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Doppelmayr has built Germany’s first combined lift in the ski region of Nesselwang in the Bavarian Allgäu (Germany). Called the Alpspitzbahn, it is the first lift with a mixture of quad chairs and 8-passenger gondolas. Skiers who want to keep their skies can go for a chair, and those wanting to be inside can take a gondola....See: http://www.ropeways.net/
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Maybe...maybe the first combo 4man/8man...
verbier has had a 6man/8man for 2 seasons though!
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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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rungsp,That was what I was going to say, but a closer look at the photo indicates - or does it? - that the German bubble/chair is all one structure, whereas in Verbier they send ordinary chairs up and then ordinary bubbles, more or less alternately.
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rungsp, you're right!
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It is the world‘s first installation with a mixture of quad chairs and 8-passenger gondolas, and at the same time Germany‘s first combined lift.
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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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davidof, That's what the Verbier one looks like, see above.
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Rothorn express at Zermatt is also the same type of lift, but techincally they are correct, all the previous lifts have been 6 seater chairs combined with the 8 seater gondola. they're called combi lifts, and are all the rage.
All of doppelmayr's top and bottom terminals have been standardized in the past few years- they're all what are called uni-global terminals. doesn't matter if you hang quads, six packs, or gondolas on the line, you start from the same terminal. The terminals are different lengths depending on the vertical rise of the lift, etc,etc.
So they're just talking symantics. There is a slight lowering of hourly capacity if they use quad chairs versus six seaters of course.
So why put in quad chairs instead of six packs? I'm not sure what the rationale was on the lift in this article- but if the lift services lower ability terrain, there will be fewer miss unloads if they use a quad versus a six pack. There can be a big difference in the theoretical hourly capacity, and the actual hourly capacity of a lift, if the lift has to stop often.
I think the big news for Doppelmayr today is the official announcement of the P2P lift between the Whistler Roundhouse, and the Blackcomb Rendezvous.....
4.4 km lift, 26 x28 passenger cabins
just over 3 km freespan between the middle two towers. (world record)
over 400m vertical height above the ground in the middle (world record)
Also the world's longest connected ropeway system, if you include the roundtrip circuit of taking the Whistler Gondola, the P2P, and then download on the Solarcoaster and Wizard chairlifts........
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el Hen, the link that you've posted claims that it is Germany's first such lift, not the world's.
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I would be interested to see the departure area 
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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Liam, the one at Zermatt has two departure areas.....one for the gondola and one for the chair. I suspect this will be similar.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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They,ve had a smaller version in Telluride for years called a Chondola .
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You know it makes sense.
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Sounds like a conveyance to complete a pub crawl.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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Hello,
Wow! that's very interesting and very exciting. Wish i could go there and try that lift... 
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