Crazy Avalanche wrecks chairlift

[dmc12380]

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[dmc12380]

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[Shadows]

would not want to be on that lift crew.

 

[Brenone]

Wow. where is that?

 

[TimmyK]

Luckily no one was on the chair.

 

[Sklar]

its funny to see how long thing take to get from tgr to ns and the other way around,

but thats gnarly

 

[Evilchris]

Imagine how many people would be killed if the ski patrol didn't do their job. Thats terrifying

 

[childpornstar]

The video looks like it's fucking 3d.... where are my glasses?

 

[nickyp]

or that blasting crew. Shit is about to hit the fan.

 

[PattyFow]

holy shit.

 

[b-ladd]

damn. avalanches are gnarly.

 

[Sun_Ra]

Reminds me of this video that has been posted a while ago. Chairlifts can be gnarly if people don't do their jobs properly.

 

[nickyp]

Wasn't someone killed or badly hurt recently when a chairlift went into reverse?

 

[Brenone]

werd. someone is losing their job.

 

[HangThePope]

One rolled back at Devil's head resort in Wisconson earlier this season. A couple people were hurt but luckily nobody was killed.

 

[PattyFow]

why would someone ever lose their job? they did their job perfectly if we are talking about blasting, they set off an avalanch that was bigger than any other i have seen on video at a resort. that thing was fucking massive, if they hadnt blasted and that had let go during business hours, how many people do you think would have died? repairing a lift is easier than repairing publicity from an avalanche that coulda killed 100 people in one go....

 

[Brenone]

your right.

 

[rexalicious.]

oh shit. imagine what that would look like if there were people on it.

 

[FUUUCK]

that was HUGE

 

[TheDude]

tehe thats what she said

 

[BandeezyBandanas]

that was so ridiculous

 

[1337]

no you're right

 

[sagesnow]

im sorry but i couldnt help but laughing at the thought of someone being on that lift and just launching into the air and landing in powder.

 

[J.DUKE]

Thats the Eskimo lift right?

I had to watch those videos for my Lift Ops class freshman year. They rolled it back, destroyed a tower, and felled a tree onto the haul rope/comm line. The crazy thing was, they had it running agin the following week completely under all regs/specs/standards.

 

[Che~]

the snow after an avalanche is the furthest thing from powder. its extremely packed and heavy

 

[PattyFow]

he has already been corrected sir. not that its too much of an issue either way.

 

[Brenone]

You sir, are right.

 

[Brenone]

This is kind of what iwqs getting at with my comment above about someone losing their job.

 

[nick_GAPER]

holy crap that was insaneee

 

[triebby]

In Soviet Russia, avalanche controls you!

 

[ScuffDUFF]

haha it would look pretty fuckin sick. People would be flying everywhere.

 

[FREEskiLINE]

holy hell that was intense

 

[teleTay]

ya its concrete like blocks

 

[jason...]

You know most people who die in avy's die from trauma right, not suffocation? I don't think I bunch of powder could crush a person to death. Snow from avy's, well anything that isn't directly on top is rock and like someone already stated, like concrete blocks.

 

[GayWolf420]

That literally gave me chills. that would be the most scariest fucking thing ever.

 

[sagesnow]

hmm? i wasnt talking about dying or anything just launching up and landing in some pow but not getting hurt badly

 

[ben-jamm-in]

that slide was fucking massive. if that was from this year i wanna know who has that much snow

 

[J.DUKE]

A slide of that size prolly has thousands, if not millions of TONS of snow moving over 80 mph. Thats like getting ran over by a herd of semi tractors

 

[deleted5]

im just thinking how far a kid would have flown

 

[chickenwang]

all the way to his snowgrave

 

[starsky_hucks]

anyone able to translate?