Ski Granby Ranch announced Wednesday morning it will replace the lift component it has acknowledged likely led to the death of a 40-year-old woman in late December when it bucked the mother and her two young children from the chair and down 2 ½ stories onto hard-packed snow. As first reported by the Daily, an independent, third-party contractor conducted work on the electric drive/control system of the Quick Draw Express lift at the Grand County-based ski area before the start of the season. The governmental agency that inspects and licenses the state's chairlifts then load-tested the Leitner-Poma manufactured quad on Dec. 5 and authorized its use four days later. The resort opened on Dec. 16 with the Quick Draw chair — Granby Ranch's primary access point to the east mountain and its beginner and intermediate runs — in operation. Karen Huber, of San Antonio, and her two daughters were thrown from the lift on the morning of Dec. 29 after the chair abruptly jolted and banged into a tower about a third of the way up the run.

The three were raced by ambulance to Middle Park Medical Center in Granby where the mother died from her traumatic injuries. Her 12-year-old daughter was treated there and released, while her 9-year-old daughter was medevac'd to Children's Hospital in Aurora by Flight For Life due to the severity of her injuries. Both girls are in the process of their physical recoveries. Under a temporary agreement following a six-day Colorado Passenger Tramway Safety Board investigation, which cited the electric drive as the source of the lift's troubles — but not that significant maintenance had been conducted on it before opening — the 400-acre resort was again permitted to operate the Quick Draw via its diesel backup power. Granby Ranch restarted the lift on Jan. 10. After the Daily's Jan. 18 story revealing the major offseason repair, the tramway safety board again directed Granby Ranch to shutter the Quick Draw Express for additional testing. The eight-member inspection agency under the state's Department of Regulatory Agencies has stated it does not expect to release its final report on the fatal incident for several months.

Resort CEO Melissa Cipriani, daughter of Granby Ranch owners Marise and Celso Cipriani, confirmed in the Wednesday news release that Leitner-Poma of America, the Grand Junction-based arm of the European lift maker, will install the Quick Draw's new electric drive. Granby Ranch is now targeting the full-time reopening of the lift the week of Jan. 30. "Granby Ranch made the decision to work with the lift's original manufacturer to install a new electric drive," Cipriani said in the statement. "Once installed, the lift will be offline for up to 48 hours while it is inspected and tested by the tramway board." From there, the state agency will make the final determination on when the lift may operate again under electric power. In the meantime, the ski area is working with the lift-licensing group to have the Quick Draw Express re-approved for diesel-powered use this upcoming weekend while the new electric control system work is completed.Chair Lifts at Tremblant Mountain With over 600 acres, Tremblant Mountain offers the best skiing in all of North America.

In 1939, Mont Tremblant Lodge began operating their first chair lift. Today this premier European resort operates 14 different express lifts and can handle 27,230 skiers per hour. Skiing in Mont Tremblant couldn’t be more efficient with lifts like The Duncan Express that will take you to the top of the North Side in 9 minutes and an 8 passenger gondola servicing the South Side. A majority of Tremblant Mountain is serviced by two gondolas and high-speed, four person chair lifts. wedding chair covers dallas txThe three Magic Carpets which are “moving sidewalk” surface lifts are accessible near the ski school and perfect for beginners to learn on. rocking chair for porchOnce they master the bunny slope they advance to Nansen by way of the Flying Mile lift. used dental chairs australia

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Length: 750 m/2,460 ft Lowell Thomas (YOC 1980) Length: 1132 m/3,731 ft Length: 321 m/1,053 ftLike a veteran athlete coming out of retirement to help the team, Chair 5 will be back in the lineup next season. Once a key player for the mountain, Chair 5 will be reassigned to a new position on our mountain’s chairlift squad—it’s moving from Ptarmigan Bowl to the East Rim adding more dimension to this exceptional team. In its rookie year, 1981, Chair 5 was a top draft pick out of CTEC (Cable Transportation Engineering Corporation), the hottest chairlift manufacturer at the time. Nicknamed the “High Five” lift, the chair gave skiers another way to get to the summit, as well as a way to keep skiing without going all the way to the base area. Chair 5 was a star player for several seasons, especially when lower mountain skiing was just meh. In 1985, another rookie, Chair 7, shared the limelight with Chair 5 as it added North Slope skiing and unloaded steps away from the new Summit House.

However the game changed in 1989 when a new player came to town to replace the retiring Chair 1, and sent Chair 5 to the bench. The ski area’s new star (the new Chair 1), a high-speed quad, cut the ride time of the original Chair 1 in half, thus making the “Chair 4 to Chair 5” trek less inviting. The 1990s were tough on Chair 5, playing less and less of a role on the team. Then in 1997 with the addition of 550 acres in Hellroaring Basin, the addition of Chair 8 and upgrade of Chair 7to a high-speed quad, Chair 5 found itself riding the bench most of the time. In the last two seasons, it has not seen a single play. Next year the game changes again as Chair 5 will be in play daily adding a pod of skiing on the east side of the resort. With a bottom terminal located at the intersection of Moe-Mentum and Russ’s Street, skiers from the North Bowl and as far as Flower Point via One Grand Parade and everything in between including the cliffs and chutes of East Rim, Moose and Evan’s Heaven and Lee’s Way can ride Chair 5 up instead of taking Russ’s Street.