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[SkiBachelor]

A recent study concluded that it's feasible to have a lift that runs from the Kittitas Valley to Mission Ridge Ski Area, WA. The 11,500-foot long aerial lift through the Naneum Creek basin northeast of Ellensburg would cost anywhere from $15 to $30 million to build and a $1 million opperating cost.

http://www.kvnews.co...news/news01.txt

For some reason, these numbers don't sound correct to me. $1 million to opperate a lift that will only be in use for 7 months of the year seems awfully high, along with the cost of the lift. So much money is wasted on red tape these days.

[tahoeistruckin]

and the treehuggers would have a field day, if and when this ever went into the permit process. The would 'find' an endangered animal, or something of the sorts.
We don't want the lift built, because this is where Big Foot lives.
Ya i have a problem with the millon dollor operating budget to. Unless they are planning to run it in the summer for tourests, and mtn. bikers.

[Limelight]

Wish they would have had that thing installed when I was going to CWU.

[Peter]

Speaking of Mission Ridge, yesterday winds were in excess of 100 miles per hour for 20 hours, from 4 am to midnight, with max gusts of 136 mph. They removed the chairs from Liberator Express, but I am sure there is other damage. They are closed until at least Thursday.
Press Release: http://www.missionridge.com/cms/UserFiles/...ease%201-07.pdf
Time Sustained Max Gust
04:00:00 AM 70 102
05:00:00 AM 71 111
06:00:00 AM 77 126
07:00:00 AM 79 120
08:00:00 AM 79 129
09:00:00 AM 81 132
10:00:00 AM 78 123
11:00:00 AM 79 126
12:00:00 AM 100 134
01:00:00 PM 100 135
02:00:00 PM 100 136
03:00:00 PM 100 136
04:00:00 PM 100 134
05:00:00 PM 82 137
06:00:00 PM 78 117
07:00:00 PM 78 123
08:00:00 PM 75 116
09:00:00 PM 65 100
10:00:00 PM 67 113
11:00:00 PM 58 105
12:00:00 AM 30 59

[tahoeistruckin]

can you sa it was a wee bit wind.?

[skierdude9450]

SkiBachelor, on Jan 7 2007, 10:38 PM, said:

A recent study concluded that it's feasible to have a lift that runs from the Kittitas Valley to Mission Ridge Ski Area, WA. The 11,500-foot long aerial lift through the Naneum Creek basin northeast of Ellensburg would cost anywhere from $15 to $30 million to build and a $1 million opperating cost.

http://www.kvnews.co...news/news01.txt

For some reason, these numbers don't sound correct to me. $1 million to opperate a lift that will only be in use for 7 months of the year seems awfully high, along with the cost of the lift. So much money is wasted on red tape these days.

What kind of lift are they thinking? With that kind of money, they could come up with the world's first detachable tram.

[poloxskier]

skierdude9450, on Jan 8 2007, 04:35 PM, said:

What kind of lift are they thinking? With that kind of money, they could come up with the world's first detachable tram.

They already have them, they are called gondolas.
Sorry I couldnt resist.