Cabriolet parking rail in the summer.Drive station up top.Another shot of the drive.Turnaround and door opener/closers with half cabins.Tower 8.Middle part of the line.Arriving at the Village at Winter Park.Return station.Village loading area.Tower 1.View up the line.Tower 6.View down towards the village from tower 6.Flying over parking lots.Drive station plaza.
Tensioning ram? Leitner/Poma detachables normally have the entire terminal on a carriage. Because this is a cabriolet/gondola the bullwheel itself is on a carriage in the terminal. I never seen the tensioning ram stick out of the terminal.
I’ve only ridden the cabriolet at Tremblant. Why do resorts choose to use an open cabin gondola their parking lot and around the resort lifts than regular enclosed cabins?
Mainly because they are short transportation lifts rather than skiing access lifts. People are arriving from their vehicles carrying their equipment and can easily walk on to the cabriolets…plus the carriers are much cheaper than an enclosed cabin. $0.02
They shouldn’t expand it to the jane otherwise to many people would be going over there and super gauge would have super long waiting times. If they were to do that they better upgrade iron horse to a high speed quad.
It might be my imagination, but I think this lift’s cabins stop briefly about halfway through the turnaround.
Sort of like Tremblant’s Casino Express, but much more subtle- to the point that I’m wondering if it’s an intentional feature or a spacing thing.
And it’s not like they stop long enough to be too useful, it’s only long enough to race a stroller or bike (this lift does service a few bike trails in the summer) on there if you’re lucky.
Nope, it’s not your imagination! There is an active spacing clutch that will stop the cabin for a split second. As said before it doesn’t really make a difference. I was lucky enough to go up into the drive of this lift and the spacing clutch is very similar towards the one on The Gondola where it is in the middle of the turn around. The mechanic who I was up there with said that it is being replaced next year with a brand new one.
Sort of. They were replacing the Bull wheel bearing at the Drive Terminal in the Parking Lot, so they had to remove the Haul Rope off some of the towers in the process, which I believe is called Rigging.
Blue Mountain Resort (Ontario, Canada) is designed to run as a cabriolet in the summer and 6-pack detachable chair in the winter. Built by LP in 2000 and also with Gangloff cabins.
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Did you get any pics of the new cabin designs while you were there getting pics of the gondola?
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what are those three pipes comming out of the terminal on the last pic (Drive Station Plaza) Exhaust pipes?
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Tensioning ram? Leitner/Poma detachables normally have the entire terminal on a carriage. Because this is a cabriolet/gondola the bullwheel itself is on a carriage in the terminal. I never seen the tensioning ram stick out of the terminal.
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no they have flappers/raincaps on them, so they have to be exhaust pipes.
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Straight pipes. It’s a hot rod.
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buy an old lift and fit it with a straight pipe Chevy big block for the apu or main drive
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I’ve only ridden the cabriolet at Tremblant. Why do resorts choose to use an open cabin gondola their parking lot and around the resort lifts than regular enclosed cabins?
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It was an Intrawest thing. They were obsessed with them. IIRC every Intrawest resort other than Stratton got one.
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Mainly because they are short transportation lifts rather than skiing access lifts. People are arriving from their vehicles carrying their equipment and can easily walk on to the cabriolets…plus the carriers are much cheaper than an enclosed cabin. $0.02
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All good thoughts, especially the last one!
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1. They Should expand the Cabriolet to the base of Jane so if people get stuck at WP side, they don’t have to take a shuttle.
2. Get new pictures, it got a new paint job.
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They shouldn’t expand it to the jane otherwise to many people would be going over there and super gauge would have super long waiting times. If they were to do that they better upgrade iron horse to a high speed quad.
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If you could change anything about this lift, what would it be and why?
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Peter, where is the top (drive), the parking lot or the Village?
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Parking lot.
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It might be my imagination, but I think this lift’s cabins stop briefly about halfway through the turnaround.
Sort of like Tremblant’s Casino Express, but much more subtle- to the point that I’m wondering if it’s an intentional feature or a spacing thing.
And it’s not like they stop long enough to be too useful, it’s only long enough to race a stroller or bike (this lift does service a few bike trails in the summer) on there if you’re lucky.
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Nope, it’s not your imagination! There is an active spacing clutch that will stop the cabin for a split second. As said before it doesn’t really make a difference. I was lucky enough to go up into the drive of this lift and the spacing clutch is very similar towards the one on The Gondola where it is in the middle of the turn around. The mechanic who I was up there with said that it is being replaced next year with a brand new one.
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That explains why the Cabriolet was closed this summer, it appeared as they pulled the Haul Rope out of the Bull Wheel.
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Sort of. They were replacing the Bull wheel bearing at the Drive Terminal in the Parking Lot, so they had to remove the Haul Rope off some of the towers in the process, which I believe is called Rigging.
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The new paint scheme has white cabins.
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I believe this is the only Leitner-Poma Cabriolet in North America. It also has Gangloff cabins, if anybody was wondering.
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Blue Mountain Resort (Ontario, Canada) is designed to run as a cabriolet in the summer and 6-pack detachable chair in the winter. Built by LP in 2000 and also with Gangloff cabins.
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Yes it is. Which is unusual, but I guess no one else ordered a cabriolet from Leitner-Poma.
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These photos may need to be retaken, because the skin of the cabriolet cars have been replaced.
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