What's your worst lift ride story?

[Abubob]

it was way too busy to start an argument, especially when my complaint was about arguing.

:lol:

 

[mediamogul]

My first day ever on snow i was 11 years old on a ski trip with my school to Catamount. I fell off the lift before it reached the top station and got caught in the net. They had to stop the lift and fish me out for 10 mins. My friends all stood there laughing the whole time. It was completely my fault, I think we were trying to see who could touch snow first and I won.

 

[2sons]

Was it on the magic carpet there?

 

[millerm277]

Killington, Superstar Lift. Almost at the top, the lift comes to a shuddering halt. Ten minutes pass, I look back down the line and see they've closed off the corral and there's a bunch of snowmobiles there.

After 30 minutes, I looked down, determined I was less than my height off the ground, dumped my poles, lowered myself as far as I could from the chair, jumped the last 1ft, landed and gathered my stuff, and then took off as fast as I could toward the Ovation cutover and the woods that way, as I heard yelling after I jumped, and didn't feel like sticking around to get what would likely have been an angry lecture.

Lift never reopened that day.

 

[steamboat1]

Killington, Superstar Lift. Almost at the top, the lift comes to a shuddering halt. Ten minutes pass, I look back down the line and see they've closed off the corral and there's a bunch of snowmobiles there.

After 30 minutes, I looked down, determined I was less than my height off the ground, dumped my poles, lowered myself as far as I could from the chair, jumped the last 1ft, landed and gathered my stuff, and then took off as fast as I could toward the Ovation cutover and the woods that way, as I heard yelling after I jumped, and didn't feel like sticking around to get what would likely have been an angry lecture.

Lift never reopened that day.

You should have stayed on. They would've given you a coupon for a complimentary hot chocolate. Good anytime during the season...:smile:

 

[Nick]

Bump for the winter crowd

 

[vdk03]

Killington, Superstar Lift. Almost at the top, the lift comes to a shuddering halt. Ten minutes pass, I look back down the line and see they've closed off the corral and there's a bunch of snowmobiles there.

After 30 minutes, I looked down, determined I was less than my height off the ground, dumped my poles, lowered myself as far as I could from the chair, jumped the last 1ft, landed and gathered my stuff, and then took off as fast as I could toward the Ovation cutover and the woods that way, as I heard yelling after I jumped, and didn't feel like sticking around to get what would likely have been an angry lecture.

Lift never reopened that day.

From that height I would have done the same thing. As long as you never look back when you hear something like that you can always plead ignorance.