This six pack replaced two parallel detachable quads with a mid-station where one of the old quads used to unload.The half mid-station for unloading only.The top terminal is located on the Bald Mountain summit, where three other chairlifts also terminate.This is the first D-Line at Sun Valley.Upper station in the same location as the old Yan detachable quad.View from the summit down Warm Springs Canyon.Side view of the top drive station.Upper terminal overview.Bald Mountain summit.Tower 28.A half tower above the mid-station.Lower part of the line below the mid unload.Tower 15.Side view of the long middle station.Tower 6 near the base.Lower station overview.Towers 1 and 2 immediately adjacent to the bottom station in Warm Springs Village.D-Line return with tensioning.View up the long and steep lift line.Lift overview.Maze area.Name plate.View riding out of the base.A tower with combination assemblies.Unloading ramp number one.Leaving the half intermediate station.View back down toward the mid.Upper lift line in the trees.Nearing the summit.The final tower.Another view of the mid with light side flyover.Half towers above the mid-station.Another shot of the rare half D-Line station.View up the line in Warm Springs.Tower 4.The line climbs steeply out of the bottom to achieve ski under clearance as quickly as possible.Side view of the return.The first three towers in short succession.Another view of the bottom.Queuing gates.Tower 3 and the other lift built at the same time – Flying Squirrel.A hold down tower.Arriving at the mid.Optional unload.Split tower.Another view of the mid unload.View up from the middle station.Looking toward Flying Squirrel.Towers below the mid.View leaving the mid-station.Tower 20.View back down near the summit.Challenger, Lookout Express and Christmas.There are three generators below the top operator house to run this lift at full speed in a power outage. No single generator large enough was available at the time of construction.D-Line grip.Control panels.Inside the top station.Direct drive on top of the bullwheel.Small diesel evacuation drive.Four ring direct drive.Another view of the summit station.View down the lower line.Inside the half station.Outside the half station.View back down above the mid.Upper lift line.Tower 25.Six place chair with auto locking bar.Back of a chair.Aerial view of the mid.Lift line with more than 3,000 vertical feet.Upper lift line seen from the ground.View down toward the mid unload.Middle station seen from above.
The lift is shorter than the original Challenger. Rather than start across the river, it begins where Greyhawk started, and then has the midstation to serve Greyhawk’s terrain.
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D line looks so good in white! I wish more resorts would use that color scheme.
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Do any other chairlifts have the D-Line half midstation?
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No not currently
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No chair lifts, but the gondola at Sterling Vineyards has one.
https://liftblog.com/aerial-gondola-sterling-vineyards-ca/
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Found a Gondola that has one at Ski Arlberg. “Schindlergratbahn”
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The lift is shorter than the original Challenger. Rather than start across the river, it begins where Greyhawk started, and then has the midstation to serve Greyhawk’s terrain.
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Is this the world’s tallest chairlift?
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Still is.
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Does the half mid station effect the spacing of the lift
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no.
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The D-line mid-station is slick
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The inside of the mid-station looks so cool!!
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I don’t understand why this lift doesn’t have a maintenance rail.
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Looks like it has a maintenance rail and garage adjacent to the top operator house.
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Got it. I saw drone footage of them adding the carriers to the lift at tower 1 using a construction forklift and I was like, this is really baffling.
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Must have been initial installation.
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Correct. https://youtu.be/x2Ai86YNAuk?si=hbYpgZwaNf42t-n1&t=447
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