It’s mid-July and construction is ramping up on the north side of the Jackson Hole Mountain Resort. A K-Max helicopter from Timberline Helicopters was on-site Sunday to fly concrete for the towers that couldn’t be accessed by road. The rest of the tower footings were already finished and back filled. Concrete work is also complete at the top terminal and steel will be going up shortly. The bottom terminal is a few weeks behind. Down in the parking lot, towers are mostly assembled and terminal components will be headed up the hill soon.
JHMR opted not to get the steel Doppelmayr lift operator houses that are already in use at Marmot and the tram. Larger, wood-framed cabins to match those at the Casper lift are being built by a contractor. As an operator who’s spent countless hours in each kind, I can tell you these larger buildings with two separate rooms are far superior. Doppelmayr’s lift houses are drafty, leaky and not very functional.
The same helicopter from Timberline flew straight to Park City to fly cages for the new gondola there.
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