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#1 Backbowlsbilly

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Posted 09 June 2017 - 02:49 PM

Does anybody know what the tallest lift tower is in North America? I thought it would be interesting to start a topic of the tallest towers on lifts in North America, I would have to guess it would be on the Peak 2 Peak or a tram but I'm not sure.

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Posted 10 June 2017 - 03:32 PM

Tower 9 on Morningside lift at Steamboat is tall. I have always wondered how it was hauled to Steamboat when the lift was built. It is one continuous tower.
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#3 nathanvg

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Posted 12 June 2017 - 07:01 AM

Interesting question. I don't know the answer for sure but below are a two tall towers, both of which span a gap between peaks. I suspect that tallest is a tram tower but exactly which, I couldn't tell you.

Tall tower at Whitecaps, WI. Might be the tallest chairlift tower.

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Aspen's Gondola has a high tower:
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Posted 14 June 2017 - 09:03 PM

Olympic Express at Grouse has a very tall tower.

#5 ajan

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Posted 17 June 2017 - 02:09 AM

View Postboardski, on 10 June 2017 - 03:32 PM, said:

Tower 9 on Morningside lift at Steamboat is tall. I have always wondered how it was hauled to Steamboat when the lift was built. It is one continuous tower.


I agree. It was certainly noticeable as I skied there this year.

#6 Liftkid99

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Posted 18 June 2017 - 09:02 AM

Yep Tower 2 on Olympic is pretty huge, not exactly sure how tall it is but I'd say it's around 60ft. Tower one on Red tram is 164ft

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Posted 19 June 2017 - 07:27 AM

Got to be one of the Peak to Peak towers - No?

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Posted 19 June 2017 - 07:59 AM

P2P tower 2 and 3 are 228ft.
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Posted 16 July 2017 - 09:08 AM

Aspen Silver Queen Gondola, pictured a couple of posts above, has two or three towers about 180 ft.

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Posted 16 July 2017 - 05:25 PM

Tower 1 of the Sandia Peak Tram is 232 feet tall.

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Posted 18 July 2017 - 05:54 PM

Wow, that is certainly planted into the mountainside.

What's the elevation difference between the uphill leg, and the downhill leg, of that tower?

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Posted 20 September 2017 - 11:33 AM

The Emirates gondola in London has towers over 90 metres (300 feet) high to allow ships to pass beneath it.

Okay it's not in North America and it's not used for skiing, but this could be the highest lift tower anywhere?

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Details of every Australian ski lift ever built. http://www.australia...ralianskilifts/

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Posted 22 September 2017 - 03:11 PM

Courtesy liftblog.com. Looks like the tallest tramway tower is a monstrous 619 feet! Located on the new Doppelmayr Nu Hoang Cable Car in Vietnam

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#14 Phalanger

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Posted 30 September 2017 - 08:01 AM

The Gipfelbahn built in 1960s at Kitzsteinhorn (Austria) was the highest lift tower of it's type till 2015 (at 113m currently, originally 103m):
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This tower can be seen from a long way away down the main valleys.


Austria has some other very high towers on gondolas over glaciers:
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