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[Peter]

Here is the Dakota lift at Big Sky, the third location this lift has been installed. Before it was Southern Comfort and I amnot sure where it was before that.

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[floridaskier]

Do you have any pictures of the new Southern Comfort lift?

[Peter]

http://www.skiliftforum.com/index.php?show...comfort+big+sky

[skisox34]

I love those old Heron-Poma vault drives! That silver color is kind of annoying. Nice Pics though!

[Lift Dinosaur]

What year was Southern Comfort installed as a triple? 1989?
If so, it is the old F Lift from Copper Mountain, CO without the bubble double carriers.

Dino

[2milehi]

Lift Dinosaur, on Feb 19 2008, 11:41 AM, said:

What year was Southern Comfort installed as a triple? 1989?
If so, it is the old F Lift from Copper Mountain, CO without the bubble double carriers.

Dino

What type of drive?

[Lift Dinosaur]

2milehi, on Feb 19 2008, 12:27 PM, said:

What type of drive?

F was a top vault drive with a tensioned bottom return.
If you are refering to the electronic drive, you have to remember I'm a Dinosaur and can't remember.

Dino

[skierdude9450]

F Lift got used as a triple?? I thought it became Shedhorn Lift.

[Lift Dinosaur]

skierdude9450, on Feb 19 2008, 03:58 PM, said:

F Lift got used as a triple?? I thought it became Shedhorn Lift.

When Old F was picked up in the parking lot at Copper in '89, they cut the grips and hangers loose from the bales and left the chairs. They said they would convert it to a triple without bubbles.
So the answer would be in the year of installation for Shedhorn and Southern Comfort. S.C.'s return terminal looks more like Old F than Shedhorn's (lower to the ground).

Dino

[Peter]

Southern Comfort went in in 1991, Shedhorn in 1995.

[Lift Dinosaur]

Skier, on Feb 20 2008, 12:11 AM, said:

Southern Comfort went in in 1991, Shedhorn in 1995.

Thanks. Sounds like they stored it and then put it up in '91. If you're still there, why don't you ask one of the staff on the history for confirmation?

Dino

[SkiBachelor]

Lift Dinosaur, on Feb 20 2008, 06:17 AM, said:

Thanks. Sounds like they stored it and then put it up in '91. If you're still there, why don't you ask one of the staff on the history for confirmation?

Dino

We have asked and the only used lift they know the history of is the Lone Moose triple there which is the former Peru lift from Keystone.

[Peter]

So if Southern Comfort was F from Copper, does anyone know where Shedhorn was from?

[SkiBachelor]

hhhhmmm, maybe the old Silver Queen from Crested Butte?

[skierdude9450]

Do you know what the vert for Dakota is?

This post has been edited by skierdude9450: 07 April 2008 - 04:27 PM

[Peter]

1,210 feet.

[Peter]

Now we know why it opened so late:

"Big Sky in Montana had relocated Copper Mountain’s old ‘F’ chair, Heron Poma, and it had an incident where it tore off backstop during testing."

From the minutes of a Colorado Passenger Tramway Safety Board meeting.