Top station and last two towers.The old Sam’s Knob double followed the upper line of the Village Express, located next to the new high speed quad.Double breakovers.Tower 10.Combo tower.View up the relatively short line.Poma Competition return terminal.Lift line overview.Return station from above.Towers 11-12.Loading area.Side view of the bottom station.
Because the underskin is a royal pain to put back in once it’s been removed. Tension cylinders below, bullwheel above, no place to work. AO could probably confirm.
Its interesting how you can see that current LPA designs seem to still be heavily based on the “moving terminal” design these lifts featured. From the looks of it they still use this style of tension carriage today.
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Shortest high speed quad on Snowmass. All the others exceed 5,000 feet.
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I like the snow sculpture in the base area in the 4th to last picture, hahaha
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Thats what Snowmass liftys do when they are bored.
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I made a very terrible snowman once, the snow was to hard for it to be anything but a blob
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Video of the lift:
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Why do many of the competition high speed quads at Snowmass have exposed bullwheels.
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Because the underskin is a royal pain to put back in once it’s been removed. Tension cylinders below, bullwheel above, no place to work. AO could probably confirm.
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Its interesting how you can see that current LPA designs seem to still be heavily based on the “moving terminal” design these lifts featured. From the looks of it they still use this style of tension carriage today.
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