This unique installation features an L-shaped bottom terminal with 90 degree loading and very high capacity.Doppelmayr direct drive in the bottom station.Due to the length of the terminal, there are seven motors that drive various tire sections.A D-Line grip open in the station.Eight place chair with heated seats and auto raising bar.Doppelmayr Connect touchscreen controls.Operator console at the drive.Chairs make a 90 degree turn after loading before accelerating.Raiseable Chairkit loading conveyor.View riding up the short lift line.Tower 8 adjacent to the top station.Arriving at the return.Inside the fixed return station.Return bullwheel.Top station controls.Unloading area.View from the summit.Another view of tower 8.View down at tower 7.Tower 6.The uppermost part of the line is located on manmade fill.View up at tower 4.The acceleration portion of the L bottom station.Side view of the D-Line station.Outside curve of the L.Lift overview.While lift has 8 towers, only five are in the ski run.Lower station with two adjacent towers.Inside of the L with work rail.Hold down towers 1 and 2.Work carrier.Station end with LED screen.Chairs in the bottom station.T2.Combination assemblies on tower 5.Tower 7.View back down.Turnaround at the top.D22 station up top.Another view of the lift line.The upper station and tower 8.View down at tower 5.Conical towers from Austria.This lift replaced a Poma six pack but in a different alignment.Base station overview.Another view of the top station from Promenade 6.The lift line.View down at tower 7.Eight seat chair.This lift opened the same season as a similar eight seater in Whistler, the first such lifts in Canada.The bottom terminal seen from above.12 sheave support assembly.Uphill end of the top station.Chairs passing near the summit.Chair back.View up the line at tower 4.Tower 3.Turnaround at the end of the L.Deceleration portion of the lower station.
Whats the MAX capacity you would be able to get from a lift like this? If you had infinite money could you have a gondola with like 30 feet long L shaped terminals at like 5500 pph?
How does the L-shaped terminal help with capacity? Is 90-degree loading (on a normal terminal) just prone to mis-loads?
The thing I like most about this lift (and I guess all the 8-packs?) are the suspension systems on the carriers. So annoying trying to drink from a nalgene rolling over sheaves.
Hello Muni due to the location of the terminal and available room ,the loading process needed to be contour loading. For lift capacity up to 3500 p/hr a standard terminal design can be used. For lift capacity higher than 3500 p/hr., Doppelmayr recommended the L Shape terminal design which simply simulates the straight loading process on a standard straight loading terminal design. This lift has 3800 p/hr. initial capacity with almost an 8 second interval between carriers. The lift has a final design capacity of 4250 /p/hr. and the only way to achieve this is to have a straight loading process and this is done on the long back straight section of the L Terminal. The current 8 second interval between carriers at 1000 ft/min works well and to make a comparison to a 3000 p/hr. 6 place at 1000 ft. /min, has about 7.2 seconds between carriers. The ride up the line is very smooth as chairs pass over and through all of the sheave assemblies a signature feature of the D line design.
In my experience, the smoothest-riding chairlift that I have ever ridden is the Heron-Poma (by Poma, not by Heron, as so many Heron-Pomas are) double at Whaleback, NH. Aside from the depression and compression sheave assemblies, I barely felt a bump!
Yes this lift has a direct drive, after seeing the direct drive work at Big Sky and Loon Mountain on the Dline chairlifts at both resorts, it was very clear what to do! The direct drive works very well, very quiet and very smooth operation and no gearbox rebuild required in 20,000 hrs or less from now!
Yesterday, March 4, I finally got the chance to ride Adventure8 at MSLM. Words just don’t cut it in describing how beautiful and smooth this Dopplemayr eight place chair is. As the chairs move through the lower station and the loading passengers sit down on a chair, while standing on the loading carpet, on the straight back section of the terminal, one does not feel the chair make the 90 degree turn and accelerate to the grip attachment stage. One feels like you have just sat down in your favourite race car or high performance air plane. Nice. Thank you Huter family for building this fabulous ski lift.
The fact that a family-owned mountain could afford to put heated seats, a direct drive, and an enormous L-shaped terminal on a lift is crazy. It’s a shame how Vail Resorts couldn’t even be bothered to put a direct drive on the new Silverlode (Now Fitzsimmons) Express.
