Towers 25-27 at Miner’s Camp.Cabin parking rail with half cabins.Return terminal on the Park City side.Loading area and lift shack.Doppelmayr Uni-G return terminal.View of the line from King Con.The comline goes under the haul rope for the big span over Thaynes Canyon.View up the line from tower 14.Mid-station with angle.Minimalist mid-station.Looking down towards White Pine Canyon.Side view of the angle station.Skiers can unload in either direction here.Unloading area on Pinecone Ridge.View down towards Miner’s Camp.Breakover towers from below.Depression tower 18.T21-T23Riding over the canyon.Pinecone Ridge.Mellower line on the Canyons Village side.Tower 6.Drive terminal in The Colony.Towers 1-2 and lots of sheaves.View up the Canyons line.CWA Omega IV’sCabin maintenance building and gen-set.
Did you take these pictures when the gondolas were getting off/on their parking rail? The view from king con looks like they are putting the last of the cabins on the haul rope.
Some of them were taken a day after a big storm, the first time cabins were ever taken off. It took Park City the entire day to relaunch them. So I had to go back another day for the rest of the photos.
Is there a reason for which this gondola uses Europe-style stations and tower on the Park City side, and American-style stations and tower on the Canyons side?
Anybody have any idea why Vail Resorts didn’t put up a covered cabin parking facility? The gondola was pretty expensive, and you would think Vail Resorts would want to protect the cabins from the elements. They did the same thing with the Breck Connect Gondola, only a small maintenance garage, and the cabins are very worn and sometimes full of snow in the morning after a storm
A gondola evacuation over thaynes canyon looks fun…. Really fun…. Is there a special evacuation procedure for thaynes canyon or do they straight up lower you down by rope?
Does this gondola run in the summer?
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No. Unlikely it ever will due to the remote locations of all three stations.
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Did you take these pictures when the gondolas were getting off/on their parking rail? The view from king con looks like they are putting the last of the cabins on the haul rope.
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Some of them were taken a day after a big storm, the first time cabins were ever taken off. It took Park City the entire day to relaunch them. So I had to go back another day for the rest of the photos.
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Is there a reason for which this gondola uses Europe-style stations and tower on the Park City side, and American-style stations and tower on the Canyons side?
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Line gauge is wider on the Park City section because of the big span.
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For those curious, the mid-station is an Agamatic design, an Italian lift manufacturer which Doppelmayr acquire before merging with Garaventa.
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Anybody have any idea why Vail Resorts didn’t put up a covered cabin parking facility? The gondola was pretty expensive, and you would think Vail Resorts would want to protect the cabins from the elements. They did the same thing with the Breck Connect Gondola, only a small maintenance garage, and the cabins are very worn and sometimes full of snow in the morning after a storm
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does anyone know
how long the gondola is?
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A gondola evacuation over thaynes canyon looks fun…. Really fun…. Is there a special evacuation procedure for thaynes canyon or do they straight up lower you down by rope?
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Yet Sugarbush still says they can’t run Slide Brook because there is “not enough snow for evacuation”. They literally admit that it is their policy.
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Get a razor with chains on it that will do the trick.
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