Garaventa CTEC top station at Adventure Ridge.View down the line from the summit.Top station arrival side.This terminal model was only used at Vail and Beaver Creek.Lower lift line.Tower 3.Depression towers 1 and 2.Loading area.Upper part of the lift line.Side view of the base terminal.
This terminal style isn’t actually unique to Vail and Beaver Creek, seeing as there are a few Garaventa CTEC high speed quads elsewhere that bear this style, such as Great Western at Brighton and the Bear Mountain Express at Bear Mountain.
Nope. This is still a Garaventa/CTEC model, different terminal skins as Vail wanted custom (but very similar to their European lifts). Chairs 3 and 6 are similiar. Check the photos and you’ll see the Garaventa AK grip.
This isn’t the same design as the VonRoll-CTEC hybrid at Solitude. This and the other mid-90s CTEC HSQs at Vail and Beaver Creek (6 and 3 at Vail and Grouse, Bachelor Gulch, and Strawberry Park at Beaver Creek) have this terminal design that I believe was custom built to match the older Doppelmayr CLD-260s at Vail during the same era that CTEC was building the Stealth elsewhere.
Eagle at Solitude has VonRoll grips and terminal equipment while I believe these CTEC examples are the same under the skin as later Stealths.
This wasn’t a custom built terminal design. Great Western also uses this terminal design, although the terminal ends are slanted, giving it a strong resemblance to Poma’s Competition terminals. And it was built in 1992, in between the construction of the Grouse Mountain Express (1991) and the Pride Express (1993).
Is this the earliest CTEC lift with the Garaventa carrier? I didn’t think there were any built in the early 90’s with it. I thought it was an option much later The only other ones I can think of from even the mid 90’s are Wildwood and Riva Bahn, and paired with this grip.
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This terminal style isn’t actually unique to Vail and Beaver Creek, seeing as there are a few Garaventa CTEC high speed quads elsewhere that bear this style, such as Great Western at Brighton and the Bear Mountain Express at Bear Mountain.
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Why is this lift not open when all the terrain it services except cheetah gully? Final inspections and running the lift?
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Schedule purposes, I think.
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This is actually in retrospect a VonRoll CTEC High Speed Quad. The first lift version created by Garaventa CTEC was the Stealth Terminal.
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Nope. This is still a Garaventa/CTEC model, different terminal skins as Vail wanted custom (but very similar to their European lifts). Chairs 3 and 6 are similiar. Check the photos and you’ll see the Garaventa AK grip.
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This isn’t the same design as the VonRoll-CTEC hybrid at Solitude. This and the other mid-90s CTEC HSQs at Vail and Beaver Creek (6 and 3 at Vail and Grouse, Bachelor Gulch, and Strawberry Park at Beaver Creek) have this terminal design that I believe was custom built to match the older Doppelmayr CLD-260s at Vail during the same era that CTEC was building the Stealth elsewhere.
Eagle at Solitude has VonRoll grips and terminal equipment while I believe these CTEC examples are the same under the skin as later Stealths.
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This wasn’t a custom built terminal design. Great Western also uses this terminal design, although the terminal ends are slanted, giving it a strong resemblance to Poma’s Competition terminals. And it was built in 1992, in between the construction of the Grouse Mountain Express (1991) and the Pride Express (1993).
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where is that, what ski resort and what lift?
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Great Western Express at Brighton, Utah
https://liftblog.com/great-western-express-brighton-ut/
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For comparison, here’s a full Garaventa terminal from the same era.
https://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/bdd/reportage-tsd4-cima-raca-garaventa-reac-4067.html
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the chondola at telluride has the similar terminal style
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Is this the earliest CTEC lift with the Garaventa carrier? I didn’t think there were any built in the early 90’s with it. I thought it was an option much later The only other ones I can think of from even the mid 90’s are Wildwood and Riva Bahn, and paired with this grip.
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Grouse Mountain was built before this in 1991.
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