Middle section of the lift line.View up the line.Top drive station.I’m not sure where this lift was relocated from.Top station overview.Lower terminal next to Dynamite.View up the very long lift line.Tension terminal overview.Counterweight across the base area.Loading carpet at the bottom.The final few towers.View down the long lift line.One of a few flat sections of this undulating alignment.Upper lift line.Middle section of the line.Lower lift line.View up the line near the base.
China Peak became Sierra Summit from about 1986 through 2007, then Snow Summit sold it. The name reverted to China Peak. I didn’t ski at Snow Summit in those years, so don’t recognize the lifts.
Not unique, just less common. Old chair 9 at Crystal/current Cascade at Big Sky has the same (although Big Sky converted the return to hydraulic rather than counterweight tensioning).
Almost 100%. The paint scheme on this is exactly the same colors Summit uses. Even down to the specific parts of the terminals, towers, and chairs matching the forest green and creme Summit colors.
China Peak isn’t painting their other chairs in this scheme, so it’s a pretty safe bet it came that way and they patch it up with near matches.
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Where was this lift relocated from?
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A guess is king costilated park city Utah it was removed in 1993
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Pretty sure this lift was relocated from snow summit in 1995 either the old chair 1 or chair 2 there.
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That seems likely. It was probably the triple that got removed in 1992.
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Especially considering that Lift 9 at Snow Summit has the same unique terminals as this lift.
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China Peak became Sierra Summit from about 1986 through 2007, then Snow Summit sold it. The name reverted to China Peak. I didn’t ski at Snow Summit in those years, so don’t recognize the lifts.
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Not unique, just less common. Old chair 9 at Crystal/current Cascade at Big Sky has the same (although Big Sky converted the return to hydraulic rather than counterweight tensioning).
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Almost 100%. The paint scheme on this is exactly the same colors Summit uses. Even down to the specific parts of the terminals, towers, and chairs matching the forest green and creme Summit colors.
China Peak isn’t painting their other chairs in this scheme, so it’s a pretty safe bet it came that way and they patch it up with near matches.
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If China Peak were to make any of their lifts detachable, this would probably be it as the main out of base lift.
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