This steep lift offers two way transport between the base area and intermediate backside runs.View leaving the bottom terminal.Lower part of the lift line.View up the very steep lift line.The heavy side crosses right over a T-Bar station part way up.Skytrac tower head.Nearing the summit.Breakover towers 17, 18 and 19.Arriving at Snow Park, which used to be a separate ski area.Unloading area and loading area for downloaders.Side view of the big breakover.Another view of the top bullwheel.View down the line.Looking up at the top terminal.Steep lift line.Middle part of the line.Line crossing over the Sunrise T-Bar.View up the line.Lower lift line.This lift was designed with downloading capacity, hence equally sized assemblies on both sides.The first few towers.Lower station area.Lift line seen from the parking lot.
3 thoughts on “Transporter – Montana Snowbowl, MT”
Joe BlakeFebruary 19, 2023 / 6:57 pm
Clearly I am missing something: who would be doing downloading with enough volume that Snowbowl would need to make this chair more downloady? I have never skied here, regardless of desire, so all I gots is that good Goooooogle Earth presumptiveness. TV Mountain appears eminently skiable.
I don’t ski here either, but this lift is very steep and there is some beginner and intermediate terrain on TV Mountain. Perhaps the ski area also wants to do some summer activity in the future.
Likely because the terrain on the front side of the TV is pretty damn steep, with the lift line itself featuring some very large cliffs that are likely to intimidate some of the beginner skiers headed for the intermediate terrain on the backside of TV. With that being said, the Bowl has always been an experts only mountain, so I can’t imagine the downloading will be done in any large quantities.
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Clearly I am missing something: who would be doing downloading with enough volume that Snowbowl would need to make this chair more downloady? I have never skied here, regardless of desire, so all I gots is that good Goooooogle Earth presumptiveness. TV Mountain appears eminently skiable.
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I don’t ski here either, but this lift is very steep and there is some beginner and intermediate terrain on TV Mountain. Perhaps the ski area also wants to do some summer activity in the future.
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Likely because the terrain on the front side of the TV is pretty damn steep, with the lift line itself featuring some very large cliffs that are likely to intimidate some of the beginner skiers headed for the intermediate terrain on the backside of TV. With that being said, the Bowl has always been an experts only mountain, so I can’t imagine the downloading will be done in any large quantities.
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