Platter – Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, CA
This rare Yan surface lift services a military ski training center in the Sierra.View up the short lift line with Yan Y towers.Loading area and height adjustable terminal.Lift overview.Control system.Another view of the unique bottom station design.Off center tower.Upper part of the lift line.Tower with just four sheaves.View down the line.The upper part of the carrier is Yan but the platter is LST.Upper station.This station is also height adjustable for Sierra snows.Angled return bullwheel.Top operator controls.View from the summit.Upper station overview.
10 thoughts on “Platter – Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, CA”
MountaineerAugust 1, 2023 / 5:11 am
Finally some very good picures of that lift. Great that you were able to visit the site. I once read somewhere that June’s old Doppelmayr T-bar was donated to MWTC in 1986, but it looks like it was never installed?
Exactly. If you want to go see “Jerry of the Day ‘ videos live, instead of watching them on a Ski Oriented website, go stand at the bottom of a Platter lift for twenty minutes while newbies load.
To ride a platter: Spread your legs apart. put the plater disk between your legs as the attendant hands it to you, stand up and clamp the platter between your legs. Stand tall. Let it pull you up the hill, while you hold it between your legs with your hands.. At the top of the lift, mostly likely the hill will level out or downslope a little bit: push the platter disc down towards your knees, open your legs, pull the platter disc out from between your legs. let go of it where the signs tell you to.
Does anybody have pictures of the platters before LST replaced them, it couldn’t have been that long ago since those platters don’t look old and LST-MND has only been around since 2012.
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Finally some very good picures of that lift. Great that you were able to visit the site. I once read somewhere that June’s old Doppelmayr T-bar was donated to MWTC in 1986, but it looks like it was never installed?
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Heres a Surface lift in Japan thats rare as this lift
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How do you ride a platter?
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Rule #1… DON’T SIT DOWN.
If you fall – – LET GO.
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Exactly. If you want to go see “Jerry of the Day ‘ videos live, instead of watching them on a Ski Oriented website, go stand at the bottom of a Platter lift for twenty minutes while newbies load.
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The T bar at Breck is great for that 😂.
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To ride a platter: Spread your legs apart. put the plater disk between your legs as the attendant hands it to you, stand up and clamp the platter between your legs. Stand tall. Let it pull you up the hill, while you hold it between your legs with your hands.. At the top of the lift, mostly likely the hill will level out or downslope a little bit: push the platter disc down towards your knees, open your legs, pull the platter disc out from between your legs. let go of it where the signs tell you to.
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I think that the original controls were base 10.
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What a strange lift. I’ve never seen a yan platter before
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Does anybody have pictures of the platters before LST replaced them, it couldn’t have been that long ago since those platters don’t look old and LST-MND has only been around since 2012.
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