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Anyone know what that crane is up to?
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Ghost Dog, cranes normally lift big heavy things.
Top or bottom? Whatever it is it wasn't there two weeks ago.
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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 believe Penkenbahn is due for replacement soon, start of work on a new access lift???
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i believe Penkenbahn is due for replacement soon, start of work on a new access 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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Penkenbahn being replaced already, it's not even that old 
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1995-1996ish?
It's been called the "new" Penkenbahn lift for over a decade!
Other mountains in the valley have dual uplift (Kaltenbach and Zell am Ziller both have 2 parallel gondolas), so maybe Mayrhofen gets the same?
edit: all i can find is something saying that there might be a 2nd lift by 2014 and may or may not be an extension of the railway to Penkenbahn and/or Ahornbahn (the latter was moved a few years back?). Having the gondola and station within a short ski-boot clomp would not be a bad move imho.
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We cycled up the Mayrhofen main street today to have a look around and see what's changed... We didn't see a big crane next to the Penkenbahn, but there was one next to the Ahornbahn... Is that the one you mean? It looked like they're possibly building a shop with apartments above, though there wasn't anything to say that was what it was, so I guess it could be anything.
The Spar on the main street has moved a few metres down the street into a shiny new building, with a SportAlm shop where the old Spar was. There's also a shiny new building housing Die Roten Profis downstairs and Harakiri bar upstairs about 50m down the street from the Penkenbahn.
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Yes, there are two big yellow cranes on the car park side of the Ahorn. No idea what they're putting up.
The new Harakiri bar is simply one of the nicest bars in the alps and, word has it, they are going to convert the entire ground fllor into an apres ski bar rather than keep it ski hire and ski school. So expect Harakiri to try and take over from the Ice Bar when the lifts close. Evidently they spent an eye-watering amount of dosh pulling down the old building and putting up the new so alcohol is the obvious way to pay for it all.
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I have it on good authority that the cranes up are for other projects and that the proposed new lift may start construction in 2014. There are still some disagreements / traffic planning issues to resolve. I believe they had wanted to make the connection from the train to the lifts a bit more seamless.
James
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i meant to the left at the top (looking uphill from webcam).
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I imagine an eyewatering amouint of money was spent ruining (sorry, redeveloping) the Bruck n Stadl too. The building is stunning, but sadly souless. I suspect a change of DJ would help. I miss the old one, so much better than the Eisbar.
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To clarify more, it's sitting around about where the Pilz bar is. Cement tanky thing in view too. Looks like it is works to that building.
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IIRC the planning permission for an additional lift to the Penkenbahn is/was due to expire around now, so perhaps they are beginning the construction process now.
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You know it makes sense.
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i meant to the left at the top (looking uphill from webcam).
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They're extending the restaurant that was there. I can't remember what it looked like before but it is massive now.
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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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THought that was the case. There was an Umbrella Bar there, perhaps no longer.
Bob
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