This CTEC quad chair services the northernmost trails at Spirit Mountain.Lift overview.The lift line.Tri leg drive terminal.Tower 2.Looking up the line.Breakover towers.Orion top terminal.Looking down from the summit.
Fascinating history on this one and the original Spirit Express! Based on your pics, it appears the CTEC chair bales/seats were put back on this lift and reunited with the original hanger arms when the original Borvig/Leitner Spirit Express was replaced by the Leitner-Poma Spirit Express II. Is that correct? That would have happened after the aforementioned thread from skilifts.org.
That drive terminal looks like a tri legged gemini terminal. BTW whats up with the weird hanger arms?
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Probably for hanging alpine slide carts or something like that it the summer.
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It has to do with this once being a bubble chair. There is lots more to the story here: http://www.skilifts.org/forum/index.php?showtopic=4280&view=findpost&p=55159
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Why did they remove the bubbles? a fixed grip bubble quad sounds awesome!
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There are 6 Fixed Grip Bubble Quads out there.
4 in Russia, 1 In Argentina, and 1 in Austria
https://lift-world.info/en/lifts/3414/datas.htm
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any chance you can re-post the pictures from that thread here? i dont have a skilift.org login and the system to make one isn’t working anymore
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Fascinating history on this one and the original Spirit Express! Based on your pics, it appears the CTEC chair bales/seats were put back on this lift and reunited with the original hanger arms when the original Borvig/Leitner Spirit Express was replaced by the Leitner-Poma Spirit Express II. Is that correct? That would have happened after the aforementioned thread from skilifts.org.
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They have their own “timber twister” which is basically an automatic alpine slide on the other end of the ski area, so it must be for something else
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