Bottom tension terminal and loading area.Must go down before you go up.Yan tower with Doppelmayr line gear.Upper lift line.View down the line.Towers 11-12.Top terminal.Yan motor room and CTEC operator shack.The bottom terminal from the gondola.
Does anyone know where this came from originally in 1997?
This lift has had a bunch of mid-life modifications, including 3 different sets of chairs. There are a mix of Yan and Doppelmayr sheaves, CTEC and Doppelmayr lifting frames mixed in with no lifting frames, and Yan tower tubes on CTEC footings. This originally had Yan chairs painted with no footrests, then got Yan chairs left over from Daybreak from Deer Valley with footrests (even reusing the Yan plastic chair numbers rearranged), and then had those replaced with new CTEC chairs without footrests around 2010.
This was originally the Arrowhead Triple at Steamboat, at that time a sister resort under American Skiing Company. The original chairs did not have foot rests or even safety bars I believe. In 2001, it received surplus Deer Valley chairs with foot rests. I thought it received the CTEC chairs in 2006 when Tombstone and Dreamcatcher were built.
None of the chairs were new, and all were YAN round-bail carriers that needed to be modified for further operations. Some ski areas decided to replace them rather than spend the time and money on the retrofit kits (trust me, they’re a right pain to install) and get new carriers instead. That has the added benefit of extending the life of the lift as the most labour-intensive system on the thing has been replaced.
It should be noted that even though this video shows lifting frames + Yan sheaves, they have all since been replaced with Doppelmayr sheave assemblies.
Why did Canyons remove the lifting frames? They couldn’t have been that old. Does the lifting frame have to be replaced if the sheave assembly is replaced?
sad day. Today a liftie was killed while on the lift when a tree fell onto the haul rope and knocked him off, causing him to fall to his death. Peter did an article about it.
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Shortcut is a very scary lift in the summer!
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Great re-use of older equipment from another resort.
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Does anyone know where this came from originally in 1997?
This lift has had a bunch of mid-life modifications, including 3 different sets of chairs. There are a mix of Yan and Doppelmayr sheaves, CTEC and Doppelmayr lifting frames mixed in with no lifting frames, and Yan tower tubes on CTEC footings. This originally had Yan chairs painted with no footrests, then got Yan chairs left over from Daybreak from Deer Valley with footrests (even reusing the Yan plastic chair numbers rearranged), and then had those replaced with new CTEC chairs without footrests around 2010.
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Where did the CTEC chairs come from?
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This was originally the Arrowhead Triple at Steamboat, at that time a sister resort under American Skiing Company. The original chairs did not have foot rests or even safety bars I believe. In 2001, it received surplus Deer Valley chairs with foot rests. I thought it received the CTEC chairs in 2006 when Tombstone and Dreamcatcher were built.
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Why did they bother replace all the chairs after only a couple years?
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None of the chairs were new, and all were YAN round-bail carriers that needed to be modified for further operations. Some ski areas decided to replace them rather than spend the time and money on the retrofit kits (trust me, they’re a right pain to install) and get new carriers instead. That has the added benefit of extending the life of the lift as the most labour-intensive system on the thing has been replaced.
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Also, almost all the sheaves on this lift are now Doppelmayr.
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This lift is actually one of the example pictures on the Wikipedia page for “Chairlift”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chairlift
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Those appear to have been the original chairs.
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With the lifting frames:
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It should be noted that even though this video shows lifting frames + Yan sheaves, they have all since been replaced with Doppelmayr sheave assemblies.
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Wasn’t this a 2-seater originally?
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Why did Canyons remove the lifting frames? They couldn’t have been that old. Does the lifting frame have to be replaced if the sheave assembly is replaced?
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Lifting frames were added, not removed
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This my all time favorite lift, i love hugging the mountain on the way up! Soo glad it’s open this year!
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sad day. Today a liftie was killed while on the lift when a tree fell onto the haul rope and knocked him off, causing him to fall to his death. Peter did an article about it.
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Where did the tree fall?
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It’s been almost 2 months since the accident and the lift has still not been reopened
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From what I’ve heard, it’s going to not run the rest of the season out of respect.
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