Drive terminal on the White Salmon side.Riding towards Heather Meadows.Mid-unload in both directions.Midstation.Looking down towards the drive terminal.Custom Doppelmayr CTEC diesel drive terminal.Height adjustable return bullwheel.Looking down the line towards Heather Meadows.
Until Zop retired, comfort bars were anathema. I agree that there’s something off, though. I kinda think the only CTEC lineage carriers that had any flair were the 70s Thiokols, pacifier bars or not. (I really, really dig the old Dopp triples, but that’s pre-merger by much years.)
I’ve been lucky enough to work with Zop the last couple years, he is a wealth of knowledge. He some how taught a group of inexperienced volunteers how to replace a haul rope.
Probably a holdover from when we had a separate chair 4 :)
I bet this one is more difficult to bump than the old one. I could pick the old chairs up by myself, they were so light.
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i personally think doppie chairs look really bad without bars
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These aren’t Doppelmayr, these are late Garaventa CTEC chairs.
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Until Zop retired, comfort bars were anathema. I agree that there’s something off, though. I kinda think the only CTEC lineage carriers that had any flair were the 70s Thiokols, pacifier bars or not. (I really, really dig the old Dopp triples, but that’s pre-merger by much years.)
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Did you know Zop? Also, I dig the term ‘pacifier bars’. I may have to steal it- I’ve always hated when people call them ‘safety bars’.
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I’ve been lucky enough to work with Zop the last couple years, he is a wealth of knowledge. He some how taught a group of inexperienced volunteers how to replace a haul rope.
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It’s Zop’s fault I’m still a mechanic. He definitely has been there and done that.
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These chairs have since had bars added, same with Chair 5 @ Baker. Second year working up there and these chairs are absolutely brutal to bump.
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Also any idea if you could change the chair name to Chair 3/4? That’s what we actually call it ;D
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Probably a holdover from when we had a separate chair 4 :)
I bet this one is more difficult to bump than the old one. I could pick the old chairs up by myself, they were so light.
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Even loading backward with no bump didn’t hurt. Falling off did, at least my pride, but that’s not M-L’s fault.
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