It does look like those pictures were taken relatively close to eachother and from that picture the loop appears to be gone.
The only thing is, I don't know if it's the angle or not, but Combat's picture looks like the middle of the lift hill is in front of the loop, while Shman's looks closer to the bottom. I'm not sure what effect that would have on whether or not you could see the loop, but that is just something I noticed.