New lifts for Colorado ski resorts

Access to Vail's back bowls will be much faster this season
Two new lifts are being installed in Colorado ski resorts that offer welcome news for the coming season.
Fans of Vail’s back bowls will enjoy faster access to their favourite powder stash with the replacement of the slow Sun Up triple chair with a high-speed quad.
That means that all major chairlifts on Vail mountain will now be high-speed. The new Sun Up chair will increase capacity by 65% to 2,400 people an hour and cut the ride time in half to make it four minutes.
Elsewhere in Colorado, in the cowboy town of Steamboat the slow Elkhead quad chairlift is being replaced by a high-speed quad that will shift more people and cut the ride time by more than half.
This new quad should greatly reduce the queues that build up for it at lunchtime and the end of the day as people return to the main slopes above the town after skiing the Sunshine and Priest Creek slopes.
Steamboat also tells us that the new lift is expected to have safety bars, unlike the lift it replaces.
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