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[coskibum]

Six-seater planned for Snowmass

The Aspen Times reports that the Aspen Skiing Company wants to replace a couple of older chairs providing access to the Big Burn area with a new six-person chairlift. Forest Service officials are studying the proposal and plan to complete a draft environmental analysis early next year, according to the Times.

The new lift could go in as soon as next summer, Forest Service officials said, and resort officials confirmed that the project is on a “short list” of potential projects. A Forest Service winter sports specialist said the new lift could reduce the ski area’s on-mountain footprint and enable skiers and boarders to better utilize existing terrain.

from vail daily

[floridaskier]

Great.
Who will build it?

[KZ]

probably poma

[coskibum]

the article didn't say, but probably leitner-poma

[liftmech]

SkiCo and Copper seem to have the same high opinion of Poma- are there any Doppelmayrs at any of the four Aspen mountains? We've only got the one.

[SkiBachelor]

When did Intrawest take over Copper? If they did it for that season, I'm guessing they bought a whole bunch of Doppelmayrs because they that's all they have at their mountains really.

[liftmech]

Intrawest bought Copper in 1997, and Timberline was built in 1994. Coper Mountain Resort (the old company) was going to buy a few Doppelmayrs, but then they sold out to Intrawest and now it's more the bottom line that drives lift purchases. We (the maintenance department) have lobbied for more input into lift purchases, and hopefully we will be able to tweak installations more to everyone's benefit. That doesn't necessarily mean buying Doppelmayr over Poma, just that we have ideas and needs that the guys writing the check don't always take into account.

[coskibum]

all of the aspen resorts use either riblets or pomas (now just poma). as for other random older lifts they have a heron-poma or two, carlevario-savio double chair, and a hall double chair. so not too much diversity i guess.

if your curious i have the lift locations page done at: www.coloradoskihistory.com/chairlift.html

[orangegondola]

SkiBachelor, on Dec 18 2003, 12:19 PM, said:

When did Intrawest take over Copper? If they did it for that season, I'm guessing they bought a whole bunch of Doppelmayrs because they that's all they have at their mountains really.

Actually stratton installed a ctec and mtn creek has a partek all installed under intrawest.

[SkiBachelor]

Well they were pretty strong with Doppelmayr until 2000 it seemed. But then they took on a heavy dept going on a resort buying spree and then started to buy from the lowest bidder.

[liftmech]

I'm not sure how much control Vancouver has over what the individual areas buy- that could be how Mountain Creek ended up with a Partek. Certainly we've got a history with Grand Junction, so the Doppelmayr installation is quite an anomaly.

[SkiBachelor]

Maybe it was a late order and Poma couldn't build one fast enough for the season and Doppelmayr had an extra one?

[Kicking Horse]

it seems to me that snowmass is replacing the wrong chairs. big burn does have a lot of taffic but the Fanny hill and conyglade lifts get more traffic. Adn would befit from it more.

[Kicking Horse]

Anyone Hear anything about the new going in?