This lift is a pulse gondola serving the Wildhorse Meadows development.View towers Mt. Werner.Leitner-Poma of America Alpha-model drive/tension station.Bottom bullwheel.View up the line with cabins parked for the summer.Another view of the drive.Lower section of the line.Sigma Diamond cabins in groups of two.Upper section of the line in Steamboat Village.Breakover towers.Fixed return bullwheel.Another view of the return.
There are several lifts that have canted sheaves, Supreme is just the first to make a turn with that particular system. Other systems use 1-2 towers and canted compression sheaves, Supreme uses multiple towers with a combination of depression and compression sheaves.
There are plans to replace this pulse gondola with a onndola with a bottom terminal at the Meadows parking lot. It is part of the plan of changing the transit center in the base area into a more pedestrian friendly area with less vehicle traffic. My understanding is that they had lined up approval from a variety of groups including the city, but when new city commissioners were elected the city backed out, putting it all on hold.
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I’m fairly sure there is a few degree turn in this lift somewhere near base area. I could tell when looking at it from head on.
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Yeah one of the compression towers look like its canted. Maybe Supreme at Alta isn’t the first lift with canted tower sheaves
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baldy at snowbird?
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There are several lifts that have canted sheaves, Supreme is just the first to make a turn with that particular system. Other systems use 1-2 towers and canted compression sheaves, Supreme uses multiple towers with a combination of depression and compression sheaves.
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Or snowflake at breck lol. What a mess of towers that lift is.
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I was on Snowflake about 2 weeks ago. Really rattles you!
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look at the 8th pic. You can see the canted sheaves
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Yeah, I agree that this lift turns because why else would there be canted combo asembless at the breakover?
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Isn’t there talk of Leitner Poma upgrading this lift to an actual gondola in the next few years?
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There are plans to replace this pulse gondola with a onndola with a bottom terminal at the Meadows parking lot. It is part of the plan of changing the transit center in the base area into a more pedestrian friendly area with less vehicle traffic. My understanding is that they had lined up approval from a variety of groups including the city, but when new city commissioners were elected the city backed out, putting it all on hold.
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Anybody know many degrees the turn in the lift line is ?
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It’s only a few degrees. I can find anywhere the exact angle, but it is described as “few degree turn”.
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