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nCrowHeard it was a total shit show all over the resort as a result. Glad I chose Eldora today and won’t be hitting wp tomorrow as planned
Yeah they had to shut things down in order to allocate resources and to prevent the event of something else happening. A nightmare of a situation before a major holiday week. Whoever caught that and made the judgement call to shut things down just saved a bunch of people's lives as a result.
GayWolf420Yeah they had to shut things down in order to allocate resources and to prevent the event of something else happening. A nightmare of a situation before a major holiday week. Whoever caught that and made the judgement call to shut things down just saved a bunch of people's lives as a result.
Actually upon further research, the gondy is designed to shut down with a malfunction like that so that's promising. Still not a good look.
GayWolf420Per Reddit. Gondola at Winter Park is fubar.
Damn wtf. Have a trip planned with family to winter park coming up next week seems like this is a big problem tho. Anyone know a timeline for issues like this? Seems like it could be a while.
GayWolf420Per Reddit. Gondola at Winter Park is fubar.
Holy shit they need better inspection procedures. That kind of crack doesn't just appear out of nowhere. It would have started with a crack on the lower surface, that slowly grew over days/weeks/months until the uncracked portion was insufficient for the load and quickly failed. Just an occasional visual inspection would have easily caught it and prevevented a really costly mishap.
In general the ski industry needs to invest in better structural engineering. Alta's new supreme lift is on the same track. They didn't properly predict the dynamic loads and so they're only getting a fraction of the life from it that they expected when they built it.
Coming from aerospace, these lift designers seem like absolute cowboys, navigating by the seat of their pants.
