View from Sheer Bliss.Bottom station overview.This is a Poma detachable platter lift, invented long ago but rarely found today.An automated system launches platters and stops the lift if a rider goes too early.View back down to the base.Tower 3.Another view of a tower.Slight turn at tower 10, just before the top.Unloading area.Last few towers.Top bullwheel with tensioning.Lift line view.The turn.Lower lift line.Drive station from below.
I believe Smokey Mountain Ski Club in Labrador Canada has a new detachable platter lift. They didn’t opt for the traditional platter, but rather detachable. I can’t think of any other mountains that have new detachable platters.
Smokie installed two detachable platters that year, not many detachable platters go in anymore as spring box style platter lifts and T-bar lifts are simpler and more cost effective to build.
Detachable Platters are a staple in France, and have also been exported to various other countries. In fact the name “Poma” for a platter comes from the signature Poma detachable platter lift that kick started the company. They are somewhat out of fashion for new build these days, though.
I only know of 2 still running. Cirque at Snowmass, and D.Boyce at Wolf Creek, which I believe only operates on special occasions. There were 2 others in Colorado: Storm King at Copper Mountain which was replaced with a T-bar in 2013, and High 90 at Loveland, which was removed without a replacement in 2015.
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what is the benefit of a detachable platter versus a fixed platter?
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On marginal wind days you don’t have empty platters going up hill, which is normally the windward side.
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I didn’t Poma had continued to manufacture platters into the 90s. Do they still offer it?
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According to the Leitner-Poma website, they would gladly build you one up to 6,000 feet long!
http://leitner-poma.com/product/surface-ski-lifts/
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Oh Lord, a platter almost the length of the Sunburst 6 at Okemo.
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okemo used to have a 6,000 ft long platter. It went right up the nor’easter trail
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I believe Smokey Mountain Ski Club in Labrador Canada has a new detachable platter lift. They didn’t opt for the traditional platter, but rather detachable. I can’t think of any other mountains that have new detachable platters.
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Smokie installed two detachable platters that year, not many detachable platters go in anymore as spring box style platter lifts and T-bar lifts are simpler and more cost effective to build.
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Detachable Platters are a staple in France, and have also been exported to various other countries. In fact the name “Poma” for a platter comes from the signature Poma detachable platter lift that kick started the company. They are somewhat out of fashion for new build these days, though.
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Sugarbush used to have one. The North Lynx Poma before it became a triple chair.
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This lift looks very interesting. Certainly with it being a detachable platter.
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Peter doesn’t have any photos of it, but our original Storm King lift was just like this (minus the turn).
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Quick question, what’s the point of the turn? There don’t seem to be any obstructions.
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From what I know, it’s built on some sort of sensitive land/rock, so it has to avoid and dodge certain areas.
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could someone tell me locations of the still operating detachable platters in america
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I only know of 2 still running. Cirque at Snowmass, and D.Boyce at Wolf Creek, which I believe only operates on special occasions. There were 2 others in Colorado: Storm King at Copper Mountain which was replaced with a T-bar in 2013, and High 90 at Loveland, which was removed without a replacement in 2015.
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Theres one in NM, although, i forgot where.
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Sipapu is the Resort
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Thanks.
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Killington has one for their alpine training venue on ramshead.
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Is this the newest POMAlift in the us? (Not counting the relocation at Killington.)
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In the US, yes. In Canada, Smokey Mountain (Labrador) has two 2018 Leitner-Poma detachable platters.
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Sad to see another Poma go… it is on my bucket list to ride one of these, I better not keep deferring it before they are all retired…
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