Lift overview.Upper lift line with a half tower.Motor room.Bottom station.Yan bottom terminal.View back down the line.Top fixed bullwheel.Another view of the summit.
The offset tower was modified by SkyTrac, not CTEC proper (although it’s the same design). This is also DV’s only bottom-drive lift, likely because the top is next to the Stein Eriksen Lodge (in honor of a noble Viking).
This was built at the same time as the Yan HSQ version of Carpenter. Viking and Red Cloud have enclosures to look like the HSQ terminal (as did the short-lived Quincy triple chair next to both of these, which lives on as Day Break at Canyons/Park City). I gather that Red Cloud was built out of parts of the old Carpenter (probably chairs and the drive terminal) and Viking was all-new in 1990. Crown Point was built out of the rest of Carpenter the same year (counterweight-tower bottom terminal from Carpenter and new drive terminal).
The old Silver Queen lift at Silver Star is the only other lift I can think of with this style terminal. I believe they had some YAN HSQs so it may be why it was also like this.
Oh good, and at 1:34 seconds in, you can also see a serious crack in the hanger arm. Good thing Utah Ski Lifts was riding that carrier and it hopefully got reported. Do the lift ops just watch people load and not the equipment itself?
So what was up with the haul rope being rigged up and laying on the ground of the bottom terminal for the last couple weeks? When I was skiing up there nobody really had an answer. Was it a bullwheel bearing replacement or something like that? It looks like it’s up and running again now according to the lift status page on their website.
The Yan half tower 2 that was previously modified by Skytrac has now been replaced by a completely new Skytrac half tower in summer 2025. New foundation with the tower bolted to it instead of buried into the concrete, new ladder, new position slightly uphill of the old one, and no rigging point bolted to the bottom of the tower.
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The terminals are a little more like small Yan detachable terminals and during 2015, the offset tower was retrofitted by a CTEC tower with sheaves.
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It’s like Yan’s Uni-Star
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I was looking at it earlier. I think its actually a SkyTrac tower head and sheaves.
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The offset tower was modified by SkyTrac, not CTEC proper (although it’s the same design). This is also DV’s only bottom-drive lift, likely because the top is next to the Stein Eriksen Lodge (in honor of a noble Viking).
This was built at the same time as the Yan HSQ version of Carpenter. Viking and Red Cloud have enclosures to look like the HSQ terminal (as did the short-lived Quincy triple chair next to both of these, which lives on as Day Break at Canyons/Park City). I gather that Red Cloud was built out of parts of the old Carpenter (probably chairs and the drive terminal) and Viking was all-new in 1990. Crown Point was built out of the rest of Carpenter the same year (counterweight-tower bottom terminal from Carpenter and new drive terminal).
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The old Silver Queen lift at Silver Star is the only other lift I can think of with this style terminal. I believe they had some YAN HSQs so it may be why it was also like this.
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One more in Japan it’s branded as Mitsubishi but uses yan terminals https://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/bdd/reportage-tsf2-n-4-mitsubishi-354.html
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Also found some more interesting YAN lifts some are branded as montaval but you can tell they were or are YAN https://www.remontees-mecaniques.net/bdd/station-val-d-isere-9.html
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this lift is like a yan high speed triple even though it’s not
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You can see the new Skytrac tower in this video:
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Oh good, and at 1:34 seconds in, you can also see a serious crack in the hanger arm. Good thing Utah Ski Lifts was riding that carrier and it hopefully got reported. Do the lift ops just watch people load and not the equipment itself?
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So what was up with the haul rope being rigged up and laying on the ground of the bottom terminal for the last couple weeks? When I was skiing up there nobody really had an answer. Was it a bullwheel bearing replacement or something like that? It looks like it’s up and running again now according to the lift status page on their website.
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Something broke for sure within the last month. I went one weekend and the next one I went it was closed and has not opened since
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Our first triple at Deer Valley. Need new footrests. Doesn’t access anything. BEGINNERS! Go on this lift!
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The Yan half tower 2 that was previously modified by Skytrac has now been replaced by a completely new Skytrac half tower in summer 2025. New foundation with the tower bolted to it instead of buried into the concrete, new ladder, new position slightly uphill of the old one, and no rigging point bolted to the bottom of the tower.
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