Outpost opened in 1969 and services a small trail pod on the west side of Pico.The drive bullwheel.Looking up the lift line with lattice towers.Tower 1.View up at T3.Tower 2.This picture demonstrates how far chairlifts have come in the last 50 years. The return terminal is more than 200 feet long with the unload, tension carriage and counterweight.Side view of the top bullwheel.This second unloading area may be for people who fail to unload at the first!View from the unload ramp.Surprise! A Lift engineering top operator shack.Looking down from the summit.Top unloading ramp at tower 9.
Aside from that Yan lift shack, this is the last unmodified Carlevaro & Savio in North America, possibly the world. To slow the lift down, resistor banks are used to lower the voltage to the squirrel cage motor! May it spin forever!
I went around that bullwheel once. It has no top flange to prevent chairs from swinging outwards. My chair hit the side support and I was ejected from the chair. I was a young, dumb 20yo lifty at the time and was going to jump out into fresh powder under the downhill line next to the unload ramp and told my coworker not to stop the lift as I performed this feat of stupidity. So that is most likely why there is a second unload ramp on the uphill side.
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Love the 1960’s terminal buildings that have that look!
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Aside from that Yan lift shack, this is the last unmodified Carlevaro & Savio in North America, possibly the world. To slow the lift down, resistor banks are used to lower the voltage to the squirrel cage motor! May it spin forever!
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Does anyone know the purpose of the deck/platform at the top bullwheel. It is not a second unload ramp.
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Actually it is! You have to go around the bullwhell and then unload at the 180 degree ramp
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I went around that bullwheel once. It has no top flange to prevent chairs from swinging outwards. My chair hit the side support and I was ejected from the chair. I was a young, dumb 20yo lifty at the time and was going to jump out into fresh powder under the downhill line next to the unload ramp and told my coworker not to stop the lift as I performed this feat of stupidity. So that is most likely why there is a second unload ramp on the uphill side.
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