 2011 - 10:28 PM

Stopped by Park City yesterday. Here are a few pics of the new Three Kings lift. Kind of surprised they moved the base terminal so far up the hill.

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Posted 23 August 2011 - 05:01 AM

View PostCH3skier, on 22 August 2011 - 10:28 PM, said:

Stopped by Park City yesterday. Here are a few pics of the new Three Kings lift. Kind of surprised they moved the base terminal so far up the hill.

They must have wanted less mixing between the snowboard dude crowd and the beginner crowd. This probably also improves access to First Time and Eagle, since you had to herringbone uphill, past the base of the old Three Kings, to access the mazes for all three lifts. Might draw more traffic to Eagle since it's more obvious from the parking lot that it's there

Doesn't look like one of the new EcoDrive lifts, but can anyone tell what terminal style that is? It looks like it will be top-driven and rotate the opposite way from the old lift.
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Posted 24 August 2011 - 02:54 PM

I stopped by Sugarloaf today to check out the progress on the Skyline Quad:

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Posted 24 August 2011 - 07:41 PM

Towers going in at Copper. Thanks J. Baker for posting on FB.

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Posted 25 August 2011 - 06:32 AM

View PostSkier, on 24 August 2011 - 02:54 PM, said:

I stopped by Sugarloaf today to check out the progress on the Skyline Quad:

If they get a foot of rain this weekend like they are predicting, that construction site is going to be a mess...

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Posted 28 August 2011 - 07:19 PM

View Postwilliam b, on 25 August 2011 - 06:32 AM, said:

If they get a foot of rain this weekend like they are predicting, that construction site is going to be a mess...

Sure enough the Western Mountains of Maine got a whole lot of rain from Irene and the word is Route 27 has bridges out on both sides of the Sugarloaf Access Road. The Skyline Quad project may have to wait awhile.
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Posted 29 August 2011 - 07:19 AM

http://coppercolorad.../unioncreekquad Several decent photos and a cool slide show, courtesy of Mark Fox of the Summit Daily News.
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Posted 02 September 2011 - 12:31 PM

View PostSkier, on 28 August 2011 - 07:19 PM, said:

Sure enough the Western Mountains of Maine got a whole lot of rain from Irene and the word is Route 27 has bridges out on both sides of the Sugarloaf Access Road. The Skyline Quad project may have to wait awhile.


Sugarloaf updated the Skyline Blog today. It seems the project is still moving forward. http://sugarloaf2020.tumblr.com/

The flooding in Vermont was more serious than either Maine or NH. Mount Snow hasn't updated their contruction blog since 8/22. http://mountsnow.com...ry/bubble-blog/
Their homepage is all about rebuilding after Irene. http://mountsnow.com/

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Posted 02 September 2011 - 04:31 PM

The new chairs have been installed on the Grand Summit Express:


Also looks like the storage barn is coming along nicely:

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