Recent content by snoloco

I was actually referring to opening the interconnect trails sooner.

Again, I feel like I need to set the record straight on wild speculation. The snowmaking systems are separate but connected. There are two pumphouses. One of them is at the river and pumps 4800 gpm either to the reservoir, or directly to the ski bowl trails. It can also feed to portions of...

Diminishing returns for a shorter lift, but the difference is always significant. For longer lifts, you're looking at a 5-8 minute difference in ride time, depending on the speeds they are running. If you pulled scan data from both lifts on a busy day, with them running at the same speeds as in...

-The Summit Quad has a theoretical capacity of 2400 per hour at a speed of 500 fpm. -The T-Bar Express has a theoretical capacity of 1800 per hour at a speed of 1000 fpm. -The Summit Quad had the loading carpet right from the start, and every video of the lift that I can find shows it in use...

The issues they had were absolutely indicative of a haulrope that was cut too short. The tension system is set to maintain a constant force on the bullwheel. When a lift is fully loaded, the tension carriage will move forward, as the weight of the fully loaded chairs acts against the force...

I don't know the specifics on the grips or haulrope size. The lift blog list says it has a loading carpet.

The triple is a CTEC that originally operated as the Valley Triple at Whiteface from 1988-2002. It followed the exact same route that Facelift does now. However, it was effectively a conversion of a double to a triple, so it was a frankenlift right from the start. The section up to the former...

Webcams on ski resort construction projects are nothing new, and sometimes extra ones are installed, as large scale projects generate significant attention from the public. Previous ORDA projects had webcams on them, like all 3 of the most recent lifts at Belleayre. With the way the cameras are...

It only ever lasts a couple hours before it becomes a sheet of ice and they close it. Except on spring days.

Ah, the Grumor

Nothing happened, and the projected dates have always been rather fluid, in that they'll extend the season for certain lifts if there is enough snow. The only difference is that they have been very upfront about what the plan is, while in the past, they didn't tell you that a lift was closing...

I have no idea about the sketchy tree. For some good news, the haurope was put back on the towers it deroped from. They attached chain pulls to the lifting frame and winched it back up. However, one of the com lines appears to have been severed in the incident, and there is visible damage to...

The Lift Blog pictures were taken on November 10th, 2017. The one in the picture you are referencing is between towers 6 and 7, but the actual tree that fell was between towers 5 and 6. My earlier post was incorrect in that I assumed only one tower had deroped. When a tree impacts a lift, it...

This was shared anonymously to Facebook. Shows it off 3 towers and several mangled chairs. I can't tell if there is any damage to the towers themselves.

I found an interesting data point for how consistent temps this winter have been. Since 1980, Burlington has averaged 11 days above 40 degrees in the months of January or February, or about 18.6% of all days. This year, there have been just two of them, on January 1st and 18th. While there may...