Doppelmayr Worldbook entry.Lower terminal with big depression towers 1 and 2.90 degree loading with a traffic light!View up the line.Drive operator house.Tower 5.Top station with porch.Unloading area.Side view of the top terminal.View down the line.One of two six-packs at Heavenly as of 2017.Lift overview.
Definitely rare. Cloud Nine at Mammoth uses these chairs but that is a UNI-GS. They’re very similar to the 6E98 chair that is common in Europe and is on Eagle Express at Mammoth. These look more like CTEC chairs though, which would make sense since this was built shortly after the Doppelmayr and CTEC merger.
Powderbowl is almost always under utilized, as there are usually only 2 groomed runs – the very low level Maggie’s and the easy intermediate Mambo. While it has about the same vertical as Comet or Olympic, is sees very little use unless Sky is closed – and no rational person (except perhaps beginners) wants to be on the CA side when that happens. It would be a fairly decent place to ski on busier and/or bad weather days if they groomed Powderbowl Run (NOT Powderbowl Woods) and/or Waterfall Run. But they don’t.
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Was this the only UNI-G built with this type of chairs?
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Definitely rare. Cloud Nine at Mammoth uses these chairs but that is a UNI-GS. They’re very similar to the 6E98 chair that is common in Europe and is on Eagle Express at Mammoth. These look more like CTEC chairs though, which would make sense since this was built shortly after the Doppelmayr and CTEC merger.
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They are actually Girak carriers.
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I’m pretty sure they are the Garaventa “Vail” style carriers.
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Girak was part of Garaventa at that time, which means that the Girak carriers would show up on Garaventa lifts and later Doppelmayr.
Girak detachable six pack:
https://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/bdd/reportage-tsd6-sonntagskogel-girak-garaventa-4538.html
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Definitely should have stuck with these rather than the EJs I despise those things, these on the other hand are a dream to ride on.
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Powderbowl is almost always under utilized, as there are usually only 2 groomed runs – the very low level Maggie’s and the easy intermediate Mambo. While it has about the same vertical as Comet or Olympic, is sees very little use unless Sky is closed – and no rational person (except perhaps beginners) wants to be on the CA side when that happens. It would be a fairly decent place to ski on busier and/or bad weather days if they groomed Powderbowl Run (NOT Powderbowl Woods) and/or Waterfall Run. But they don’t.
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