Were the pylons reused from the original lift? I noticed that the guidework on the pylons doesn’t line up with the hangers at all, to a point where the side of the chairs would collide with the pylons before even getting close to touching the guidework
Sorry i saw your comment five years ago and thought to correct it but then a bear came up and ate my phone as i was typing the response so i was not able to reply. Glad someone caught it though!
Daisy – Purple
Blue Jay – Blue
Hogback – Black
Barrier – Red
Brooks – Greenish
7th – Red
Tye Mill – Brown
Big Chief – Yellow
Tye Mill was a weird lift when originally built. It served one run and some tree skiing, prior to the backside it was a nice place to get away from long lift lines on weekends.
The Tye Mill Double was originally Yodelin’s lower chairlift out of its base area. When Yodelin closed, the lower chair was moved from Yodelin up the road to Steven’s and installed as Tye Mill. The upper lift at Yodelin was purchased by Crystal Mt. and became the original Chair 6 at Crystal, though the Hall drive terminal is still on the hill at Yodelin.
In classic Vail fashion, they’ve added these weird looking restraint bars to this lift. They look kinda strange since none of them are painted and they’re really rectangular.
well vail replaced kehr’s for a reason. i feel like the only reason they keep 7th heaven as a cp double, is because its a tourist attraction. if it was like kehrs, and was not a tourist attraction, they would replace it in a heartbeat.
Tourist attraction? No tourist can ride it cos there’s no downloading and they can’t ski it cos it’s too steep and funky. I don’t think Stevens even does non-skiing lift rides. Replacement is likely on the wishlist, and with the tower issue from a few years ago, near the top, but Vail’s visible goal with Stevens has been out-of-base upgrades. Also, as long as it holds together, it’s much cheaper than what could be a very costly upgrade. A new double wouldn’t be crazy expensive of itself, but the construction in that location would cost a lot more than the more accessible builds they’ve done of late. The top terminal alone would be a spicy endeavour that would require a heli for any equipment transfer, or some time consuming Kevin Shank style shovel and rock bar footing excavations. Helis are involved a lot in lift construction, but to require–and therefore source one at short notice–one every time you need stuff a 19 year old grunt can’t just rope to his back gets complicated and pricey. More so if there is a normal fire season and heli operators are dumping milliones of waters in far-off lands.
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Were the pylons reused from the original lift? I noticed that the guidework on the pylons doesn’t line up with the hangers at all, to a point where the side of the chairs would collide with the pylons before even getting close to touching the guidework
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pylons? usually they are called towers.
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Thank you, after six years I was fearful nobody would catch my colossal blunder
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Sorry i saw your comment five years ago and thought to correct it but then a bear came up and ate my phone as i was typing the response so i was not able to reply. Glad someone caught it though!
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They call them pylones in France….
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No, the crossarms were simply widened.
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Somewhat relevant, were the chairs on the former Tye Mill bail or center pole?
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Centre-pole.
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what color were the Centre-pole chairs? I just recently found one and would like to make it the original color.
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I have recently found a vintage photo and the center pole chairs are red
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Brown. The color scheme was:
Daisy – Purple
Blue Jay – Blue
Hogback – Black
Barrier – Red
Brooks – Greenish
7th – Red
Tye Mill – Brown
Big Chief – Yellow
Tye Mill was a weird lift when originally built. It served one run and some tree skiing, prior to the backside it was a nice place to get away from long lift lines on weekends.
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The Tye Mill Double was originally Yodelin’s lower chairlift out of its base area. When Yodelin closed, the lower chair was moved from Yodelin up the road to Steven’s and installed as Tye Mill. The upper lift at Yodelin was purchased by Crystal Mt. and became the original Chair 6 at Crystal, though the Hall drive terminal is still on the hill at Yodelin.
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In classic Vail fashion, they’ve added these weird looking restraint bars to this lift. They look kinda strange since none of them are painted and they’re really rectangular.
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Hard to say who the supplier of the bars was:
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well vail replaced kehr’s for a reason. i feel like the only reason they keep 7th heaven as a cp double, is because its a tourist attraction. if it was like kehrs, and was not a tourist attraction, they would replace it in a heartbeat.
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Tourist attraction? No tourist can ride it cos there’s no downloading and they can’t ski it cos it’s too steep and funky. I don’t think Stevens even does non-skiing lift rides. Replacement is likely on the wishlist, and with the tower issue from a few years ago, near the top, but Vail’s visible goal with Stevens has been out-of-base upgrades. Also, as long as it holds together, it’s much cheaper than what could be a very costly upgrade. A new double wouldn’t be crazy expensive of itself, but the construction in that location would cost a lot more than the more accessible builds they’ve done of late. The top terminal alone would be a spicy endeavour that would require a heli for any equipment transfer, or some time consuming Kevin Shank style shovel and rock bar footing excavations. Helis are involved a lot in lift construction, but to require–and therefore source one at short notice–one every time you need stuff a 19 year old grunt can’t just rope to his back gets complicated and pricey. More so if there is a normal fire season and heli operators are dumping milliones of waters in far-off lands.
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