Top terminal and breakover seen from Mt. Disney.Lift overview.This is by far the longest lift at Sugar Bowl and reaches the highest elevation.View back down the first half of the line.Looking down at tower 14.Top station from below.Unloading area.Top station with wind blocking structure.Looking down the line.Double tube depression tower.Middle part of the line.Another depression tower.View up the line.Drive station side view.Return Stealth terminal.
You don’t want all the expert skiers flying by newer skiers on their way back to the chair. It makes for a bad learning environment. Having the lift go all the way back to the base would put a ton of extra traffic on Union Street, when it doesn’t have to be there.
If they ever wanted to replace this lift in the future they should make it a six pack and put a mid load where it loads now and have it going all the way to the base.
I feel like they configured the pod to segregate people by experience. The Nob Hill quad you take to reach Christmas Tree Express and Mt. Lincoln Express is a beginner lift. Christmas Tree Express is low level intermediates, and Mt. Lincoln Express is intermediates and experts.
Why don’t they have this going all the way down to the base area?
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You don’t want all the expert skiers flying by newer skiers on their way back to the chair. It makes for a bad learning environment. Having the lift go all the way back to the base would put a ton of extra traffic on Union Street, when it doesn’t have to be there.
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This lift used to have footrests: https://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/bdd/reportage-tsd4-mt-lincoln-express-garaventa-ctec-3927.html
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If they ever wanted to replace this lift in the future they should make it a six pack and put a mid load where it loads now and have it going all the way to the base.
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I feel like they configured the pod to segregate people by experience. The Nob Hill quad you take to reach Christmas Tree Express and Mt. Lincoln Express is a beginner lift. Christmas Tree Express is low level intermediates, and Mt. Lincoln Express is intermediates and experts.
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Is the wind blocker from the original Yan quad?
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I don’t think so. That one looks very identical to wind breakers I’ve seen on Great Escape (Schweitzer) and Skyliner (Mount Bachelor):
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mammoth is going to be fire this year
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