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8 thoughts on “Paradise Express – Crested Butte, CO”
Donald M. ReifFebruary 21, 2019 / 10:42 am
One could say each of Crested Butte’s high speed quads has a standout feature of it. Between the three TB-41 quads, Silver Queen has Competition chairs, Paradise has Arceaux chairs, and Red Lady has Omega chairs. East River has Omega chairs with Omega grips.
Paradise’s other impressive element is that steep side hill around tower 10, and of course, the impressive panoramas of the valley one gets from the top of the lift.
A while back on a different forum someone referred to this carrier as the Falcon design and the name stuck. Most likely it came from the F-chair detachable at Breck known as the Falcon.
Until 2004, the terminals were painted a turquoise color with silver masts. As part of the 2004 additions, the Challenger terminals of this lift, Red Lady and Silver Queen were all given these wood skins and dark green masts (which extended to the integrated depression sheaves on Red Lady and Paradise).
I think if any lifts get a capacity upgrade, Paradise certainly would benefit from it. I think for capacity to be brought up to 2,400 pph, the lift would need to have about 36 more chairs added, taking the chair count up to 120. Though with the Teocalli upgrade, this lift is probably far from due for capacity improvements.
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One could say each of Crested Butte’s high speed quads has a standout feature of it. Between the three TB-41 quads, Silver Queen has Competition chairs, Paradise has Arceaux chairs, and Red Lady has Omega chairs. East River has Omega chairs with Omega grips.
Paradise’s other impressive element is that steep side hill around tower 10, and of course, the impressive panoramas of the valley one gets from the top of the lift.
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What’s the difference between the falcon and arceaux chairs?
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I think Arceaux is the official name for the chair design.
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So where did the name falcon come from?
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A while back on a different forum someone referred to this carrier as the Falcon design and the name stuck. Most likely it came from the F-chair detachable at Breck known as the Falcon.
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Until 2004, the terminals were painted a turquoise color with silver masts. As part of the 2004 additions, the Challenger terminals of this lift, Red Lady and Silver Queen were all given these wood skins and dark green masts (which extended to the integrated depression sheaves on Red Lady and Paradise).
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I think if any lifts get a capacity upgrade, Paradise certainly would benefit from it. I think for capacity to be brought up to 2,400 pph, the lift would need to have about 36 more chairs added, taking the chair count up to 120. Though with the Teocalli upgrade, this lift is probably far from due for capacity improvements.
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