first weekend of skiing

Started by skiersage, Dec 04 2005 06:28 PM

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#1 skiersage

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Posted 04 December 2005 - 06:28 PM

Well, I finally got to go skiing this weekend. I took some pictures for your enjoyment.
the first day we went to Nubs Nob

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looking down the liftline of the red chair

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looking up the halfpipe which was in the process of being constructed. they were in the snowmaking phase.

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some snowmaking action with the purple lift in the background

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top of purple chair

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Boyne Highlands

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bottom of the red chair

and now for Boyne Mountain

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Top of Hemlock

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Looking down the Hemlock liftline

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A snowmaker at boyne. I have concluded that Nubs Nob is much better about not making snow on runs that people ski on.

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top of the Victor lift

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looking down the Ramshead liftline.

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top of Ramshead lift

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top of Boyneland lift. A borvig that has Riblet triple chairs.

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one of the hybrid carriers. The way to tell the difference is this lift has grips instead of Riblet clips.

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looking down the liftline.

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A look at the Mountain Express HSS. It is the first HSS in the U.S.

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This is as close as I could get to as far as a close up of the grips. They kind of look like the Garaventa AK 400.

That is all for now. I could have gotten more but it was cold and I didn't feel like taking my glove off that much.

-Sage

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#2 SkiBachelor

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Posted 04 December 2005 - 06:56 PM

Wow, that's amazing that the grips were totally replaced with a different model on the Mountain Express at Boyne. It almost looks like that's the Agamatic grip instead of the AK 400. I wonder how much work that was to install new derailers, switches and zones?

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#3 nathanvg

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Posted 05 December 2005 - 07:48 PM

Way to show midwest skiing love. I hope to do some midwest skiing myself before Jan (CO skiing) followed by Feb. and March in the alps.

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#4 heavenly_romer

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Posted 06 December 2005 - 08:34 PM

Nice pics. I'm finally getting my first days this weekend at heavenly. :biggrin:

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#5 hyak.net

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Posted 07 December 2005 - 02:33 PM

I had my first day of the year last Saturday at Alpental......good day!

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#6 skiersage

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Posted 07 December 2005 - 02:44 PM

I dont think the grips are agamatic because they have a different look from the back than the agamatic ones. my guess is that they were custom made. to fit into the existing terminal design without modification. someone should ask dopp about the subject.

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#7 floridaskier

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Posted 07 December 2005 - 03:52 PM

The old grips were this style, right?

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They look like they would fit into the same terminals, with the depression roller on the opposite side from where it usually is on the new style grip

- Tyler
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#8 skiersage

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Posted 11 December 2005 - 07:35 PM

I went to nubs nob again and they had more stuff open this time. still too cold for pics though. I did, however, get a few.

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summit terminal of yellow

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yellow lift line

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an s-rail in the terrain park. not too many people were using it.

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looking at the blue and green lifts from the red lift.

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the bottom terminal of the brown lift.

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bottom terminal of orange lift and lift line. the orange lift got a new lower station not but three years ago.

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it was windy on the north face so skiing on the orange lift was a good way to warm up. plus there was powder!

This post has been edited by skiersage: 11 December 2005 - 07:35 PM

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