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[Kicking Horse]

Check out the needles express pics @ http://skilifts-tech.info/pics


also there is a video showing a cabin going down to the parking area. it's really cool to watch.

I would like to thank Eric for taking time to take pics / and the video.

[Kicking Horse]

Make sure to check out the cabin video #2. Eric walked down the stairs while showing the cabins going down then he shows the storage area. :)

Another big thanks to him :)

[Duck]

Man, that's totally nuts!

So is the parking track like a series of S-curves? Are those powered tires in the corners to help move them along so it fills the entire storage track?

-Iain

[SkiBachelor]

Hey Eric, who was the guy that said, "who are you sending that to, I might have to throw that camera on the ground?"

It just sounds like a mean response from a coworker.

[Kicking Horse]

Duck, on Feb 19 2005, 09:45 PM, said:

Man, that's totally nuts!

So is the parking track like a series of S-curves?  Are those powered tires in the corners to help move them along so it fills the entire storage track?

-Iain
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I'm not 100% sure. I'll ask eric.

SkiBachelor, on Feb 19 2005, 10:59 PM, said:

Hey Eric, who was the guy that said, "who are you sending that to, I might have to throw that camera on the ground?"

It just sounds like a mean response from a coworker.
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That would of been Chris. He was telling Eric that if he took his pic he would throw the camera on the ground.

[Kicking Horse]

From Eric

all the tracks are downhill so the cabins are gravity fed, on the turnarounds it lifts them back up a bit, then they go down to the next conveyor

[Boeinglover]

Awesome videos and pictures, don't know if highspeedquad would like it (it's a Dopp)

[highspeedquad]

Wow, that's impressive. Do all gondolas have a station like that or something like it? Also, why were they putting the cabins in storage?

[Kicking Horse]

on the needles and strawberry gondolas @ snowbasin they change the # of cabins on the line. Every Friday-sunday there are 86 cabins on the line and the lift runs @ 5m/s. Monday though Thrusday there are 56ish cabins on the line and they run them @ 4.5m/s

[Kicking Horse]

note that they will also park the cabins if there is suppose to be nasty weather.

[highspeedquad]

So they were just moving about 30 cabins downstairs as opposed to all 86 of them.

[Kicking Horse]

no they park all cabins. Due to the spacing issue. if they remove just some cabins.

[highspeedquad]

So when they change the number of cabins they have to remove them all then replace however many cabins they have to have on the line? Wow, that must be a lot of work. Good thing it's automatic.

[Boeinglover]

I didn't know that they changed the number of cabins @ a resort. That's interesting to me.

[Kicking Horse]

Eric said it takes about 30 mins to do it. It's all automated for the most part.

This post has been edited by Kicking Horse: 21 February 2005 - 10:14 AM

[UTmorMAN]

It's all Earl Holding! When that man does something, he does it well. I've heard that they also wash the cabins when underground so that they stay nice. There is a story that says that in order for SLC to get the 2002 Olympics they needed two things: a five star hotel and a world class downhill (none of those existed here) and Earl went ahead and took care of it with the awesome downhill at Snowbasin and the Grand America Hotel in SLC (still the only five star hotel for hours and hours).

[Kicking Horse]

did you know that needles and strawberry that cabin #1 on both lifts is outfitted with leather seats, a bar and a cd player and some other things.....

[UTmorMAN]

Kicking Horse, on Feb 21 2005, 08:55 PM, said:

did you know that needles and strawberry that cabin #1 on both lifts is outfitted with leather seats, a bar and a cd player and some other things.....
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I had no idea, and I have lived here my entire life!!

[Kicking Horse]

the one for strawberry has never been on the line. (or eric says that) The one for needles has been on the line maybe 4 or 5 times. Eric is gonna try and get some pics of it.

[KZ]

That is pretty common for doppelmay and garaventa to do on big fancy lifts. The funitel at squaw has one, but I doubt it has ever been on line except maybe to first few days. Its black and has plush seats, music and other stuff. Its too bad resorts dont use them but they would just get trashed.