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[EagleAce]

First of all, great site, Bill! I've been a lifty for five years now. The only two kinds of lifts I've worked on are Riblets and Yans, most of my time has been on Yans. I spent my first four at Dodge Ridge, now I work at Badger Pass in Yosemite. We're little, with only 85 acres, nine runs and four lifts; two Hall doubles, and a double and triple Yan. Our biggest lift, the one I work, is 3350 feet long with a 570 foot vertical. She's a 1986 Yan series 3. She has a bit of an attitude at times, but she's easy to operate. Here's some photos:

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[Lift Kid]

EagleAce,
Welcome to the forums! Nice pictures too. Does your Yan have control upgrades and if so which manufacturer didd them?

[EagleAce]

Both our Yans have Safetronics systems that were installed last year. Our Halls are such dinosaurs that we can't even run 'em when the power's out! They're good lifts, just old. They use Wisconsins for APUs. The only thing the APUs can be used for is lift evacs when the power goes out. Our double Yan has a Chevy 350 and our triple has a Cummins APU. One of the things I like about Yans is the APUs are very easy to hook up. Here's a pic of our summit. I thought it was kind of unusual to have two lifts right next to eachother. The one on the right is one of the Halls. We only run it when we are very busy or when the triple is down, as it was for one day this year when a bottom sheave bit the dust. There used to be a Riblet where the triple is now. All of our lifts have names:

Badger (Hall double, built in '72) ....does not have slow controls
length 940 ft., vert 272 ft, speed 465 fpm
Red Fox (Hall double, built in '72) ....rarely runs
lenght 2945 ft., vert 565 ft, speed 450 fpm
Bruin (Yan double, built in '81) ....still has original Yan lever switches
lenght 1080 ft, vert 138 ft, speed 275 fpm
Eagle (Yan triple, built in '86) ....has air brakes
lenght 3350 ft, vert 570 ft, speed 450 fpm

you can probably tell by my screenname which one I work!

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[skier14]

looks like your gearbox is leaky? welcome to the site

[EagleAce]

just a little--nothing big. Here's a trailmap of Badger:

[Lift Kid]

EagleAce, on Mar 26 2007, 11:22 AM, said:

Both our Yans have Safetronics systems that were installed last year. Our Halls are such dinosaurs that we can't even run 'em when the power's out! They're good lifts, just old. They use Wisconsins for APUs. The only thing the APUs can be used for is lift evacs when the power goes out. Our double Yan has a Chevy 350 and our triple has a Cummins APU. One of the things I like about Yans is the APUs are very easy to hook up. Here's a pic of our summit. I thought it was kind of unusual to have two lifts right next to eachother. The one on the right is one of the Halls. We only run it when we are very busy or when the triple is down, as it was for one day this year when a bottom sheave bit the dust. There used to be a Riblet where the triple is now. All of our lifts have names:

Badger (Hall double, built in '72) ....does not have slow controls
length 940 ft., vert 272 ft, speed 465 fpm
Red Fox (Hall double, built in '72) ....rarely runs
lenght 2945 ft., vert 565 ft, speed 450 fpm
Bruin (Yan double, built in '81) ....still has original Yan lever switches
lenght 1080 ft, vert 138 ft, speed 275 fpm
Eagle (Yan triple, built in '86) ....has air brakes
lenght 3350 ft, vert 570 ft, speed 450 fpm

you can probably tell by my screenname which one I work!

Nice! Bruin seems to run extremely slow. It is a begginer lift, right? (or at least I hope it is) That Hall seems to run a little fast for not having a slow button. I know most Halls seem to run pretty fast compared to other lifts, but still. Did that lift have no slow button by design or was it just removed or didn't work.

[EagleAce]

Yep, Bruin's our beginner lift. Whenever I ride beginner runs I kamikaze 'em! I've worked it before, when my girl was broke for a day By virtue of my experience and seniority (we're unionized) I bumped off the guy who usually runs it! It's a sweet little chair. Very quiet. Badger is one speed by design, so it's considered our advanced lift. I don't know why it doesn't have speed control.

Here's another pic of Bruin:

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[WBSKI]

looks like a cool little ski area! I love little places like that, theres lots of them in BC.

[Lift Kid]

I too like little ski areas because I am from Minnesota where all ski areas are little, with the exception of Lutsen.

[porter]

badger is a very cool little area. I skied there last March in 24 inches of new. Not much steep there ... so even getting up speed was a bit of a task.