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#1 DonaldMReif

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Posted 16 March 2013 - 10:42 AM

I was at Copper Mountain last Thursday.

Got many photos of the chairlifts, including several hundred of American Flyer, the American Eagle, and the Timberline Express.

Also got some photos of lifts I'd never been on before, like Rendezvous and the new Union Creek lift.

Here are a few of Union Creek:

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Posted 16 March 2013 - 02:42 PM

Two copper comm lines and one fiber. I wonder what the plans are for the fiber line?
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Posted 17 March 2013 - 05:12 PM

What's up with those weird looking restraint bars?
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Posted 17 March 2013 - 05:54 PM

View PostSkiBachelor, on 17 March 2013 - 05:12 PM, said:

What's up with those weird looking restraint bars?


Those are the new Doppelmayr design. I think another thread had photos of another lift with this design.
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Posted 18 March 2013 - 07:27 AM

It's Doppelmayr's "kid safe" foot rest, the bars go between your knees, Copper was one of the first to get them.

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Posted 21 March 2013 - 06:41 AM

View Post2milehi, on 16 March 2013 - 02:42 PM, said:

Two copper comm lines and one fiber. I wonder what the plans are for the fiber line?

Fiber is for IT. I don't know what their plans are since it currently dead-ends at the top of the lift and goes nowhere else on the hill.

Donald-- shoot me a PM next time you plan on coming up. If it's between Sunday and Wednesday I'll give you a tour.
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Posted 21 March 2013 - 01:30 PM

View Postliftmech, on 21 March 2013 - 06:41 AM, said:

Fiber is for IT. I don't know what their plans are since it currently dead-ends at the top of the lift and goes nowhere else on the hill.

Donald-- shoot me a PM next time you plan on coming up. If it's between Sunday and Wednesday I'll give you a tour.


I am on the Epic Pass. This was a one-time trip to Copper on passes from one of my dad's office friends.

Maybe someone can look at the Mountaineer at Deer Valley, and tell me if that has a fiber line.

I also recorded a ride on the lift, too;
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=RVOrozIeesA

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Posted 21 March 2013 - 04:53 PM

View PostDonaldMReif, on 21 March 2013 - 01:30 PM, said:


I am on the Epic Pass. This was a one-time trip to Copper on passes from one of my dad's office friends.

Maybe someone can look at the Mountaineer at Deer Valley, and tell me if that has a fiber line.

I also recorded a ride on the lift, too;
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=RVOrozIeesA

Mountaineer at Deer Valley most likely has fiber as it is utilized for PLC communications between stations. I don't see why they would need a separate fiber line from the bottom of that lift.
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Posted 21 March 2013 - 05:53 PM

View PostDonaldMReif, on 21 March 2013 - 01:30 PM, said:


I am on the Epic Pass. This was a one-time trip to Copper on passes from one of my dad's office friends.

Maybe someone can look at the Mountaineer at Deer Valley, and tell me if that has a fiber line.

I also recorded a ride on the lift, too;
http://www.youtube.c...h?v=RVOrozIeesA


Doppelmayr, one comm line - that has to be copper.
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Posted 21 March 2013 - 07:36 PM

Some Timberline Express photos:

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Posted 18 April 2013 - 07:14 AM

I'm tagging on to your thread, Donald. Taking down the Prom Queen, top terminal.
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Posted 18 April 2013 - 02:42 PM

Are you guys getting 100% new or are you reusing the towers?

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Posted 18 April 2013 - 03:36 PM

Re-using the tower tubes. All new terminals.
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Posted 21 April 2013 - 03:02 PM

Here are some pictures of the general location of the Platter lift.

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Posted 21 April 2013 - 03:22 PM

View Postvons, on 21 April 2013 - 03:02 PM, said:

Here are some pictures of the general location of the Platter lift.


Is the platter going to be Doppelmayr like the T-Bar?
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Posted 21 April 2013 - 03:31 PM

View Postliftmech, on 18 April 2013 - 07:14 AM, said:


I'm tagging on to your thread, Donald. Taking down the Prom Queen, top terminal.
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Looks like a nice day for a rope splice :dry: :devil:

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Posted 21 April 2013 - 05:33 PM

I don't know what type of Platter Copper is getting. The Excelerator web cam has been pointed toward Storm King now.

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Posted 22 April 2013 - 03:58 PM

Both lifts will be Doppelmayrs. Dino, it was a classic Storm King day-- snowing sideways at 40+.
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Posted 22 April 2013 - 07:27 PM

View Postliftmech, on 22 April 2013 - 03:58 PM, said:

Both lifts will be Doppelmayrs. Dino, it was a classic Storm King day-- snowing sideways at 40+.


I guess since Union Creek was a Doppelmayr, that would make sense. And Doppelmayr has built more T-bars in Colorado than Poma has, I think (the only Poma built T-bar in Colorado I'm aware of is North Face at Crested Butte).
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Posted 02 May 2013 - 06:15 PM

View Postliftmech, on 18 April 2013 - 07:14 AM, said:

I'm tagging on to your thread, Donald. Taking down the Prom Queen, top terminal.
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To Storm King; I say goodbye. I will miss that lift the next time I'm at Copper. Mostly because it was the first major surface lift I ever rode, way back on 3/4/02 before I was even eight years old. It also now leaves only one detachable poma in Colorado that runs on a regular basis, I think.





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