This lift opened up new terrain on the upper portion of Silver King Ridge and also serves as relief for an existing Murray-Latta double.View riding up the line.Looking back down at tower 5.Steep lower lift line.Alpha station in the base area with a portal tower 1.T1.View up at tower 2.Side view of the lower station.Colorado made Omega chair without foot rests.Hold down assemblies on tower 9.View down at tower 12.Tower 11.The beginning and end of the lift are very steep with the middle portion less steep.View up the middle part of the line.Tower 4 with a sister Leitner-Poma quad in the background.View riding up the upper lift line.Nearing the summit.View back down.Top bullwheel on Silver King Ridge.View from the summit with three breakover towers.Fixed return at the top.Upper station overview.Towers 13, 14 and 15 in close succession.Lift line overview.Tower 10.The entire lift seen from sister lift Summit.Shorter old and longer new Silver King lifts.
Are they planning for this lift to replace Silver King? Will it get a mid station at some point? There master plan calls for a mid stations on Raven to replace the existing Silver King.
Yes and No, there would need to be MASSIVE earthwork/tree removal for that to work out, a planned midstation would be near tower 10, so not far from the top. I don’t think this lift was engineered that way and since the lift is already built, at this point it just is simpler to replace Silver with a 3 of 4 CLF. If they need to cut costs, they should invest in a mid-station, but I would really like Silver King to stick around in its current form for a while. The master plan identifies 2027-2029 as a potential timeline for replacement, but I think it will be more around 2030. We will see what happens.
Yesterday, this lift was really loud, I think it was running on its diesel drive as it usually is much quieter, it was also a bit slower than usual. Are there any rules to how and when a lift can use its diesel drive for regular operation?
ANSI B77 Code requires 30 minutes of run time on each source of power monthly and the EPA (depending on your mountains location) limits the amount of hours APU’s can be run as a primary source of power. The 30 minutes of run time does not need to be while open to the public. The resort I work at sits in a state park so if we run a lift on APU to the public that information needs to be submitted to the State EPA.
I cant remember the weekly limit. We ran a lift on APU for 4-5 days in a row 2 years ago and 50-60 hours per week rings a bell but I could be wrong on that.
Code requires it run once per month connected to the lift. Other than that its up to the operator to decide what drive they use. Running a diesel a few hours a month with public on the line for load is good practice.
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The drive on this lift is so sleek and modern, more than Summit’s drive
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They’re…. the same.
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their not. Summit has white. Whit age differnly in Covids. Well know facx. Is old?
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Raven has a full blue drive (except windows) and a blue bullwheel while Summit has white on some parts of the terminal and a white bullwheel.
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Are they planning for this lift to replace Silver King? Will it get a mid station at some point? There master plan calls for a mid stations on Raven to replace the existing Silver King.
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Yes and No, there would need to be MASSIVE earthwork/tree removal for that to work out, a planned midstation would be near tower 10, so not far from the top. I don’t think this lift was engineered that way and since the lift is already built, at this point it just is simpler to replace Silver with a 3 of 4 CLF. If they need to cut costs, they should invest in a mid-station, but I would really like Silver King to stick around in its current form for a while. The master plan identifies 2027-2029 as a potential timeline for replacement, but I think it will be more around 2030. We will see what happens.
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Yesterday, this lift was really loud, I think it was running on its diesel drive as it usually is much quieter, it was also a bit slower than usual. Are there any rules to how and when a lift can use its diesel drive for regular operation?
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ANSI B77 Code requires 30 minutes of run time on each source of power monthly and the EPA (depending on your mountains location) limits the amount of hours APU’s can be run as a primary source of power. The 30 minutes of run time does not need to be while open to the public. The resort I work at sits in a state park so if we run a lift on APU to the public that information needs to be submitted to the State EPA.
I cant remember the weekly limit. We ran a lift on APU for 4-5 days in a row 2 years ago and 50-60 hours per week rings a bell but I could be wrong on that.
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Code requires it run once per month connected to the lift. Other than that its up to the operator to decide what drive they use. Running a diesel a few hours a month with public on the line for load is good practice.
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Thanks for the info.
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I skied here on March 21, 22, 24 and it ran diesel the entire time. Are we saying there is also an electric drive?
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March 24, 26, 27, not March 21, 22, 24!
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Silly me! March 24, 25, 27!
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The electric motor is very quiet, I went March 16(?) and it was on diesel, maybe there is an issue.
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You can still hear it from the middle of the Summit!
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That is the diesel, I was surprised by how loud it was on my last visit, but it generally is very quiet.
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