Top station.Looking down the line.Bottom terminal.Bottom terminal and lift shack.Looking up the line.The final tower – number 21.View down the line.Upper lift line in the shadow of Mt. Hood.View down at T12.Looking up at tower 7.Lower lift line.Riding up the line.Arriving at the summit.
I don’t mean to be mean, but six seconds is 2400 and seven is ~2057. On a 6, six seconds is 3600 and seven is ~3086. The formula to find this is: Carrier capacity x 3600 x Interval
For example, an HSE running 8 seconds would be 8×3600/8, which would mean that the capacity is 3600, because the 8s cancel out.
Mt. Hood Meadows claims on the history portion of their website that when Hood River Express was built, it was the fastest chairlift in the world at the time. HOWEVER… Sugarbush in Vermont also installed two detachable quads in 1995 that go 1,100fpm. I also have heard Slide Brook Express at Sugarbush can run at 1,150fpm, which would actually top the Hood River Express, and it was constructed the same year. That being said I’ve never ridden Slide Brook Express so I can’t verify if it runs at 1,150fpm or just 1,100fpm.
Was likely referring to shooting star express which remains one of only 4 lifts in North America that can do 1200 FPM. D-lines such as Jordan bowl are awfully close but thanks to the speed being measured in metric units on most doppelmayr lifts aren’t quite at 1200 f/m
for some reason, i really don’t like the look of those poma quad chairs, the triple chairs i don’t like either, and the double chairs just look like eggs.
Meadows lost power this weekend, so HRE was running on the diesel backup. It ran fine until Sunday afternoon when it slowed down and started stuttering and surging and belching thick black smoke, lift closed shortly after and they say it’ll be closed Monday as well.
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21 towers and 102 chairs on this lift. And the uphill capacity’s more like 2,400 pph.
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I definitely agree, it is close to if not 2,400pph. I remember six second chair spacing, maybe seven seconds.
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Seven second spacing amounts to 2,600 pph, and six seconds to 2,800 pph.
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I don’t mean to be mean, but six seconds is 2400 and seven is ~2057. On a 6, six seconds is 3600 and seven is ~3086. The formula to find this is: Carrier capacity x 3600 x Interval
For example, an HSE running 8 seconds would be 8×3600/8, which would mean that the capacity is 3600, because the 8s cancel out.
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Mt. Hood Meadows claims on the history portion of their website that when Hood River Express was built, it was the fastest chairlift in the world at the time. HOWEVER… Sugarbush in Vermont also installed two detachable quads in 1995 that go 1,100fpm. I also have heard Slide Brook Express at Sugarbush can run at 1,150fpm, which would actually top the Hood River Express, and it was constructed the same year. That being said I’ve never ridden Slide Brook Express so I can’t verify if it runs at 1,150fpm or just 1,100fpm.
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How are you able to calculate how fast a lift is going while riding/watching one?
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Was likely referring to shooting star express which remains one of only 4 lifts in North America that can do 1200 FPM. D-lines such as Jordan bowl are awfully close but thanks to the speed being measured in metric units on most doppelmayr lifts aren’t quite at 1200 f/m
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for some reason, i really don’t like the look of those poma quad chairs, the triple chairs i don’t like either, and the double chairs just look like eggs.
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The Competition chairs look more egg-shaped than the Arceaux chairs that Hood River, MHX and Cascades use.
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Meadows lost power this weekend, so HRE was running on the diesel backup. It ran fine until Sunday afternoon when it slowed down and started stuttering and surging and belching thick black smoke, lift closed shortly after and they say it’ll be closed Monday as well.
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