SAM Coverage
Lifts & Ropeways
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Impacts Of Detachables
New methods of predicting density problems on mountains are needed with high capacity lifts.
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Spirit Mountain Goes Detachable
Why a detachable in mid-America? SAM takes a technical look at a new Borvig/leitner bubble quad.
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B-77– Progress At Reno
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Designing A Cliff Hanger
The site for the lift seemed almost impossible, but Doppelmayr engineers came up with a solution that worked with the landscape.
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Wire Rope Q & A
More questions are asked about splicing and resplicing wire rope than any other aspect of lift rigging work. An expert provides some of the…
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Up And Over
At Stevens Pass they regarded the project as just another lift; to the CTEC engineers it was one heck of a place to put…
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A Three-For-One-Split
One double lift became two triples and a double plus a new beginner’s area at Willamette Pass, resulting in a Riblet success story.