This classic Poma services the smallest mountain in Quebec with a chairlift.Short lift line with five towers.Drive station.Tower 3 with upgraded lifting frame.Breakover towers.Unloading ramp.View from the summit.Side view of the top terminal area.Classic Poma triple chair.Lift overview.
No snow making pipes seen in the photos. This area of Quebec historically gets a lot of natural snow. Thanks for documenting “the roads less travelled” parts of Quebec.
Is this lift the only triple chai in North America with this style of chairs? Further, is this the only Poma Delta drive in Canada? For that matter, how many exist in the U.S.A.?
Not sure about chairs, but the only other European-style Delta terminal in North America is on the D-Lift at Hunter Mountain, NY. There are also quite a few of the North American-style Delta terminals (both fixed and tensioned) still in operation, mostly in the US but at least one in Canada as well.
In North America, the Delta was only in production from 1981 to 1983, with three first-generation Alpha terminals first appearing in 1983 (all three are still in operation). By 1984, the second-generation Alpha had taken over as Poma of America’s main drive-tension design.
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No snow making pipes seen in the photos. This area of Quebec historically gets a lot of natural snow. Thanks for documenting “the roads less travelled” parts of Quebec.
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Is this lift the only triple chai in North America with this style of chairs? Further, is this the only Poma Delta drive in Canada? For that matter, how many exist in the U.S.A.?
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Not sure about chairs, but the only other European-style Delta terminal in North America is on the D-Lift at Hunter Mountain, NY. There are also quite a few of the North American-style Delta terminals (both fixed and tensioned) still in operation, mostly in the US but at least one in Canada as well.
In North America, the Delta was only in production from 1981 to 1983, with three first-generation Alpha terminals first appearing in 1983 (all three are still in operation). By 1984, the second-generation Alpha had taken over as Poma of America’s main drive-tension design.
European-style delta terminal on the D-lift:
North American-style Delta drive-tension terminal (Mountain Top at Berkshire East, MA):
https://skiliftblog.files.wordpress.com/2019/10/img_6009.jpg?w=1988&h=1492
North American-style Delta fixed drive terminal (Painter Boy at Crested Butte, CO):
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Thats not a Poma Delta drive terminal, Franz’s at whistler is a Delta, and as far as I know, its the only Poma delta terminal in Canada https://liftblog.com/franzs-whistler-blackcomb-bc/
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the European delta drive looks alot like Montaz-Mautino drive stations.
Poma:
Montaz:
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And CTEC Enterprise terminals
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Do you know which one came out first, because this is some BM Lifts level of copying for the manufacture that didnt design whatever one came first lol
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I am pretty sure they worked with each other and licenses each others designs
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