Crazy kicking horse Gondi evac!

[skiNEwhere]

What is going on this year? I think there's been at least 4 lift evacs in North America so far, this is the wildest though. Scroll ahead to 1:10 where it gets interesting

 

[mbedle]

WOW - that was unbelievable.

 

[bigbog]

That was something... Hope they're just glitches/true-spikes...etc...., not the result of systems being hacked.

 

[manhattanskier]

Holy crap. I wish I got to do that!

 

[deadheadskier]

That falls into the category of the 2% of GoPro video's that are actually cool.

Wonder why they have to use a helicopter there to evacuate? You would think a more inexpensive and less dramatic method could be employed. Terrain under the gondola unskiable at that location?

 

[jimmywilson69]

from the comments in the video, there are areas where the gondola is too high to rappel. Kind of hard to believe hey made the towers that high. Seems like a poor design in hindsight. Another comment also mentioned being over terrain that may not be skiable by all that could be riding the gondola.

 

[MEtoVTSkier]

Wow! That is impressive! Great time to have the GoPro going.

 

[rocks860]

Holy crap that's insane

 

[jimk]

That's one way to get to go heli-skiing:razz:
That would scare the crap out of me, but I'd be glad to do it to avoid a freezing night in a gondi. You gotta love the adventurous spirit of most skiers. Those young guys were having a great time with the whole thing.

 

[HowieT2]

wow!!!!!

 

[VTKilarney]

I saw the video without sound. At first I thought that it was fake.

 

[Edd]

They didn't bring the boards. I suppose they took a snowmobile down.

 

[Newpylong]

How do they get their equipment back? Fill out form with resort so that it can be given back to them when the lift moves?

 

[thetrailboss]

What is going on this year? I think there's been at least 4 lift evacs in North America so far, this is the wildest though. Scroll ahead to 1:10 where it gets interesting

Glad you found the story because I saw it in my FB feed and then went back to post it and it had disappeared.

This is crazy. That video is amazing.

 

[thetrailboss]

So they helicoptered them out two at a time? That made for a very slow evac. The one I was involved with at Burke, granted it was a chair and we were near the lodge relatively speaking, was done using the seat on a line thrown over the haul rope.

 

[skiNEwhere]

So they helicoptered them out two at a time? That made for a very slow evac. The one I was involved with at Burke, granted it was a chair and we were near the lodge relatively speaking, was done using the seat on a line thrown over the haul rope.

Not everyone was heli evac'ed. Only those too high off the ground for a normal evac.

I wonder why they dropped them off at the top vs the bottom? Too much stuff at the base for the cable to get ensnared in?

 

[SIKSKIER]

This got me thinking about the Peak 2 Peak tram at Whistler.I thought they had to clear under the tram for lift evac,which it is but at the highest point I thought it was about a 1/4 mile in the air and wondered what that would be like belaying from there.Maybe this is how they would do it but why the cleared path beneath?

 

[SIKSKIER]

Now that I think about it I'm sure the clearing was needed for the install at least for the cable to lay.

 

[jrmagic]

Holy crap! Don't think I'd be able to woot woot on that ride.

 

[ss20]

Now that I think about it I'm sure the clearing was needed for the install at least for the cable to lay.

They did need to do it for cable. It got a lot of people upset because clearing trees underneath the P2P wasn't in the plan originally.