Breakover towers.Riding up in the summer.Another view of the lift line.Upper lift line.Looking back down the line.Arriving at the top.Top station during summer operations.Another view of the drive terminal.Lower lift line.Tower 15.Bottom station arrival side.Bottom terminal in old paint.Winter view of the line.Unload area.Drive terminal in winter.
This has the extra-long Uni-GS bottom tension terminal due to length. Also, the comline is underground for the first three towers as it goes under the summer zipline.
Until the Vail repaint was completed, the name was misspelled as “Crecent” on the top shack window.
Ski team, as Donald mentioned. This lift replaced Ski Team, but also ends in a similar place to a former Crescent fixed grip quad that got removed in 1999, mostly because Bonanza obsoleted that lift. Ski team was also rarely used as it required riding three kings up to get to, and then Ski Team was a long ride to the top of the ridge. Also related, the bottom station of Ski Team was modified at some point with a Garaventa CTEC tension return and moved farther up hill.
Crescent HSQ was a major improvement to the base area of PCMR, adding capacity and ending in a good alignment. From the top of the current Crescent you can ski down to Pioneer or Bonanza to get to the Summit House, hit McConkey’s, ski down along the ridge to hit the King Con runs or access some of the front face runs (e.g. WIlly’s Run). Additionally, you can ski down Claimjumper to ride the Quicksilver Gondola to the Canyons, Silverlode is also there.
If you ask me, Vail should build another lift out of the Silverlode/Quicksilver area, and run it up to the top of Crescent. Silverlode can get REALLY backed up, and building that lift would provide another way out of that area.
The King Con upgrade was partially done to add some extra capacity, but yes, building a high speed quad out of Miner’s Camp could relieve Silverlode and King Con a bit more.
“Crescent HSQ was a major improvement to the base area of PCMR, adding capacity and ending in a good alignment. From the top of the current Crescent you can ski down to Pioneer or Bonanza to get to the Summit House, hit McConkey’s, ski down along the ridge to hit the King Con runs or access some of the front face runs (e.g. WIlly’s Run). Additionally, you can ski down Claimjumper to ride the Quicksilver Gondola to the Canyons, Silverlode is also there.”
TLDR: Crescent provides a one-seat ride from the base, after which you can access every lift on the Park City side of the mountain with the exception of Thaynes, Motherlode and Jupiter.
This is something I’ve only just taken notice of, but why do some high speed quads have a combi for the last tower before the unload terminal even though the profile doesn’t really warrant a combi? I see this here on Crescent, as well as some lifts like the high speed quad at Taos, or the Stadium Express at Mount Hood Meadows.
So the haul rope don’t float over the sheave wheels on the exit/entrance tunnels. Yan did this intentionally with some of their fixed grip chairlifts. If you go to snowbasin and watch the top terminal of needles express gondola from the top floor of the lodge. You can see the cable doesn’t touch the sheaves at all even with a fully loaded cabin.
That makes sense. Looking closely, I’d say this seems to happen more with lifts that have very flat profiles as they enter their upper terminals, for lifts like Broadway:
Actually, that’s a Doppelmayr design quirk. None of their lifts really *need* the first couple of sheaves in the top terminal; they’re there as a worst-case scenario backup. The ones at the top of our I-lift only touch the rope on a fully loaded carrier. The ones on H- and K-lifts never touch the rope. But you’re correct about terminal alignment. If you lose that things go south quickly, and if the profile is absolutely flat heading into the terminal it’s entirely possible for unusual loading conditions to bounce the rope around outside of design parameters.
Ski Team, replaced by this lift, was an old favorite. Back when Payday was a fixed triple, and both it and the old gondola would get backed up, Ski Team got you mid mountain on one lift.
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This has the extra-long Uni-GS bottom tension terminal due to length. Also, the comline is underground for the first three towers as it goes under the summer zipline.
Until the Vail repaint was completed, the name was misspelled as “Crecent” on the top shack window.
