Doppelmayr Worldbook entry.This lift is named after the Birds of Prey World Cup Downhill course it services.90-degree loading area with EpicMix readers.View back towards the bottom.Tower 11.Tower 15.The breakover towers.Uni-G drive station.Unloading area and operator house.Lower lift line view.Looking up Beaver Creek Mountain.Bottom station departure side.
One way you can tell this is an earlier variant of the UNI G compared to the other high speed quads at Beaver Creek with UNI G terminals is that at the top, the chairs make the turnaround in one continuous turn, whereas everything from the Lower/Upper Beaver Creek Mountain Expresses onwards has the chairs make two sharp 90 degree turns with a short straight segment (even the ones that don’t have 90 degree loading or unloading).
I know this is UNI-G and is a much later variant of Doppelmayr, but I am suprised that on this and Upper and Lower Beaver Creek Mountain Lifts they didn’t copy the original terminal exterior.
This lift was built to replace a Doppelmayr double chairlift known as Stump Park. Its name is not an original name, as the ‘Birds of Prey Express’ name was originally used prior to 2003 by the Cinch Express. They transferred that lift name over to this one, which makes a lot of sense given that this lift actually laps the Birds of Prey terrain whereas Cinch simply gets you to the top of the downhill course.
Correction: Stump Park was the triple chairlift the Cinch Express replaced, and currently operates as Elkhorn. The current Birds of Prey Express replaced a double called Westfall.
I remember riding Westfall as a kid. I thought the old Strawberry Park triple became Elkhorn however. I think Stump Park was just dismantled because they reused most of the towers for Cinch (which indeed was called Birds of Prey for a while). I’d be curious to hear what happened to the Rose Bowl triple.
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This lift has the most vertical rise of any lift on the mountain at 2,160 feet.
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One way you can tell this is an earlier variant of the UNI G compared to the other high speed quads at Beaver Creek with UNI G terminals is that at the top, the chairs make the turnaround in one continuous turn, whereas everything from the Lower/Upper Beaver Creek Mountain Expresses onwards has the chairs make two sharp 90 degree turns with a short straight segment (even the ones that don’t have 90 degree loading or unloading).
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I think there’s more to it than that though, given that OBX at Park City has one of each…
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I know this is UNI-G and is a much later variant of Doppelmayr, but I am suprised that on this and Upper and Lower Beaver Creek Mountain Lifts they didn’t copy the original terminal exterior.
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This chair is a lot of fun and a lot of vert
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This lift is an extremely impressive lift! This looks like so much fun to lap.
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It’s a leg burner for sure, but it’s fun!
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This lift was built to replace a Doppelmayr double chairlift known as Stump Park. Its name is not an original name, as the ‘Birds of Prey Express’ name was originally used prior to 2003 by the Cinch Express. They transferred that lift name over to this one, which makes a lot of sense given that this lift actually laps the Birds of Prey terrain whereas Cinch simply gets you to the top of the downhill course.
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Correction: Stump Park was the triple chairlift the Cinch Express replaced, and currently operates as Elkhorn. The current Birds of Prey Express replaced a double called Westfall.
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I remember riding Westfall as a kid. I thought the old Strawberry Park triple became Elkhorn however. I think Stump Park was just dismantled because they reused most of the towers for Cinch (which indeed was called Birds of Prey for a while). I’d be curious to hear what happened to the Rose Bowl triple.
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Rose Bowl (#4) went to Vail to become Gopher Hill (#12), much shorter lift now.
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is this actually dual tension? bc if so it’s the only Doppelmayr I’ve seen so far with dual tensioning, that’s usually a Poma thing
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It’s hard to tell if the tensioning happens inside the terminal, but a rarity for sure.
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