 Poster: A snowHead
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It's summer. I can ask silly questions.
How hard is it to add a midstation to a pre-existing gondola?
I ask because a fairly new one at Winklmoos in Germany always bugs me.
It goes up one side of a hill and down the other to deliver you to the bottom chair of the main ski area.
The hill is very skiable and you'd end up at another lift if you could ski down it from the top of the hill.
I do realise its never going to happen!
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I think the biggest problem will be persuading them to let you, or, alternatively, distracting them for long enough.
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I think this is what is known as a "First-World Problem" 
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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or an ideal motivation to find more out about ski touring skins?
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How hard - not that hard really.
How cheap - really rather expensive, which is why you only usually get a middle station when a gondola needs to change direction, so is actually two gondolas with a system to take the cars off one cable and transfer them to the other. It would be possible to have a middle station on a stright cable too, but if you think about it cost-wise the physical stations are one of the most expensive parts of the build, so you'd be talking about 30% more with a middle station, and for a single run that's never going to add up. If it could be used to open up a new area of the mountain then some resorts would consider it, but it would be very much down to the resort in question.
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