Each side of Welch Village has a Riblet center pole quad. This is the East version.View down the line.Tower 13 and the top terminal.Looking up the line.View down.Tower 2.Middle part of the lift line.Drive station.Loading area.These are not the original chairs but rather behind the back replacements.
This is on the opposite side (By the also newish Lookout Quad) I can’t see Welch getting rid of either of the center pole quads anytime soon. They just got new chairs and Welch is busy enough that they need parallel quad chairs.
Whoops, mixed the two up. Maybe they need the extra capacity, but after 10 or 11 I’ve never encountered a line at lookout or east and if I ever do it’s very short. Maybe I’m just lucky though. Might be something with maintenance?
We were there today and they have started putting chairs back on so must have been some maintenance. To clarify, this is the older quad near Mad Jaxx. I was worried they’d remove it but that doesn’t look to be the case.
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Chairs were replaced by superior tramway co in 2021
Article:
https://www.snowindustrynews.com/articles/2021/january/welch-village-to-replace-chairs-on-riblet-quad-lifts/
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Chairs are not on this lift as of Dec 3, 2023. Anyone know what they are doing?
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They might be removing it given that it’s super old and the new Cannon Valley quad runs exactly adjacent.
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This is on the opposite side (By the also newish Lookout Quad) I can’t see Welch getting rid of either of the center pole quads anytime soon. They just got new chairs and Welch is busy enough that they need parallel quad chairs.
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Whoops, mixed the two up. Maybe they need the extra capacity, but after 10 or 11 I’ve never encountered a line at lookout or east and if I ever do it’s very short. Maybe I’m just lucky though. Might be something with maintenance?
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We were there today and they have started putting chairs back on so must have been some maintenance. To clarify, this is the older quad near Mad Jaxx. I was worried they’d remove it but that doesn’t look to be the case.
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