Lift News - Summer 2004 Edition

Colorado Lift News
Summer 2004 Edition

Summer Highlights:

After several slow summers of lift construction, this year is shaping up to
be much improved. Several independent resorts are investing millions of
dollars into their areas, improving the way snow riders can access the
slopes.

The most notable single project this season is at Beaver Creek. Two new
lifts will ease access between Bachelor Gulch and Strawberry Park. The
lower of the two lifts will begin near the parking lots off of US Highway 6
at Avon. The new base area will include locker facilities as well as a
coffee shop.

Crested Butte is going ahead with their new Prospect Development. The
new trails are intermediate and served off of a fixed quad chair. Since the
area was recently purchased by the Mueller family, owners of Okemo
Resort in Vermont, we should see some more key improvements to this
resort over the next couple of years. In addition to a new quad chair, a
T-bar will replace the North Face Surface Lift.

Steamboat Resort once again enters the lift survey after six years of no
major on-mountain improvements. The area in investing in a new
Leitner-Poma triple chair, which is the first Poma brand lift at this resort.
Steamboat made the decision to replace the old Burgess Creek lift this
past winter, as the old Miner-Denver double chair was going on over forty
years of service!

Area	Lift Name	Type	Manufacturer	Capacity
Beaver Creek	Upper B.C. Mountain Express	HSQ	Doppelmayr CTEC	2,600 p/h
Beaver Creek	Lower B.C. Mountain Express	HSQ	Doppelmayr CTEC	2,400
Crested Butte	North Face	T	Leitner-Poma	476
Crested Butte	Prospect	FGQ	Leitner-Poma	1170
Winter Park	Sorensen	P	Leitner-Poma	400
Steamboat	Burgess Creek	FGT	Leitner-Poma	1,800
Aspen Mountain	FIS	FGD	Leitner-Poma	1,200
Buttermilk	Buttermilk West	HSQ	Leitner-Poma	1,200

Removed Ski Lifts:

Area	Lift Name	Type	Manufacturer	Capacity
Buttermilk	Savio	FGD	Carlevario-Savio ^	1,200
Buttermilk	Buttermilk West	FGD	Riblet	1,200
Steamboat	Burgess Creek	FGD	Miner-Denver ^	1,200
Crested Butte	North Face	P	Poma	N/A

Modified Ski Lifts:

Area	Lift Name	Type	Manufacturer	Capacity
Vail	Vista Bahn #	HSQ	Doppelmayr	2,400
Telluride	Apex $	FGT	CTEC	1,800

^ Lift previously modified
# Bubbles removed
$ Gearbox replaced

Lift & Construction Pictures:

* Lifts Being Constructed:

Construction is underway at Beaver
Creek for the two new high-speed quad
being built by Doppelmayr CTEC.

Work is beginning on Aspen's new FIS double chairlift, which is being built by Leitner-Poma.

As of mid-July, the final surveying for the new expansion lift at Crested Butte is
finished and initial construction has begun. *

* Lift Removal Pictures:

As of July, the Burgess Creek Lift is
almost completely removed.

The modified Savio lift is in the process
of being removed as of June.

A work staging area for Poma's new lift
at Steamboat.

Previous Editions:
2003-2004 Season
2002-2003 Season