Stuck on a chairlift ?

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Have you ever been stuck on a chairlift? Whats the longest time you were stuck for ? Personally I got stuck for like 25 minutes and it sucked haha, so I want to hear from you guys
 
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A few years ago someone was pushed off and it wasn't exactly a pow day. They stopped the lift for about an hour. I was literally about 4 feet away from getting off. I thought climbing down cause it was only about a 5 foot drop but mountain safety was there and they said if we jumped off we'd get our passes pulled. It sucked so bad.
 
Me and a bunch of friends where just wearing t-shirts and we had just come to a flat spot near the top of the chair where it is very windy and it stopped for about half an hour
 
13078732:Mingg said:
A few years ago someone was pushed off and it wasn't exactly a pow day. They stopped the lift for about an hour. I was literally about 4 feet away from getting off. I thought climbing down cause it was only about a 5 foot drop but mountain safety was there and they said if we jumped off we'd get our passes pulled. It sucked so bad.
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damn that sucks
 
I wasn't skiing the day this happened, but my mountain, which does a few weddings, stopped the chairlift for 20 min so the newly weds could get pictures of themselves sitting on the lift.
 
About 90 minutes on a chair at Fernie when it broke down. Was a damn cold day too, -18C or so. Patrol were contemplating starting a roped evacuation when some mechanic found his big hammer and got it running again.
 
Stuck on top of steamboat at storm peak express In -20F something and in the middle of a fucking blizzard for like 30 min
 
I was in 6th grade at the school ski club, we had 5 min until the bus left. Being the rebel I was, i decided to take one more run down the "Black Diamond" (its Michigan, the black diamonds are equivalent to easier blues out west). Lift got stuck, I ended up getting left there cause the bus left
 
COPPER MOUNTAIN WAS THE WORST HOUR AND A HALF. It was a bitter cold morning with a fresh 13" of that cold smoke powder. I was lucky enough to get five or six runs in before BAM!!! Sudden stop like my bowels after I eat to much cheese. Waiting amongst strangers did not make things any better since no one wanted to huddle together for warmth. BASTARDS!!!!!!!! After about thirty to forty minutes, a guy in the chair in front of me couldn't take it anymore and jumped. People started to cheer but they weren't cheering for him. The lifts were turning again. 10 minutes later I reached the top to have ski patrol hand me a free anyway ticket (that i later sold for rent). My only thought was of the guy who jumped and missed out on his free ticket.
 
stuck on the double chair at the local for 45 minutes with the most annoying 12 year old kid. Free crappy hot chocolate did not to the slightest bit for that sit
 
I heard a rumor that some people got stuck in the Peak 2 Peak at Whistler over night once and got comped season passes for life. I dunno if that is true though...
 
13079077:MadSteezin said:
I heard a rumor that some people got stuck in the Peak 2 Peak at Whistler over night once and got comped season passes for life. I dunno if that is true though...
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I will gladly get stuck if I got a season pass for life
 
I shot you not, I'm currently stuck on the chairlift. We have a wedding going on, and I need to be at the top terminal to help get the bride to the next chairlift without ruining her dress. The lift had been stopped for ~12 min now.

Before this I've only been stoped on one for about 10.
 
Sometimes the power gets cut off from hills if limbs go down. Shit sucks. I think the longest I have ever waited might have been shy of an hour.
 
I've only been stuck on a chairlift for 30 minutes but my dad was stuck on one for 2 hours and then eventually lifties had to get a ladder to get everyone down they tore down the chairlift two days later
 
I got stuck on the lift for 2 hours because the power went out at they couldnt get the pony motor going so we were stuck there. THE WORST PART is when you see the last of the people going down the hill like haha your stuck on the lift and im not.
 
13079046:imakestickerz said:
I wasn't on the chair but I was stuck at the bottom of chair 6 at bogus for about 3hours. Does that count?
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no because why didn't you just unclip your bindings and leave?
 
It was a really shit start to the season a couple winters ago at Whitefish, so to get to the bottom me and a couple friends had to download to the bottom. For some reason the chair stopped on the way down for like 45 minutes. It was shitty haha we tried calling ski patrol but every time they answered we get the same we're working on it answer. We probably called them like 10 times haha
 
I got stuck twice at my home mountain both in the same month.

