Harmless chairlift accidents

[Watatic Skier]

Got a nice big black and blue on the top of my calf from Madonna I and Sterling nailing me every time I got on this past weekend at Smuggs. Somebody gotta tell the lifties to brace the chair when people are loading, or maybe next time I will have to do a better job at jumping on! Otherwise, the skiing was great! What a great mountain.

This is one of my biggest pet peeves while skiing, lifties who don't know how to load fixed grips. It can really ruin a good day of skiing if you aren't prepared for the hit.

One time at Wachusett my binding got caught up in a snowboard from the guy next to me. The unload did not go well

[MEtoVTSkier]

I had to be lowered from a lift that failed at Mt Snow. It was a long time ago so I don't remember it that well I was probably in my very early teens. I think it was just a power issue. Was on the lift for about an hour while they went top to bottom and roped people down.

I too was lowered from a lift at Mt. Snow. January 31, 1987. A couple of the hangers between the grips and cabin mounts, failed, on the last summit skis-on double seat gondola dropping two cars to the ground and jamming a handful of others at a tower. There were only two cars between us and the affected cars, we figured that it would have been one alternation in line and it would have been us. Eventually they roped us down, and that lift was shut down, and cars removed from the cable, for the rest of the season. I believe the next year it became the first High-Speed Quad there.

I've got some pictures somewhere, I should find them and scan them in, although not sure how the quality of the old Kodak Disk pictures were back then.

[Nick]

[QUOTE=MEtoVTSkier;695758]I too was lowered from a lift at Mt. Snow. January 31, 1987. A couple of the hangers between the grips and cabin mounts, failed, on the last summit skis-on double seat gondola dropping two cars to the ground and jamming a handful of others at a tower. There were only two cars between us and the affected cars, we figured that it would have been one alternation in line and it would have been us. Eventually they roped us down, and that lift was shut down, and cars removed from the cable, for the rest of the season. I believe the next year it became the first High-Speed Quad there.

I've got some pictures somewhere, I should find them and scan them in, although not sure how the quality of the old Kodak Disk pictures were back then.[/QUOTE

I wonder if that was the same time I was there then .... I would have been seven years old.

[Smellytele]

This is one of my biggest pet peeves while skiing, lifties who don't know how to load fixed grips. It can really ruin a good day of skiing if you aren't prepared for the hit.

One time at Wachusett my binding got caught up in a snowboard from the guy next to me. The unload did not go well

Put your hand down and catch the seat yourself to avoid this.

[bvibert]

Put your hand down and catch the seat yourself to avoid this.

Yup, sometimes you need to take matters into your own hands.

[Glenn]

When loading a fixed grip, I always look back and grab the side bar...or seat.

[Gnarcissaro]

Wahh Wahh Wahhhh!!

How about being a big boy/girl and bumping your own chair with your hand. I know I'm not the only one who does this.

You think most lifties, who make peanuts, give a flying "F" about your legs getting hit? If anything, it helps their boring day go by watching clowns get jacked up loading/unloading the chair.

Edit: After reading the last few replies, it appears I am not.

[steamboat1]

Put your hand down and catch the seat yourself to avoid this.

Do this all the time myself. It becomes a habit after awhile.

I still thank the liftie after loading.

[C-Rex]

Wahh Wahh Wahhhh!!

How about being a big boy/girl and bumping your own chair with your hand. I know I'm not the only one who does this.

You think most lifties, who make peanuts, give a flying "F" about your legs getting hit? If anything, it helps their boring day go by watching clowns get jacked up loading/unloading the chair.

Edit: After reading the last few replies, it appears I am not.

A lot of us were thinking it. We just didn't feel the need to be a dick about it.

I was on a school ski trip in high school and a guy from my class decided it would be funny to jump in the net in front of the unload platform at sundown. He ended up getting tangled in it and it took like a half hour for the lifties and ski patrol to get him out. They pulled his pass (with good reason). And then he had to sit in the lodge until the bus left while everyone gave him a hard time about it.

[Watatic Skier]

Wahh Wahh Wahhhh!!

How about being a big boy/girl and bumping your own chair with your hand. I know I'm not the only one who does this.

You think most lifties, who make peanuts, give a flying "F" about your legs getting hit? If anything, it helps their boring day go by watching clowns get jacked up loading/unloading the chair.

Edit: After reading the last few replies, it appears I am not.

No need to be like that, I do block it all the time, but it is rather silly to see lifties who spend the entire time just standing there. It would be nice if they at least tried.