Sugarloaf Chair -Breaking News-

[Black Phantom]

Lift derailment. People down. This is bad.

On CNN now.

Prayers to all involved...

 

[meff]

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/28/skiers-fall-from-chairlift-at-maine-resort/?hpt=T2 is the web posting.

Hope everyone is OK and can stay warm as possible while waiting for the evac.

 

[wa-loaf]

Any clue what lift it is?

 

[Black Phantom]

Any clue what lift it is?

Spillway

 

[Katahdin]

Any clue what lift it is?

Looks like Spillway:

http://www.sugarloaftoday.com/chat/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=3940

 

[dmc]

they are going on an eyewitness on the chair right now...

The mountain is saying it's going to take an hour to get everyone off.

 

[wa-loaf]

That doesn't look good:

 

[Trigger]

im watching now. Man, that is bad

 

[meff]

Yikes that looks real bad - if its only the 8 minor injuries that they posted over on facebook it will be amazing.

 

[wlopowski]

Wow, that doesn't look good at all from the photo. I remember the Whiffletree quad used to break down all the time when it was new and they would have to evacuate people with ropes but that was more a power problem, not the actual chair line falling. Prayers to all involved, fingers crossed nobody is seriously hurt.

 

[thetrailboss]

Yikes. Terrible. Prayers and thoughts for those involved.

 

[WJenness]

Wow!

Positive thoughts to all involved!

I wonder how it happened...

-w

 

[WJenness]

Boston's Channel 5 has a story up:

http://www.thebostonchannel.com/news/26299463/detail.html

-w

 

[drjeff]

Fingers crossed! Hope that it wasn't a situation where they we're trying to push things wind wise

 

[severine]

Just saw it on the news. Hope those who are injured are not seriously injured.

 

[TheBEast]

Wow, hope everyone makes it off ok. Tough to have this kind of thing happen, especially during the holiday week.

 

[bobbutts]

oh no..

 

[The Sneak]

lots of posts on the loaf facebook page

http://www.facebook.com/sugarloaf/posts/139379239453334

 

[wa-loaf]

Watching CNN is almost a free advert for Sugarloaf. Talking about how quick and professional the response was and then they were basically reading the marketing materials (only above tree line lift serviced, vert stats, largest, etc...) and playing a bunch of powder videos from the website.

 

[The Sneak]

loaf was my hill in college and will forever by my favorite/feel like 'home'..but even just yesterday I was saying how it badly needs some $ for updating. hopefully everyone is ok- according to the press release they are. apparently fox news reported fatalities? wtf.