Lower terminal and operator house.Looking up the line.Middle portion of the line.Lower station side view.View back down the lift line.Arriving at the top.Unloading zone.Side view of the drive.Line overview.Lower lift line.
13 thoughts on “Prospector Express – Winter Park, CO”
Trail MasterMarch 13, 2021 / 4:11 pm
2 Things:
1. In the second picture, why did they repaint the first tower but not the all the others?
2. They removed the very last number chair on the lift, why? They did the same with Olympia.
For #1 I don’t understand why they would do that but it could be because the paint was significantly damaged or eroded.
For #2 it’s probably just to create a larger end gap.
Looking at my footage, it appears as they removed it and increased chair spacing, because the last chair provided by Donald is chair 69 and the footage for mine also ends at chair 69, mine has the large gap worth possibly 2 chair spans.
This and Gemini are likely to run on the slower side because of beginners. Gemini definitely. Prospector has it hit hard because it’s got a bit of everything off it and it’s also a through lift for accessing Vasquez Ridge from the Winter Park base.
Patrol was most likely notified that the breakdown could last a while and to be prepared in the event my counterparts couldn’t fix the issue in a timely manner. Fortunately they did.
One of the chairs on this lift is from Pioneer Express. Labeled chair 116 which is the last chair that was on Pioneer. It is where chair 14 is supposed to be. I can tell it was on Pioneer because it had the footrest pads, and has the older Poma font in the numbers. Anyone know why?
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2 Things:
1. In the second picture, why did they repaint the first tower but not the all the others?
2. They removed the very last number chair on the lift, why? They did the same with Olympia.
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For #1 I don’t understand why they would do that but it could be because the paint was significantly damaged or eroded.
For #2 it’s probably just to create a larger end gap.
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They don’t seem to have the end gap anymore:
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Looking at my footage, it appears as they removed it and increased chair spacing, because the last chair provided by Donald is chair 69 and the footage for mine also ends at chair 69, mine has the large gap worth possibly 2 chair spans.
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Here’s the old Riblet that used to run on the lift line:
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Does this lift run on 900fpm often? I feel like it goes on 800 more. Maybe because of a large amount of beginner skiers.
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This and Gemini are likely to run on the slower side because of beginners. Gemini definitely. Prospector has it hit hard because it’s got a bit of everything off it and it’s also a through lift for accessing Vasquez Ridge from the Winter Park base.
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Gemini runs at 750FPM. Prospector usually runs 800-900.
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those numbers are full speed, WP rarely runs the lifts at full speed
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Yesterday this lift stopped and they could not get it running, ski patrol said they were going to have to rope evacuate it.
People were stuck on it for over a half hour.
They were bringing out the equipment and the lift just started running! No injuries reported and no evacuating.
Anyone know what happened?
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Post that on Reddit at r/COsnow
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They found the problem and repaired it ;)
Patrol was most likely notified that the breakdown could last a while and to be prepared in the event my counterparts couldn’t fix the issue in a timely manner. Fortunately they did.
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One of the chairs on this lift is from Pioneer Express. Labeled chair 116 which is the last chair that was on Pioneer. It is where chair 14 is supposed to be. I can tell it was on Pioneer because it had the footrest pads, and has the older Poma font in the numbers. Anyone know why?
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