1 reply to this topic

[Skier123]

I found these while looking through pictures on the site.

This fixed grip model by Yan is like Doppelmayr CTEC's UNI-Star in that it is modeled after the high speed model.

Here are the pics:

These two are of the bottom terminal of the Viking lift at Deer Valley

 YanLift1.jpg (11.04K)
Number of downloads: 202  YanLift2.jpg (51.85K)
Number of downloads: 241

Here's the top terminal:

 YanLift3.jpg (44.4K)
Number of downloads: 235

These two are of the bottom terminal of the Silver Queen lift at Silver Star Resort:

 YanLift5.jpg (89.21K)
Number of downloads: 206  YanLift4.jpg (91.27K)
Number of downloads: 144

And lastly, does anyone know the model name/number? Thanks.

[floridaskier]

I seem to remember that the Viking lift type was Yan's last new model, and that it might have been thrown in free (?) when Deer Valley installed three other Yan lifts in 1990. The Viking lift has a couple unique features I've never seen on any other Yan fixed grip lifts, like different depression sheaves inside the lower terminal and at the half-tower, the high speed quad style operator shack, and a different style of controls (since replaced). It's also DV's only bottom driven lift.

The Red Cloud lift nearby, installed in the same year as Viking but made up of older parts from the old Carpenter triple chair, has a similar-looking decorative high speed quad style cover on the bottom terminal to match Viking, but apart from that it's a standard-issue Yan triple. They put the same type of covering on the short-lived Quincy triple chair, which was installed from parts of DV's old Wasatch triple with CTEC upgrades in 1997 and relocated to The Canyons in 2001, where the terminal terminal covering lasted a few years but was removed around 2007 or so