Worst lift ride you've ever had?

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SlurbnBeef

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Well after remembering my lift ride when I had to sit in the cold (luckily with some friends) for nearly 30 minutes before the lift started up again, I was wondering, what was your worst lift ride ever?
 
I was 5 feet from the end of the lift when it stopped for about 20 minutes or so. So we sat there for a bit, then got off and stood under our friends who were a few chairs back and heckled them. Overall it was actually one of the best lift rides, now that I think about it.
 
got let onto a lift, the resort staff then proceed to snow guns just above the lift with a heli meaning the lift was stopped for like half an hour, i absolutely lost it with the lifties when i got off, they couldn't seem to understand in what way they had fucked up
 
My local mountain kept fucking stopping the lift every 5-10 feet in the middle of a 40mph windstorm. Who the fuck does that? Is some fuckass falls getting on, don't stop, let Darwinism take effect.
 
When I was seven I was in ski class and me and this girl in my ski class got on a 5 seater on either end with an older man in the middle. He turned out to be some random pedo and tried to touch the girl the other side of the chair. She was resiting badly as he was trying to grope her.

Being seven, I had no fear and punched him in the nuts as hard as possible.

Then he of course tried to punch me but I wore a helmet so he mostly hurt himself.

Quickly thereafter we reached the end, he quickly skied away, but the instructor was in the chair behind me and yelled at the liftie. They both chased the guy, took him down and beat him senselessly.

Then the instructor joined with us again, checked if the girl was fine and we continued with our class.

As I looked back I saw more lifties rushing in and beating the guy.

Never knew what happened to him, maybe they tossed him of the cliffs.

From then on I didn't trust old men in thight onepieces any more.
 
-28, 70km/h winds and high humidity. I was taking ski lessons (1.5hr lesson), it was the last run and we were tired and really cold. Of course, the detachable quads break down meters before the safe zone for jumping. Longest 30minutes of my life.
 
my hill decided to blow snow when it was like 35 degrees out and my friend and I got blasted with watery fake snow. We got soaked. Wasn't a great night.
 
It was jeff flood, the lift didnt reconnect with the cable on the take off and dropped about 6 feet with four people on it, luckily no one was hurt, but cats had to go down there and shuttle everyone up.
 
45 min, worst snow storm conditions I've seen, 2 chairs from the top.

Couldn't jump off and leave my sister
 
At my mountain we get a lot of wind some days, and in anything above 20km or something they close the lifts. So when it's -15C out, it's blasting wind, your hill is blasting fake snow towards the chairs and they stop the chairlift, it's a pretty shit time.
 
Also one time I had to take a chair with three prepubescent ski racers who felt the need to badly singing Epic Rap Battles of History the whole god damn time.
 
I don't really have any bad expierences other than riding the chairs w/ some gapers who talk about there gear
 
WHEN I WAS STUCK BY MYSELF for almost an hour and a half. My dad and sister stopped under me and started laughing at me... assholes

then i got evacuated off on some sketch pummle thing

Sir Sams

or the other time I had to be evacuated off at Moonstone

Stuck for an hour that time, At least it wasn't by myself that time
 
My friends and I got our passes clipped for skiing out of bounds and the ski patroller who clipped them rode the lift up with us afterwards and kept asking how we were and how our day was. The lift of course broke down and we had to wait there with them.
 
One time I had to ride the lift with a bitchy mom and her little daughter. The mom told her daughter to stay away from me and the other park kids. lol
 
really windy day at Jay Peak last season; tram was swinging and ended up swinging right into the tram tower, that sucked. And of course being stuck on the lift with no covers for 45 minutes during a snowstorm with high winds that ended up closing the hill that day
 
About 4 chairs ahead of me, this guy doesn't get off the lift when he is supposed to and activates the emergency stop cord thing. The liftie comes over and takes off his board and helps him get off the lift. As he is helping him get off the lift, the guy on the chair sticks out his arms like a child and makes him lift him out of the chair and onto the ground. The next ride up the same guy is 2 chairs ahead of me and he does the same thing, the liftie is kinda annoyed and takes his board off of his feet and does the same thing where he makes the liftie carry him off the chair.
 
When I was a kid, we went on a family trip to BC for a family reunion, and we went to Whistler. It was in the summer, and we just bought a gondola pass. On the way back down, the gondola stopped. We were stuck on the gondola for about an hour, and my cousin was claustrophobic and freaking shit. Finally it started back up and we made it back down. The lifty at the bottom said there were engine problems and that we were lucky we weren't stuck up there all night (Pretty sure he was exaggerating, but I was just a lil tike).
 
2 worst in one day. First was similar to this.

I was teaching local high schoolers. We were coming out of China Bowl in Vail and they stopped the chair due to high winds with us on it. 45 minutes later we finally got off. Totally exposed, and wind chill made it unreal cold.

The day is a complete disaster. No fun has been had and I have totally lost the group. Thinking that I need to do something goofy to snap them out of it, I stick my pole in the Gondola door and open it while we were riding up. Then I closed it. It was a trick that I learned in high school and I figured they'd be cool about it.

