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[SkiBachelor]

Here's an online article I just came across about the Yellowstone Club and has a few pictures of the club too.

http://www.billingsgazette.net/articles/20...tate/25-ski.txt

[Nordo]

I have actually had the pleasure of skiing at the Yellowstone club and it was quite an expierence. For having such small numbers on the slopes, the lift system is amazing. All of the lifts are Doppelmayr or Doppelmayr/CTEC and the majority of them are HSQ's with bubbles on every other chair. There are a few platters for home access as well. One particular lift of note is a pulse-quad... they claim it's the only one in the world. It is composed of four sets of three bubbled chairs and there is a mid-unload placed in the middle so three sets of chairs are either loading or unloading at the same time. The ride over the towers is a bit rough, though. There is also an interesting double used for crossing a river that dosn't seem to have any couterweight system. Oh yeah, and the skiing there is pretty fantastic, too.

[liftmech]

I saw a writeup on that river-crossing double last year- there really is no counterweight. All rope tension is provided by the caternary over the river, with the span being quite long to ensure this. Must have been an exacting splice measurement, with no carriage to take up the error.

[Splicer]

The splice sucked. We added a shim block on the back of the "F" to gain 2'. It still needs to be shortened (in 3 weeks) the tension is calculated by lifting the rope off of the drive terminal sheaves using a dynomometer. If the tension is below the prescribed limit, then it has to be shorted. Once it's at the correct tension, then it's a real bear to get the rope back around the rim and into the bull wheel groove.