Embarrassing liftline/loading/unloading stories...

[awf170]

Back in my skiing days, I was taking a lesson, maybe age 7 or so, big group of people... we were getting on a double chair with a safety bar too high for the kids in my group (including me) to pull down, so they were hooking us up with adults...

I used to always ride the chair alone when I was little and couldnt reach the bar, got used to riding without a bar by like the age of 8. I also skiied most of sunshine village by myself at 11. I am pretty suprised Im actually still alive at all this :wink:

About loading chairs. I havent really down anything stupid lately. When i was about 6 though at wildcat i almost fell of the tomcat chair. When loading the chair was too high, so i didnt get up to the seat so my dad was hanging on to me and had to pull me by my collar back onto the chair, man was that scary

 

[FRITOLAYGUY]

Im at belleayre with my sister anxious to get to get back to the top for another run on one of the quads. Watch the chair go around look to her and say cmon lets goo, i pole out there but shes still standing there and im like what are you doing, turns out i jumped the gun and im inbetween the chair coming around and 4people already waiting for it, i got yanked by my jacket to the side, a little embarrassing.

 

[BeanoNYC]

Stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid stupid:

Old rickety lift last year slams into the back of my thighs and for some reason my boot pops out of the binding. My buddy and I decide to jump off the lift. Boy did we get a well deserved earful from the lifty. I think about that and still cringe at my stupidity.

 

[Geoff]

I must have crashed 'n burned on surface lifts as a little kid but those memories seem to have been purged from my brain. Skiing in the 1960's was all about surface lifts. I remember my sister got a huge shiner from getting whacked in the eye loading the T-bar at now-defunct Pine Top.

The only time I ever fell off loading a chair in my adult life was loading the Bear quad at Killington back around 1989. I landed on my feet and didn't release. I'm surprised it hasn't happened to me more often. My wife got knocked off loading on the Snowdon triple a couple of years ago by a late-arriving single who hollered "coming through" and tried to split between us. It was some 50 year old touron at Christmas week. I fed a steady stream of abuse into his ear for most of the 15-minute lift ride.

I get whacked in the head once in a while off-loading as the chair swings around the bull-wheel. I'm too stupid to wear a helmet.

I have shorn off ski poles a couple of times doing a pole plant while off-loading. It makes you feel like a total moron to destroy a nice graphite pole doing something that bone-headed.