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Re Pichpich's category change - a lift inherently goes up, a tramway goes along...though I can think of tramways that do go up...there isnt' a "gondola" subcat for "lifts" is there? Point is this is a high-altitude traverse, not a lift from base up; or do the categories overlap because otherwise they seem redundant, or subject to vague definition. Skookum1 ( talk) 03:06, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
The text says explicitly, and more than once, that the cables arrived via Vancouver, Washington, which really surprises me. Extra costs, customs conveyance, Vancouver BC traffic, the difficulties of the Howe Sound Highway etc....I'm not doubting that this is the way it was done, since someone's being so explicit here, but can anyone say why they were shipped via Vancouver WA and not via a closer port to Whistler. Namely, in fact, via Squamish, which is a deep-water port and also a location which wouldn't have involved trucking the cable through Vancouver BC's nightmarish traffic (or Seattle's, for that matter) and via the twisty and narrow Squamish Highway/Sea-to-Sky Highway. Just seems to have been a big waste of money, i.e. in extra shipping costs. Can someone here explain please? Or should it have been Vancouver BC all along? Skookum1 ( talk) 14:49, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
"The Port of Vancouver USA owns the largest mobile harbour crane in North America. The port’s heavy-lift mobile harbour crane – a Liebherr LHM500 – is capable of lifting 140 metric tons, or the equivalent of two space shuttles."
Source: http://www.peak2peakgondola.com/news/?p=26 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.146.132.75 ( talk) 04:12, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
This article says it's a gondola however per per per per per these images it is a funitel. However I still don't want to change it at the moment...help? K50 Dude ROCKS! 03:18, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Nope, it is not a funitel. Funitels have 4 cables, 2 sets which are spread out so that the cabins are supported on both sides. This is a gondola, with 2 sets of 3 cables that are very close together and above the center of each cabin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.146.132.207 ( talk) 05:22, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
I rode the gondola yesterday. Two channels of trees were cleared on the mountain beneath the gondola under the path of travel. The channels are very wide. Can anyone say why? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jakehansen ( talk • contribs) 17:52, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
The trees were cut for the cable-stringing process. Straw lines (smaller wire rope used to pull the final tramway ropes) had to be laid on the ground and dragged across the ground initially. The trees were felled in such a way that they acted as a protective layer for the wire ropes. 8,000 trees down, 5 wire ropes up. The fallen trees have been winched out of the way, at least on the south-facing slope, and chipped in order to reduce fire potential. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ttoesen ( talk • contribs) 17:33, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
I'm concerned about the huge amount of changes made in this series of edits, among which were the name-move from Peak 2 Peak Gondola to the all-caps version now in place. There's too much replaced/wiped to compare to the newly-rewritten material, but the user contributions for User:Crystalmountainskier, which are nearly all Doppelmayr-related, suggest to me that these edits are COI in nature ,as is the "re-branding" of the pagename - which may or may not abide by WP:NAME; I'll "kick this upstairs" for a verdict on that name change. A lot of what was replaced was uncited anyway; but all the new material is uncited, other than the general link to the gondola's official website and the existing reference-links. This rewrite appears to be part of a p.r. drive in coordination with the opening of the gondola, and so I added the advert switch as well. Skookum1 ( talk) 01:44, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Crystalmountainskier ( talk) 04:22, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
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Re Pichpich's category change - a lift inherently goes up, a tramway goes along...though I can think of tramways that do go up...there isnt' a "gondola" subcat for "lifts" is there? Point is this is a high-altitude traverse, not a lift from base up; or do the categories overlap because otherwise they seem redundant, or subject to vague definition. Skookum1 ( talk) 03:06, 19 October 2008 (UTC)
The text says explicitly, and more than once, that the cables arrived via Vancouver, Washington, which really surprises me. Extra costs, customs conveyance, Vancouver BC traffic, the difficulties of the Howe Sound Highway etc....I'm not doubting that this is the way it was done, since someone's being so explicit here, but can anyone say why they were shipped via Vancouver WA and not via a closer port to Whistler. Namely, in fact, via Squamish, which is a deep-water port and also a location which wouldn't have involved trucking the cable through Vancouver BC's nightmarish traffic (or Seattle's, for that matter) and via the twisty and narrow Squamish Highway/Sea-to-Sky Highway. Just seems to have been a big waste of money, i.e. in extra shipping costs. Can someone here explain please? Or should it have been Vancouver BC all along? Skookum1 ( talk) 14:49, 11 December 2008 (UTC)
"The Port of Vancouver USA owns the largest mobile harbour crane in North America. The port’s heavy-lift mobile harbour crane – a Liebherr LHM500 – is capable of lifting 140 metric tons, or the equivalent of two space shuttles."
Source: http://www.peak2peakgondola.com/news/?p=26 —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.146.132.75 ( talk) 04:12, 10 January 2009 (UTC)
This article says it's a gondola however per per per per per these images it is a funitel. However I still don't want to change it at the moment...help? K50 Dude ROCKS! 03:18, 29 January 2009 (UTC)
Nope, it is not a funitel. Funitels have 4 cables, 2 sets which are spread out so that the cabins are supported on both sides. This is a gondola, with 2 sets of 3 cables that are very close together and above the center of each cabin. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 137.146.132.207 ( talk) 05:22, 28 February 2009 (UTC)
I rode the gondola yesterday. Two channels of trees were cleared on the mountain beneath the gondola under the path of travel. The channels are very wide. Can anyone say why? —Preceding unsigned comment added by Jakehansen ( talk • contribs) 17:52, 13 April 2009 (UTC)
The trees were cut for the cable-stringing process. Straw lines (smaller wire rope used to pull the final tramway ropes) had to be laid on the ground and dragged across the ground initially. The trees were felled in such a way that they acted as a protective layer for the wire ropes. 8,000 trees down, 5 wire ropes up. The fallen trees have been winched out of the way, at least on the south-facing slope, and chipped in order to reduce fire potential. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ttoesen ( talk • contribs) 17:33, 21 June 2009 (UTC)
I'm concerned about the huge amount of changes made in this series of edits, among which were the name-move from Peak 2 Peak Gondola to the all-caps version now in place. There's too much replaced/wiped to compare to the newly-rewritten material, but the user contributions for User:Crystalmountainskier, which are nearly all Doppelmayr-related, suggest to me that these edits are COI in nature ,as is the "re-branding" of the pagename - which may or may not abide by WP:NAME; I'll "kick this upstairs" for a verdict on that name change. A lot of what was replaced was uncited anyway; but all the new material is uncited, other than the general link to the gondola's official website and the existing reference-links. This rewrite appears to be part of a p.r. drive in coordination with the opening of the gondola, and so I added the advert switch as well. Skookum1 ( talk) 01:44, 26 April 2009 (UTC)
Crystalmountainskier ( talk) 04:22, 26 April 2009 (UTC)