In addition to the new Pinecone Gondola, Vail Resorts is doing a major lift shuffle at Park City Mountain this summer. The King Con high speed quad (1993 CTEC) is being replaced with a brand new Doppelmayr six pack. King Con is being refurbished and relocated to replace Motherlode higher up on the hill. More on that in an upcoming post.
Both terminals for the new King Con are largely complete as of this week. The Uni-G model terminals will be dark red and silver to match the new Park City Mountain logo and brand which will be unveiled on July 29th. Rumors are that the word resort will be removed from the PCMR name and the new logo will be a dark red version of the Canyons infinity logo. Most of the existing detachable lifts at Park City have already been painted in the new color scheme.
King Con Six will re-use the CTEC tower tubes from the old high speed quad. New tower heads are being assembled in the base area parking lot. The bottom terminal will have a loading carpet as is standard with all new detachable lifts at Vail Resorts these days. The lift is a top-drive, bottom-tension configuration. Doppelmayr EJ six passenger chairs are already on-site. All three of Park City’s new lifts will have Redaelli haul ropes which have also been delivered.
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It’s interesting to see that Motherlode is a brand new lift only utilizing the former towers of the King Con Express. I wonder if Vail Resorts has plans of using it somewhere else down the road or simply is junking it.
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