Ever been stranded on a charilift?

[Puck it]

How did the four of you fit on a triple?

What triple? It was a quad.

 

[bvibert]

If I was stuck on a lift that and knew I wasn't going to be rescued for days, I think I'd use my Marine training and grab the haul rope with my hands, and swing my legs up hill and wrap them around the rope, and shimmy my way to the next tower. Seems like a better option than using your pole, which might break, or ski, which would be hard to wrap your hands around

Agreed, but the premise in the movie was that somehow the haul rope was razor sharp. Obviously it's not razor sharp, but I was playing along.

 

[rev bubba]

At Blue Knob, PA, in 1969. It was my second year of skiing and something happened to the lift gear so that it was free falling backwards. The story is an operator put a crow bar in the works to jam it up and stop it but I can't confirm that. I was on the lift with an older Austrian who liked to tell stories of how people got killed in Europe when lifts went backwards. Anyway, after a couple of hours, we were rescued by ski patrol and lowered from our chair. We may have been the last chair actually emptied and were not over any trails so we had to ski down the ungroomed snow below the lift. Like I said, it was my second year skiing so that took some time.

Blue Knob is an upside down resort. When I got to the bottom I had to take another chair to the base lodge on top. By the time I got there I was told that if you had gone to the ticket office within an hour of being rescued you could get a free lift ticket. Needless to say I missed that by a wide margin.

I don't remember being either cold or scared. Guess I was just a dumb old 19 year old who didn't know enough to worry and enjoyed the adventure. No wolves or bears were involved.

Aside from ocassionally being stuck on a lift that stops for way too long, no more rescue stories since than.

 

[jimmywilson69]

Several times but never for an extended period of time that required a resque. The worst was the time that I had been skiing and I started to get that unmistakeable rumbling feeling in your gut that you know you should be in a bathroom and not on a ski slope. So my brother-in-law and I head back to the lift. By Now I need to get to a bathroom ASAP. Ski Roundtop is not a big place and there are no high speed lifts. Unfortunately, though I was at basically the farthest point away from the lodge.

We get on the lift and I am starting to have cold sweats, because I really need a bathroom. It's about a 6-7 minute lift ride to the top, so I know I can make it and get back to the lodge within 10 minutes. Well We get half way up and it stops. Now I am freaking out, I am stuck on a chairlift 15 feet above the snowless ground, and I REALLY Need a bathroom!

15 minutes pass and then I had a gurgling sound and the "feeling" kind of settled. another 5 minutes goes by and the lift starts up. I get to the top and skate accross the top of the mountain and literally straight line down a slope to the lodge. I didn't care about safety at that point. I tear off my ski's throw them at the free ski check and tell them I am having stomach issue and take off to the bathroom.

I made it, lets just say that 1 more stall and It wouldn't have been pretty...

that's my story and I don't wish that on anyone!

 

[bvibert]

Several times but never for an extended period of time that required a resque. The worst was the time that I had been skiing and I started to get that unmistakeable rumbling feeling in your gut that you know you should be in a bathroom and not on a ski slope. So my brother-in-law and I head back to the lift. By Now I need to get to a bathroom ASAP. Ski Roundtop is not a big place and there are no high speed lifts. Unfortunately, though I was at basically the farthest point away from the lodge.

We get on the lift and I am starting to have cold sweats, because I really need a bathroom. It's about a 6-7 minute lift ride to the top, so I know I can make it and get back to the lodge within 10 minutes. Well We get half way up and it stops. Now I am freaking out, I am stuck on a chairlift 15 feet above the snowless ground, and I REALLY Need a bathroom!

15 minutes pass and then I had a gurgling sound and the "feeling" kind of settled. another 5 minutes goes by and the lift starts up. I get to the top and skate accross the top of the mountain and literally straight line down a slope to the lodge. I didn't care about safety at that point. I tear off my ski's throw them at the free ski check and tell them I am having stomach issue and take off to the bathroom.

I made it, lets just say that 1 more stall and It wouldn't have been pretty...

that's my story and I don't wish that on anyone!

That's the best stuck on a lift story yet! :lol:

 

[jimmywilson69]

It's funny to look back on now, but make no mistake I thought for sure I was going to have to drive home a big poopy mess!