{"id":791189,"date":"2018-12-11T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/copper-mountain-looks-to-open-american-flyer-by-christmas\/"},"modified":"2018-12-11T18:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T01:00:00","slug":"copper-mountain-looks-to-open-american-flyer-by-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/local-news\/copper-mountain-looks-to-open-american-flyer-by-christmas\/","title":{"rendered":"Copper Mountain looks to open American Flyer by Christmas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-style:italic;font-size:16px\">By  <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/local\/copper-mountain-looks-to-open-american-flyer-by-christmas\/\">Deepan Dutta<\/a><\/span>  Copper Mountain Resort is hoping to open its new American Flyer chair lift by Christmas. The announcement was made by Copper general manager Dustin Lyman in a video produced for Copper Mountain&#8217;s blog for the new Flyer and American Eagle chairlifts. In the video, Lyman said that the new Flyer, a Leitner Poma high-speed 6-person chair with bubble enclosures that will replace the old high-speed quad lift also known as the American Flyer.<br \/>\nLyman said that the new Flyer is missing a few critical pieces, including the splicing of the rope that connects the two ends of the haul rope together, a job that can only be done by a few people on the planet. Once that&#8217;s done, the lift will undergo electrical testing and safety testing by the Colorado Tramway Safety Board before opening for public use.<br \/>\n\u00ad\u2014 Deepan Dutta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/local\/copper-mountain-looks-to-open-american-flyer-by-christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Via:: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/local\/copper-mountain-looks-to-open-american-flyer-by-christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Copper Mountain looks to open American Flyer by Christmas\">Summit Daily<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copper Mountain Resort is hoping to open its new American Flyer chair lift by Christmas. The announcement was made by Copper general manager Dustin Lyman in a video produced for Copper Mountain&#8217;s blog for the new Flyer and American Eagle chairlifts. In the video, Lyman said that the new Flyer, a Leitner Poma high-speed 6-person chair with bubble enclosures that will replace the old high-speed quad lift also known as the American Flyer.<br \/>\nLyman said that the new Flyer is missing a few critical pieces, including the splicing of the rope that connects the two ends of the haul rope together, a job that can only be done by a few people on the planet. Once that&#8217;s done, the lift will undergo electrical testing and safety testing by the Colorado Tramway Safety Board before opening for public use.<br \/>\n\u00ad\u2014 Deepan Dutta <a href=\"https:\/\/www.summitdaily.com\/news\/local\/copper-mountain-looks-to-open-american-flyer-by-christmas\/\" target=\"_blank\" id=\"rssmi_more\"> &#8230;read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[99],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-791189","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-local-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 02:19:05","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}