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[SkiBachelor]

I was reading a SAM magazine and someone wondered why ski resorts don't have descending tower numbers on their towers instead of acceding. They talked about how this would allow novice skiers to know how long the lift is and when they are about to disembark/unload the lift. The person also noted that their was one ski resort that was doing this in a fun way by putting on signs that were in a countdown sequence of 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, Lift Off.

I was just wondering your thoughts on this, but for a maintenance perspective, it sound like it would be very irritating?

[edmontonguy]

A resort might choose to keep the accending numbers for maintnence purpose and add signs on the tower with a count-down if they felt it neccesarry. Though it seems some what redundant as most lifts have some sort of signage at least a tower or two before the unload warning of the upcoming terminal. For begginer lifts these reminders could be placed furthur down the lift line and have several repetitons to make the message clear.

[CAski]

You know, at some places, it might be better for the mechanic. At Northstar, I saw some lift mechanic hiking down the Rapids to check all the towers, starting from the top (what he was checking, I know not). Looked like an awful way to spend the day.

This post has been edited by CAski: 13 February 2004 - 06:39 PM

[liftmech]

From our perspective, ascending numbers are better. It's traditional, and usually after the second day of work one knows about how many towers a lift has anyway. You always know that tower 1 is right at the bottom, and work from there.

[floridaskier]

I don't think it would have much if an impact for the beginners. F
or most beginner lifts, you can see the top of the lift from most places on the line anyways. Even with that, DV has its 'prepare to unload' signs farther away from the end than on other lifts for its beginner lifts