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#21 poloxskier

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Posted 11 January 2005 - 09:33 AM

I didnt realize that the chairs were that far apart. I did find the line at the base to be interesting. Just a free for all up a ramp. I guess since the chair was being ridden mostly by racers it just didnt stop often so the lines seemed to go quickly.
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Posted 14 January 2005 - 04:26 AM

Palmer's probably spaced further apart for wind issues, same as the proposed lift at Breck. At 2400 PPH, carriers are 100 feet apart (assuming a line apeed of 1000 FPM). At 1800, they're up to 150'. Plus, as I recall, several of the towers are leftovers from the original Riblet lift, and I would imagne the line load needs to be a bit lower for them.
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#23 poloxskier

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Posted 14 January 2005 - 09:49 PM

I thought that they tried using the riblet towers but in the end replaced all of them.
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Posted 14 January 2005 - 11:02 PM

Yea, those tower foundations looked pretty new if you ask me from when I was up there. I asked this a while back when we were talking about glacier footings and everyone said they were riblet.

I will have to ask Jerry
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Posted 15 January 2005 - 12:43 AM

They did look very much like new Dopp towers when I was there and that was the year it was installed.
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Posted 10 February 2005 - 06:43 PM

I guess what they could do with the Breck lift is have it put in now, and when they rip out 6 they can change the current top 6 and bottom of the HSQ into a midstation, for loading and unloading. They could also add more carriers.
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#27 poloxskier

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Posted 13 February 2005 - 04:28 AM

That sounds like it would be more of a hastle than it would be worth. They might as well just stick to the original plan of two separate lifts. But then again its Breck so they are always interested in interesting lifts.
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Posted 13 February 2005 - 11:45 AM

You bet Breck is interested in weird lifts. They have done a lot with Poma and a little with Dopp. They have the current quicksilver, which double loads, the Peak 8, which has a midstation, and Snowflake, which makes a 45 degree turn. Those are from Poma. They have the turning T-bar and the Original Quicksilver (which was the first HSQ in the world) from Dopp.
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#29 poloxskier

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Posted 13 February 2005 - 12:59 PM

Plus the original peak 8 bowl access lift which was a poma that has at least one turn on the line.
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#30 poloxskier

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Posted 13 February 2005 - 01:03 PM

And of course instead of redesigning a base area and moving the proposed lift terminal slightly no they go and bend chair 5.
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#31 highspeedquad

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Posted 13 February 2005 - 01:13 PM

When was the Peak 8 bowl access lift removed. I was just wondering because I have no recollection of it.

Not to mention that they want to add a gondola with three or four stations and makes a turn at each.
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Posted 13 February 2005 - 01:54 PM

It will be 4 stations. One at the now free parking(which will probably become pay parking and possibly a garage) then up to the shock hill neighborhood with a turn, up to peak 7 another turn and then to peak 8 where they are eventualy hoping to build a new grand hotel at the peak 8 base and eliminate all the parking except for hotel guests.

The Poma was removed when the T-Bar went in, so '84? It ran on a different line though. It ran up the other side of the bowls. Heres a map showing the approximate lines of all the old lifts that I did for another topic. Chair 1 also had a midway station a the base of chair 2 I think it was for loading but I don't remember.

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"You could say that a mountain is alot like a woman, once you think you know every inch of her and you're about to dip your skis into some soft, deep powder...Bam, you've got two broken legs, cracked ribs and you pay your $20 just to let her punch your lift ticket all over again"

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Posted 13 February 2005 - 03:14 PM

Thanks for the info. 4 stations, huh? I think it will be very interesting to see the final result. I wouldn't have seen the old POMA lift because I wasn't born by '84
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#34 poloxskier

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Posted 13 February 2005 - 03:34 PM

Yeah I didn't get to ride it either since I didnt ski Breck until '84.
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#35 highspeedquad

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Posted 13 February 2005 - 05:55 PM

Do you have any maps that you have or can edit for us like that Breck one so we can see some of the removed lifts? I forgot to tell you that really appreciated the map since I could see what lifts were replaced with what and where some lifts would be today.
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#36 poloxskier

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Posted 13 February 2005 - 06:04 PM

I need to dig them out of storage but I have maps of breck going back to '84 and various maps of other colorado resorts going back at least 10 years.
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#37 poloxskier

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Posted 13 February 2005 - 06:07 PM

The best sources that I have found for old maps are Ski Maps and Brad's site Colorado Ski History
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#38 highspeedquad

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Posted 13 February 2005 - 07:38 PM

I guess you could also get a map from those places and edit it on paint or something, like in the fantasy resorts.
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#39 poloxskier

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Posted 13 February 2005 - 07:43 PM

Somewhere I have an old map of the Broadmoor if you wanted I can scan that so you can play with the alignment of the runs :---:.
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#40 highspeedquad

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Posted 13 February 2005 - 07:44 PM

Its ok, you don't have to. It might be fun to throw that around in the fantasy resorts, for those that do that. I don't, though.
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