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I'm afraid of chairlifts.

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Mr.Bishop
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I'm just coming out and saying it. I am absolutely, completely, uncontrollably terrified of fucking chairlifts.

Worst part about it is that the BEST skiing is always accessed by the worst chairlifts.

I just suck it up and do it, but I've been known to be so scared I literally cried.

WTF is my brain doing to me? Anyone else out there?

Nov 1 2012 9:55PM
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GEORGEzimmerman
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lol
Nov 1 2012 9:56PM
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GEORGEzimmerman
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waitwaitwaitwaitwait.......lololololololol
Nov 1 2012 9:56PM
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tdollo
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Crack.
Nov 1 2012 9:57PM
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whoa-dere
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it's the cage that brings you to freedom..... or something
Nov 1 2012 9:57PM
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TOAST.
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When I first found out that the cables were just spliced together I shat my pants, but I no longer care.

My brother being lift maintenance kind of makes me sketched out.
Nov 1 2012 10:00PM
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450out.
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Smoke some pot and be mellow
Nov 1 2012 10:00PM
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JeremyClarkson
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You should be cuz this could happen to you and your homies!

Nov 1 2012 10:02PM
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Download-My-Apps
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I hate the peak 2 peak gondola at whistler simply because if it were to fall there would be zero chance of survival. I was on it on a windy day and was stuck on it for an hour, was not a happy camper.
Nov 1 2012 10:03PM
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1337
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This is my home mountain. I hated this lift, but still rode it. Luckily I was in the day this happened...

http://articles.nydailynews.com/2010-12-28/sports/27085882_1_chairlift-ski-patrol-sugarloaf-usa
Nov 1 2012 10:04PM
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Inline.
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We pay hundreds of dollars per season to ride something that we are terrified from. /skierlogic
Nov 1 2012 10:05PM
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skiminnesota
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The one chair i was legitimately freaked out on was some double chair at Abasin.

Also getting blown into a lift tower at Red Lodge on a old old double had me nearly shitting my pants. I take it back this freaked me out way more than Abasin. haha
Nov 1 2012 10:05PM
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AndyGreen
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i dont really mind them. i just dis like slow chairs
Nov 1 2012 10:07PM
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TACO-DOG.exe
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when i'm going up with my friends and they don't but the bar down, then it stops at the highest fucking point, and rolls back like 4 feet. that's when i shit myself
Nov 1 2012 10:10PM
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_Garagely_
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Challenger at Big Sky is scary as fuck when the winds are high.
Nov 1 2012 10:11PM
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theschneidler
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1337! My friend's dad saw that happen! Sounds sketchy as fuck.
Nov 1 2012 10:12PM
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joshua
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I remember my first chair lift ride, it was long before I ever skiied. I was tubing, and this was my first experience being on the hill and seeing a chairlift in person. Got on with some kid, bar down, okay, everything is fine....

Then we get up high and I am just terrified, I'm just clutching the bar in fear, and thats when I realized I had no idea how we get off. So I asked my chairlift buddy, and he said "we jump," and I was like "WHAT how do we jump from this high," and then he explained how it gets lower and we just run off. It took him a while to convince me to let him lift up the bar so we could get off.

That was my first chairlift ride, now I rarely put down the bar, pretty much only when someone tells me to or if I think should follow the rules.
Nov 1 2012 10:14PM
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DIX~
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I'm always clinging on a little harder than necessary.
Nov 1 2012 10:18PM
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NotGhood
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I always ride with the bar down unless i'm on with some thug hoodrats who look like they'll beat me up if i try to put it down

i'm a pussy, so what
Nov 1 2012 10:19PM
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1337
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I had friends on it (thankfully not slammed into the ground), in line for it, and on ski patrol who had to respond.
Nov 1 2012 10:20PM
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will_powder
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I did the Peak2Peak once. Now I just go down to the black base and up village gondo
Nov 1 2012 10:22PM
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Mr.Bishop
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DUDE - this is what goes through my head every single fucking ride. Like "OK... who the fuck built this thing? Who is maintaining it? Are they doing a good job? How can this odd cable-supported chair thingy REALLY survive in the mountains? Chairs actually do fall sometimes..."

Then my shit just ends and I freak out.

Peak chair in whistler is exceptionally scary to me.
Nov 1 2012 10:22PM
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EmperorKuzco
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drop acid before it will help
Nov 1 2012 10:23PM
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Backyard.Skier
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the peak to peak is so sick!

love the glass floors
Nov 1 2012 10:23PM
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Mr.Bishop
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I couldn't ever tell you why, but the peak-to-peak doesn't scare me. Its super weird... same as being in an airplane. Its almost so high I don't process it as height.

