SAM Coverage
Lifts & Ropeways
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Mountain Upgrade
Lift replacement in a mountain upgrade can be modeled to study impacts of different uphill configurations.
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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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Do Lift Ticket Rates Deserve Publicity?
Maybe we’ve been doing it backwards. Why not wait until it snows and then publish a rate schedule?
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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.
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Roles For Chart Recorders
Lift performance can be monitored and documented more efficiently and accurately using these well-tried instruments.
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Lifts 1987– The East Pours It On
The surge in lift building set a record or two and missed several by a whisker or two. Overall, it was another great year.
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Where Are Gondolas Going?
Some outstanding breakthroughs have occured in gondola technology. Here’s a review of the recent past and look into the future by Robert McLellan.