This Doppelmayr triple chair appears to have come used from another mountainThe top terminal.View down from the summit.Upper terminal with added lifting frame.The upper half of the line.Lower line.View up from the bottom terminal.The drive station.This station houses the drive and tension systems.Loading area.
This lift is showing its age. Since last season, it has been running at 250-300 ft/min (far slower than the design speed of 450), and already this season I’ve gotten stuck on the lift and stopped for more than 10 minutes twice. I doubt this lift is high on the priority replacement list for Vail Resorts since it serves expert terrain, and there isn’t a capacity problem (a triple is arguably already too much for the 2 runs off the top), but I imagine they’ve spent a significant amount on maintenance recently, and we’re talking about 7.5-minute rides for a 75-second run.
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I ink this has always been here. It was on the trail map as a triple chair as early as 1985.
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It was installed new in 1984.
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This lift is showing its age. Since last season, it has been running at 250-300 ft/min (far slower than the design speed of 450), and already this season I’ve gotten stuck on the lift and stopped for more than 10 minutes twice. I doubt this lift is high on the priority replacement list for Vail Resorts since it serves expert terrain, and there isn’t a capacity problem (a triple is arguably already too much for the 2 runs off the top), but I imagine they’ve spent a significant amount on maintenance recently, and we’re talking about 7.5-minute rides for a 75-second run.
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