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Kirkwood today (3-14-04)

I got all the lifts but 9, so i will post some pictures of them in no real order. Enjoy :D


Starting off with one of the strangest new combinations ive ever seen. Poma came in the summer and did some work on chair 11. They redid all assemblies as well as chair hanger arms and the grips. Here is a Poma assembly on a yan tower.

The poma hanger arm and grip is visible on the coming chair

Here is the top of 11, a typical yan return terminal. Cameron said the entire chair appeared to be poma, but here you can see it is a yan carrier.

Chairs 10 and 11 at the base village. Chair 11 also recieved a new coat of paint during the summer with its poma upgrades.

Chair 2, an older yan triple that gets you over to the backside of the mountain.

Chair 4, a 1998 CTEC fg quad. Besides the funitel last april, this was the windiest chair ive ridden; 2 seasons ago.

A shot dow chair 4. On the combination assemblies, instead of coil springs, it has the marshmellow springs used in the yan hsq grips

Chair 3, the oldest lift on the hill. Nothing really special about this yan double

The hold down assemblies out of the bottom terminal on chair 10.

The top of The Wall (10). This lift has what i think are the coolest breakovers i have seen. Those sheaves are probably twice as big as any regular sheave you have seen.

Here is a view from below of this very unique assembly.

Now these are for sure the largest sheave wheels ever. Compare the wheel size to the tower.

Sorry this is out of order, but this shot is up the line of chair 4, from the same point as where the shot before was, except up line.

The top of Cornice Express (2001 doppelmayr)

The underside of Cornice (6)

The breakover towers at the top of Cornice

An overhead view of the top terminal of Chair 5

The drive of Chair 7 (Hole n' Wall)

Alright, thats all for now. If you would like to see any lifts, just let me know.

Lifts
#1 (Snowkirk)- Yan Triple (Built 1972 as Yan Double, Made Triple in
#2 (Caples Crest)- Yan Triple (Built 1972 as Yan Double, Made Triple in 1986)
#3 (Iron Horse)- Yan Double
#4 (Sunrise)- 1998 CTEC fg Quad (Built 1972 as Double, CTEC fg Quad in 1998)
#5 (Solitude) Yan Triple (Built 1973 as Double, Made Triple in 1993)
#6 (Cornice Express)- 2001 Doppelmayr HSQ (Built 1972 as Double, Made Triple in 1993, HSQ in 2001)
#7 (Hole 'N' Wall)- 1976 Yan Triple
#9 (Bunny)- Yan Triple (Built 1977 as Double, Made Triple in ?)
#10 (The Wall)- 1984 Yan Triple
#11 (The Reut)- 1986 Yan Triple

Future Lifts
#7 (Hole 'N' Wall Express)- 2004 N/A Expres Quad
#13? Red Cliffs Express- 2005 or 2006 Express Quad (Running from bottom of 1 to top of 2)
Several others around chair 4 as well as other upgrades planned.

how's the snow there?

Its decent. There is plenty of snow mid-mountain, but its kinda thin up top and down at the bottom of 7. Theve recieved almost 500 inches on the season, so they have a nice base. Everything was pretty slushy as it was probably in the mid-60s yesterday. I just hope it cools down and we get another storm....