After sitting idle and rotting for 25+ years they were able to jurry rig this thing to get it running one last time in order to remove the chairs when they took her down. A liftie/mechanic rode it one final time.. That was awesome. This was the lift everyone wondered about year after year. http://www.skilifts.org/old/images/resort_images/wa-snoqualmie/dinosaur/dinosaur.htm
I was one of the 6 mechanics that rode dinasour for the last time. It was a beautiful spring day and surprisingly all the sheaves were turning, although there were quite a few that had some noisy bearings. We then used the lift to tear itself down. We would bitch the tower top to the haul rope, then torch the base until it fell. We would turn on the lift and skid the felled tower to the nearest spot we could get a groomer to and haul them to the boneyard. I believe that a couple of the jibs in the central terrain park are repurposed Dino towers.
I had hoped for a chair from it. But found out on my way up that no chairs were made available (after there being ample notification chairs would be available for sale to general public). I actually saw an old pickup a few blocks from my house in Renton with 4 chairs in the back. I still wonder how many people got chairs who had never ridden the lift.
‘I’m way below the light side! Now I’m way *above* the light side! Whee!’ (I did not know these terms then, but you get the sentiment). If you were on this lift in the 4-5 (fuzzy memory augmented by later study) span you held on for dear life on any stop.
As far as I can remember second-hand from someone working on Patrol at the time, it had a rollback. It was designed to run in reverse if you turned off the rollback brake and turned on a reverse-only brake. The liftie turned off the rollback sensor but forgot the second brake. I cannot corroborate this but it was from a reliable source.
Correct. Pa was a patroller that year and he described it as hooking up the EPU (because it had reverse while the main drive did not), disabling the backstop, and carefully running the lift backwards. This was to bring a misload back down. They did all that, put everything back in forward and main drive mode, but forgot the backstop. Next time they hit a start the lift rolled back before the drive engaged.
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is this lifts drive still up?
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No, the new East Peak lift follows the same alignment that the Hyak side of Dinosaur did.
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They left a tower and the bullwheel standing on the Hidden Valley side. That’s all that’s left.
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You can see them in this video.
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Hidden Valley was originally end loaded, not side loaded. Wonder why the change?
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After sitting idle and rotting for 25+ years they were able to jurry rig this thing to get it running one last time in order to remove the chairs when they took her down. A liftie/mechanic rode it one final time.. That was awesome. This was the lift everyone wondered about year after year.
http://www.skilifts.org/old/images/resort_images/wa-snoqualmie/dinosaur/dinosaur.htm
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I wish we had video of that!
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I was one of the 6 mechanics that rode dinasour for the last time. It was a beautiful spring day and surprisingly all the sheaves were turning, although there were quite a few that had some noisy bearings. We then used the lift to tear itself down. We would bitch the tower top to the haul rope, then torch the base until it fell. We would turn on the lift and skid the felled tower to the nearest spot we could get a groomer to and haul them to the boneyard. I believe that a couple of the jibs in the central terrain park are repurposed Dino towers.
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I’ve got two chairs from this lift, after sitting for25 years they need a little welding work to be made into swings.
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I had hoped for a chair from it. But found out on my way up that no chairs were made available (after there being ample notification chairs would be available for sale to general public). I actually saw an old pickup a few blocks from my house in Renton with 4 chairs in the back. I still wonder how many people got chairs who had never ridden the lift.
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From Wikipedia:
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Ah, if only….
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The counterweight bounce on this was amazing. I loved when a lifty’d hafta hit the E Stop. I only have fleeting memories of it, but they are good.
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‘I’m way below the light side! Now I’m way *above* the light side! Whee!’ (I did not know these terms then, but you get the sentiment). If you were on this lift in the 4-5 (fuzzy memory augmented by later study) span you held on for dear life on any stop.
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I cant find any mentions of this lift ran on the older trail maps, anybody know where it ran?
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The current East Peak / Hidden Valley lift lines.
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The C-1/Hidden Valley lifts are the same machine.
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Did this chair go up to the top and back down the hidden valley side?
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Yes exactly
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did this roll back? I heard it malfunctioned.. What lift malfunctioned?
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As far as I can remember second-hand from someone working on Patrol at the time, it had a rollback. It was designed to run in reverse if you turned off the rollback brake and turned on a reverse-only brake. The liftie turned off the rollback sensor but forgot the second brake. I cannot corroborate this but it was from a reliable source.
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Correct. Pa was a patroller that year and he described it as hooking up the EPU (because it had reverse while the main drive did not), disabling the backstop, and carefully running the lift backwards. This was to bring a misload back down. They did all that, put everything back in forward and main drive mode, but forgot the backstop. Next time they hit a start the lift rolled back before the drive engaged.
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Arguably the most famous up and over
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