Lift line.Garaventa six-passenger chair.Tower 22 looking up.Bottom terminal and towers.Garaventa CTEC Stealth top terminal.Arriving up top.Bottom station and lift line.Top terminal, lift shack and maintenance rail.Another view of the bottom return station.Top terminal from below.Looking down the very long lift line.In this photo taken from The Headwaters, the turn is obvious.Doppelmayr Worldbook entry.
Because it’s not a Doppelmayr. It was built during the short period when the two companies were under the same name but operating separately. Doppelmayr and CTEC built their own products at their own facility but both were sold as Doppelmayr-CTEC.
Thank you for clearing that up, and I apologize for the misinformation. Their must have been a communication error between myself and a friend who was there at the time of it.
I really like the idea of the second lift. It would really leave Lone Tree to only be a lift to lap the steeps off of. It will be REALLY nice to have a second lift out of that base area. Six Shooter just isn’t enough. I wonder what they’d do about the current 6er though.
But if you do that you only get the benefits of a new lift on that side, you still have to ride the freezing and long six shooter to get back to big sky. If you do the mid station you pay more for the one lift but you effectively removed the need for a second lift and all the terrain has bubble coverage. Six shooter right now only does 1800 pph and it never runs full speed so a 3000-3200 six pack bubble would cover that side just fine, plus you could re-align Lone tree and keep it there so you could still lap Obsidian and Dont tell mama.
I believe this lift is a bottom drive.
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It is. All the lifts at Moonlight are bottom drive except for Pony.
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Why did Doppelmayr use Stealth terminals on this?
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Because it’s not a Doppelmayr. It was built during the short period when the two companies were under the same name but operating separately. Doppelmayr and CTEC built their own products at their own facility but both were sold as Doppelmayr-CTEC.
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I heard that patrol had to perform a rope evac off of Six Shooter yesterday, over a mechanical issue. Has anyone else heard anything about this?
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Didn’t they rope evac Six Shooter last March too?
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I believe so
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No. There was no rope evac. They were able to get everyone off of it. I was there.
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Thank you for clearing that up, and I apologize for the misinformation. Their must have been a communication error between myself and a friend who was there at the time of it.
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Are they going to put bubble chairs on this?
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Not without some major infrastructure overhaul and maybe complete replacement of the terminals and sheaves.
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opt 1
build second lift where moonlight wanted to build before bankruptcy
opt 2
replace 6 shooter, bubbles and heated seats, and mid at top of current then extend to the top of lone tree
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I really like the idea of the second lift. It would really leave Lone Tree to only be a lift to lap the steeps off of. It will be REALLY nice to have a second lift out of that base area. Six Shooter just isn’t enough. I wonder what they’d do about the current 6er though.
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The midstation route seems impractical. It would be more practical to just build a new lift and keep the others as is.
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But if you do that you only get the benefits of a new lift on that side, you still have to ride the freezing and long six shooter to get back to big sky. If you do the mid station you pay more for the one lift but you effectively removed the need for a second lift and all the terrain has bubble coverage. Six shooter right now only does 1800 pph and it never runs full speed so a 3000-3200 six pack bubble would cover that side just fine, plus you could re-align Lone tree and keep it there so you could still lap Obsidian and Dont tell mama.
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A two lift option would increase flexibility in the event Six Shooter goes down or whatever.
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That is true, however it would still leave skiers stranded on that side of the mountain.
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If they could find a way to get it to the base of the tram, like going over the ridge or multiple midstations.
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Maybe another lift going to the base of the Horseshoe Bowl.
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