1st time we were the last people on the mountain on one of the first days of the season. It was about 9:30 PM (night skiing till 10:00 PM makes up for the 1190 foot summit height). In one area they don't light the lift, so its pretty much pitch black. I guess the people thought nobody else was left, so they shut the lift down. About 20 minutes later they realized there was a group of 4 guys still on the lift and had to restart it back up just for us.

2nd time a little kid fell of the lift, and it wasn't a pretty sight. The lift was stopped for about 40 minutes, and I got stuck right above were this kid had fallen and ever since then I don't like going up that certain lift.
 
A few years back at Sugarloaf I was stuck on a lift for about 45 minutes. Luckily I wasn't too cold and just started chatting up the guy next to me. It turned out that he lived 5 minutes down teh road from me! small world.
 
I got stuck on sunny d at sugarbush for about 5 mins and then jumped 20 ft into powder and walked away and my friend did it after me and got his season pass pulled for the day
 
Northstar - 45 minutes

Power outage during a great powder day. When California actually got snow a few seasons back.
 
In 2006 I got stuck on a chair for two hours at Red when a gust of wind knocked the lift off the tower roller things. Ended up getting belayed down by ski patrol. It was kind of fun actually.
 
On my trip to Powder Mountain the whole valley lost power on the first lift up. Probably about an hour wait completely socked in but that trip ruled
 
at my mt there is not a session that goes bye with out the chair breaking but the longest I've been stuck on the chair is like 30 min
 
got stuck on imperial at breck once in white out conditions with 75mph gusts... couldnt see the ground below and the chair was being blown around so violently we were all holding on for dear life. ski patrol cruised by at one point and told us 'it was gonna be a minute' because they couldnt start the lift up till the wind died down

lasted about 30 mins before the wind died down for long enough for them to clear the lift and close it for the day
 
13078956:Wyo2planker said:
COPPER MOUNTAIN WAS THE WORST HOUR AND A HALF. It was a bitter cold morning with a fresh 13" of that cold smoke powder. I was lucky enough to get five or six runs in before BAM!!! Sudden stop like my bowels after I eat to much cheese. Waiting amongst strangers did not make things any better since no one wanted to huddle together for warmth. BASTARDS!!!!!!!! After about thirty to forty minutes, a guy in the chair in front of me couldn't take it anymore and jumped. People started to cheer but they weren't cheering for him. The lifts were turning again. 10 minutes later I reached the top to have ski patrol hand me a free anyway ticket (that i later sold for rent). My only thought was of the guy who jumped and missed out on his free ticket.
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I heard about this from a ski patroller. Apparently what happened was some idiot was riding alone on the chair and sitting to the far side and as it entered the top terminal, a big wind gust hit the chair blowing it to the side. This caused it to miss the guide rail in the terminal so it didn't detach properly and pulled the cable off of the guide wheels in the terminal. Apparently they were about 10 minutes from calling a full line evac before lift maintenance was finally able to get it fixed.
 
I was on a chair at Lutsen last year and it got stuck for 30 minutes, but lucky for me it stopped by chance right over a loading area that they use during they use during the summer. It was half way in the mountain and about 5 feet off the ground so it worked out pretty good for me. Everyone else however had to sit there.
 
13078885:rozboon said:
About 90 minutes on a chair at Fernie when it broke down. Was a damn cold day too, -18C or so. Patrol were contemplating starting a roped evacuation when some mechanic found his big hammer and got it running again.
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It always makes me laugh when people conplain about those temperatures. i wish it was that warm all the time where im from. Instead it pretty regularly gets to -40℃ where im from. The coldest day of skiing i had was -56℃
 
One time I was at Saddleback in January and it was -23 with the wind chill and the lift stopped because the wind was too powerful and I sat 6 chairs from the top for about 20 minutes before they could get it down again
 
I was skiing at Bogus Basin a few years ago and a chairlift stopped working shortly before I got on because it had been hit by lightning recently. It had to run on back up power and was very slow, it took almost an hour to get up, and it was the only way out of that basin. I was near the front of the line but I think it took some people ~3-4 hours waiting in line before they could get on the lift. Some people tried to climb out but it's a very long hike.
 
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