Gaper

[BenedictGomez]

The lifties were actually at fault for that poor bastard as the bench part of the seat was flipped up and they never put it down for them to load on.

Guy literally got on and fell through while the kid caught himself.

I didnt even know that lift benches flipped up to a vertical position?

My guess (without seeing your explanation of what actually happened) was that the pic was staged.

 

[drjeff]

I didnt even know that lift benches flipped up to a vertical position?

My guess (without seeing your explanation of what actually happened) was that the pic was staged.

The seats do flip up to the vertical position, and can even be removed. Heck, back in the day what used to be done every night as a lift was shutting down was instead of putting a "last chair" sign on a chair and running it until it made it from the base upto the summit, was the lifties used to flip up the seats on every chair. When that was all done, they knew that it was okay to shut the lift down for the night, then the next morning they flip them down as the lift was warming up. Also made it easy if it snowed overnight as they wouldn't need to clean off each and every seat.

The pic did check out as legit last year

 

[billski]

I didnt even know that lift benches flipped up to a vertical position?

My guess (without seeing your explanation of what actually happened) was that the pic was staged.

nada

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,477385,00.html

 

[bvibert]

The seats do flip up to the vertical position

Not on all lifts, just some.

 

[4aprice]

The seats do flip up to the vertical position, and can even be removed. Heck, back in the day what used to be done every night as a lift was shutting down was instead of putting a "last chair" sign on a chair and running it until it made it from the base upto the summit, was the lifties used to flip up the seats on every chair. When that was all done, they knew that it was okay to shut the lift down for the night, then the next morning they flip them down as the lift was warming up. Also made it easy if it snowed overnight as they wouldn't need to clean off each and every seat.

The pic did check out as legit last year

Ah the old days. Remember skiing down say Morse at Smuggs and seeing that there was no chance of a last run as the seats were being raised on the chair.

I once had a seat turn up just before loading because of a wind gust at Cloud 9 chair at Snowbird. I probably could have riden up on the frame but jumped off right after loading.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[from_the_NEK]

Had to be strategic to capture this one:

 

[marcski]

Had to be strategic to capture this one:

What's wrong with that Snowboarder. He doesn't seem that gaperish to me.

 

[AdironRider]

Ah the old days. Remember skiing down say Morse at Smuggs and seeing that there was no chance of a last run as the seats were being raised on the chair.

I once had a seat turn up just before loading because of a wind gust at Cloud 9 chair at Snowbird. I probably could have riden up on the frame but jumped off right after loading.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

Ive seen it happen alot more out west where it naturally snows more. Makes the lifties morning a little easier I would guess rather than shoveling a couple feet of powder off every chair on a powder day.