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[snowboardguy]

oh on the weekend that line is huge on both sides...It takes at least a half hour

[KZ]

Well I was there the weekend/week of christmas and the worst i had was maybe 15 minutes.

[snowboardguy]

I've seen it a lot longer

[spunkyskier01]

i was their and their was no wait, although it was march and on a week day, and weekend, it was nice though, 60 degrees and sunny.

[floridaskier]

Snow must have been great that day

[liftmech]

floridaskier, on Aug 1 2004, 04:03 AM, said:

Didn't that 8 pack at Perisher BLue, Australia replace a t-bar? If so, that is probably right up there with the biggest capacity upgrades in history
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Yes it was. I worked with a guy last winter who operated lifts at Perisher before he came up to Copper, and he said it was ridiculous how many people that thing can transport compared to the old T-bar. Apparently it was merely a marketing thing; the operator said they could have gotten away with a fixed quad.

[KZ]

Now thats funny. It probably means most chairs are loaded with 4 people unless you are with a group of people you know.

[floridaskier]

It probably doesn't ever have a line.

[CAski]

I would hope not!

[Allan]

Looks pretty loaded in this picture!!

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[KZ]

Is it only 3 or 4 towers long?

[Allan]

Yeah it's 4/5 - pretty short little lift.

[floridaskier]

I would hate to have tried to ride that t-bar then

[Ricardo]

It replaced a duplex T-bar, which absolutely had some of the longest lines you had ever seen. It also rides far smoother than any other chair I've been on. Must check out the grips and sheaves next time I'm down there.

Remarkably, especially given that its in a beginners area, there are few unloading problems at the top (when I've been on it anyway), but where there is.....!!

Six towers, if you include the depression....

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[floridaskier]

That's wider than it is long. How much did that cost them?
What other lifts does Perisher Blue have?

[Allan]

They have 52 other lifts... See here: http://www.perisherb...ort/index.shtml at the bottom of the page

[floridaskier]

Even though 37 of those are surface lifts, that place is pretty big. I pictured the 8-pack being the main lift, with not much other stuff around it.

Are the two t-bars on either side of the 8-pack the ones it was built to replace, or are those different?

[Ricardo]

They're different. The duplex T-Bar it replaced was directly underneath it.

From memory the cost was somewhere between $4-6 million AUD ($2.8 - 4.3 million USD).

It would not surprise me if it were part of a marketing campaign. There's a fairly fierce battle between Perisher Blue and Thredbo (main two New South Wales resorts), and the Victorian resorts of Mt Hotham and Falls Creek. One-up-man-ship at its best! That said, it has done a good job of reducing queue's in the main beginners area, and freeing up the space the duplex used to take.

[mbernstein]

spunkyskier01, on Aug 1 2004, 06:42 AM, said:

bellayre was thinking of an eight pack but the thing is, if one person falls at the top their is a huge domino effect.
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WOW!!! That is very interesting. I am quite surprised that Belleayre would even consider an eight-pack because there are not enough trails from the summit.
Not trying to get too personal, but how do you know all of this information about Belleayre?


Back to the topic... That Australian ski resort seems quite big, with 15 lifts that are not surface lifts, that is still a lot. When I tried to click on the trail map link, the page didn't come up.

[Ricardo]

I just tried this one and it worked OK

http://www.perisherb...nfo/trails.html

Perisher Blue was three seperately owned resorts originally
- Perisher Smiggins
- Blue Cow, opened in 1988 and is/was only accessible by underground rail (unless you ski over of course)
- Guthega (a family owned resort)

All merged in 1996 I think?

I believe they're also planning another short 6 or 8 seat detachable to replace one of their triples. The longer runs seem to make do with 4 seat detachables.