The hidden depths where gondolas are sheltered for the night

[@benkendall7403]

A few notes (being a lift mechanic myself 😉😀): 1. With modern lifts the majority have automatic garages (where the gondolas move themselves) but older lifts where it’s done by hand we leave the chairs / gondolas on the rope overnight if there’s no bad weather forecast 2: we have 2 different types of garages “umlaufgaragierung” and “stichgleis garagierung”, Umlauf you can Garage in and out whilst driving forward, stichgleis you can’t. 3: the 3 last gondolas we say Konvoi Great video! Really well made! 😀😀😀

[@lompstem]

Absolutely love these videos! Can't wait for the chairlift ones!

[@niklasxl]

this channel is really filling a hole in information about skilifts on youtube :D keep up the good work

[@OutdoorsWithShawn]

Many thanks to you, the director and Marcus for making this video happen. I enjoyed every bit of it. Informative, yet not boring at all. Thanks!

[@dodderss]

These videos are amazing! Also on a side note, look at the url for this video, that is super rare

[@sandro-here]

Hahaha not sure if I should be proud or ashamed, but it definitively fits my terrible jokes...

[@dodderss]

@@sandro-here Keep up the good work man, can't wait for the comparison video!

[@mountainhigh4084]

Fascinating gondola! Thanks much for all the cool detailed shots and explanation. Your hard work and perspective is much appreciated! Kudos to all those wonderful people that support your initiative!

[@Daniel-ve2sm]

Omg yes please, these videos are amazing! Looking forward to see another one. :)

[@giacomosanna7564]

mate, you just fulfilled all my geeky dreams of 35 years of skiing!!!! really looking forward to the chairlift video! bravo!!

[@ryanrichardson5951]

This is exactly the type of stuff I love to learn about. Your channel is perfect for me. I really appreciate all the effort you put into making your videos.

[@reamsel]

They are so kind to show you (and us) around. ☺️

[@Bushybowl]

Your videos and explanation are excellent. Glad that the staff gave you really good access too.

[@baptistepattyn7555]

Amazing to see this video! Have been there multiple times during summer. Wonderful region to go for some nice hikes.

[@charisseramientos681]

Thank you for your videos sir! I am currently working on my thesis and have insufficient reference about cable car systems, never in my life have I ridden a cable car and there is no cable car in my country 😅 your videos helped me a lot. God bless you sir!

[@russthebiker]

This is stunning, it moves so smoothly that you expect to hear Strauss playing in the background

[@roymitchell1721]

Thankyou. Your presentation style is very enjoyable. I dont often get the time to sit and let my youtube feed wander and the results are not always rewarding but I was drawn in by your approach and the entire piece was very absorbing!

[@kidrat22]

Thank you for these videos they are great

[@MatthewToyToy]

Love your videos! Very interesting and well produced with just the right amount of ocmmentary! Well done.

[@coenogo]

Having gone on countless numbers of these lifts over the years, I've had plenty of time to imagine how the systems work behind the scenes. It's so interesting to finally get such a good look at it!

[@musmuk5350]

This series of videos is absolutely awesome thank you very much

[@apetchell1]

This is wonderful, Marcus is so happy. We learnt a lot. Thanks

[@Alex_Eicher]

Liebei Grüessli … spannende Bitrat, mercii!

[@phatcowboy76]

This video is well done. Lots of good footage and well organized.

[@jadefalcon001]

This is wonderful! I had no idea that the Alpine ropeways garaged their gondolas at night (although on reflection it's quite sensible). You're a terrific documentarian, and your honest enthusiasm and curiosity is literally opening doors for you and as a result us, your viewers. I love these videos. I'm always happy to see one come up in my subscription feed. Bravo, sir!

[@Tomskii5]

Not all of them do though. In austria it's almost common practice, whereas in France for instance some ski area's have still pretty old gondolas that just keep hanging around during night in their ropeway position :)

[@miguelmarcos1971]

@@Tomskii5 Most gondolas are garaged because they're heavier than chairs and if wind got bad enough could be problematic. Since you speak abt france, i have to say i've seen the same thing.

[@TheKurtsPlaceChannel]

Love your videos. Thank you very much for posting this.

[@dosgos]

Fascinating documentary. Great video work and editing.

[@farandi]

Thanks a lot!!! what a coincidence, just discovered your videos, and tomorrow i will be skiing in Piztal!

[@DoryAbelman]

Amazing video! Makes me appreciate ski lifts and gondalas even more. Always wondered how they worked!

[@pratwurschtgulasch6662]

very cool :) also glad they let you film it all.

[@MiniStockpot]

Fascinating, thanks for such an in-depth video - cableways are amazing pieces of tech, getting to see their inner working is awesome!

[@ytzpilot]

I like the garaging on these machines, having it below the platform is good use of space

[@aaronwadzinski5761]

Love this series. Great detail and information. Well done presentation. Thank You.

[@BW-oe8ee]

Thank you so much for making this video!