Such a good point. It’s a joke that Vail is only installing one new lift this year across their entire portfolio of resorts worldwide. Way to go Huter family.
I’m noticing something peculiar. If you look at these 2 photos for comparison, Adventure 8’s combination assemblies on Tower 5 are different than a lot of other D-Line Installs (including Crest 6 for reference) Adventure 8 has shorter diameter sheave trains above the haul rope with larger support sheaves below. Does anybody know why that’s the case?
This photo is why I don’t like 8 packs. Long line and still nobody can figure out how to group up to 8. Real life capacity is probably 3000pph. Would rather have a six pack at that point.
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This lift dethroned the funitel at Palisades as the highest capacity aerial lift in North America!
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What am awesome lift! Props to peter for getting all these cool machines on the blog so quickly!
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Whats the MAX capacity you would be able to get from a lift like this? If you had infinite money could you have a gondola with like 30 feet long L shaped terminals at like 5500 pph?
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How does the L-shaped terminal help with capacity? Is 90-degree loading (on a normal terminal) just prone to mis-loads?
The thing I like most about this lift (and I guess all the 8-packs?) are the suspension systems on the carriers. So annoying trying to drink from a nalgene rolling over sheaves.
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Hello Muni due to the location of the terminal and available room ,the loading process needed to be contour loading. For lift capacity up to 3500 p/hr a standard terminal design can be used. For lift capacity higher than 3500 p/hr., Doppelmayr recommended the L Shape terminal design which simply simulates the straight loading process on a standard straight loading terminal design. This lift has 3800 p/hr. initial capacity with almost an 8 second interval between carriers. The lift has a final design capacity of 4250 /p/hr. and the only way to achieve this is to have a straight loading process and this is done on the long back straight section of the L Terminal. The current 8 second interval between carriers at 1000 ft/min works well and to make a comparison to a 3000 p/hr. 6 place at 1000 ft. /min, has about 7.2 seconds between carriers. The ride up the line is very smooth as chairs pass over and through all of the sheave assemblies a signature feature of the D line design.
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This is going to sound strange.
In my experience, the smoothest-riding chairlift that I have ever ridden is the Heron-Poma (by Poma, not by Heron, as so many Heron-Pomas are) double at Whaleback, NH. Aside from the depression and compression sheave assemblies, I barely felt a bump!
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does this have direct drive
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Yes this lift has a direct drive, after seeing the direct drive work at Big Sky and Loon Mountain on the Dline chairlifts at both resorts, it was very clear what to do! The direct drive works very well, very quiet and very smooth operation and no gearbox rebuild required in 20,000 hrs or less from now!
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And they make the strangest sound.
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Yesterday, March 4, I finally got the chance to ride Adventure8 at MSLM. Words just don’t cut it in describing how beautiful and smooth this Dopplemayr eight place chair is. As the chairs move through the lower station and the loading passengers sit down on a chair, while standing on the loading carpet, on the straight back section of the terminal, one does not feel the chair make the 90 degree turn and accelerate to the grip attachment stage. One feels like you have just sat down in your favourite race car or high performance air plane. Nice. Thank you Huter family for building this fabulous ski lift.
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The fact that a family-owned mountain could afford to put heated seats, a direct drive, and an enormous L-shaped terminal on a lift is crazy. It’s a shame how Vail Resorts couldn’t even be bothered to put a direct drive on the new Silverlode (Now Fitzsimmons) Express.
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Such a good point. It’s a joke that Vail is only installing one new lift this year across their entire portfolio of resorts worldwide. Way to go Huter family.
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Is this the shortest D-Line lift in North America?
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I’m noticing something peculiar. If you look at these 2 photos for comparison, Adventure 8’s combination assemblies on Tower 5 are different than a lot of other D-Line Installs (including Crest 6 for reference) Adventure 8 has shorter diameter sheave trains above the haul rope with larger support sheaves below. Does anybody know why that’s the case?
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This photo is why I don’t like 8 packs. Long line and still nobody can figure out how to group up to 8. Real life capacity is probably 3000pph. Would rather have a six pack at that point.
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Seems pretty biased considering it’s only one chair. I noticed a lot of chairs loaded to full or almost full capacity.
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I have to agree with Coloradoskilifts observation. I was only there a couple of days . but chairs around me were full.
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