Mount Pisgah's New Lift

New Pisgah lift towers arrive

August 4, 2011
By CHRIS KNIGHT - Senior Staff Writer, Adirondack Daily Enterprise

SARANAC LAKE - A flatbed tractor trailer delivered the towers for Mount Pisgah Ski Center's new T-bar lift late Wednesday morning.

The steel towers, which were manufactured in Salt Lake City, Utah, were unloaded by a village front-end loader and placed in the grass along what will be the ski hill's new lift line, where they'll sit until they're installed later this month.

"This is a milestone," Pisgah Manager Charlie Martin said as the towers were moved off the flatbed. "It's real now."

The village is purchasing the new lift from Doppelmayr CTEC for $374,769. It will replace a 1940s-era T-bar that was removed from the mountain in pieces over the last few months.

The concrete foundations have already been poured for the six towers and the bull wheels at the base and top of Pisgah. Martin said the village is now waiting on the remaining equipment, motors and shims for the new lift, which are being shipped here from Austria and have to go through customs in Manhattan. A crew from Doppelmayr CTEC will be here the week after next to help install the towers.

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