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In this photo I see a lift thats been mothballed with no cable or chairs. The towers look yan https://skiliftblog.files.wordpress.com/2015/09/img_4415.jpg
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Does anyone know what lift this is?
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Ski team, as Donald mentioned. This lift replaced Ski Team, but also ends in a similar place to a former Crescent fixed grip quad that got removed in 1999, mostly because Bonanza obsoleted that lift. Ski team was also rarely used as it required riding three kings up to get to, and then Ski Team was a long ride to the top of the ridge. Also related, the bottom station of Ski Team was modified at some point with a Garaventa CTEC tension return and moved farther up hill.
Crescent HSQ was a major improvement to the base area of PCMR, adding capacity and ending in a good alignment. From the top of the current Crescent you can ski down to Pioneer or Bonanza to get to the Summit House, hit McConkey’s, ski down along the ridge to hit the King Con runs or access some of the front face runs (e.g. WIlly’s Run). Additionally, you can ski down Claimjumper to ride the Quicksilver Gondola to the Canyons, Silverlode is also there.
If you ask me, Vail should build another lift out of the Silverlode/Quicksilver area, and run it up to the top of Crescent. Silverlode can get REALLY backed up, and building that lift would provide another way out of that area.
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The King Con upgrade was partially done to add some extra capacity, but yes, building a high speed quad out of Miner’s Camp could relieve Silverlode and King Con a bit more.
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“Crescent HSQ was a major improvement to the base area of PCMR, adding capacity and ending in a good alignment. From the top of the current Crescent you can ski down to Pioneer or Bonanza to get to the Summit House, hit McConkey’s, ski down along the ridge to hit the King Con runs or access some of the front face runs (e.g. WIlly’s Run). Additionally, you can ski down Claimjumper to ride the Quicksilver Gondola to the Canyons, Silverlode is also there.”
TLDR: Crescent provides a one-seat ride from the base, after which you can access every lift on the Park City side of the mountain with the exception of Thaynes, Motherlode and Jupiter.
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Ski Team originally started down where Crescent currently starts. It was shortened the same year Payday was upgraded.
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Those are former towers from the Ski Team lift, the lift that Crescent was built to replace in 2008.
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This is something I’ve only just taken notice of, but why do some high speed quads have a combi for the last tower before the unload terminal even though the profile doesn’t really warrant a combi? I see this here on Crescent, as well as some lifts like the high speed quad at Taos, or the Stadium Express at Mount Hood Meadows.
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So the haul rope don’t float over the sheave wheels on the exit/entrance tunnels. Yan did this intentionally with some of their fixed grip chairlifts. If you go to snowbasin and watch the top terminal of needles express gondola from the top floor of the lodge. You can see the cable doesn’t touch the sheaves at all even with a fully loaded cabin.
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That makes sense. Looking closely, I’d say this seems to happen more with lifts that have very flat profiles as they enter their upper terminals, for lifts like Broadway:
Canyon:
The high speed quad at Taos:
Lookout Express:
And more.
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Actually, that’s a Doppelmayr design quirk. None of their lifts really *need* the first couple of sheaves in the top terminal; they’re there as a worst-case scenario backup. The ones at the top of our I-lift only touch the rope on a fully loaded carrier. The ones on H- and K-lifts never touch the rope. But you’re correct about terminal alignment. If you lose that things go south quickly, and if the profile is absolutely flat heading into the terminal it’s entirely possible for unusual loading conditions to bounce the rope around outside of design parameters.
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When did they ditch the uni gs design
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The last UNI-GS that was installed new was Basin Express at White Pass, which was a 2009-2010 two year project.
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Ski Team, replaced by this lift, was an old favorite. Back when Payday was a fixed triple, and both it and the old gondola would get backed up, Ski Team got you mid mountain on one lift.
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The old Gondola mid/turn station can be seen from the upper part of the Crescent lift
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In my opinion the trees off this lift are really underskiied. Berg’s bowl is the same.
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Lift was closed today for some reaseon
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