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[DonaldMReif]

These are those magic carpets that you see very often in Europe that are used for loading and sometimes unloading lifts.


I can only think of maybe five or six lifts off the top of my head that have carpet belts for loading:


Colorado:
Colorado SuperChair* - Breckenridge Ski Resort
Lift 7/ Rip's Ride - Breckenridge Ski Resort
Mountaintop Express - Vail Ski Resort

Utah:
Three Kings - Park City Mountain Resort

Vermont:
South Ridge Quad B - Okemo Mountain Resort


*Under construction as of September 17, 2014

Are there any others you know of that I am forgetting?

This post has been edited by DonaldMReif: 17 September 2014 - 10:36 AM

[SkiLiftsRock]

Here are pictures of 3 Kings (Utah) carpet

 carpet loading 3 kings.jpg (690.91K)
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[2milehi]

SkiLiftsRock, on 17 September 2014 - 11:02 AM, said:

Here are pictures of 3 Kings (Utah) carpet

carpet loading 3 kings.jpg under carpet 3 kings.jpg

Gawn I hate those Doppelmayr load gates. Overly complex and the business end in the pit.

[DonaldMReif]

I believe that Lift 7 has the Doppelmayr load gates.

I think the Colorado SuperChair carpet uses a different type of load gate. And it's definitely not the type that the Peak 8 SuperConnect and Quicksilver Super6 currently use and which the Falcon SuperChair, Mercury SuperChair, Beaver Run SuperChair, Imperial Express SuperChair, Rocky Mountain SuperChair and Independence SuperChair had up until the end of the 2011-2012 season.

This post has been edited by DonaldMReif: 17 September 2014 - 12:20 PM

[snoloco]

Grand Summit Express at Mount Snow has a carpet as well.

[Yooper Skier]

Maine
- Shawnee Peak, Summit Triple
- Sugarloaf, Skyline
- Spruce Peak Triple, Sunday River (under construction)
New Hampshire
- Loon Mountain, Seven Brothers
Vermont
- Stowe, new quad on Spruce side (under construction)
Michigan
- Boyne Mountain, Meadows
- Crystal Mountain, Loki Quad

[Peter]

Washington:
Quicksilver quad at Crystal (under construction)
Pacific Crest at Summit West

[vons]

Montana
Bridger bowl has a few,

Bridger
Sunny side
Powder Park
Alpine
Pierre's knob

all have loading carpets

If the loading carpet was supplied by Chair Kid then it will have their loading gates regardless of lift manufacturer, this is why you see the same gates on LPOA, Dopp and SkyTrac chairlifts.

This post has been edited by vons: 17 September 2014 - 01:53 PM

[SkiDaBird]

Supreme at Alta. I believe they were added circa 2009.

[Backbowlsbilly]

I didn't know that the new Colorado Superchair was going to have loading carpets.

[Andy1962]

Just to show the Canadian flag a bit on this site, the following ski lifts have loading carpets in Ontario:

Snow Valley (Barrie Ont) Leitner Poma Fixed Grip Six " Wideload" built 1997 (loading carpet since day one!)

Mount St. Louis Moonstone (Moonstone Ont), Leitner Poma Fixed Grip Quad, "Sundance", built 2010

Devil's Glen Country Club (Glen Huron Ont), Leitner Poma Fixed Grip Quad, "Hades", built 2012

and probably a few more around Canada, those close by can fill in.

This post has been edited by Andy1962: 17 September 2014 - 04:48 PM

[powderskier]

As andy mentioned, here's the carpet loading FG six @ Snow Valley, ON, Canada

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[DonaldMReif]

Backbowlsbilly, on 17 September 2014 - 04:32 PM, said:

I didn't know that the new Colorado Superchair was going to have loading carpets.

As of the last 24 hours, it does:

 Colorado SuperChair carpet.jpg (111.05K)
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 Colorado SuperChair loading carpet.jpg (148.54K)
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[liftmech]

Midway Shuttle and old chair 9 at Crystal (WA) had them for two seasons. Midway's worked all right, but we buried 9's under snow and 'forgot' about it. No matter how involved the operators were the public couldn't get the hang of them.

[jclark]

Berkshire East's new SkyTrac summit quad will have a loading carpet (Massachusetts).

[snoloco]

jclark, on 18 September 2014 - 10:41 AM, said:

Berkshire East's new SkyTrac summit quad will have a loading carpet (Massachusetts).

It seems like most, if not all skytrac lifts have them.

[Yooper Skier]

snoloco, on 23 September 2014 - 02:37 AM, said:

It seems like most, if not all skytrac lifts have them.

The Buck Quad at Crystal Mich does not have one. Built in 2013 I believe.

[Nate214]

Santa Fe Ski Area, NM Has one I believe installed a few years ago on their FGQ out of the base area.

This post has been edited by Nate214: 26 September 2014 - 04:35 AM

[NHskier13]

Yooper Skier, on 17 September 2014 - 01:02 PM, said:

Maine
- Shawnee Peak, Summit Triple
- Sugarloaf, Skyline
- Spruce Peak Triple, Sunday River (under construction)
New Hampshire
- Loon Mountain, Seven Brothers
Vermont
- Stowe, new quad on Spruce side (under construction)
Michigan
- Boyne Mountain, Meadows
- Crystal Mountain, Loki Quad

There is also Okemo (Vermont) South Ridge Quad B, 1994 Poma. I do not know when the carpet was added, but it's there.
One Unique Feature of this quad is that it has a Conveyor load AND unload as well.

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This post has been edited by NHskier13: 14 October 2014 - 03:26 PM

[DonaldMReif]

Interestingly, watching the Peak 8 cams has shown that part of the Colorado SuperChair's carpet has to be removed (the gate mechanism) in order to add or remove chairs.