Bubble Blog: Delivery
We are expecting about 15 delivery trucks to arrive at Mount Snow by the beginning of next week carrying parts for the top and bottom terminals of the Bluebird Express. A few trucks have already arrived and work is currently underway to attach the grips (the mechanism that grips to the haul rope) to the hangers (the arm that connects the grip to the bubble chair).
At about 4:30 yesterday, a truck pulled into the lot containing half of one of the terminal tops…
And a bullwheel.
The next step is to attach the hanger and grip assemblies to the bubble chairs and get all 102 chairs onto the rail system in the Bird House (i.e., bubble chair storage barn).
The communication line has been strung along the tower tops from base to summit. The comm. line is what carries information from the sensors on each lift tower to the drive and also carries the phone line so that lift attendants at the top and bottom terminals can communicate.
The Bird House continues to look better and better each day. Much of the siding is up and crews are almost done putting down the tar paper and furring strips on the roof. All of this is being done to prepare for the installation of the metal roof.
We’ll continue to keep you posted! Can’t wait to see what the bubble chairs look like on the rail system inside the Bird House!
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you are doing a great job. we have been coming up and hiking all fall. you are just doing things all over the mountain. keep up the good work. we appreciate it. jim and sue
I like it mite dcome down this weekend for SNOWW!!!
In MA some of it already had snow. It almost or did break a record
Great update – thanks for keeping us all posted on the progress. Now we just need a little snow.
WOW THESE THINGS ARE MASIVE!! BUT BRINGS A SMILE TO MY FACE THAT THIS IS REALLY HAPPENING
Where is all the parts coming from?
Besides LP, but the location where they were made.
These parts are coming from Grand Junction, CO.
Given that by no means is Meeker a short guy, WOW is that bull wheel MASSIVE!!
Can’t wait to be looking up at it as I’m loading and/or unloading from the Bluebird in a few weeks!!
Do you find it ironic that a marketing guy is standing on the “Bull” wheel?
Haha!!! Good one, Vince. I speak nothing but the truth :-)
Is it snowing down in Vermont?
about 3″ at 7:30pm so far!
those are the most amanzing thing ever
NOT RELEATED BUT– You guys gunna have wireless internet this year? Wife goes with me and wants to use her iPad!!!
This would help me get more mt. time lol..
just like last year, we have a couple of different wi-fi networks in the base area and at carinthia that are free for guests to use.
in the base lodge? I thought we tried and there was no wireless there…. If so, awsome.
when will it open?I hope it opens for my familys ski trip
i saw this go through troy!
When will the summit cam be up?
I am the oversize load escort for Big Sky, who delivered most of these parts!
Its so nice to see the pieces and where they are going,
and the blog gave a lot of credit for what I and other Pilot Car Escorts do.
I did not bring the power plant in. I cant wait to be on the Bluebird Express!