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Greatest/Worst ski lift fail?

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CycleDTC
Posts: 71 - Karma: 1,213
People of newschoolers, what is your most embarrassing and painful lift fail? My worst lift fail was when I sat on someones pole and fell forward off the lift. What about you?
Dec 27 2013 8:09PM
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Triple_Strum
Posts: 6384 - Karma: 953
insert pic of guy on Vail lift here
Dec 27 2013 8:12PM
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CycleDTC
Posts: 71 - Karma: 1,213
Or something you've seen
Dec 27 2013 9:17PM
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jacksonschor
Posts: 44 - Karma: 1,041
Dec 27 2013 9:24PM
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.Hugo.
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Click for larger image
Dec 27 2013 9:26PM
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T.Mosby
Posts: 40 - Karma: 88
probably the gnarliest one Ive seen.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-f8_m6o37l0
Dec 27 2013 9:26PM
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-WZ-
Posts: 3600 - Karma: 6,582
Last weekend on the chair ahead of me there was a family and they had like a 3 year old kid and he didn't get off at the top so they had to stop the lift and pull him down. That was kinda funny watching the parents flailing around below him waiting for the lifty to grab a ladder
Dec 27 2013 10:17PM
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BrandenR
Posts: 87 - Karma: 150
not a fall but I broke a ski getting off this year
Dec 27 2013 11:34PM
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~Gotama~
Posts: 821 - Karma: 3,160
I was sitting with my poles under my legs as usual, but when I began to unload at the top they somehow got jammed in the back of the seat. I couldn't get them out, and I couldn't get over them, so as I went down the ramp to get off the chairlift my poles lifted me by the balls and then snapped in half, dropping me like a sack of taters.
Dec 28 2013 12:07AM
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last_tango
Posts: 2635 - Karma: 2,665
Got dome pieced by a 6 pack chair.

Death by getting hit by chair is the biggest fail I have heard of.
Dec 28 2013 12:12AM
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Blurst
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Dec 28 2013 12:13AM
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WU-sconsin
Posts: 565 - Karma: 1,301
I was on the lift when the cable derailed itself at Wilmot, and last year I sat on a lift that stalled for an hour and a half, sucked balls.
Dec 28 2013 12:35AM
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last_tango
Posts: 2635 - Karma: 2,665
Full testing of that giblet lift here
Dec 28 2013 12:49AM
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Paul.
Posts: 1612 - Karma: 11,191
My buddy and I were just about to get off the lift but he forgot to lift his tips up so his skis dug into the side of the unloading zone and the chairlift tilted back and we both almost fell forward onto our faces. Somehow he got his skis back in front of him and we got off without completely embarassing ourselves, the lifty was pretty pissed though.
Dec 28 2013 1:42AM
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Wizerd
Posts: 908 - Karma: 6,695
The tail end of last season, I was getting on the lift and went to sit on my poles, they hit the back of the chair and I got pushed forward off the lift into a puddle. I went home after that.
Dec 28 2013 10:32AM
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