Originally Posted by
win
Good conversations. I haven't really been reading this blog in the past week or so. Thus, I haven't responded to a lot of the comments. I will just summarize what we are doing and why. First we are moving forward with permitting to bring the loading area down to about where the middle of the existing mountain operations building is now. It is within 50 feet of the existing river bank but we have existing buildings there and will have less impermeable surface so we think that is a strong case to get ANR approval. Located there the corral will be sufficiently away from Bravo, so you will not see a cluster. It is fixed rather than HSQ for three reasons. Sure, cost is a factor. But we also want to make sure the uphill capacity doesn't not put too many on those slopes. And yes, fixed grip are more reliable as they do not have all the sophisticated electrical systems that HSQs do. We are planning a conveyor loading belt which will allow us to run the lift around 500 feet per minute which is a lot faster than VH runs today. It will be a noticeable difference. We are locating the top terminal lower so it is less susceptible to wind. We are blasting the ledge on skier right of Valley House Traverse above Stein's to allow skiers to have a much wider trail to ski around top terminal. This will improve that area materially. With eight seats out of the base area, I doubt anyone will complain about lift lines. This is probably all I have to say until after permitting.