Power outage closes mountain

[Thom4s]

Today I was just out enjoying the day at Jiminy Peak in Massachusetts which is a pretty nice and large place considering other local mountains and at about 2 in the afternoon all of the lifts just stopped. No beeping or slowing down. The lights went off in the lodge and everything. Turns out there was a power outage in the town near the mountain which was eventually fixed but after about 2 and 1/2 hours of waiting to see if they would open the lifts again I decided it would be better to just see if I could get a refund (which I did thanks to some nice employees) and leave. Has this ever happened to anyone here? Also I found this very surprising since the mountain spent millions on wind turbines to power the lifts.

 

[Aidin954]

Today I was just out enjoying the day at Jiminy Peak in Massachusetts which is a pretty nice and large place considering other local mountains and at about 2 in the afternoon all of the lifts just stopped. No beeping or slowing down. The lights went off in the lodge and everything. Turns out there was a power outage in the town near the mountain which was eventually fixed but after about 2 and 1/2 hours of waiting to see if they would open the lifts again I decided it would be better to just see if I could get a refund (which I did thanks to some nice employees) and leave. Has this ever happened to anyone here? Also I found this very surprising since the mountain spent millions on wind turbines to power the lifts.

Hey dude, sorry about the inconvenience that you had to deal with today. The wind turbine actually shuts down because it isn't used for back-up power, it's used to power the reserves of energy for the power company. It locks up when there's no power so it doesn't power an empty system. We have generators to power all of our chairlifts under emergency circumstances (like power outages) but they aren't powerful enough to constantly run a lift with full chairs on it. I'm not sure if lifts wound up opening back up but definitely stop back over and hit up the mountain!