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[CAski]

SkiBachelor, on Mar 28 2004, 06:25 PM, said:

There is that ski area in Tahoe that is right next to Mt. Rose that has a Hall.

Which area? Diamond Peak is the closest real resort to Mt. Rose, and it only has SLIs Yans and Doppelmayrs.

If you are referring to Sky Tavern Ski Area (The closest area, but it is only open on weekends for the ski teams in Reno, I believe), I think it only has two Yans.

If you mean Slide Mountain, that is now a part of Mount Rose, and I don't think Mt. Rose has any Halls.

The only thing I could possibly see as being a Hall is the remains of a lift tower along Highway 431, and I am not sure which brand it is exactly anyway.

[SkiBachelor]

CAski, the Hall is located at Sky Tavern and those towers you see along Highway 431, that lift was manufactured by Ringer.

[KZ]

I thought it was a thokiel at sky tavern

[SkiBachelor]

Oops, yea its a Thiokol.

[liftmech]

SkiBachelor, on Mar 28 2004, 06:25 PM, said:

Also Silver Mtn. Idaho has one I think (Saw it in a movie). Then Silver Mtn has a lot of new Von Roll lifts, but they are still Hall's chairlift designs since Von Roll took over Hall.

Silver Mountain had one old Riblet (from when it was the Jackass ski area- no joke) and Von Roll bankrolled the new area with four additional lifts including the gondola. It's been many years since I skiied there; since then they've added at least one lift, and I'm not certain who built it. There definitely were no Halls there when I skiied it, which was in '89 and '90.

[SkiBachelor]

Silver Mountain still has that Riblet, I saw it in the movie Shredder and that lift has breakover towers like the Blue at Meadows. :) Well from what I saw in Shredder is that those lifts were Von Roll/ Hall, Hall being the chairlift designs. From looking at my installation sheets, all of the lifts at Silver Mountain were installed in 1990.

[liftmech]

I'm beginning to think that SAM is a year and 45 horsepower off on their installation sheets. I know I was at Silver in '89 because my parents had this ancient Ford Bronco which they traded in in '90, and we went to Silver the first time in that Bronco. I'm not disputing you, exactly, just telling you what I remember.
As for Chair 4, it had the biggest set of fan towers I'd ever seen (until I saw those photos of the Blue chair :P )

[SkiBachelor]

And at the end of the 89 season, Jackass Ski Bowl became Silver Mtn and that's when all the lifts were installed. I have the installation sheet if you want me to scan it. I also think with all the work Silver Mtn was doing, it made the cover of SAM magazine one month I think showing off its gondola. But your right about SAM being wrong with some stuff, but in this case, I think SAM is right. You skied there in 89' and the lifts went in in 1990. Does that makes sense? :)

[CAski]

Thiokol, eh? I could have sworn that they were both Yans...

My mistake, I guess.

[KZ]

The other may be a yan but i have never seen it. I saw a picture of the Thiokol on their web site. If you do a seach for "Sky Tavern" it should come up easily.

[CAski]

Ah, yes. One is a Thiokol.

It is the picture you posted under the "Trivia" section that I think no one got, KZ.

This post has been edited by CAski: 10 April 2004 - 11:49 PM

[CAski]

The other is a Yan.


Now that I have managed to steer this unbelievably off topic. :tired:

This post has been edited by CAski: 10 April 2004 - 11:52 PM

[SkiBachelor]

For some reason to me those grips look like Hall's to me.

[liftmech]

So do the carriers and sheave assemblies, but the towerheads have those stirrups on the end of the caps like Yan has. Perhaps they are Yan towers, because Hall's caps were the clamp-on variety as were Thiokol's. The second pic is definitely a Yan.

[KZ]

Yea, the first one i am leaning more towards it being a Hall. It doesnt look like it has Thiokol sheaves or grips as cameron noted.

[CAski]

But driving by it on the highway, both appear to have Yanbox drive terminals on top.

[orangegondola]

That lift is pure hall kids. Hall has 2 tower heads, read up on my site.

[CAski]

Okay.

[crazyskier91]

Pico Vermont has two hall lifts, one was the first triple in the state. Another has the overhead drive.

[iceberg210]

It may be a hall but those certainly look like thiokall chairs.