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[liftmech]

After what seemed like a lock- they even had a construction timetable set- the White River National Forest supervisor rescinded the decision to let Breck build the Summit lift. Saying the district ranger did not have the authority to make that decision (to build the lift), the head office in Glenwood Springs has postponed a final decision. Complete story here: http://www.summitdai.../NEWS/104040045

[Mike]

...also made the first payment of $700K

[liftmech]

Ouch. Hope the supervisor sees your proposal the same way Newton did.
You've probably gotten a good laugh out of our speculations on this matter. I did have a few questions about the lift- 1) are you guys planning on removing the carriers every night; 2) is the top terminal location visible from Copper or is it more on the east side of the peak?

[Mike]

liftmech, on Apr 7 2005, 04:34 AM, said:

Ouch. Hope the supervisor sees your proposal the same way Newton did.
You've probably gotten a good laugh out of our speculations on this matter. I did have a few questions about the lift- 1) are you guys planning on removing the carriers every night; 2) is the top terminal location visible from Copper or is it more on the east side of the peak?
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We do plan on removing all 15 carriers every night. This will make startup easier...In the morning, we'll send a chair up and see if it comes back down! I don't think you'll be able to see it from Copper...The top terminal isn't on the very peak of the mountain. It is about 60 or so feet down from the peak so I think it will be hidden.

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[highspeedquad]

Wow. 15 chairs. How long is is planned to be? I wonder what the chair interval is.

[Mike]

highspeedquad, on Apr 7 2005, 04:19 PM, said:

Wow. 15 chairs. How long is is planned to be? I wonder what the chair interval is.
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chair interval will be a couple hundred feet on line. This is for wind reasons and also the high capacity of normal chair interval isn't desired (we don't have enough ski patrol!). The HSQ is planned because it has better wind aerodynamics than a fixed grip chair.

[Kicking Horse]

so will the drive be @ the bottom of the lift?

[SkiBachelor]

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We do plan on removing all 15 carriers every night. This will make startup easier...In the morning, we'll send a chair up and see if it comes back down! I don't think you'll be able to see it from Copper...The top terminal isn't on the very peak of the mountain. It is about 60 or so feet down from the peak so I think it will be hidden.

I think that answers your question Jeff since you need to power up the lift from the actual drive terminal unless you have a remote system which I doubt Breck would install for a lift like this. Plus it would be a pain in the :censord: to get a work truck up there if something ever did happen to the lift.

[liftmech]

So... rumour has it construction is happening right now on this lift. I can't see anything from our side of the Ten Mile but word has it the top terminal footings are being prepared already. I don't envy the crew over there since starting construction in July means that they'll a) get chased off by lightning every afternoon and b) get to work in the snow in October as they try to finish by November. Plus the lift tops out at almost 13,000', so there's no such thing as a calm day or sheltering trees to hide behind. That said, I look forward to seeing the finished product.

[highspeedquad]

Does that mean that there may be a possibility that the lift won't be finished?

[Kicking Horse]

They started Either monday or tuesday on it. Grant saw some heavy Equpiement being flown up to the top via helicopter.

[liftmech]

Oh, it'll be finished. My coments are related to the 'glad it ain't me' school of thought, as in I'm glad I don't have to be out there in the weather when crunch time comes. When it gets nasty in November and they're trying to finish so they can get their certificate so they can open the lift, it won't matter how cold and windy it is. They'll still have to be out in it.
The Summit Daily (I love ski town newspapers!) had a photo of the trackhoe being flown up to dig the top terminal footings on the front page.

Photos of construction:
http://breckenridge.snow.com/media/swf/gal...ck_gallery.html

[Lift Dinosaur]

liftmech, on Aug 6 2005, 07:14 AM, said:

Oh, it'll be finished. My coments are related to the 'glad it ain't me' school of thought, as in I'm glad I don't have to be out there in the weather when crunch time comes. When it gets nasty in November and they're trying to finish so they can get their certificate so they can open the lift, it won't matter how cold and windy it is. They'll still have to be out in it.
The Summit Daily (I love ski town newspapers!) had a photo of the trackhoe being flown up to dig the top terminal footings on the front page.

Photos of construction:
http://breckenridge.snow.com/media/swf/gal...ck_gallery.html
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Incomplete photos - where's the load?

[highspeedquad]

Ah, okay. On the captions of the pictures I read that the lift is to be named the Imperial Express SuperChair, for those who were wondering.

[liftmech]

Lift Dinosaur, on Aug 6 2005, 01:20 PM, said:

Incomplete photos - where's the load?
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Who knows- maybe they're just shots of the bird. It's from the official site; the one on the front page of the newspaper had a bobcat slung underneath.

[crazyskier91]

Living in Breck does have its benifits. Turns out one of the people on our street works for Breckenridge. He told me all about the lift and filled in parts I didn't know. The thing that amazes me is that some of the footings have to be dug by hand because of either the slope, or the enviromentalists.

[liftmech]

Environmentalists. It wouldn't be hard to dig them with HE, but that would involve walking a drill across the tundra and that leaves marks for generations. I can kind of see their point.

[floridaskier]

The couple of places I've seen about this lift all call it the Imperial Express. I would have thought it's gonna be the Imperial SuperChair like all the rest, but are they getting rid of that name now?

[Peter]

I think it is the Impreial Express SuperChair.

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[liftmech]

That's the name that's been in the paper lately.