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Lifts that are never open

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In The Story of Sugarloaf by John Christie, he talks about how the build instructions for the gondola were all in German, so the factory sent over one of their techs to help them with it... who didn't speak any English.
 

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In The Story of Sugarloaf by John Christie, he talks about how the build instructions for the gondola were all in German, so the factory sent over one of their techs to help them with it... who didn't speak any English.

Precisely. And locals were hired to install the lift with Christie leading it. None of them had ever installed anything close to a 6000 foot long gondola (or however long it was).
 
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