Yan bottom station with Heron-Poma chairs.Loading area.View up the line.Lower lift line.Top bullwheel with vault drive below.Side view of the top station.
I’ve heard that as well. I have my doubts, though. Double-E was a bottom drive/tension with the entire terminal on tracks, rather than a fixed vault like this one. The return, obviously, would have been fixed, so they would have to have found a Heron carriage for this install. Lastly, these aren’t the towers that were on old E- they were the same as the ones over on the Jane side like Challenger. I get that Yan added the lifting gantries but the crossarms still aren’t the same. Maybe they got the chairs from us.
I think someone on the “relocated lifts” thread confirmed this was Elkhead. Steamboat replaced the Elkhead double with a fixed grip quad the same year Discovery was built.
Endeavour has an uneven slope that isn’t good for teaching. It’s flat in the middle and sharp downhill at the end. Discovery’s runs are a consistent pitch all the way down.
Part of the updates to the Discovery Park learning area is grading Porcupine (slope under Endeavour) to be that consistent pitch all the way down like Greenhorn Ranch at Steamboat. Endeavour would become a detach quad and would be part of the learning process. Gemini Gondola > Discovery Park Magic Carpets > Discovery Quad > Endeavour Quad > Prospector and rest of the mountain.
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Which lift at Copper did this use to be?
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E from Copper.
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I’ve heard that as well. I have my doubts, though. Double-E was a bottom drive/tension with the entire terminal on tracks, rather than a fixed vault like this one. The return, obviously, would have been fixed, so they would have to have found a Heron carriage for this install. Lastly, these aren’t the towers that were on old E- they were the same as the ones over on the Jane side like Challenger. I get that Yan added the lifting gantries but the crossarms still aren’t the same. Maybe they got the chairs from us.
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I think someone on the “relocated lifts” thread confirmed this was Elkhead. Steamboat replaced the Elkhead double with a fixed grip quad the same year Discovery was built.
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Isn’t this Elkhead from Steamboat?
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I’d believe that sooner than it being our old E. The towers appear to be the same as their Priest Creek lift, which went in the same year.
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They definitely look like Heron-Poma towers with Yan lifting frames added on later.
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If you could change anything about this lift, what would it be and why?
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They’ve added bars to the chairs as of this year.
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So to my understanding, this is the main lift over Endeavour? Why have beginners use a double over a triple on most times?
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Endeavour has an uneven slope that isn’t good for teaching. It’s flat in the middle and sharp downhill at the end. Discovery’s runs are a consistent pitch all the way down.
Part of the updates to the Discovery Park learning area is grading Porcupine (slope under Endeavour) to be that consistent pitch all the way down like Greenhorn Ranch at Steamboat. Endeavour would become a detach quad and would be part of the learning process. Gemini Gondola > Discovery Park Magic Carpets > Discovery Quad > Endeavour Quad > Prospector and rest of the mountain.
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