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[floridaskier]

There is a 400+ foot drop from the cable to the ground on the Flight of the Canyons gondola. Is that more or less than the one on the Silver Queen?

[SkiBachelor]

The Silver Queen gondola has such a greater vertical than the Flight of teh Canyons. The Silver Queen is like a 16 minute ride and is straight up the whole ride. If you check the vertical drop of Aspen Mountain, that's the vertical for the gondola.

[floridaskier]

I was saying how high the lfit was above the ground below it. Impressive vertical though

[edmontonguy]

Though i'm no expert on Ajax by comparing the towers of the smaller lift down beside the gondola and the relative proportions of the cabins to the tower i'd say that the height above the ground is probably about 200 ft

[LiftFreak]

Once I found this on the web:
I think that's the gondi's tallest tower with exactly 154 ft. in height

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[edmontonguy]

Just out of curiousity and for comparson how high is the drop on the Climax gondola at mammoth?

[LiftFreak]

I don't exactly know but I'd guess around 200

[KZ]

Yea, something like that, maybe a bit more.

Here is the best shot i could find of it, the cabin on the left is at about the highest point.

[LiftFreak]

Another shot:

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[KZ]

Yea, thats the one i was looking for.

[liftmech]

You know you live in ski country when... you hear news of lift construction, etc. on the radio. Apparently SkiCo is going to replace Silver Queen's cabins during the summer of '05. No word on what they'll look like, but they will still be six-passenger capacity by all accounts.

[KZ]

Was that on an AM talk show, or was there a commercial or something for it?

[liftmech]

No, it was on the afternoon news on the Eagle (101.5 Classic Rock in the Rockies). This is what I mean by ski country. :---:

[KZ]

Thats pretty cool. We would never get that around here.

[floridaskier]

So that's it for the clamshell cabins? I guess that means this gondola isn't going anywhere anytime soon

[liftmech]

Nope- must be something about that vintage of Poma because we were told to start replacing critical parts on the Flyer to keep it going for another 10-15 years. Maybe it's because in '86 the detachable were still French-built.

[iceberg210]

Our paper ussually does large articles about new installations of lifts or even snow making equipment. And your right you know your in ski country when you turn on the TV to wactch the local news and the top story is about a new lift at Alta.

[liftmech]

Yup, the Summit Daily does the same (there was even a feature on my coworkers a few years back, with the Bee's mechanic on the front cover). Seattle, now- I wonder if the P-I and the Times would even know what a chairlift is, given that their miniscule fall previews are usually stocked with wrong info (it took them a year to figure out that we had upgraded chair 2 to a quad...)

[snowboardguy]

I hate being in gonolas over large spans!!! SCARY STUFF!

[spunkyskier01]

does any one have a pic of ruthe's? i have never seen it before. and i love High speed doubles. so i realy want to see the thing.