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A Yan Gondola Cabin

Started by SkiBachelor, Jul 20 2004 04:53 PM

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#1 SkiBachelor

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Posted 20 July 2004 - 04:53 PM

Here are a few pictures I took of the Yan Gondola at the base of the River Run Gondola. I wish I could have got a few better shots, but A) The gondola was right next to a pond B) This gondola was on private property and there was a sign so I didn't want to get in trouble.

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Posted 20 July 2004 - 05:22 PM

So somebody bought this one and put it in their yard? Awesome. Looks a little bit like the old ones at PCMR (which were Halls, I think)
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Posted 20 July 2004 - 07:22 PM

Looks interesting, not very durable. The actual design doesn't look all that bad compaged to some other stuff out there. I wonder if squaw's were purple :P
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Posted 21 July 2004 - 07:50 PM

What isn't purple at Squaw?
Or is that the point?
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Posted 21 July 2004 - 10:10 PM

Well the dont have anything that is fully purple. Most things are white with purple type, but i mean a fully purple cabin. It was the 80s, so anything went back then.
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Posted 22 July 2004 - 05:10 AM

That's awsome that you found one. I have been trying to figure out what those things looked like for like 10 years!
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Posted 29 July 2004 - 03:43 AM

There is another Yan cabin sitting at the side of the road between Leadville and Buena Vista (about 20 minutes south of my house). I was first told it was one of the old Lionshead cabns, but it didn't look like a Bell. Then I heard it was from Crested Butte. Now I see that it's a Yan; it's identical to the one pictured here.
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Posted 22 March 2005 - 06:43 PM

I'm fairly sure that the cabin on the upper deck of Fatty's Pizza in Breck was one of the old Keystone cabins. It disappeared when they remodeled the restaurant but I will try to find out what happened to it when I'm up there next weekend.
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Posted 23 March 2005 - 05:21 AM

I think you're right; I haven't been there for several years but I thought it looked like the one here.
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Posted 23 March 2005 - 08:03 AM

The cabin hasn't been there for several years, I they still have it I want to make an offer to buy it from them.
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Posted 23 March 2005 - 01:45 PM

budfischer, on Mar 23 2005, 04:26 PM, said:

I acquired one of these while at L/E.  Buried it in the back yard as an underground fort for my kids - a 30" long section of tower tube lead down to the rooftop escape hatch.  It's probably still there:  1345 Saratoga Lane  Minden.NV
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Posted 23 March 2005 - 07:05 PM

more pictures of the cabin are here. these are records i found at the ski museum.

http://www.colorados...rlift/yan4.html
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Posted 25 January 2006 - 07:32 AM

Nice pics!!!

And, the YAN cabin is sitting right where it should be. On the ground.
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Posted 25 January 2006 - 05:07 PM

the colorado ski museum recently was donated a YAN gondola cabin from keystone. it is located at their RC in golden
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Posted 25 January 2006 - 05:14 PM

"And, the YAN cabin is sitting right where it should be. On the ground"

In the back yard of 1345 Saratoga Lane, Minden, NV - there is one buried beneath the ground.
It made a great kids' fort.
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Posted 25 January 2006 - 05:43 PM

View PostEmax, on Jan 25 2006, 06:14 PM, said:

"And, the YAN cabin is sitting right where it should be. On the ground"

In the back yard of 1345 Saratoga Lane, Minden, NV - there is one buried beneath the ground.
It made a great kids' fort.


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Posted 28 January 2006 - 02:57 PM

EMax, you're repeating yourself, but it's OK because it's just a sign of old age!

Yeah - my memory is the second-shortest thing on me.
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Posted 30 January 2006 - 03:55 PM

Howdy:

The Colorado Ski Museum Resource Center in Golden, CO has a YAN cabin from the Keystone gondola. It is painted green and is pretty ugly. Been outdoors too long, I guess. TCS
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Posted 31 January 2006 - 10:09 PM

View Postorangegondola, on Jul 22 2004, 06:10 AM, said:

That's awsome that you found one. I have been trying to figure out what those things looked like for like 10 years!


The Yan cabin is pictured on Keystone brochures from the era. TCS
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Posted 07 March 2006 - 03:41 PM

I found a Yan cabin with a Squaw Valley logo badge on the side sitting in a field here in the north San Joaquin valley. It's black and is now a bus stop.

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