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[highspeedquad]

While looking at some of the installation sheets I noticed that there were some HSQ installed by Poma in 1999 and 2000 that had some low capacities, ones at about 1200 or 1800. That is far below the typical capacity of a HSQ. Is this info incorrect, or is there something I don't know.

[Allan]

You can change the capacity of the lift by either reducing the number of carriers or the maximum speed of the lift.

[SkiBachelor]

If you noticed Molly's Express at Timberline, that lift only has an hourly capacity of 1200 pph. I have no clue why it's like that, but then again, this lift is pretty pointless to me also.

[highspeedquad]

So would they do that on about five lifts? There are many in vail and one somewhere else. I just can't see them limiting the cap. for 5 lifts.

This post has been edited by highspeedquad: 08 February 2005 - 07:37 PM

[SkiBachelor]

Well let me ask you this, are the new lifts in Blue Sky Basin heavily used or not? From the pictures I've seen from Brad's site, they seem very underutilized compared to the other lifts at Vail. So there's really no need to have more capacity over if there arn't that many skiers. You just have to wait 4 seconds longer to load the chair.

I have no clue on why there arn't that many skiers in Blue Sky Basin. I presume it has to do with Vail being a destination resort, because those skiers like to stay close to the base area and village.

[nathanvg]

SkiBachelor, on Feb 8 2005, 10:58 PM, said:

Well let me ask you this, are the new lifts in Blue Sky Basin heavily used or not? From the pictures I've seen from Brad's site, they seem very underutilized compared to the other lifts at Vail. So there is really no need to have a high capacity if there are hardly any skiers back there. You just have to wait 4 seconds longer to get on a chair.

I have no clue on why there arn't that many skiers in Blue Sky Basin. I presume it has to do with Vail being a destination resort, because those skiers like to stay close to the base area and village.
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Although there are less people in blue ski, there can still be lines. The skyline lift can have a 15-30 min wait. At some point after intall vail added capacity to pete's and skyline. Earl's is still lower cap. than the others.

[poloxskier]

I have never encountered a line at Blue Sky Basin. There are fairly commonly lines at the Tea Cup Express and Orient Express. I think that alot of people see that there are very few blue runs on Blue Sky and they tend to stay away plus it takes a while to get back there so it may be that they give up halfway back to the lifts.

[ccslider]

Telluride has a variety of high speed lifts with varying capacities:
L1 = 2000 pph
L4 = 2800
L5 = 2400
L10 = 1200
L11 = 1500
L12 = 2400
L14 = 1500
Gond I & II ~ 900

These capacities were determined as a function of trail and lift capacity analysis, capital construction costs, anticipated needs, etc.

Lifts 10, 11 & 14 and the Gondolas all were actually designed at higher capacities and are presently operating at "initial" capacity so the ski area operator has the option of adding additional chairs (and respacing the load intervals) to increase capacity as future conditions warrant.

This post has been edited by ccslider: 09 February 2005 - 06:25 AM

[edmontonguy]

The Gondola at Kickign horse opened with a rather low capacity and limited numbers of cabins, though in subsequent years they have added more to compensate.

[highspeedquad]

Now that you bring it up, it might have low capacity because they aren't used as much, and could offer expansion if it gets a lot busier.