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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?
Feb 2 2013 5:09PM
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scarsimd
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never getting on a lift again
Mar 18 2013 5:02PM
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HamFaceGirl
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A lift ride at killington, about 50 mph wind, nutty cold, and the lift stopped every 2 seconds. Shit sucked
Mar 18 2013 5:41PM
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first_rodeo
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reposted story from @ i forget who had previously used it
Mar 18 2013 5:54PM
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Laurent.
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Bukkake_Bagels, which was my nickname for a month after the name changing craze of late January.\

And ironically this is the first thread in which I posted it so:

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Mar 18 2013 5:56PM
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first_rodeo
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Lawrence.
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Feb 17 2013
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^^^^^   my bad i knew i saw your story in a prior thread


Mar 18 2013 6:32PM
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JDA
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Lift in Chamonix stopped for an hour. It was freezing cold and pretty windy. The lift was rocking and we were pretty high
Mar 18 2013 6:39PM
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LC.
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40 minutes stuck on Solar Coaster on Blackcomb, on my own, in heavy sleet, the day after my 21st birthday, hungover to shit.
Mar 18 2013 6:40PM
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joelski
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my friend was stuck on catskinner chair for an hour at the top they gave him a ten dollers coupon to any of the lodges in whistler. But in whistler $10 gets you a small snack
Mar 18 2013 6:59PM
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MACK.
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at sun valley when it was -10 degrees out I was on the cold springs chair and i got stuck for like an hour it sucked, but luckily i got free hot coco so it was totally worth it...
Mar 18 2013 8:35PM
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AGOF
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what is this sorcery
Mar 18 2013 8:43PM
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Matthew_Denham
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watching a kid fall off the chairlift. I thought he died but he survived with serious injury
Mar 18 2013 10:01PM
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fujarome
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The usual flyer express story from jay. Wind chill was something in the -60s range on one particular occasion. Absolutely frigid.

And I rode the old gondola at wildcat the day before they shut it down and tore it down. We opened a window and the glass panel just fell out. The floor was rusted as hell, and just stamping your foot would knock small pieces out.
Mar 18 2013 10:21PM
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Plankton
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riding up with owen
Mar 18 2013 10:24PM
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openmindportrait
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I was in Whistler during the Olympics and because everyone was watching some nordic skiing bullshit the mountain was empty... It was like 3:25 so 5 minutes from closing and I got the last chair on the Whistler Peak chair... if you have ever ridden that chair you know it gets fairly sketchy towards the top.. So it stops probably 80 feet off the ground... Past closing... I was completely convinced that they forgot me... Lift was stopped for 20 minutes and then it starts again and after getting off I learned there was some issue with some gear or something... So sketchy...
Mar 18 2013 10:27PM
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PsychedelicMoose
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On the gondola, 80 year old guy has his arm around me the entire ride up.
Mar 18 2013 10:33PM
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Plankton
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frozen alert!
Mar 18 2013 10:59PM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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i watched a noob snowboarder chick track in to one of the lift poles on the tbar at breck...since she was riding a board, she was standing sideways and had the T between her legs. well, she gets caught up behind the support beam but the tbar kept running thus building tension, building tension, building tension....until she finally snapped free and got slung shot about 40+ feet in to the air....she came down flat on her back.

her bf was on the t in front of her, so he had no idea and just kept going. we told him at the top what happened and told ski patrol they needed to get down there NOW because she was not ok...at all. she ended up getting hauled off in a sled...not sure what exactly happened to her, but it definitely wasn't good.
Mar 18 2013 11:40PM
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Daph
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they're called wind stops hun. the lifts have meters that cause it to automatically shut off if gusts reach a certain speed. highly doubt all those stops were from people falling


i guess my worst ride/ worst day as a lifty goes as follows. get on my lift to go to the top station first thing in the morning, lift ride that normally takes 10 min took well over 40 min because of the wind up top. finally get off and get into the shack, find out we're clocking gusts of 90 and that we have to keep her running for a little longer to get ski patrol and all the other employees off the chair (my lift is the way to access over 4 other lifts on the mtn). finally get the line unloaded and shut the thing down, gusts start to hit 100 mph and its very apparent that this thing isn't opening all day. but wait, i have to stay in the fucking top shack all fucking day, all alone watching my lift attempt to wrap itself around a tower due to the wind. why? because boyne resorts is stupid and instead of just calling the lift for the day so i could fucking go home, they kept it "on hold" all day to give people the impression that that mtn might re-open and they don't lose as much money. ITS BLOWING 100 MPH AND EVERY OTHER LIFT IS CLOSED. gaaaah
Mar 18 2013 11:42PM
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dompuch
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45 min also but weather was decent, but was just three chairs from the bottom..
Mar 18 2013 11:49PM
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brokenankles
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i died
Mar 19 2013 2:10AM
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Spiri7o
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One time a 12 year old tried to blow me
Mar 19 2013 11:03AM
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Ski_Alot
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I was at sugarloaf the day that the spillway lift fell down, I rode up the lift with a ski patroller before it fell down and he got a message on his radio saying that the cable was running off tower 8. the patroller looked back and whispered yikes... the lift fell like 2 hours later
Mar 19 2013 11:15AM
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Robski97
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some gaper stabbed my dad in the back with his pole by putting it up against the chair.
Mar 19 2013 12:08PM
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