The top terminal for the new Tomichi Lift is taking shape. The enclosure assembly has been constructed and we can really start to see how incredible this new lift is going to be.
The construction on the top motor room for the new Tomichi Lift is underway. This includes the installation of the 250 horsepower motor, gearbox, and drive bullwheel. These components will run the triple chairs (carriers) up and down the 2908 linear foot lift line. The crew from Skytrac contracted with our local crane operators over at Terry’s Crane & Rigging…
The drive and return bullwheels for the new Tomichi Lift are here! These bullwheels are 12′ in diameter and the haul rope will spin around these bad boys. Very soon the top drive motor, bullwheel, and motor room enclosure will be installed and it will really start to look like we have a new lift going in.
The haul rope for the new lift in No Name Basin has arrived and is now on site at Monarch. This rope is manufactured by Fatzer AG in Switzerland who specializes in producing and distributing high quality steel wire rope around the globe. The haul rope for our new lift is comprised of twenty-five individual wires in each of the…
The teams from Skytrac, Timberline Helicopters, and Monarch Mountain worked a solid day this week flying in the concrete for the tower foundations. It took nine concrete trucks arriving at Monarch to fill each bucket one at a time. From the fill station, the buckets were then flown out to the backside of the mountain. Due to our high elevation…
With the top foundation work complete, the crew from Skytrac has started hanging the first few pieces of steel for the top drive terminal. Like any major construction project, there is so much work that goes in below the ground. It always seems to take a long time and much of it is hidden from sight after the process. Once…
Lowry Contracting has reached the bottom of No Name Basin with the construction of our service road. This team now turns to grading the bottom terminal area. This area will include the return terminal for the lift, operator house, RFID gates, lift mazes, vault toilets, a warming hut, and ingress/egress for skies/riders. In order to accommodate all of these critical…
The top terminal foundation for the new lift in No Name Basin is coming together. The concrete for this foundation is poured in two separate events. The slab or spread footer is poured first a few weeks earlier. This footer will be completely underground and provides the base for the foundation. Secondly, the vertical column concrete is poured. The rebar…
There is an amazing complex of wetlands in No Name Basin with the majority of these located within the tree islands or bordering trail edges. The trail network and our project implementation plan were designed to work around these riparian areas while preserving their ecological function and special character. This included avoiding these zones all together with trail design and…
Exciting times at Monarch with the new No Name Basin trail map having been recently released and the updated front-side map yet to come. With that in mind, I wanted to refresh our readers on a bit of our trail map history with some posts I put out in previous years. I blogged about some of our earlier maps several…