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This is the new Rocco lift and it will be installed in a few weeks. A little grading and a couple of towers relocated, to the boneyard, and we will have the first new lift since the rope tow went away in 2005. We will be putting out a cry for help for assembly. There are more than a few pieces to this think adult Legos, but Team Service is sending an experienced guy to lead us through it all. He was here Sunday and he was ready to come back in a few weeks. He says it will work.
The new Rocco does not unload in the same spot as the old but downhill at just where the hill starts to steepen. I moved it here for a few reasons. First was the amount of dirt we would have to move to get a smooth even pitch was overwhelming. Fourteen feet of fill is a lot of dirt.
Second was we needed to have a much larger base area. Levels 1 & 2, SkyKids, and adult beginner lessons are a bunch of bodies in a small area. We just doubled the size may be more than doubled.
Third was Mack has widened the Chicken Chute a bunch. Between that and the chairlift bars, kids can ride the chairlift and use the backtrail sooner. It will work, but change always brings doubt. It was my call so point discussions here.
And so this is how Reno works. When it looked like this was going to happen and the lift was actually on its way here, Race Coach and former Chairman Chris Bender decided we needed a second carpet lift to replace the handle tow. Because of one of his friends and a little persuading, a second carpet is on its way from Italy. If it gets here before too much snow, we will have a pair to open with this season. This one starts and ends were the handle tow does. No more SkyKids Moms and Dads towing kids up the hill with a ski pole, just a moving sidewalk. (Summer of 2021. Handle tow moves to the terrain park on crane towers so it can be raised and lowered because of snow depth back there. If we call the carpet lifts Legos, then this idea is a Meccano Erector Set.)
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