This is one of two Lift Engineering detachables retrofitted by Doppelmayr at Mammoth.Yan Y towers and teardrop chairs.Yan combo assembly converted to Doppelmayr.The breakover.Height-adjustable top drive station.Unload ramp and operator house.Doppelmayr lifting frame and combination assemblies.Return terminal at the Main Lodge.Lift line view.Top part of the line seen from Canyon Express, the other Yan detachable.Lift overview.Doppelmayr Worldbook entry.
Shortly after the lift was retrofitted by Doppelmayr and the carrier design is actually Yan’s and not Doppelmayr’s. I’ve always been curious as to why this carrier design only ended up on four lifts.
Would it make sense to replace this lift with a bubble 8 pack to improve out of base capacity? I think they’ve at least thought doing that to replace the other Yan detachable.
Unfortunately not. This lift has a lot of residual ridership with the exception of accessing Chair 23. You are unable to access any other lift access points besides the base lifts.
As others have mentioned, the statement above re: accessing other lifts isn’t true. You can get to 23, 3, gondola stage 2, and all lifts from the separate Mill base area (primarily Ch 2 and 10). Ch 1, 16 and 2 would be decent candidates for an 8 pack given their importance of getting people out of their respective base areas. Doubt that comes to pass though given there are no 8 packs at any other Alterra resort.
You can also easily get to chair 12, and while a technicality, you can also get to chair 5 with a traverse above the snow making pond to Coyote. And even more unreasonable, you can actually traverse high on Coyote and stay high enough across dry creek to get all the way to the top of chair 4. From there you can make it to Canyon/Eagle lodge with ease.
Probably the same reason Mammoth did their own terminal enclosures- cost. While carriers aren’t as expensive as other parts of the retrofit, they still add to the bottom line.
This is entirely subjective, but on several back-to-back (Thanks. I’ll be here all week.) comparisons between the two on Christmas and Lookout at SV, the teardrops are more comfortabler for this Sámi’s back. There are definitely days where I plan my turns around not skiing Chair 6 here at Bogus for similar reasoning. John’s reasoning is more businessy, though. Plus, he actually does lifts whereas I just ski faster.
I’m glad they didn’t. The teardrop chairs are way more comfortable than the EJs. The style of chairs on lift 6 at June Mountain on the other hand are not.
All because of the retrofit. Before that they had the Yan low-profile terminals, and the drive had basically a fixed-grip motor room dropped in between the tunnels.
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Per the entry above Broadway is at 2400 PPH not 2800 PPH you have in the Mammoth Mountain lift database
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What other lifts do you have pictures of that have the Yan teardrop chairs? I already know about the two at Sun Valley and Canyon Express.
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The Summit Express (1988 Yan detachable quad) at Pico, VT has Yan Teardrop chairs that were never refurbished the way these chairs were.
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J6 at June has the Metal seatbacks While J7 has these teardrop chairs.
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When were the metal teardrop chairs replaced with padded teardrop chairs?
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Shortly after the lift was retrofitted by Doppelmayr and the carrier design is actually Yan’s and not Doppelmayr’s. I’ve always been curious as to why this carrier design only ended up on four lifts.
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The lift stopped running during the day last Friday (or maybe Saturday) and didn’t reopen the following days. Apparently had a motor problem.
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Would it make sense to replace this lift with a bubble 8 pack to improve out of base capacity? I think they’ve at least thought doing that to replace the other Yan detachable.
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Unfortunately not. This lift has a lot of residual ridership with the exception of accessing Chair 23. You are unable to access any other lift access points besides the base lifts.
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Pretty sure you can access 12 and Face Lift from Broadway.
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you can get to facelift from broadway
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As others have mentioned, the statement above re: accessing other lifts isn’t true. You can get to 23, 3, gondola stage 2, and all lifts from the separate Mill base area (primarily Ch 2 and 10). Ch 1, 16 and 2 would be decent candidates for an 8 pack given their importance of getting people out of their respective base areas. Doubt that comes to pass though given there are no 8 packs at any other Alterra resort.
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You can also easily get to chair 12, and while a technicality, you can also get to chair 5 with a traverse above the snow making pond to Coyote. And even more unreasonable, you can actually traverse high on Coyote and stay high enough across dry creek to get all the way to the top of chair 4. From there you can make it to Canyon/Eagle lodge with ease.
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Kinda curious why the Yan conversions never got overhauled with the EJ chairs.
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Probably the same reason Mammoth did their own terminal enclosures- cost. While carriers aren’t as expensive as other parts of the retrofit, they still add to the bottom line.
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There also just isn’t a need. Yan made safe carriers, and by a lot of people’s arguments very comfy ones for their day. They still hold up well.
Brand new Dopplemyer carriers would be mostly un-noticeable.
And consider the spine-crusher EJ carriers on 2 & 3.
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This is entirely subjective, but on several back-to-back (Thanks. I’ll be here all week.) comparisons between the two on Christmas and Lookout at SV, the teardrops are more comfortabler for this Sámi’s back. There are definitely days where I plan my turns around not skiing Chair 6 here at Bogus for similar reasoning. John’s reasoning is more businessy, though. Plus, he actually does lifts whereas I just ski faster.
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I’m glad they didn’t. The teardrop chairs are way more comfortable than the EJs. The style of chairs on lift 6 at June Mountain on the other hand are not.
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Does this or Canyon have a bottom operator shack? Looks like Face Lift doesn’t either
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All have standard detachable size lift shacks, face Lift right hand up picture covers lift shack.
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here some pictures
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That view of Mt. Ritter in the background of the tenth photo…absolutely amazing! Mammoth does have some spectacular views of the Ritter Range.
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Here is an old picture of this lift in 1965
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Nice footage of the lift before upgrades: https://youtube.com/watch?v=vAf8UnPRlB4&feature=shares
Apparently you could pay a pro photographer to follow you around at Mammoth back in the early 90s
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also a ton of bygone lifts, chair 26 as a quad, top section of chair 18, and 2 as a FGQ
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I like the look of those terminals. Were those planned to be custom built when the lift was brand new, or is that just because of the retrofit?
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All because of the retrofit. Before that they had the Yan low-profile terminals, and the drive had basically a fixed-grip motor room dropped in between the tunnels.
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The date for chair 1 removal has been confirmed by mammoth; April 15 they will finally put the old girl down.
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