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[julestheshiba]

NHskier13, on 11 January 2016 - 05:53 PM, said:

I like borvigs, but I really like any fixed grip lift that isn't Yan. All around, though, I'd say either CTEC or Poma. We don't have many Poma built lifts in New Hampshire, I think only 4 high speeds, and I think only a couple fixed grips.

100% agreed YAN FG lifts are not very interesting except for red cloud and viking at Deer Valley

[RibStaThiok]

RC & Viking are/were beginner lifts.. whats so interesting about them?

[julestheshiba]

the terminals are covered by a shell which is uncommon on YAN lifts (on RC its just the bottom)

This post has been edited by julestheshiba: 24 February 2016 - 06:37 AM

[floridaskier]

Red Cloud was half of a relocation from the Carpenter triple at D. It's not a beginner lift - serves a few bump runs and opened a small terrain expansion in 1991. It has the old top drive terminal from Carpenter, and a (probably) new hydro tension terminal. The shell on the outside of Red Cloud is probably just to match Viking, which is a short access lift right next to it. When Quincy was a matching Yan triple chair in the same area, it also had the shell around the terminal (which lives on as Day Break at Canyons/Park City).

Viking is DV's only bottom-drive lift out of 21 and was allegedly the last generation of Yan fixed grip terminal designs. It got a new SkyTrac depression half-tower head this past summer. 30 chairs, 4.5 towers.

The other half of Carpenter ended up as the Crown Point lift, which has a new drive terminal (rounded-off end and glass sides instead of the standard Yan shipping container terminal) and a counterweight tension terminal that probably came from the original Carpenter.

So there is a little bit of a story behind those couple lifts as you said

[julestheshiba]

floridaskier, on 24 February 2016 - 06:21 PM, said:

Red Cloud was half of a relocation from the Carpenter triple at D. It's not a beginner lift - serves a few bump runs and opened a small terrain expansion in 1991. It has the old top drive terminal from Carpenter, and a (probably) new hydro tension terminal. The shell on the outside of Red Cloud is probably just to match Viking, which is a short access lift right next to it. When Quincy was a matching Yan triple chair in the same area, it also had the shell around the terminal (which lives on as Day Break at Canyons/Park City).

Viking is DV's only bottom-drive lift out of 21 and was allegedly the last generation of Yan fixed grip terminal designs. It got a new SkyTrac depression half-tower head this past summer. 30 chairs, 4.5 towers.

The other half of Carpenter ended up as the Crown Point lift, which has a new drive terminal (rounded-off end and glass sides instead of the standard Yan shipping container terminal) and a counterweight tension terminal that probably came from the original Carpenter.

So there is a little bit of a story behind those couple lifts as you said

He said and "were"

This post has been edited by julestheshiba: 24 February 2016 - 07:18 PM

[julestheshiba]

I went to Deer Valley last week and they have some of the best looking YANs