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Cable and chairlift parts at the bottom of the Coyote trail Wednesday are ready to be assembled while crews install lift towers at Lost Valley Ski Area in Auburn. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

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One of the eight new lift towers is ready to be installed Wednesday morning, foreground, on the Coyote trail as crews work to hoist another at Lost Valley Ski Area in Auburn. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Workers maneuver a lift tower Wednesday morning on the Coyote trail as an excavator sets it down on it’s base at Lost Valley Ski Area in Auburn. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Workers carry blocking to set under a lift tower Wednesday morning on the Coyote trail as an excavator sets it down to reposition the straps before hoisting it onto it’s foundation at Lost Valley Ski Area in Auburn. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Workers hike up the Coyote trail Wednesday morning as an excavator carries a lift tower to it’s base at Lost Valley Ski Area in Auburn. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Giant bolts set in a concrete block wait for the last tower to be installed on it Wednesday at Lost Valley Ski Area in Auburn. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
The sun peaks out Wednesday morning on the bullwheel atop the newly installed return terminal where skiers disembark the lift at the top of Lost Valley Ski Area in Auburn. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal
Lost Valley Ski Area General Manager John Herrick looks out Wednesday morning at the new, third chairlift being installed, right at the Auburn ski area. In the middle is the original chairlift. Russ Dillingham/Sun Journal

A lifelong resident of Lewiston, Russ stumbled into photography as a college student working toward a career in psychology. His great-grandfather Louis B. Costello was the publisher of the Lewiston Daily...