This lift was relocated from next door where a six pack now stands.Drive station with chairs removed for maintenance.The first two towers are adjacent to the bottom station.Looking up the lift line.Tower 5 with the Westside Six in the background.Lower part of the line.Upper lift line.Tower 14.The last tower and top terminal.Small maintenance rail.Skytrac controls.Side view of the Stealth top station.Another view of the return terminal.Tower 4.Lift overview.
6 thoughts on “Wonderama Express – Windham Mountain, NY”
Ben EmingerJanuary 27, 2022 / 10:14 am
This lift has since gotten a repaint and now has wooden underskins similar to Leitner-Poma LPA detachables. The terminals appear to still be very loud, but the noise is cut down drastically compared to previous recordings.
One of the slowest detachable lifts I’ve ever been on. Probably because it’s primarily for beginners? I can be at this lift all day because of the amazing trails it accesses.
This lift had a planetary drive failure while installed in its previous location, around 2016. I have heard it basically shredded most of the rotating parts in the bottom terminal. Doppelmayr had it running again in a few weeks and it ran without obvious trouble the next season, but it’s not surprising the mountain chose to replace it with the current Westside Six in 2018. It has not been reliable since it was reinstalled in its new location, even with much less vertical rise and less chairs on the line. I guess unlike the wagon, you really can’t just replace every single part and end up with a new lift when you’re done.
something I once again notice is that this lift has the same planetary gearset that all the park city HSS lifts had, reading elsewhere here park city had multiple failures of this unit in the early 2000s. I think its a kissling unit? correct me if I am wrong, but it seems like they were all replaced with caterpillar drives, I wonder if the kissling units were weaker or something similar, all of the other stealth 1 lifts have caterpillar drives and seem to be running fine, this one has a kissling and had failures maybe. I could be just imagining but it seems like it shouldnt be that common
Just to be clear on the acronyms – this lift is a quad; when you say “the Park City HSS lifts” you mean the sixes out of the base area? I didn’t realize those had had gearbox failures.
What’s entailed in replacing the planetary with one from a different manufacturer? Is it bolt up and go, or more than that?
An interesting fact about this quad lift vs its sixer replacement is that when the quad ran flat out (not often) they had the same uphill capacity. It is actually harder to rack up huge midweek vert in a day totals (50,000+ feet) with the new lift because of that.
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This lift has since gotten a repaint and now has wooden underskins similar to Leitner-Poma LPA detachables. The terminals appear to still be very loud, but the noise is cut down drastically compared to previous recordings.
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I wish peter took more pictures from under the lift, it would be cool to see what these lifts look like without the skin on
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One of the slowest detachable lifts I’ve ever been on. Probably because it’s primarily for beginners? I can be at this lift all day because of the amazing trails it accesses.
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This lift had a planetary drive failure while installed in its previous location, around 2016. I have heard it basically shredded most of the rotating parts in the bottom terminal. Doppelmayr had it running again in a few weeks and it ran without obvious trouble the next season, but it’s not surprising the mountain chose to replace it with the current Westside Six in 2018. It has not been reliable since it was reinstalled in its new location, even with much less vertical rise and less chairs on the line. I guess unlike the wagon, you really can’t just replace every single part and end up with a new lift when you’re done.
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something I once again notice is that this lift has the same planetary gearset that all the park city HSS lifts had, reading elsewhere here park city had multiple failures of this unit in the early 2000s. I think its a kissling unit? correct me if I am wrong, but it seems like they were all replaced with caterpillar drives, I wonder if the kissling units were weaker or something similar, all of the other stealth 1 lifts have caterpillar drives and seem to be running fine, this one has a kissling and had failures maybe. I could be just imagining but it seems like it shouldnt be that common
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Just to be clear on the acronyms – this lift is a quad; when you say “the Park City HSS lifts” you mean the sixes out of the base area? I didn’t realize those had had gearbox failures.
What’s entailed in replacing the planetary with one from a different manufacturer? Is it bolt up and go, or more than that?
An interesting fact about this quad lift vs its sixer replacement is that when the quad ran flat out (not often) they had the same uphill capacity. It is actually harder to rack up huge midweek vert in a day totals (50,000+ feet) with the new lift because of that.
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