22 replies to this topic

[DonaldMReif]

I don't think the Game Creek Express needs additional uphill capacity. However, the Northwoods Express could use a high speed six pack to handle the afternoon crowds.

[NoPainNoJane]

Chair 7 needs replacement desperately, the lines for it can get insanely long, especially when all the tourons head that way after getting off of the gondola, and there is only one option for getting out of the bowl. Chair 11 has several options available to people if they don't want to wait in the line.

[julestheshiba]

Backbowlsbilly, on 12 January 2016 - 03:14 PM, said:

Vail didn't announce this but I was just thinking the other day about them possibly relocating the old Chair 17 after it is replaced this summer. It was installed in 1992 (possibly relocated from somewhere else in the Vail Valley but I'm not sure) and Vail is known to have relocated these Dopp triples often, at Gopher Hill and Little Eagle recently in Vail but also in several instances at Beaver. What about using the old Chair 17 to replace the old Chair 22 Mongolia Platter? Vail has parts left over from Chair 5 to make this happen but new chairs wouldn't be necessary as Vail could keep the capacity low if it just used the same chairs and ran the lift from the base of bowl, mainly the Bolshoi Ballroom trail, to near the top of the current Chair 22. It would be a huge improvement that would retain the skiing experience in the bowls if the capacity was kept low. Thoughts?

Any time a lift is reused I am happy