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[spunkyskier01]

i was looking at this lift in a picture and it looks like it double loads? is it true?

[floridaskier]

Do you have the picture?
I don't think so, wasn't the one at Breck the first?

[SkiBachelor]

If your talking about the Chondola at Telluride, then yes there are two seperate loading zones since passengers have to get on and off. Basically, the people riding up in a cabin get on first when the cabin first enters the terminal and then people who ride a chair up load second.

P.S. The Quicksilver Super 6 at Breck wasn't the first double loading high-speed lift, just the first in North America.

[edmontonguy]

Mt Orford has a chondola as well. It uses a UNI-G terminal. The loading/unloading takes place rather simoultaneously as the loadin/unloading zones are parrallel to the line for the chairs and perpendicular to the line for gondolas.

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[snowboardguy]

wow I have never seen that before. What happens after the chairs and godolas leave the terminal?

[SkiBachelor]

They either go up or down the hill, it depends where the terminal is located. :)

[Allan]

hahaha! That was going to be my answer :)

[snowboardguy]

---. So its just a normal lift with gondola cabins and chairs?

[SkiBachelor]

Basically, with the exception that a cabin comes ever three chairs.

Here is the Chondola lift at Telluride: http://skilifts.org/images/resort_images/c...la/chondola.htm

[snowboardguy]

what is the point of this? To keep the lift operational in bad weather or what?

[SkiBachelor]

Telluride uses it's Chondola to transport small gets down to the Sunshine Express and back up. Since most of the runs off the Sunshine Express are beginner runs, Telluride thought it would be a good idea to install a chondola that wouldn't allow small kids to fall out of a chair when they were downloading on the lift.

[Dr Frankenstein]

Orford built a chondola just to attract people.

[spunkyskier01]

yea mount orford is a small little ski area with all doubkes and triples, and their was no need for a six pack, its a publicity stunt, it loads like a normal chair, exept when the gondola enters, thats when you board, its not very goo, it only gives you a little bit of time to load. but still,m isnt the chondola a express lift, and doesnt it double load, so besides the fact that only the gondola cars seperate, isnt this still a double loading lift?

[floridaskier]

Double loading technically means that the chairs alternate between two separate turnarounds. Do you mean that there are two different places where you load gondola cabins and chairs in the same regular turnaround?


QuickSilver Super 6 at Breck- double loading HSS
http://www.skilifts.org/images/resort_imag...uicksilver6.htm

[spunkyskier01]

from what i understand, the terminal is set up like quick silver, with a dual loading type set up, but instead of chair lifts seperating, the gondola seperates, no chairs. i think

[SkiBachelor]

No there is just a loading/unloading platform at the stations. When a gondola cabin enters the terminal, the doors open right when the cabin decelerates and people start to loading the gondola. But when the gondola gets half way around the countour, that's when the doors close because from there, people get on a chair. When unloading, people that were on a chair are the first to unload and then people who road up in a gondola are second and right when the gondola gets half way around the countour, the doors open and people unload. There are two seperate loading area and unloading areas, but the chairs and cabins fallow the same countour, where as on the Quicksilver, there are two countours.

[floridaskier]

They'd have to have load gates, right? It would get pretty confusing

[SkiBachelor]

No, because the people that are going up in a gondola cabin load on a platform.

[liftmech]

There are load gates on Quicksilver to keep confusion to a minimum. One other quirk of that lift is that the chairs on the outer contour take twice as much time to go around as the ones on the inner. This means that if you are riding up and loking for chair number one, the chairs aren't in any particular order because they get out of whack.

[Dr Frankenstein]

spunkyskier01 said:

yea mount orford is a small little ski area with all doubkes and triples, and their was no need for a six pack, its a publicity stunt, it loads like a normal chair, exept when the gondola enters, thats when you board, its not very goo, it only gives you a little bit of time to load. but still,m isnt the chondola a express lift, and doesnt it double load, so besides the fact that only the gondola cars seperate, isnt this still a double loading lift?

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