This lift is short but sweet.View back down the first steep section.Unloading ramp across from Burgess Creek.Doppelmayr Uni-G drive station.Lift line near the summit.Combo tower.Top station from below.Lower section of the line.Looking up from tower 4.Return station with 90-degree loading.Uni-G return station.Lift overview.Loading area.Middle part of the line.Tower 7.Arriving up top.A grip maintenance garage is located at the return.
And it does keep the whole thing with each of Steamboat’s high speed chairlift, being unique in grip design (Storm Peak Express and Sundown Express are DS-104s, Thunderhead Express is a DT-104, Pony Express is a Garaventa AK grip, Sunshine Express is Poma TB-41, Christie Peak Express is Poma Omega, Elkhead Express is Agamatic, and I think that’s also used on the Gondola’s new grips).
Wonder why they painted this blue and white when just about every other lift on the mountain is red and gray (colors that look great on the Uni-G at Park City)
Maintenance, carrier spacing, ice, grip stuck in accelerator/decelerator, etc.
Grip attachment and grip force faults on a Dopplemayr with an over center grip.
Carriers on and off.
Even misloads.
It seems a little soon to be talking replacement for this lift unless Steamboat thinks there’s going to be significantly increased traffic after Wild Blue Stage II is completed.
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This is the only high speed quad at Steamboat to run clockwise instead of anticlockwise.
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Nope. Christie Peak Express also runs clockwise.
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And it does keep the whole thing with each of Steamboat’s high speed chairlift, being unique in grip design (Storm Peak Express and Sundown Express are DS-104s, Thunderhead Express is a DT-104, Pony Express is a Garaventa AK grip, Sunshine Express is Poma TB-41, Christie Peak Express is Poma Omega, Elkhead Express is Agamatic, and I think that’s also used on the Gondola’s new grips).
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Wonder why they painted this blue and white when just about every other lift on the mountain is red and gray (colors that look great on the Uni-G at Park City)
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Yeah, not sure. This dark blue paint scheme is more reminiscent of what Steamboat used on their detachables during the ASC era.
And yes, one wonders why they didn’t use the color scheme of High Meadow here, and instead go with blue, but with a red stripe along the sides:
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I wonder if this lift can go backwards, because it is one of the newest lifts at steamboat. But I know sundown express can go backwards.
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The UNI-G where I work can go backwards just as easily as forwards. It’s literally just a button on the touch screen.
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Is there any reason to run a chairlift backwards? I get it with a gondola but why a chairlift?
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Maintenance, carrier spacing, ice, grip stuck in accelerator/decelerator, etc.
Grip attachment and grip force faults on a Dopplemayr with an over center grip.
Carriers on and off.
Even misloads.
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https://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/bdd/reportage-tsf4-elkhead-yan-lift-engineering-1695.html
Predecessor Yan Quad
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Heard Steamboat is planning on replacing the Elkhead with a high-speed six pack soon.
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It seems a little soon to be talking replacement for this lift unless Steamboat thinks there’s going to be significantly increased traffic after Wild Blue Stage II is completed.
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I’d add that Thunderhead or Sundown are more likely to be replaced from Wild Blue traffic.
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Donald beat me to it, but yes, replacing a lift built as recently as ’16 seems excessive. Where’d you hear this?
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Seems a little too soon to replace this lift but if what you are saying is true, then Steamboat should take Elkhead and use it to replace south peak.
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