Next day, I am called into my bosses office. One of the kids told his mom that I opened the gondola door. She had already called the director of the ski school and made it sound like I was dangling her son out of an open gondola. Fired on the spot.
 
think about the terrible position that the instructor would be in. He can see it all unfolding from behind them but has absolutely no power to do anything but scream at the guy. It would have been terrible to be that instructor :( at least he did the right thing and beat the shit out of him
 
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Having 8 people ready to smoke a bowl in an 8 person gondie, then having this bitch get in and squeeze us all then start smack talkin weed
 
This wasn't on a chairlift ride up but it happened in the lift line. This is a true story. I was probably 14 years old just standing in line, and some dude skied into the line too fast and kind of ran into me from behind, and proceeded to fucking hump me or some shit. It was weird as fuck and if I was as old as I am now, that wouldn't have gone over well for him at all.
 
10 mins (+10mins lift moving) on angel chair at sunshine village when i was 10. 6th time skiing. Was cold, had no goggles (i was HUGE gaper) and there was wind. So bad.
 
ugh the flyer express quad at Jay. we got up over the first ridge, and then the lift stopped for 15 minutes. If you've ever ridden that lift, you know how windy it is.
 
i feel your pain dude it's like right in the middle of that valley so all the wind goes through there and fuck you up.

worst one for me was back in february in utah my first day at Powder Mountain the entire valley lost power so i was stuck on the paradise lift for a half hour in fog/wind. pretty shitty first experience of the mountain. the next day was sick though
 
you've got to be joking, 20km and they close the lifts? My resort would literally never be open, they don't close unless it's ~90+
 
The only time I've ever been stuck on a lift for more than 10+ minutes I happened to have my magic flight launch box on me. I felt like the luckiest man on the mountain haha
 
Well the lift broke down for 2 hours so i was suck with me my friend and some other kid and his girlfriend, long story short he decided to smoke a crack pipe then continue to ask his girlfriend to give him bj while he goes switch down the slope, then proceeded to try to make me and my friend smoke crack. this went on for 2 hours
 
I think the people on this chair hold the record for the worst chair lift ride ever. Happened in 1985, I think. When the bull wheel broke off, the chairs sagged all the way to the ground. People could have easily just hopped off, but they stayed on and the counter weight stretched the cable back and launched people 40 feet off of the chair. Only 2 people died, but there were a bunch who were just crushed from the impact. It was unreal.

Keystone Teller Lift accident meant industry changes then, now

Colorado lift safety standards are constantly evolving, lift managers say

By Janice Kurbjun

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Injured skiers are tended to following the Teller Lift accident at Keystone 25 years ago this week.

Injured skiers are tended to following the Teller Lift accident at Keystone 25 years ago this week.ENLARGE

Injured skiers are tended to following the Teller Lift accident at Keystone 25 years ago this week.

Summit Sentinel file photo

Help yourself stay safe

Resort personnel offered the following safety tips to keep yourself and others on the chairlift safe while riding:

• Use the safety bar.

• Ask for help if unsure how to load and unload.

• Be familiar with how lifts work, as skiers and riders are responsible for their own lift ability per the Colorado Skier Safety Act.

• Read signs at and around the lift.

• Do not swing or bounce chairs as it can cause cable derailment.

It was the worst day in Jerry Jones' time in the ski industry — and he had worked with Aspen Skiing Company and Sun Valley before Keystone and then Beaver Creek.

The then-president of Keystone Resort, Jones was in a meeting when the Teller Lift bullwheel dropped from its encasement and sent a wave down the lift's haul rope, causing people to be flung from their chairs. The lift was about a year old, installed in 1984 when the resort expanded to North Peak. The resort was owned by Ralston Purina at the time.

Jones had called down to the mountain manager to get skier data for his meeting. The secretary there immediately asked, “Where are you?” She quickly informed him of the accident, telling him that 100 people were dead.

It turned out that information was drastically exaggerated. At that point, there were no fatalities, but two people would later die. Forty-eight were injured, many of whom had been tossed — sometimes more than 40 feet — through the air, Jones said. There were about 350 people riding the lift at the time.

The accident is listed as one of the major chairlift accidents worldwide since the 1950s, when alpine skiing started to really grow as a recreational sport and resorts sprung up to accommodate the new activity.

Also on the list is a gondola derailment at Vail in 1976, which caused two gondolas to fall and resulted in four deaths and five injuries.

While the Vail incident was found to be due to lift maintenance staff negligence, the Teller Lift accident at Keystone was traced to a manufacturing defect, present in all of the Yan 1000 lift models coming from now-defunct manufacturer Lift Engineering.

Jones said calls were made after the incident to other ski areas using the lift model. They found that Northstar-at-Tahoe had a similar problem earlier in the year, but workers stopped any problems before they began.

Eventually, all 11 Yan 1000 models across the nation would be inspected, and engineers determined that all would have failed at some point, Jones said.

According to information from the Colorado Ski Museum, settlements between Lift Engineering owner Yan Kunczynski and injured skiers topped more than $7 million for the Teller Lift incident.

“The incident probably enhanced inspection,” Jones said, adding that a report created by Keystone personnel after the incident helped pave the way for crisis management in similar situations. Jones said the resort won awards for the report.
 
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