The Tennessee Creek Basin expansion opened in early 2020 with a Leitner/Skytrac T-Bar.The towers were manufactured by Skytrac while other components were fabricated in Italy by Leitner.This was one of the first lifts to utilize Skytrac and Leitner components following the acquisition of the former by the latter.Lower part of the line.View up the track.Lift overview.Bottom shack and terminal.Tower 4.Top drive/tension station.T10.A Leitner T.View down at tower 7.Tower 5.Looking up the line.There are a number of places where skiers are permitted to cross the track.Tower 2.Leitner return terminal.Notice the low voltage controls are Skytrac.Return terminal.View back down the line.The last two towers before the unload point.Downhill end of the top terminal.Unloading area.
Interesting how the ladders are rotated 90 degrees from the tower. It makes sense considering the tilt of the towers, but it’s still really interesting.
The lift is named after Joe ‘Little Horse’ Romero, who was our welder/machinist at Copper for a long time and spent his weekends teaching skiing at Cooper.
This seemed to be running way faster than anything else on the mountain today. Really nice, distinct trail pod. There was almost never a line, but when small kids or snowboarders approached, you could count on multiple misloads.
You were there too? I went for a nice chill afternoon to get out of the house. If you saw a tele skier in tan pants and a blue jacket, that was me :)
Pretty sure they run that at 3 m/s, same as our Storm King t-bar, so definitely faster than anything else there. My youngest daughter runs the bottom station quite a bit, and she’s got great stories of those misloads….
The Superb Owl Celebration seems to be the best mid-winter weekend day to ski. People either forget to go or leave early. Been the same everywhere I’ve worked and/or skied. I dig.
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The sheave assemblies are the only part from Italy used on the towers, the tower heads and walkways came from SLC
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What a cool looking system!!
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Interesting how the ladders are rotated 90 degrees from the tower. It makes sense considering the tilt of the towers, but it’s still really interesting.
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The patrol lift at Bridger Bowl has that same setup:
Secret-Bridger Bowl lift blog
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The lift is named after Joe ‘Little Horse’ Romero, who was our welder/machinist at Copper for a long time and spent his weekends teaching skiing at Cooper.
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This seemed to be running way faster than anything else on the mountain today. Really nice, distinct trail pod. There was almost never a line, but when small kids or snowboarders approached, you could count on multiple misloads.
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You were there too? I went for a nice chill afternoon to get out of the house. If you saw a tele skier in tan pants and a blue jacket, that was me :)
Pretty sure they run that at 3 m/s, same as our Storm King t-bar, so definitely faster than anything else there. My youngest daughter runs the bottom station quite a bit, and she’s got great stories of those misloads….
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ha that’s awesome! IDK if it was a superb owl sunday thing, but cooper was empty that day. such a nice resort.
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The Superb Owl Celebration seems to be the best mid-winter weekend day to ski. People either forget to go or leave early. Been the same everywhere I’ve worked and/or skied. I dig.
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Yep, design speed is 3m/s (590fpm), and we usually aim to run it right around there.
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