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Both chairs and gondolas have advantages for lift operations. Gondolas offer protection from the elements and are particularly useful in rain or very cold conditions. They can also be used during the summer for walk-on guests, cyclists or wheelchairs, and in the winter for snowshoers. In the winter,
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Strandafjellet installed a Leitner Telemix lift in the summer of 2010. The lift has 3 six-passenger chairs followed by one eight-passenger gondola. The lift opened on February 12. 2011, and is the biggest chairlift in Scandinavia. The lift is 2100 metres long, has a 618
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To allow safe loading and unloading, stations have separate areas for the different carrier types. This may resembling a gondola station followed by a chairlift station, or vice versa – the overall length of the boarding area can be reduced by folding the station so that the gondolas are loaded on
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In Greece, the Ski Center of "Parnassos" has two hybrid ski lifts which combine eight-seater cabins and six-seater chairs. Aphrodite–Bacchus was built in 2014 and its total length is 2250 m. Hermes–Iniochos was built in 2015 in order to link two resorts together
Kellaria and Fterolaka. Its total
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A hybrid lift allows cabins and chairs to be used on the same lift line, changing the ratio as the rider load, season and weather conditions demand. On most hybrid lifts, during the winter season there are usually more chairs than cabins, for example, the hybrid lift at
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Victoria was the first Doppelmayr hybrid lift in the world. It has 106 chairs and 20 gondolas. The second to be built in Australia was the 1860-metre-long Crackenback (since renamed Kosciusko Express), built in 1990 at
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