Bottom tension bullwheel.Riding up.View back down the line.Top drive bullwheel (motor room is underground.)Lower station overview.Tower 1.View riding up the line.Looking back down.Side view of the top drive terminal.Doppelmayr Worldbook entry.
Interesting tidbit: the chairs are numbered reverse of how they normally are. So instead of the numbers ascending (Chair 1 followed by Chair 2), it counts down (e.g. Chair 30, then Chair 29, then Chair 28). At least it was like that since I have skied there in 2011. I don’t know if they have reset them. I don’t know if it is because the drive is at the top, but other lifts with top drives do not have chairs set this way. And I laugh that this “beginner” area at Snowbird has more black diamonds than green circles!
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im pretty sure this lift only has 71 chairs instead of 192
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Definitely not 192, but the worldbook entry says 92.
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This lift really helped Gad 2 expand its available terrain, as skiers could now traverse farther west and not need to hike back to Gad 1.
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This lift and Elk over at Fernie have the only Doppelmayr vault drives on any Doppelmayr fixed grip lift in N/A that I have seen.
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Interesting tidbit: the chairs are numbered reverse of how they normally are. So instead of the numbers ascending (Chair 1 followed by Chair 2), it counts down (e.g. Chair 30, then Chair 29, then Chair 28). At least it was like that since I have skied there in 2011. I don’t know if they have reset them. I don’t know if it is because the drive is at the top, but other lifts with top drives do not have chairs set this way. And I laugh that this “beginner” area at Snowbird has more black diamonds than green circles!
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You can see this in Picture 2 and Picture 7 if you zoom in and look at the numbers on the carriers.
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