3 thoughts on “Silver Mountain #4 – Bear Mountain, CA

  1. zjroeber's avatar zjroeber December 9, 2018 / 6:05 pm

    How does this lift have an odd hourly capacity if it is a double?

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    • Coloradoskilifts's avatar Coloradoskilifts May 28, 2025 / 2:08 pm

      Could it be the number of chairs on the line?

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    • SkiClaremont's avatar SkiClaremont May 28, 2025 / 5:18 pm

      The reason is because the uphill capacity is an average. The equation used for a chair’s hourly capacity is the seconds in an hour times carrier capacity (in this case a double) divided by chair interval. So for this chair it would be (3600 x 2)/(chair interval) = capacity, meaning an interval of 6.3 seconds would result in a capacity of 1139 pph.

      Since 6.3 seconds doesn’t go equally into 1 hour, the chair won’t transport the exact same amount of people each hour. If the chair brings up 1140 people one hour and 1138 the next, it averages out to a capacity of 1139.

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