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If you can't afford a race suit you could buy like a Nike running pant and jacket. They are tight and more aerodynamic than your ski pants and you could use them for running in the colder months. Just wear Underarmor underneath and you'd be good to go.

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It's not that I can't afford a racesuit, it's that I don't want to spend the money on one..I torn between buying all the gear for racing or just doing it for fun like last season...we'll see

 

aka beat metz or get beaten by metz.

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Maybe they couldn't get ahold of the helicopters last week. Who knows :confused

 

Thats too bad, they should have just called up Atomic, I think he's got a few laying around.

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Thats too bad, they should have just called up Atomic, I think he's got a few laying around.

 

Probably don't have the lifting capacity to haul one of those things up in the air. I'm sure one of those lift towers is pretty dam heavy.

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Do you think they've left it too late? With the weather turning so fast they may end up with no lift at all :o

 

Then you'd see some lift lines :unsure:

 

Everyone else adding new lifts (like Belleayre and Windham) had the towers in during the summer and the cables are all in place. If you look at their timelines from placing the towers to where they are now, I'm not convinced Blue is going to make it. :no

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The most time consuming part of the lift install is removing the old towers, setting the new footers, and install of the lift towers. All they've got to do is string the line, slap on some chairs, and crank her up :D

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Weather turning??? :confused Look at the 15 day forecast...it's mostly sunny with above freezing temperatures. It's only mid October and the lift won't be open until mid December...they have tons of time and it probably won't snow until Thanksgiving.

 

 

I hope you are right.

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I think they are actually fixing the bottom terminal. Did they even get the top terminal in place yet? :confused

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How do they get the cable around?

 

well the cable is not taught, hence they can just slip it around the drive wheels, and use the weight of the chairs to make it taught. As for how they actually make the cable, I dont know. There has to be a splice somewhere

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I don't think lines will be a problem this year Rob... You still gonna work in explorers? I don't know if your hazing period is over...

Haze him some more. Make him ski again- that was humorus. :lol

 

The most time consuming part of the lift install is removing the old towers, setting the new footers, and install of the lift towers. All they've got to do is string the line, slap on some chairs, and crank her up :D

 

Hmm.....did they use helis to lift out the old towers?

well the cable is not taught, hence they can just slip it around the drive wheels, and use the weight of the chairs to make it taught. As for how they actually make the cable, I dont know. There has to be a splice somewhere

I'm almost positive that the cable is welded in one or more spots.

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