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[crazyskier91]

This is the south ridge triple at K-Mart. But the gondola in the background mystifies me. It looks like new cabins on old lattice towers.

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[Powdr]

Don't know about the Gondy, but what is the point of the triangular design of that triple? I am especially perplexed by the turn halfway up (which riders have to endure on the way up). If you think about it, the hypotenuse of the triangle is the shortest direct path and it would clearly cost less in lift towers and sheave assemblies if the uphill and downhill legs followed a straight path, not to mention the obvious cost of extra towers and half sheave assemblies for the two shorter legs. Is there a midway station that would justify the bend? Even, so why spend extra $$ on additional towers when you could put some kind on angle station in that both the uphill and downhill legs parralled?

Perplexed,

Powdr

[mbernstein]

When first built, the South Ridge Triple chair had a midstation (thats why it is a triangle). Now, they took out the midstation and all they have left is where the chairs turn around 2 bullwheels which create a curve in the liftline.

[SkiBachelor]

The gondola is a C-S, just check out Daves avatar.

[orangegondola]

Those are the original cabins.

[floridaskier]

How does the tensioning system work on this lift?

[crazyskier91]

I think the bottom station has the tensioning and it works just like any Yan lift.