Advertised as the only chairlift in Texas, this bike park actually built the third chairlift in Texas.The lift came used from Taos, New Mexico.Return bullwheel loading.Z model bottom station.Every other chair has two bike hooks and no safety bar.A tower with two different size sheaves.Breakover at the summit.View back down the lift line.Arriving at the drive terminal.Poma Alpha station reinstalled by Skytrac.The top station is on one of the highest points in the region.View down the lift line with very short chair spacing.Upper part of the lift line.Lower part of the line.View up the hill.Tower 3.Most of the lift seen from the parking lot.Lift overview.Towers 2-9.
It was built for it back when Taos had this lift. It was at one point Taos’s oldest Poma quad being originally built in 1989. The current oldest Poma quad at Taos is Lift 4. Lift 4 is getting removed this year although. Then it will go to Lift 2.
To get 2400pph you need a 6sec load interval, the runs at 250fpm due to being a foot passenger lift so the spacing is 25ft. also why the lift has 9 towers.
IDK why they wanted so much capacity even at an effective cap of 1200 due to loading bikes on every other chair they don’t see the numbers to need it, but hay the project paid my bills
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Why does this lift have extremely tight chair spacing?
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Well it’s not built for skiing….
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It was built for it back when Taos had this lift. It was at one point Taos’s oldest Poma quad being originally built in 1989. The current oldest Poma quad at Taos is Lift 4. Lift 4 is getting removed this year although. Then it will go to Lift 2.
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To get 2400pph you need a 6sec load interval, the runs at 250fpm due to being a foot passenger lift so the spacing is 25ft. also why the lift has 9 towers.
IDK why they wanted so much capacity even at an effective cap of 1200 due to loading bikes on every other chair they don’t see the numbers to need it, but hay the project paid my bills
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Seems like they can upgrade later once demand is proven to better bike carriers that could get to more capacity.
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This was originally lift 1 back at Taos.
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