This short Hopkins Skyride offers guests round trip rides from May through December.Leaving the drive terminal near the park entrance.There are only two towers outside of the terminal areas.T3.Sheave assemblies.Nearing the turnaround station.Tall return terminal.Bullwheel.Heading back toward the loading area.One of 14 unique carriers.Tower 2.View down the line.Drive station overview.Lift overview.Loading area.Side view of the drive bullwheel.Drive equipment.Return station supports.The far end of the lift.Drive bullwheel.
From what I remember, Hopkins bought Roebling, who was mainly a ski area focused lift manufacturer. It appears that they reused designs for their amusement park customers.
I have never seen an O.D. Hopkins compression sheave before (except for the ones on the drive of Mt. Sunapee’s Duckling Double, designed and partially constructed by Roebling, but finished by O.D. Hopkins), especially ones with two supporting sheaves.
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Wow.. We do have a Hopkins in Colorado after all!
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I fell like I’ve seen a Hopkins ski lift, but if so, why are they so uncommon ! For a cable car company why isn’t their main market ski areas?
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From what I remember, Hopkins bought Roebling, who was mainly a ski area focused lift manufacturer. It appears that they reused designs for their amusement park customers.
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The old J-Bar at Waterville Valley, NH, the World Cup T-Bar at the same area, the old Sandy Double at Saddleback, and a double at Snow Ridge, NY.
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Update on that: the Snow Ridge lift is a Roebling.
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The Gore’E’Gully Double at Gore Mountain was a Hopkins but had to be removed around 2007 to make way for the Burnt Ridge expansion.
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Joshua, Hopkins stopped making ski lifts in the mid-1960s because there was too much competition.
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I have never seen an O.D. Hopkins compression sheave before (except for the ones on the drive of Mt. Sunapee’s Duckling Double, designed and partially constructed by Roebling, but finished by O.D. Hopkins), especially ones with two supporting sheaves.
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