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[DonaldMReif]

I believe Purgatory's master plan was along the lines of upgrading Legends to a high speed quad, and upgrading Twilight to a triple chairlift. Does that sound correct?

[Backbowlsbilly]

DonaldMReif, on 24 December 2014 - 04:09 PM, said:

I believe Purgatory's master plan was along the lines of upgrading Legends to a high speed quad, and upgrading Twilight to a triple chairlift. Does that sound correct?

Yep, but that has been shelved for years since they spent most of their money developing the base area. I expect that the new owner will do Legends pretty soon, it is a pretty amazing area of terrain, and maybe Twilight later. All of the terrain on Twilight can be accessed by the Purgatory Village Express so I would guess replacing it with a triple wouldn't be a priority yet. Here's what they got passed (http://www.durangomo...e/MMDP%20pr.pdf)

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[Peter]

Looks like the Hermitage Club bubble six pack went to Doppelmayr as well.

https://www.dropbox....5_150543143.jpg

[vons]

From Facebook it looks like Doppelmayr may possibly have a new more economical terminal design coming out(speculative), they also may be hungry for the biz(more probable), Europe isn't having the best ski season so far.

linkhttps://www.facebook...743850662336912

[skier2]

Interesting. I too was surprised to see the gondi project at Lutsen go Dopp. L-P has done the HSS at Lutsen and two HSQs and HSS at Granite Peak. I wonder how much lower Dopp bid for the Lutsen project?

[Peter]

Drumheller Valley (Alberta)'s 1993 Riblet quad has been sold to Big Bam Ski Hill in Taylor, BC to be installed in 2015.

http://www.drumhelle...-finds-new-home

[machskier]

Peter, on 25 December 2014 - 07:07 PM, said:

Looks like the Hermitage Club bubble six pack went to Doppelmayr as well.

https://www.dropbox....5_150543143.jpg

Looks like a heated bubble 6 with the orange canopy?

[woofydoggie]

Okemos mad!

[Backbowlsbilly]

Was at Vail today, here's the sign for the new six pack to replace the current Avanti Express.

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[silence]

Update on Valley House FGQ at Sugarbush from owner Win Smith (Sugarbush.com):

"Our main New Year's resolution is to keep making Sugarbush bettter for you and in 2015 the major item on our list will be a new Fixed grip quad to replace the Valley House double. If we're able to get it permitted, we want to have the loading area brought further down the hill for the convenience of everyone."

The original plan that they received approval for last March were to just replace the double in it's current location. From this, obviously, it sounds like they wait to extend the base lower to (I'm guessing) closer to the base of Super Bravo HSQ which would make sense, the current base is in a terrible location.

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[Peter]

Snow King's Rafferty quad will be Doppelmayr - bottom drive/tension with a mid-unload. Source: http://www.jhnewsand...aba9120873.html

[boardski]

Interesting... Never seen a "six-grip quad" before, hopefully all the chairs will have grips on them. :-O

[DonaldMReif]

Quad chairs with six grips would be very interesting, though.

[matt9915]

floridaskier, on 28 September 2014 - 09:06 AM, said:

The area where they would put a potential lift up to Dreamscape/Iron Mountain is quite steep, and south-facing. Right now it's the far end of Pinecone Ridge, the double black hiking access area that dumps into Thaynes Canyon. It would be tough to open that up for the general public, but maybe they would cut a cattrack down from the top on the PC side.

Better question is where it will come out. My guess is they would combine it with a Motherlode HSQ and come down on that side. King Con is already overcrowded and Motherlode is long overdue for a replacement. That's the only lift upgrade needed on the PCMR side. On The Canyons side, probably makes most sense to end at the top of Iron Mountain, but they would need some snowmaking over there to reliably open that early in the year.

I have been a Park City loyalist from the beginning, and have skied all three resorts in the area. After reading this, I was interested and kind of wondered why Vail decided to drop the Interconnect Gondola at the bottom of Silverlode, as that area is already particularly congested (particularly with the new free-for-all alternating lift line), as the area will only get worse.

It would seem that a logical solution to solving the congestion at Silverlode should they want to drop the gondola there is to put a midstation on King Con where the current top Terminal is (where one could get off and ski the King Con runs) and extend the lift farther up the ridgeline to the top of the Crescent Lift. From there, one would have multiple options to reach the Summit House (the top of Silverlode & Bonanza), either by riding Bonanza lift or skiing down to Pioneer lift. In addition, this would open a new route to the base area other than the dreaded Gotcha Cut Off

[DonaldMReif]

Relieving congestion on Silverlode seems to be a big need-to for PCMR.

[floridaskier]

I think the Motherlode HSQ will go a long way toward solving the Silverlode problem. If half of the beginners who currently ski Parleys turn left to Sunnyside and Carbide Cut instead and ride the new lift, that takes a lot of the pressure off Silverlode. It would be great to add snowmaking to Gotcha Cutoff too

[jaytrem]

Looks like Tucker at Copper is a go for next season....

http://summitcountyv...-mountain-lift/

Anybody know more details???

[DonaldMReif]

The article doesn't mention if the Tucker Mountain lift is going to be a double chairlift or a triple chairlift or something else entirely.

The PDF also makes mentions of Breckenridge proposing expanded snowmaking by adding an extra pipeline running from the bottom of the Independence SuperChair up to just above the bottom of the Kensho SuperChair. The resort also apparently proposes widening and re-grading part of Monte Cristo to improve skier traffic flows. I want to assume that the section of Monte Cristo in question is that last hill just below Wirepatch where they have the Slow signs and the guys in yellow jackets stationed doing speed control (that hill starts off in pretty good shape but tends to get icy as the day progresses; it also gets a lot of traffic seeing as it takes skier traffic from the Peak 7 trails north of the Independence SuperChair as well as all skier traffic returning to Peak 8 from the Kensho SuperChair).

[vons]

I believe Tucker is going to be a triple. Copper is not super brand loyal so any of them has a shot but I'd guess it will be a Doppelmayr .

[DonaldMReif]

Copper is definitely not a brand-loyal area. After all, they had Poma build the Center Village high speed quads in the 1980s, but the next high speed quad, the Timberline Express from 1994, was a Doppelmayr. Then they returned to Poma for Excelerator and Super Bee, then back to Doppelmayr for Union Creek, and I think back again to Leitner-Poma for Storm King.