Summit at Snoqualmie | Central Express [Night]

Alpine Bowl and Bonanza were 1960's Riblets, and they opened up terrain south of the area served by Single Chair. This included terrain all the way to the southernmost boundary currently at Summit Central. In 1988, Silver Fir was built to separate the area into two skiing pods. Because of how long Alpine Bowl and Bonanza were, they were elected for replacement with Snoqualmie's first two detachable lifts. In 1998, both were replaced with a single detachable quad, which continues to exist today.
Central Express is a Poma high speed quad. It uses second generation Challenger terminals, TB-41 detachable grips, and Omega-style lifting frames and sheaves. One unique feature are the Omega chairs, which were only used on a handful of Challenger-Era Poma detachables, before the Omega was fully introduced. This lift, while only by ~200 feet, is the shortest detachable at all of Summit at Snoqualmie, at a length of 3864 feet. It's also the shortest vertical detachable, at only 945 feet. The lines on this lift usually aren't too bad, so when this lift is eventually replaced, in the next 15 to 20 years most likely, they'll probably keep it a quad with the same capacity.
Timestamps:
0:00 Bottom Terminal
0:32 Ride Up
5:00 Top Terminal
Recorded on January 28th, 2022
GoPro Hero 10 Black, 4k Video Quality, 30 fps and Horizon Leveling

[@jamieyoungquist1373]

@Soren Jones this is a great lift

[@jamieyoungquist1373]

this lift can run as fast as armstrong at alpental sometimes but not super often

[@idahoskilifts4242]

Speed looks decent. A lot faster than the Summit Express at Tamarack. For a LPA lift, Summit Express has a very slow speed. Tamarack express which was built in the same year as Summit Express, runs a lot faster. Kinda confusing.

[@alpinevalleymodelskiarea7253]

This is not LPA

[@NortheasternP.T.S.]

@@alpinevalleymodelskiarea7253 he’s taking about a different lift

[@TwinSkiingLiftsRides]

Does this lift go any faster?

[@sorenjones]

I've never seen it run faster, so that's a flat-out NOPE. Welcome to Snoqualmie!

[@TwinSkiingLiftsRides]

@@sorenjones Man, lifts like Steamboat’s Sunshine Express run faster… these lifts need to pick up the pace a bit.