(Alta, WY – April 13, 2016) Grand Targhee Resort is excited to announce that the Blackfoot chairlift will be replaced with a new Doppelmayr fixed grip quad chairlift this summer. The Blackfoot chairlift has been an iconic piece of Grand Targhee Resort’s history since 1974, when it was installed. This lift accesses over 500 acres and 1,200 vertical feet of terrain. The lone double chair is due for retirement and with this, brings a new chapter in Grand Targhee’s history. The old Blackfoot chair, manufactured by Riblet, was built in 1974 and had a 960 passenger per hour uphill capacity. The total ride time was about 8 minutes. Moving forward, Blackfoot will be replaced by a Doppelmayr fixed grip quad with comfort bar and foot rests that can haul 1,800 guests per hour. The total ride time will decrease to 7 minutes. In the event of a power outage the new lift will be able to run off of diesel power. Construction on the lift will begin immediately with the goal of having the new Blackfoot lift ready for opening day of the 2016/17 winter season.

“The entire resort team is excited to replace and upgrade the Blackfoot chairlift,” stated marketing & sales director, Ken Rider. He goes on to say, “The resort ownership and entire team is committed to the guest experience and reinvesting in the resort with ongoing improvements that enhance the guest experience. This is the largest and most visible of many recent capital investments the resort has made.” Passenger per hour: 960 Rope Speed: 400 Feet per minute Vertical Rise: 1200 feet Ride time: 8 minutes Standby power: no standby power unit, evacuation power unit only Type: Doppelmayr fixed grip quad with foot rests Passengers per hour: 1800 Rope speed: 450 Feet per minute Vertical rise: 1200 feet Ride time 7 minutes Standby power: Diesel power unit at 100% capacity 350 FPM The resort is encouraging guests to share their photos and memories of Blackfoot on all social channels – #BlackfootMemories. Marketing & Social Media

(o): 307-353-2300 x 1328 Grand Targhee Resort is a year round mountain resort situated on the western slope of the Tetons in Alta, Wyoming, accessible through Teton Valley, Idaho. chair rental ham lake mnTucked among spectacular Teton views and national forest land, Grand Targhee is an intimate summer getaway for adventure-seekers, with miles of lift-accessed hiking, runningand mountain biking trails, renowned music festivals and a variety of activities in a pristine high alpine environment. tesco direct highchairDuring the winter, the abundance of light powder snow (more than 500 inches annually) and virtual lack of lift lines creates an uncrowded skier and snowboarder paradise, continually recognized for great snow, genuine western hospitality, scenic beauty and excellent value. amish rocking chairs outdoor

GTR Announces New Blackfoot Quad Lift 2016-17_Blackfoot-Quad-Chair-MapApril 23, 2015, 12:30 pm And then there were four.chair cover hire mansfield The fixed-grip double is a dying breed in Colorado and the death of dawdling chairlifts was hastened Tuesday with Aspen Skiing Co.’s announcement it was throwing its languid, 30-year-old High Alpine chairlift into the recycle bin.lazy boy chairs madison wi That leaves a mere four fixed-grip double relics that access steep, expert terrain in Colorado: Silverton Mountain’s hand-me-down, Mary Jane’s thigh-recovering Challenger, Arapahoe Basin’s beloved Pali and Aspen’s historic 1A. bean bags chairs adelaideThose remnants remain the venues of slow-it-down, vista-rich conversation, snack time and sweetheart snuggling; graco high chair orange

vestiges of the days when chairlifts were more than crowded elevators. The Forest Service approved the High Alpine project this week after a lengthy review. garden swing chair asdaAspen Skiing will spend $8 million to realign the High Alpine and replace the replenishing dangler with a swift high-speed quad. eames lounge chair price vitraIt used to take 11 minutes to reach Snowmass’ hike-to goods in the Headwall and the Hanging Valley. Next season, it will take about half that time. But, per the skiing-first ethos of Aspen Skiing, this switch won’t destroy powder stashes like a typical lift upgrade. Aspen Skiing is spacing the new chairs to keep the uphill capacity for the High Alpine exactly the same. Even better, the new alignment will lower the base terminal, eliminating the need for skiers coming down from alpine terrain in the Cirque or AMF area to catch a lower lift to access the High Alpine.

“With the realignment and the additional trail work and glading, our guests will have a vastly improved experience in the High Alpine pod on Snowmass,” said Steve Sewell, Snowmass General Manager, in a statement. More details emerge on Cinemark labor violation lawsuit Electric vehicles on Colorado roads soar, but charging is a challenge“It is essential,” wrote the railway magnate William Averell Harriman in a telegram dated April 15, 1936, “. . . to develop a method of lifting skiers 2,000 feet above the valley floor.” For America’s first ski resort — Idaho’s Sun Valley — Harriman wanted a new approach to moving skiers up the slopes that would be more comfortable than the pulls and hoists that had come before. So he posed the problem to his staff at the Union Pacific office in Omaha. One of the railway’s young bridge designers, James Curran, had an idea. At an earlier job, the self-taught engineer and former pool hustler designed a wire-based system for moving bales of bananas from the United Fruit loading docks in Honduras onto waiting boats.

Curran thought the same approach would work for people, if the fruit hooks were replaced with chairs. Skiers had long relied on makeshift tows and hoists. Early sportsmen co-opted mine equipment, grabbing hold of ore buckets that were tied to a rope-and-pulley system. The first mechanical lifts made exclusively for skiers opened in the early 1900s, including one powered by a horse and another by a waterwheel. As skiing grew more popular, the technology advanced: By the early 1930s, the Canadian Alex Foster had designed a towing device powered by a Dodge car on blocks, with the cable wrapped around one of its wheel rims. But these early systems would drag people up a hill, either upright on their skis or sitting in a toboggan. The ropes could be slippery and heavy, and they had a tendency to twist. Riding the tows was sometimes difficult or dangerous. In the mid-1930s, a Swiss engineer set the rope overhead, with a J-shaped bar hanging down so that a skier could position himself against the bar and let it push him along.

Curran’s design actually lifted the skiers off the ground. To test its feasibility, he attached a chair to the side of a pickup truck. A skier wearing roller skates practiced jumping on and off as the truck drove slowly past. By 1936, Curran’s chairlifts — the world’s first — were installed at Sun Valley. The first double chairlift, with two seats side-by-side, opened in 1946, followed by triple and quad models in the early 1960s. “People were marveling over how well the chairlifts worked,” says Kirby Gilbert, a ski historian. Chairlifts didn’t take over completely, though. Rope tows, J bars and T-bars were still the cheapest options. Some high-end resorts installed cable cars or gondolas. In the late 1930s, a “Skimobile” opened in New Hampshire, in which riders sat in what looked like roller coaster cars, spaced 40 feet apart on an oval track. But by the 1960s and 1970s, Gilbert says, the chairlift had become an industry standard: “It hit the sweet spot of cost and comfort.”