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[skierdude9450]

A few weekends ago, I was riding the Upper BC Express, and noticed that the chairs were no longer the CTEC chairs, but Doppelmayr chairs instead. They might have been this way last year, but I don't know. I do remember that they originally had CTEC chairs. Does anyone know why they changed one or two seasons in? The first two pics show them with their new chairs, and the last three show them with their old chairs. (Pics from coskibum's site: coloradoskihistory.com)

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This post has been edited by skierdude9450: 23 January 2007 - 03:42 PM

[Peter]

IIRC, Doppelmayr messed up the first year and got CTEC chairs, they couldn't fix the problem until the next season.

[floridaskier]

I remember hearing about that, but why did they do it that way? Their older CTEC lifts all have Garaventa chairs, so why would they go to the trouble of ordering Doppelmayr chairs when the Garaventa ones were standard?

[SkiBachelor]

Beaver Creek probably liked the Doppelmayr EJ carriers better than the others.

[skierdude9450]

So what happened to them? Are there 134 left chairs and 178 right chairs that only saw 1 season sitting in a boneyard?

[SkiBachelor]

Nope, Doppelmayr CTEC reused them on other lifts it built the fallowing season. I know that the Wildwood Express at Tamarack got some.

[liftmech]

skierdude9450, on Jan 23 2007, 09:16 PM, said:

So what happened to them? Are there 134 left chairs and 178 right chairs that only saw 1 season sitting in a boneyard?

No, there are 312 chairs that went somewhere else. Pull the hanger-to-bail bolts out, reverse the hanger, replace the bolts, and the chair goes from left to right or vice-versa.