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[KZ]

Well on friday we drove up to Kirkwood, stayed in South Lake Tahoe that night and went to Alpine Meadows on saturday. At Alpine I got some pictures of White Wolf and their new lift and we also drove south down to Homewood and got some photos of their new Partek triple and some other stuff. Overall a fun trip but it got too warm this afternoon.

I have a bunch of pictures I want to post but I cant right now due to "Global Limt" (no more file upload space for me) so we will have to wait a day or 2. :(

[Bill]

Fixed! Global Limit Thingy... ;)

[KZ]

Thank you Bill.

Ok to start here are a few panorama's of both Alpine and Kirkwood.

Here is Kirkwood's frontside from Red Cliff's. This gives a pretty good prespective of the area:
 Kirkwood_Frontside.jpg (1.52MB)
Number of downloads: 44

Alpine from the top of Summit Six. In 2 previous trips I never saw the lake or anything from the top because of clouds. Its a pretty nice view from up there:
 Alpine_Summit.jpg (1.36MB)
Number of downloads: 45

[KZ]

First is the Alpine Bowl Double. THis chair used to run in the spring instead of Summit so that they only had to run one express lift (Roundhouse).
-This is the top terminal. It is built into a nice building to keep snow off:
 ABC_1.jpg (69.93K)
Number of downloads: 43
-Next is a shot down the line:
 ABC_2.jpg (100.74K)
Number of downloads: 33

The Hot Wheels chair was built in 1998 and replaced the Weasel double. That lift ran a bit of an up and over lift line but the new one ends short but does have a midway unloading point.
-The first shot is one down the liftline:
 HW_1.jpg (89.45K)
Number of downloads: 26
-Next is one of the top terminal:
 HW_2.jpg (105.25K)
Number of downloads: 30

The Lakeview Triple lift provides access to several southwest facing runs. The triple replaced the Scott T-bar and was built sometime in the 80s by CTEC.
-This shows the liftline and the runs it provides access:
 LV_1.jpg (94.36K)
Number of downloads: 36

The Scott chair is one of the steepest chairlifts in North America. The lift was upgraded to a triple in 98 by CTEC with new drive and return terminals, new chairs and sheave assemblies.
-THe first shot is one up the liftline. It is kinda tough to see how steep this lift actually is, and the Scott Chute (run underneath) didnt look to fun, but trust me it is steep. You can nearly reach back and touch the haulrope:
 S_1.jpg (94.07K)
Number of downloads: 42
-Next is another shot looking up from the very bottom. One one uphill assembly there are only two support sheaves:
 S_2.jpg (103.4K)
Number of downloads: 39
-Last is a shot from the top. You can see the yan towers were reused and one new tower was added as a hold down just before the first steep stretch:
 S_3.jpg (85.18K)
Number of downloads: 37

[KZ]

The Subway chair is a double that gives access to one of the bunny slopes. It was built after 1980 and replaced the Subway Poma.
-First is of the bottom terminal. A different look for a yan bottom drive, and I think its actually kinda nice:
 SB_1.jpg (89.79K)
Number of downloads: 31
-Next is of the top, an adjustable yan return:
 SB_2.jpg (91.14K)
Number of downloads: 20
-3rd is one of the bottom looking up the line. I find it odd that yan built this lift, especially after two CTEC lifts in the early 80s:
 SB_3.jpg (93.49K)
Number of downloads: 29

The Sherwood chair has to be the oldest CTEC triple I've ever seen. It is a very odd ctec with angled towers. I believe this lift has newer ctec carriers and was upgraded with new tensioning.
-The drive terminal and looking up line:
 SW_1.jpg (82.25K)
Number of downloads: 33
-A shot on the line. Notice the very odd towers, expecially for a CTEC:
 SW_2.jpg (74.1K)
Number of downloads: 34
-last is the return terminal. Its kinda bad light but you get the idea:
 SW_3.jpg (102.02K)
Number of downloads: 23

A random tractor. Alpine uses these to pull around some trailers for people to sit on and ride it to the lodge from their car. They have two and they look pretty funny driving around at maybe 3 mph through the lot:
 tractor.jpg (88.42K)
Number of downloads: 17

Last is a shot of the White Wolf property. I got a few other closeups but they are far to blurry, so I took one with my 35mm and a telephoto lens so when I get those developed and enlarged I will scan it in. Just to the right of the last tower you see is the top of KT-22 Express at Squaw. No terminals, sheave assemblies or haul rope are up, so that will probably happen this summer:
 WW_1.jpg (85.11K)
Number of downloads: 152

[KZ]

While at Alpine I believe I found the old Lower Forty lift. Im not sure if it was a poma or a t-bar, but I do know it was a surface. The lift was 1,170 feet long and had a 3 minute ride time. In the operator booth on one of the panels someone wrote that the lift was destroyed by an avalance, so it kinda makes sense.

First is of the lower drive terminal, all that is left besides the operator booth:
 1.jpg (92.06K)
Number of downloads: 37

Next is of some panels in the booth. I dont know what they do but I'm sure they were for the lift:
 2.jpg (68.17K)
Number of downloads: 25

3rd is of the drive out of the booth:
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Number of downloads: 23

Last is a shot up the line. The lift ran into the woods into the clearing marked just above the arrow:
 4.jpg (79.31K)
Number of downloads: 29

[KZ]

Ok, these are a few pictures of the new Quail Triple over at Homewood. The lift is pretty nice and was seems like a very nice addition for Homewood.

The frist few are of the drive terminal. I really like the paint job.
 1.jpg (88.07K)
Number of downloads: 35
 2.jpg (78.9K)
Number of downloads: 28
 6.jpg (77.53K)
Number of downloads: 26

The Partek triple carrier:
 3.jpg (53.21K)
Number of downloads: 30

Looking back into the terminal from above:
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Number of downloads: 22

A shot up the liftline:
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Number of downloads: 23

[KZ]

Some pictures of the snow on the trip.

Covered Wagon up by Kirkwood. They have plans to access this stuff by a lift but i'm not sure how its going to work. The terrain is pretty fun though (3rd day after storm cleared):
 Covered_Wagon_2.jpg (127.36K)
Number of downloads: 33

Looking back up at the peak:
 upwagon.jpg (117.7K)
Number of downloads: 18

Deep in the Sherwood Bowls at Alpine. We hike all the way from the Summit lift:
 alpine_bc.jpg (109.06K)
Number of downloads: 31

A look at the drop into the bowl:
 apline_drop.jpg (180.06K)
Number of downloads: 28

A look back up at the first drop area:
 back_up.jpg (134.88K)
Number of downloads: 15

The bowl from the Sherwood chair. The snow was better at Kirkwood but still got at alpine, but it got really we and heavy in the afternoon:
 al_pine_bowls.jpg (113K)
Number of downloads: 30

[Outback]

Sherwood chair (the old funny looking CTEC) is the old Roundhouse CTEC triple using some of the existing Riblet towers.
The YAN was a relocate from????somewhere on the mountain.

[poloxskier]

Based on the diameter of the bullwheel on that surface lift I would say it was a poma/platter.

[KZ]

Outback, on Jan 16 2005, 08:22 PM, said:

The YAN was a relocate from????somewhere on the mountain.
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Do you mean the Subway lift because that would make sense. Maybe the Scott chair?