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Bob Magrino at Loveland sent this to me today. I'm told it happened at Vail yesterday.
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Talk about cold, scared and embarrassed...
Link to picture series -
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years...06091vail1.html

How the hell did he pull that off?

The skier was quoted saying

"I'm telling you ladies, it's cold things shrink when it's cold!"

Andoman, on Jan 2 2009, 06:12 PM, said:

"My name is Rufus - well, usually Long-Rufus - but it's kinda' cold out here... you know how it is."

... from the movie Dogma.
This post has been edited by Emax: 02 January 2009 - 05:40 PM

Emax, on Jan 2 2009, 09:40 PM, said:

Great movie!

Holy shit... I'm laughing hard!
Tomorrow I just might get fired for making this photo the wallpaper on my bosses computer.

One night... many years ago, at blackcomb, some folks snuck unnoticed on a chair after the lifty had called last chair. In the morning we found a rope made out of their clothing knotted together reaching from the chair... down to about 10' or so above the ground... ALL of their clothing. Must have been a cold run down. (Hey, where are the car keys?)

How did he end up like that ten yards into the lift ride? Is the other guy holding him by his pants leg? From that height it'd be better if he just fell onto his feet. I bet he goes to buy some suspenders for the next time out

I would have liked to make that radio call, hopefully the guy didn't get hurt too bad. Looks like the other person was about to lose it to.
This post has been edited by skier691: 02 January 2009 - 09:33 PM

lastchair_44, on Jan 2 2009, 05:01 PM, said:

that's what I'd like to know!!!

Well I guess I didn't notice this myself but if you look at the picture the seat of the chair is tipped up and that's how the guy ended up that way.

The Smoking Gun

It also sounds like the guy is going to try to get a holiday bonus out of this one.

That explains it.

I hope the lift ops got fired. there is no excuse for this.

Lift Indecent

That's absolutely hilarious, but after reading the report I agree with you Jeff. There is absolutely no excuse for a liftie to let a seat go that somehow got flipped up.

skierdude9450, on Jan 6 2009, 04:42 PM, said:

I don't flip chairs at the top station because I'm busy doing other stuff, however if it's after 8:10am and i see chairs still flipped i start flipping them. There is NO Excuse for this. Do the lifties there not watch whats' coming down the lift line?????

Lol, I was just going to start a new topic. Glad I found this one.

Here's a link if anyone needs more pictures:
http://static3.filefront.com/images/person.../mhbujfqctx.jpg

This is a detach right? How fast does the chair come around? I would think enough time to move out of the way with only two people. Also enough time for a liftie to notice and flip it down.

CH3skier, on Jan 6 2009, 06:24 PM, said:

figure the lift is running 1000fpm if i'm not mistaken the speed once it detachs it is around 150 to 300fpm
This post has been edited by Kicking Horse: 06 January 2009 - 05:54 PM

CH3skier, on Jan 6 2009, 05:24 PM, said:

Try about 200 fpm or 1 m/s

CH3skier, on Jan 6 2009, 06:24 PM, said:

The two people may have not looked behind to see if there was a seat. And the op just missed it until the chair got away. A catastrophic event is typically a series of failures.
This post has been edited by 2milehi: 06 January 2009 - 07:28 PM