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Ski chair lift at Whitefish, Mont, spans 6887 ft and rises 2027 ft to peak of 6680 ft high Big Mountain; lift has capacity of 530 passengers/hr with 117 double chairs and 31 steel tubular towers; installation of 14,000 ft wire rope; construction of lower and upper terminals and 27 ton concrete and steel counterbalance at bottom to keep rope taut; work included clearing 300,000 ft of timber from slopes and leveling by dozer.
Ski chair lift at Whitefish, Mont, spans 6887 ft and rises 2027 ft to peak of 6680 ft high Big Mountain; lift has capacity of 530 passengers/hr with 117 double chairs and 31 steel tubular towers; installation of 14,000 ft wire rope; construction of lower and upper terminals and 27 ton concrete and steel counterbalance at bottom to keep rope taut; work included clearing 300,000 ft of timber from slopes and leveling by dozer.
Big mountain gets lift
Pac Bldr Engr
Browning, B. (author)
1961
3 pages
Article (Journal)
English
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