I don't fucking know. I think my brain is trolling me.
Nov 1 2012 10:26PM
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1337
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the P2P is more a straight run, right? I'm with you, that's not that bad. It's when you're travelling up a very steep pitch that it gets sketchy.

Also gondola's are not as bad as an open chair.
Nov 1 2012 10:27PM
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selkirks
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I'm terrified of chairlifts when I'm NOT on them. But totally fine when I am.

Weird phenomenon I guess.
Nov 1 2012 10:29PM
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Mr.Bishop
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I also find myself less scared of a cliff than a chairlift. So if I were standing on a 30' cliff, I would feel completely fine jumping off. 30' chairlift? Peeing pants.

Also - can we give this thread some upvotes and get it on the hompage?

Nov 1 2012 10:36PM
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1337
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tips up
Nov 1 2012 10:37PM
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Mr.Bishop
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stoked
Nov 1 2012 10:38PM
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borskee
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Peak chair at whistler is the only lift ride i have taken and legitimately been so scared to death...i was clinging on for my life...didnt help that it was windy too

Nov 1 2012 10:39PM
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Inline.
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Yeah, some of Big Sky's lifts are janky as hell when it is not ideal conditions. I was riding Swifty a few years ago and the chair stopped for a few minutes ( at the highest point, mind you ) when suddenly we just plumeted about 15 feet. Everyone on the lift was screaming. I seriously thought I was either going to die, or at least break my legs. That might be one of the scariest moments of my life.
Nov 1 2012 10:43PM
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J-C
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that looks like an awesome movie
Nov 1 2012 10:44PM
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Mr.Bishop
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Jesus fucking christ... I don't even know what I would do if that happened to me. Maybe just hike all the time.
Nov 1 2012 10:46PM
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Backyard.Skier
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the knob chair at marmot basin is exactly like that so sketchy when its right in the middle and it stops and you start to sway hard. it doesnt help its a old ass 2 seater as well hahaha
Nov 1 2012 10:56PM
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whitechocolate
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bishops a puss, sack up bro
Nov 1 2012 11:02PM
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Mr.Bishop
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Bro....

I'm with you.
Nov 1 2012 11:02PM
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DERS.
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SOMEONE PUT A LIFT OVER CHADS GAP????!?!?!
Nov 1 2012 11:05PM
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MAPLE_SYRUP
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WAY more Scary in my opinion
Nov 1 2012 11:09PM
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Mr.Bishop
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I'll blow it up.
Nov 1 2012 11:10PM
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Z-Juice
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I'm not too scared of the typical lift.

But when traveling at a height that would mean instant death if something happened, I would put the bar down, even if Tom Wallisch and Henrik were sitting next to me.

And I'm kind of afraid of getting stuck when it's super cold out and the chairlift won't work, that would get real shitty quickly.
Nov 1 2012 11:18PM
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Piste.Off
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Hey bishop is this you?
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Nov 1 2012 11:19PM
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YoungChristmas
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Going down them is twice as scary.
Nov 1 2012 11:20PM
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Mr.Bishop
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Here's another weakness of mine.... if I was on the chair with people who were super cool, and they didn't put the bar down....

I wouldn't either.

Sometimes to survive my fear I pull my hat over my eyes under my goggles.

I have a solid internal wish to seem cool - its dumb... and fuck I'm even an adult... but what can I say?
Nov 1 2012 11:24PM
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@skiinmitch
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yep. especially in the summer time seeing how steep the chairlift actually is freaks me out. Chairlifts have always freaked me out in the first place anyways
Nov 1 2012 11:26PM
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Mr.Bishop
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DUDE... don't even talk about downloading. That is like a swear word.
Nov 1 2012 11:26PM
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Saga.
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you probably shouldnt watch the movie Frozen then.
Nov 1 2012 11:36PM
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M.M
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when i went on it, it got stuck also and i was shitting my pants because it was the end of the day and it was only me and my bro on there.
Nov 1 2012 11:42PM
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Mr.Bishop
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That isn't, but no word of a lie that happened to me once doing a trust fall.

I trusted my team so much, and the stupid tiny chicks catching my upper body dropped me. The strong dudes at the bottom tried to catch me, but all they caught was my pants.

Cock and balls flying around everywhere as my team tried to gracefully let my half-naked body down into the sand...
Nov 1 2012 11:45PM
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TOAST.
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I got stuck on a chairlift once. We were doing some training and a foot rest was down on one of the chairs so we got stopped in the middle. We were the only people at the resort at the time so nobody could restart the lift. Luckily for us we wernt to high and somebody jumped off and started it back up. Also, if we were higher we would have been fine because we had climbing stuff with us.
Nov 1 2012 11:52PM
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Rez4frederick
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I like the chairlifts at my home mountain, but am always afraid of other mountains chairs especially if it gets steep and rocky as shit at the top.
Nov 1 2012 11:52PM
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