[@craigeastwood9941]

Fascinating video and great commentary! Excellent job!

[@adamlucas1185]

I can't wait for the next video. I have always been curious about various ropeways

[@somemean-side2202]

AMAZING!! not often at all that we get to see so far into a ropeway like this. keep up the amazing work!

[@Shaken_AND_Stirred]

Really well done video. Like a mini documentary. Thanks for sharing. Cheers from Texas

[@RicoGalassi]

Wow...the engineering is spectacular

[@ferris2323]

I’m a lift mechanic and the newest lift at our resort is a doppelmayer which is about 5 years old now, and it’s neat to see how much has been updated between in that amount of time and that garage feature is incredible!

[@edosullivan7165]

Outstanding. I've been fascinated by these systems for years and had plenty of queries answered during your video. Good work! 👏

[@lifestrong03]

Awesome video!!! Can’t wait for the new video!

[@phlack1001]

This just popped up out of nowhere. Great job! Now to check out your other videos!

[@jddr.jkindle9708]

Great narrated technical video.

[@josephastier7421]

Love that fading motor sound when the drive is powered down.

[@ljprep6250]

Loved the poetic start. Gave me a laugh. I had no idea I would be immersed in the internals of an aerial tramway (American description) today. I'm a retired auto mechanic and handyman, so it was fascinating.

[@SandraWuerthner]

thx for the great video. when I was a teenager, I was also able to watch it (only seeing them going down into the garage) It was so intresting.

[@jix177]

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.

[@DAANoontje]

It's very fascinating to see the different systems in the garage on how the gondolas are stored.

[@cswalker21]

Oh, man Keystone used to only garage the gondos if it was going to snow. I worked the overnight shift cleaning at the top lodge and would take the gondola to work after the ski day was over. One evening I overslept and was running late. I rushed to the gondola which was still running. I thought I had made eye contact with the guy running it as I hurried on. About halfway up, the lift stopped, and just sat there for like 10 minutes. Then it started running backwards. When I got back to the bottom, they were quite surprised to see me. They said they weren't sure if they were going to garage them that night and I was just that close to spending the freezing night hanging from the line!

[@ke6gwf]

You get all the luck! Good thing you are good at turning the access into great videos! Lol I really appreciate how you show and talk through the different parts and mechanics of it, most videos on stuff like this are made by cinematographers rather than mechanically minded people, but you show the parts I want to see!

[@aljaz55]

I was always fascinated by those huge and complex machines. Thanks for the video, it is great! Can't wait for the next one 👍👍👍

[@sky173]

What an interesting channel. I hope to see more like this. Thanks for sharing.

[@distractionbucket7454]

I was on a ropeway the other day and was thinking I'd love to see all the mechanics behind it- thanks for such an informative video

[@stewarttaylor5522]

That was really interesting. As a skier and someone with interest in mechanical things, it was great to see how it all works. Thank you 👍

[@R3v3rso]

Thank you for your great videos!! can't wait for the next one

[@thethoeby]

Gondola videos we want - Gondola video we got. Keep up the good work. Also compliments to new narrator at the beginning ;)

[@KXY5]

Excellent video, it was very interesting, thank you!

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

Excellent presentation

[@kerrmapolice]

great video, and great url for it too!

[@joe24681012141618202]

Just want to say that these videos are great! Keep them coming!

[@Jonny_____]

Love this video, always been interested in various ski lifts throughout my life, having used the wildspitzbahn countless times a few years ago it’s fascinating to see behind the scenes

[@jeppekanstrup902]

This is SO COOL love it, keep up the good work

[@JoneKone]

Amazing :) thank you for making this video

[@sretenovic7844]

I been looking for this video for sooooo long. Everytime ive been to skiing i been wonderying where did cars go. Thank you and keep up with good work!

[@braydenweaver3937]

That is so cool and interesting! Great work getting all this footage and explanations, I've always been fascinated with gondolas and ski lifts

[@erikhrast1649]

Hi, I'm great fan of ropeway technologies and your channel is great. When I go skiining in Austria I spend an hour to observe this systems :)

[@Bigc847]

This is excellent. Well done! Looking forward to your chairlift comparison video. I regularly get laughed at during skiing holidays when everyone is looking at the scenery and I'm looking at the lift machinery :-) I just wish I had the language skills to go and ask for a tour like you do. If you can find a gondola system with two ropes (Funival?) then that'd be fascinating. Or a cable car system, with fixed track ropes and seperate haul rope. Thanks for taking requests!

[@ErikN1]

Thank you for showing this stuff that we usually don't get to see. Super interesting! I would also be interested in seeing the gondolas being taken out of the garage and attached to the rope again. It looked like there may be some manual pushing to get them out of the "garage lanes"

[@jaapdegraaf8947]

Great video thanks for all the interesting info!

[@panfilipelkooriginal]

Please make more videos i just love this...

