The lift has been retrofitted with SkyTrac controls, new grips, new horns (I think), and a fresh coat of paint (dark blue terminals with grey towers except for T8-14).
New grips? I don’t know for certain, but I rather doubt Doppelmayr would tool up to make an entire run of an obsolete model. New jaws on the existing grips, perhaps?
There certainly is a market for them, even if it isn’t what it once was. For example, Cannon Mountain had to replace the grips on its 1999 Garaventa-CTEC, Peabody Express just this past season.
This thing is screamin’ fast. The spreadsheet only says 1000 fpm, but it runs at like 1100-1150 sometimes when there are not too many kids using it.. When the chairs come in to the terminal, they swing a foot out.
West Mountain at Bretton Woods does that too. While riding Peabody Express at Cannon (link below), I discovered that uneven weight distribution when coming into the trumpets on the terminals causes this. I do not know if speed amplifies this or not.
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Dosen’t the terminal paint remind you of Snowbird? Sure looks like it
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It does! Snowbird’s terminals are dark blue. It does match their blue tramcar.
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This lift got a new coat of paint the last time I was here and you can’t see the words that say “Blue Bird Express” on the bottom terminal.
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The lift has been retrofitted with SkyTrac controls, new grips, new horns (I think), and a fresh coat of paint (dark blue terminals with grey towers except for T8-14).
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New grips? I don’t know for certain, but I rather doubt Doppelmayr would tool up to make an entire run of an obsolete model. New jaws on the existing grips, perhaps?
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They are still AK grips. They are just shiny.
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There certainly is a market for them, even if it isn’t what it once was. For example, Cannon Mountain had to replace the grips on its 1999 Garaventa-CTEC, Peabody Express just this past season.
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I knew about the Skytrac controls, but the new paint is a surprise. The grips were probably not changed but horns are a possibility.
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This thing is screamin’ fast. The spreadsheet only says 1000 fpm, but it runs at like 1100-1150 sometimes when there are not too many kids using it.. When the chairs come in to the terminal, they swing a foot out.
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West Mountain at Bretton Woods does that too. While riding Peabody Express at Cannon (link below), I discovered that uneven weight distribution when coming into the trumpets on the terminals causes this. I do not know if speed amplifies this or not.
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