Top station on Boreal Ridge.Doppelmayr Uni bottom terminal with red windows.Lift overview.Maintenance rail and chair parking.Leaving the drive.Riding up the line.View back down the line and of golden chair #50.Return station and operator house.Top station side view.The breakover.Upper lift line.Lower part of the line.Lower terminal.Upper terminal.
They’re redecorating? Someone took a page from my old boss’s book, in which he said something to the effect of ‘black is beautiful’ regarding lift colours? Black is easier to find at the paint store?
It’s probably as simple as management wanted a change. Our I-lift was black originally. It faded to grey in the 11,700′ intense UV, so we repainted it grey (although the underside didn’t fade so we kept it black). Years later we painted it green and grey to match our other Doppelmayrs as well as all our fixed-grips. There was no real rhyme nor reason for the timing of the changes.
I see abandoned towers in picture 3 and 6. R-I-P-let
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Chair 50 is colored gold.
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Those are actually light towers for night riding! I can see how they could be mistaken for old towers though haha.
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they were originally tower tubes though for a riblet (look at the cross arm). It is a standard late 70s riblet cross arm
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The towers belonged to the claim jumper lift.
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This lift is now all black, they removed the red. Any reason why?
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They’re redecorating? Someone took a page from my old boss’s book, in which he said something to the effect of ‘black is beautiful’ regarding lift colours? Black is easier to find at the paint store?
It’s probably as simple as management wanted a change. Our I-lift was black originally. It faded to grey in the 11,700′ intense UV, so we repainted it grey (although the underside didn’t fade so we kept it black). Years later we painted it green and grey to match our other Doppelmayrs as well as all our fixed-grips. There was no real rhyme nor reason for the timing of the changes.
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This is what it looks like now
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