[@gkhar2]

Absolutely great. This is so fascinating. I love your vids. 👍

[@derups]

Love your videos! I definitely share your passion for these wonderful machines :)

[@jakob1254]

Sehr cooler Kanal die Videos sind echt interessant.

[@skinsfan442]

Very well done!

[@robm509]

What a fascinating video! I enjoy skiing in Europe and I always wonder how this stuff works. Thank you. ;)

[@ktk0perry]

Lovely video keep it up !

[@EstorilEm]

These are so cool, I was absolutely fascinated by the operation as a kid - my parents would have to yell at me to hurry up and not miss the lift because I’d be looking up staring at the operation of everything. 🤣

[@arthurbrumagem3844]

That place exceeds my skiing ability ten times over

[@MeowFoxie]

Thanks for these videos. I've always been curious of how these work.

[@timwecera409]

Tolles Video 👏🏻

[@Infarlock]

I just came back from Mayrhofen in Austria and I was wondering the same, didn't even look for this video or on this topic at all and it came up as a recommendation, my phone listens wtf

[@LiamLlamaEVEC]

I love your channel! Thank you for the amazing videos :D 👍👍

[@seannot-telling9806]

Very cool. Thanks

[@Panakotta000]

Dude... you are Ropway technician KZbinr xD I would really be happy if you kinda... do many more of these... like... vistining a "Pendelbahn" and how it works... how a modern 3S works... how about a Funitel or a Funifor... I cant wait for more videos!

[@sandro-here]

Pendelbahn is on the list and 3S and Funiculaire might follow eventually

[@johnkruton9708]

Wow. Thank you so much for you content. As a skier half a world away my only big resort lift experience is Whistler Blackomb in Whistler, BC. Canada. So to see Austria tech is so cool and awesome. It would be so cool to vacation there a week and ski in the future.

[@Bigc847]

Austrian tech not so different to your Whistler tech. The peak to peak gondola was built by Doppelmayr Garaventa also. Different design, but very similar tech. That said, come skiing in Europe if you get a chance. The experience is very different!

[@jonieeeeeeeeeeeeeeee]

The lift guy was such a nice guy

[@ziezo2000]

Great video. I was juist wondering how The gondolas derailed as i’m in Austria on a ski holiday. Right on time Thanks..

[@khatske]

I like these videos and like to learn about gondolas.

[@RobbieHatley]

Another fascinating video from you, I see. Ok, time to subscribe... done. I like your intro section on this one ("When daylight fades and darkness descends upon the land..."); sounds like the first two minutes of a well-made vampire movie. 🙂

[@BuzzinsPetRock78]

Lovely video, and very interesting to see, even if I only use these things in summer....not much of a wintersport kind of person myself :) And you got to love the Austrian accent, it sounds so much better to us Dutch folk....

[@TwinSkiingLiftsRides]

Just finished skiing at Snowbird and came across this vid 😁

[@reylanddude]

Great video :D love the tech talk. Would love if you made a clip on a bigger single cabin ropeway 🤩

[@BowserHasFun]

At Northstar California Resort, the cabins on the Big Springs Express Gondola are sheltered each night.

[@airline.pictures]

This was really cool! I love skiing and I always wanted to know what the garaging procedure was.

[@rublie1426]

Wow that was an awesome video! I have a question: At 2:30 you can see metal plates that are covering the top poles of the lift. I have seen these on many ski lifts including chairlifts as well, and I have always wondered what they are for. They are always only covering the highest poles of the ski lift, never have I seen the plates on earlier poles. Do you have any idea what purpose they serve? At first I thought they might offer protection against people touching the poles with their skis, but then they wouldn't be on a gondola lift. Maybe they are intended for when the gondolas swing back and forth a lot, but then why do lower poles that are more in the wind not have the plates? I am very curious haha

[@TheTimmy376]

Good question. They serve to reflect sunlight, thereby keeping the towers from expanding unevenly (and thus curving sideways) due to solar heating. This expansion is tolerable on most towers, but not on those directly in front of the terminal, as it would adversely affect the position of the rope at the station entry and exit sheaves. You won't see it at towers near the bottom terminal either, because they are usually so short as to not suffer from excessive expansion.

[@rublie1426]

@@TheTimmy376 aha that is really interesting! I would never have guessed that thermal expansion from solar heating could be so significant for these structures. Thanks!

[@mrc109]

How often do they have to add air pressure to all those pneumatic tires? I assume they use innertube's as a tubeless arrangement would probably be a safety concern?

[@TP-jt2cm]

Sehr interessant 🤩

[@the_retag]

I just went skiing in pitztal as well!

[@patrikskala8900]

Love it very interesting

[@Randomthings40901]

Where I live which is Utah you will see hundreds of gondola’s whenever you go into to the mountains

[@thomasvandevelde6332]

Hi @Kalsan15, what brand are the Valais branded ski's you have?

[@sandro-here]

It's an RTC with custom design. The model is Race and I highly recommend it 😁