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[coskibum]

Here are some examples of glacier foots found on a doppelmayr HSS and HSG8

enjoy!

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[coskibum]

the gondola, which is a 2003 model!

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[SkiBachelor]

Does anyone know if there are any other resorts here in North America that have glacier footings other than the Palmer Express at Timberline?

[Allan]

The T-Bars at Blackcomb!

[edmontonguy]

the new Gondola @ Solden has glacier footings

[liftmechanic]

If you look at the picture of timberline you see that they are conventional concrete footers in the earth (the original towers without the struts were riblet , glacial footers are actually anchored into the glacial ice, engineers take glacial creep into consideration when they design the lift

[floridaskier]

Why do they have the tri-leg towers then (on the Timberline lift)? Is it for high winds, or something else?

[SkiBachelor]

It's for extra support. The Palmer Glacier has been moving a lot in the past few years. Well I mean not a lot, but its slowly sliding and this gives the tower more support. These support also give the tower more support with the build up of snow on the tower heads. I think the year after this lift was complete, a few towers up top snapped do to the heavy build up of snow. Maybe you remember the article I posted before the last forum crash.

[floridaskier]

Now that you say something about it, I do remember that article...do you still have the link?

[SkiBachelor]

I will see if I can find it again.

[liftmechanic]

The main reason for the extra supports was to allow the original riblet towers to be reused when it was converted to a detachable.

[SkiBachelor]

Arn't the towers on the Palmer express all new and wasn't the Palmer double installed before HSQs were even around? I have a video of the old Palmer double and it did have this type of tripod leg support, but these can't be the same leg supports. Maybe they reused some of the same foundation footings but then again, these towers are spaced much farther than the double. Thanks liftmechanic, you have made me curious. I have ridden this lift many times and it seems like I will to make another trip to Timberline sometime in the future. :)

[KZ]

I saw a picture in some snowboarding book of the double back in the day, and it did have the same support legs we are looking at, so this is a bit interesting.

[liftmech]

The guys from Timberline were telling us how they used the original Riblet towers for the new lift, and that was why they collapsed (aside from the added weight of all that snow ) I didn't hear if they repaired those towers or if they are all-new Doppelmayr ones, though, so we could be seeing another morphodited lift with some towers from Riblet and some from Doppelmayr.

[poloxskier]

SkiBachelor, on Apr 7 2004, 09:29 AM, said:

Arn't the towers on the Palmer express all new and wasn't the Palmer double installed before HSQs were even around? I have a video of the old Palmer double and it did have this type of tripod leg support, but these can't be the same leg supports. Maybe they reused some of the same foundation footings but then again, these towers are spaced much farther than the double. Thanks liftmechanic, you have made me curious. I have ridden this lift many times and it seems like I will to make another trip to Timberline sometime in the future. :)
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Is there any way you could post that video or email it to me?