This short beginner lift opened in 2024.Loading area at the return bullwheel.Towers and sheaves on this lift were repurposed from Northstar, California.New Doppelmayr EJ chair.Arriving at the top drive terminal.Upper half of the lift line.Tower 1.Lower station overview.View departing the bottom.Side view of the top Alpenstar station.Another view of the upper station.Unloading area.View down the short lift line.Another view of the top terminal.
Cost-saving measure. It’s like Boyne’s practice of relocating old Doppelmayr high speed quads and giving them new UNI-G skins, or the old Montezuma Express chairs and towers being reused by Beaver Creek for the Red Buffalo Express.
I like the lift shacks Doppelmayr is providing these days. For a long time they were so narrow you could easily hit the panel stops if you tipped your chair back, or walked behind the lift operator.
At Snowbird on Gadzoom they fabricated a metal ring to go around the panel stops. I haven’t worked there long but I could immediately tell that what you described is the reason for this. I don’t know where some of those older shacks at Snowbird came from but some of them look to be reused from old Doppelmayer lifts.
Oh no they put it on ALL of them presumably because of what you described. I nearly leaned back into the stop button but the guard they made did its job
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Love the simple, natural wood operator houses against the black terminals / trim. Perfect example of “less is more”.
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The towers were from Comstock.
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Why the reused towers from Northstar?
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Cost-saving measure. It’s like Boyne’s practice of relocating old Doppelmayr high speed quads and giving them new UNI-G skins, or the old Montezuma Express chairs and towers being reused by Beaver Creek for the Red Buffalo Express.
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What happened to the other towers from comstock. It seems this lift would not have used all of old comstock’s towers.
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most likely got scrapped
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I like the lift shacks Doppelmayr is providing these days. For a long time they were so narrow you could easily hit the panel stops if you tipped your chair back, or walked behind the lift operator.
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At Snowbird on Gadzoom they fabricated a metal ring to go around the panel stops. I haven’t worked there long but I could immediately tell that what you described is the reason for this. I don’t know where some of those older shacks at Snowbird came from but some of them look to be reused from old Doppelmayer lifts.
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That ring is meant for the emergency shutdown button, unless my counterparts put them on *all* the stop buttons.
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Oh no they put it on ALL of them presumably because of what you described. I nearly leaned back into the stop button but the guard they made did its job
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Wolf Creek’s biggest shortcoming was the lack of directly lift served beginner terrain. Now that shortcoming is gone.
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