This Doppelmayr Tristar quad replaced a relocated Riblet double at this community ski hill.Large drive station with tensioning.Loading area with conveyor.Emmegi loading conveyor.View leaving the bottom terminal.Tower 7 with combination assemblies.This lift has an undulating profile with many big support towers followed by depression towers.View down at tower 9.Tower 12 with sponsor logos.Tower 16 near the summit.Fixed return up top.The first few towers in the base area.Tower 17.Arriving at the summit.View down the long lift line.Tower 14.Tower 13.Upper lift line.Tower 9.Tower 8.Lower station overview.Riding past tower 7.View back down toward the Yukon River.Riding up the middle part of the line.View up at tower 14.Looking back near the summit.Doppelmayr tower head with support assemblies.Tower 15.View from the top terminal.Upper station overview.Looking up the lower part of the line.EJ quad chair.Riding out of the base area over unskiable terrain.Hold down tower 13.Side view of the top.Lift line overview.Steep alignment seen from below.
maybe, but the “port” (single pier) in Skagway is already used for mining from the Yukon, so there’s really only a 150ish mile long truck route from true shipping.
I’m betting it’s the reason Eaglecrest has been able to get new lifts through it’s life too.
I have extensively talked with one of the main developers behind Mt. Sima in the past. Here are a few tidbits about the history.
Mt. Sima was seriously considering purchasing Big White’s outgoing Village triple chair (removed 1991). However, several factors, including the fact that the lift would have had to be lengthened led Sima to purchase one of Alyeska’s outgoing Riblet double chairs.
Sima got the Riblet at a bargain price and negotiated a good freight deal from truckers that were coming back down the Alaska Highway.
The T-Bar was only installed as Sima needed a backup lift for the Canada Winter Games in 2007. My contact remembered that the lift was purchased second hand from Northern Alberta, but couldn’t remember the mountain. One winter, a sheave assembly fell off the T-Bar and landed on the tow path. Thankfully, no skiers were underneath at the time.
Also in 2007, the chair suffered serious damage. [quote] “That was caused by the upper attendant’s lack of attention when they started loading. There had been freezing wet snow storm the night before and it packed into the sheaves of the 8 part line holding the counterweight. When the lift started loading the ice on the sheaves caused the outside line to start climbing out of its grove. As it did, the pressure on the side of the sheave cause a piece to break off the side of the sheave and then the cable became jammed between the broken sheave and the frame of the sheave assembly. The tension built up in the main haul rope as more skiers loaded and took out the bearings on the final planetary gears on the drive terminal. Oil began to run out onto the loading attendant’s head who quickly stopped the lift. I am not sure if they did an evacuation or ran the skiers off the lift. They had to bring a special team to carry out the repairs and I think the lift was out of commission for about six weeks. It had also started to cut some strands on the counterweight cable before the lift was stopped. It would have been catastrophic if that cable had snapped.”
They are drop sheaves and are much heavier than regular sheaves. If the lift has a problem, the drop sheaves drop and the security loop is broken resulting in an emergency stop.
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I did not know this lift existed.
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What a beautiful tri-star, it must have cost a fortune when you consider shipping costs to Yukon.
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Agree. TriStar is just beautiful.
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Also like the colour scheme.
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maybe, but the “port” (single pier) in Skagway is already used for mining from the Yukon, so there’s really only a 150ish mile long truck route from true shipping.
I’m betting it’s the reason Eaglecrest has been able to get new lifts through it’s life too.
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I have extensively talked with one of the main developers behind Mt. Sima in the past. Here are a few tidbits about the history.
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Is there a reason that the outside sheaves on hold down assemblies seem to always be red on Doppelmayr lifts?
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They are drop sheaves and are much heavier than regular sheaves. If the lift has a problem, the drop sheaves drop and the security loop is broken resulting in an emergency stop.
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https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/mount-sima-chairlift-closed-after-malfunction-1.7420330
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The color scheme on this lift looks really good. I’ve never seen an orange loading carpet before.
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All loading carpets manufactured by Emmegi are this color. I like it better than the Chairkit one.
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beautiful xl tristar! Quite a long alignment for a community ski hill! This lift looks like it serves some steep and good terrain!
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