Bottom Terminal

The bottom terminal and control buildings are being constructed as we speak. Just about everything we need to finish the lift project is onsite. We are still waiting for chairs, they are still on their boat ride. Stay tuned. 

A great day in the Village

The Doppelmayr crew is placing all of the towers and bull wheels for the new Cannon Valley Quad chairlift today.  Today was almost as exciting as a great powder day in the Village...almost.  Perfect weather and a beautiful backdrop for today's work. 

After today, the crew will now leave for a couple weeks and then be back around the end of the month.  Like everything else in the shipping world right now, we are also waiting on the rest of this chairlift. The bottom and terminal should arrive in a couple weeks or so and then shortly after that the chairs should arrive. Rest assured, Doppelmayr and Welch Village are working as fast as they can to complete this project. 

Some shots from a very exciting day. 

Doppelmayer crew is here

The lift building crew from Doppelmayer has been on site now for a few days and they hard at work building the new Cannon Valley Quad Chairlift. This is the crew that will finish the lift building process. Deliveries of lift parts & equipment are arriving daily. Towers are painted and resting in their final positions on the hill. It’s pretty cool to see this huge project enter this stage in development. Stay tuned for more updates. 

Towers & Rope!

The towers for the new Cannon Valley Quad chairlift arrived first thing this morning. The haul rope for the lift arrived earlier this week. And…we have received word that the crew from Doppelmayer that will build the rest of the lift will arrive late next week. Once that crew begins their work, this project will really begin to ramp up. Stay tuned for a more steady diet of new lift updates through the month of October! 

The final pour

The last big concrete pour in the construction of the new Cannon Valley Quad chairlift happened today as two trucks filled the bottom column of the bottom terminal with a two trucks and a pump. On top of this column will sit the bull wheel and bottom gantry of the new chairlift.  Pretty soon now, we’ll turn over the majority of the remaining work on the lift construction to the Doppelmayer crew. Really exciting to see this new quad chairlift take shape on the east side of the Village!

Pouring the bottom terminal footings

A lot of ready mix was poured today thanks to our friends at Four Corners in Hastings, MN. Close to 30 yards from three trucks to be exact as we poured one of the footings for the bottom terminal area of the new chairlift. 

We are still in schedule with the new lift project. There will be one more additional pour for the bottom terminal area and the two pours for two more towers. That will conclude a huge phase of this project. 

Right on schedule

More pouring, more footings, and a lot of progress happening with our big summer new chairlift project. There are just a couple of tower footings left to pour and the bottom terminal footing. Our crew is right on schedule with this huge project and I can’t wait to see the finished product.