This relocated Heron-Poma double services the main front face of the mountain.View riding up the lift line.The first few towers.Side view of the bottom return station.View back down the line.Non-bullwheel unloading at the summit.Vault drive with tensioning.Looing down at tower 5.Upper lift line.Loading area at tower 1.Another view of the drive.Unload point at tower 8.Breakover towers.View down near the summit.
According to the history page of the mountain’s website, this lift was installed for the 1985-86 ski season. Could it possibly be Copper Mountain’s former E double (assuming that Discovery at Winter Park is in fact old Elkhead from Steamboat and not E)?
I was thinking the same thing. The combined vault-drive-and-tension setup was fairly unique, and double-E did have that. It was at the bottom but ends can be swapped. Double E was only 12 years old when it was replaced by the triple so it would have been in fairly good shape. My predecessors put a roof on the vault and turned into the electrical shop- The Bunker :)
Discovery at WP is definitely not old E. Different towerheads, different terminals, only the chairs were the same.
Arent there a couple heron lifts around with the combined setup? I assume that they would use it on a smaller lift where the motor didnt need to be as big since it would have to fit on the moving chassis vs and underground motor room
The Red Chair at Magic Mountain, VT and West End at Powderhorn, CO are two examples of longer lifts that use this drive-tension setup, so it wasn’t limited only to shorter lifts.
I do wonder if it did have anything to do with the length and rise of the lift when choosing this type of drive. It seems like it would be fairly compact and make the lift cheaper to construct.
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WOW, a Canadian lift without safety bars or chains! Everything I’d read said they were now mandatory in all provinces, but apparently not.
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What do you mean by chains?
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I mean chains with hooks that can be used as seatbelts, like some of the very oldest chairlifts in Europe.
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According to the history page of the mountain’s website, this lift was installed for the 1985-86 ski season. Could it possibly be Copper Mountain’s former E double (assuming that Discovery at Winter Park is in fact old Elkhead from Steamboat and not E)?
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I was thinking the same thing. The combined vault-drive-and-tension setup was fairly unique, and double-E did have that. It was at the bottom but ends can be swapped. Double E was only 12 years old when it was replaced by the triple so it would have been in fairly good shape. My predecessors put a roof on the vault and turned into the electrical shop- The Bunker :)
Discovery at WP is definitely not old E. Different towerheads, different terminals, only the chairs were the same.
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Arent there a couple heron lifts around with the combined setup? I assume that they would use it on a smaller lift where the motor didnt need to be as big since it would have to fit on the moving chassis vs and underground motor room
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The Red Chair at Magic Mountain, VT and West End at Powderhorn, CO are two examples of longer lifts that use this drive-tension setup, so it wasn’t limited only to shorter lifts.
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I wonder what the choice was for then, seems like combining the two would be better for space concerns.
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There are. I didn’t mean old E was the only one, just that it was rare.
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I do wonder if it did have anything to do with the length and rise of the lift when choosing this type of drive. It seems like it would be fairly compact and make the lift cheaper to construct.
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