Doppelmayr Uni bottom terminal.Bottom station and lift line in the distance.Riding up.Tower 9.Tower 14 looking down.Top station arrival side.Side view of the drive station.Another view of the top.Downhill side, bottom station.Side view of the base.
Why are the chairs on this lift so far apart? This is the only lift at Attitash where I need to wait in a considerable line. Also, hope vail will re-paint the terminals on Flying Bear and Flying Yankee blue again. Peak painted everything black when blue is really Attitash’s color. Love this mountain but Peak ran it into the ground!
Bear Peak was modeled after Jordan Bowl at Sunday River. The initial capacity on the Jordan Bowl Express / Lift 14 at SR was 2100 riders/hr with a complete system capacity of 3000 r/h. JBX had chairs added to it a few years later as more terrain opened near the lift. I think the intention was similar with Bear Peak. The initial capacity was 1800 r/h, but more chairs were never added. LBO also did the same thing at Cranmore and Sugarbush. Cranmore’s detachable quad has a design capacity of 3000 r/h but was never given its full compliment of chairs (it only has enough chairs for 2000 r/h).
Bear Peak gets skied off quick, especially Morning Star being the primary way back to the Attitash side. So I do not think an increase in chairs and capacity would serve Bear Peak well. I went to Attitash multiple days over holiday periods this year and the Flying Bear lines were manageable. Sometimes they were running it really slow though which was disappointing. I also really hope Vail repaints Flying Bear and Yankee blue again. Attitash really needs some TLC after being neglected by Peak for so long.
Vail needs to stop ignoring their second and third tier areas. Peter posted a link to the Late Apex Partners analysis of Vail’s failings. Long but worth reading.
Per NH Tramway Board minutes… Inspections revealed 17 additional “damaged” grips and the solution is to simply remove them. The Tramway Board gave Attitash to reduce as needed down to the designed minimum of 55 carriers. What happens when they get to 10 additional “damaged” grips?
Kind of a cheap solution and a slap in the face right when they’re trying to sell passes.
I agree, it’s not an ideal solution but I don’t see as Attitash has much of a choice if they want to reopen the lift. Doppelmayr won’t be able to fabricate a batch of grips that quickly, and I doubt they have a couple dozen DTs just lying around the warehouse. Hopefully they can get some new ones this summer.
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i think this a spacejet terminal
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I think this is a first generation (1995 version) Uni-M bottom tensioned return and a first generation (1995 version) Uni-S top fixed drive.
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Another typo, I think the second to last pic is supposed to say downhill side, not uphill
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Why are the chairs on this lift so far apart? This is the only lift at Attitash where I need to wait in a considerable line. Also, hope vail will re-paint the terminals on Flying Bear and Flying Yankee blue again. Peak painted everything black when blue is really Attitash’s color. Love this mountain but Peak ran it into the ground!
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Bear Peak was modeled after Jordan Bowl at Sunday River. The initial capacity on the Jordan Bowl Express / Lift 14 at SR was 2100 riders/hr with a complete system capacity of 3000 r/h. JBX had chairs added to it a few years later as more terrain opened near the lift. I think the intention was similar with Bear Peak. The initial capacity was 1800 r/h, but more chairs were never added. LBO also did the same thing at Cranmore and Sugarbush. Cranmore’s detachable quad has a design capacity of 3000 r/h but was never given its full compliment of chairs (it only has enough chairs for 2000 r/h).
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Bear Peak gets skied off quick, especially Morning Star being the primary way back to the Attitash side. So I do not think an increase in chairs and capacity would serve Bear Peak well. I went to Attitash multiple days over holiday periods this year and the Flying Bear lines were manageable. Sometimes they were running it really slow though which was disappointing. I also really hope Vail repaints Flying Bear and Yankee blue again. Attitash really needs some TLC after being neglected by Peak for so long.
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The top terminal is still blue for some reason!
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Vail needs to stop ignoring their second and third tier areas. Peter posted a link to the Late Apex Partners analysis of Vail’s failings. Long but worth reading.
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nice going vail
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Per NH Tramway Board minutes… Inspections revealed 17 additional “damaged” grips and the solution is to simply remove them. The Tramway Board gave Attitash to reduce as needed down to the designed minimum of 55 carriers. What happens when they get to 10 additional “damaged” grips?
Kind of a cheap solution and a slap in the face right when they’re trying to sell passes.
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I agree, it’s not an ideal solution but I don’t see as Attitash has much of a choice if they want to reopen the lift. Doppelmayr won’t be able to fabricate a batch of grips that quickly, and I doubt they have a couple dozen DTs just lying around the warehouse. Hopefully they can get some new ones this summer.
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