Bottom bullwheel and view up the line.Depression tower #1.Riding up at tower 2.Tower 6 and below.Leitner-Poma tower 11.View from tower 15.Leitner-Poma Alpha drive-tension terminal in quite the scenic spot!Top station and lift shack.Side view of the base bullwheel.Riding up.Arriving up top.
Utah Lost Ski Area ProjectApril 27, 2022 / 5:55 pm
I would guess this is the 3430 foot Murray-Latta double from 1966 mislabeled as Olympic in the spreadsheet. It has already been confirmed that Olympic was the 1967 Murray-Latta so Ptarmigan could easily be the 1966 foot Murray-Latta. Trail maps from the 80s show that the Ptarmigan Yan wasn’t the original lift on its alignment.
I rode the old Ptarmigan double many, many times as a kid. It was replaced by a FG quad in 1991 as per the spreadsheet. That Quad was subsequently replaced by another FG Quad around 2008.Agree that the spreadsheet on this site probably mislabels the original Ptarmigan as Olympic. The Olympic chair had substantially more vertical than 1,300 ft, so I think it was the lift listed in the spreadsheet’s bottom row.
To add to this, the old Ptarmigan had Type 6 grips and the infamous aluminum sheave assembly that had instances of failure. The cost of retrofitting would have been high for an already unreliable late model Yan. Even the most bare bones upgrade would have required new grips, new hangar arms and possibly drive upgrades similar to Sunday River. For the cost it would take, they likely figured they could spend a little more on a brand new lift rather than keeping an unsupported model of Yan operational.
BECAUSE YAN LIFTS ARE DEATH YOU’LL DIE IMMEDIATELY FIRE TORNADO HURRICANE THUNDERQUAKE INVASION OF ANT PEOPLE UKELELELELE-PLAYING FIRESHARK HIPPIES DIDN’T YOU WATCH THE PEAK RANKINGS VID I MEAN EXPOSẼ
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Anyone know if there was an old double chair before the Yan quad here? I found a picture that, I think, indicates so.
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I would guess this is the 3430 foot Murray-Latta double from 1966 mislabeled as Olympic in the spreadsheet. It has already been confirmed that Olympic was the 1967 Murray-Latta so Ptarmigan could easily be the 1966 foot Murray-Latta. Trail maps from the 80s show that the Ptarmigan Yan wasn’t the original lift on its alignment.
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I rode the old Ptarmigan double many, many times as a kid. It was replaced by a FG quad in 1991 as per the spreadsheet. That Quad was subsequently replaced by another FG Quad around 2008.Agree that the spreadsheet on this site probably mislabels the original Ptarmigan as Olympic. The Olympic chair had substantially more vertical than 1,300 ft, so I think it was the lift listed in the spreadsheet’s bottom row.
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Why was the Yan quad here replaced with another fixed quad after only 17 years?
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Reliability for the most part as the late-model YAN quads were not very reliable.
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To add to this, the old Ptarmigan had Type 6 grips and the infamous aluminum sheave assembly that had instances of failure. The cost of retrofitting would have been high for an already unreliable late model Yan. Even the most bare bones upgrade would have required new grips, new hangar arms and possibly drive upgrades similar to Sunday River. For the cost it would take, they likely figured they could spend a little more on a brand new lift rather than keeping an unsupported model of Yan operational.
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BECAUSE YAN LIFTS ARE DEATH YOU’LL DIE IMMEDIATELY FIRE TORNADO HURRICANE THUNDERQUAKE INVASION OF ANT PEOPLE UKELELELELE-PLAYING FIRESHARK HIPPIES DIDN’T YOU WATCH THE PEAK RANKINGS VID I MEAN EXPOSẼ
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