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For the rest of you:

http://www.calgaryherald.com/Sports/Another+Whistler+chairlift+crashes+ground+Global/1317725/story.html

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/Scores+accidents+resorts+unpublicized/1312806/story.html
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...err. think Whistler is off my list of destinations this year!!!
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Metal fatigue Puzzled
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wow so many quotables in that second link:

The only level-one incident among the 52 falls occurred on Jan. 17 at Silver Star Mountain when a young male snowboarder failed to unload. His helmet caught on the chair seat and he remained “suspended by the helmet chin strap until rescued by ski resort personnel.”

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It always makes me wonder why it is "uncool" to have the bar down when riding lifts in NA...
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skimottaret wrote:
It always makes me wonder why it is "uncool" to have the bar down when riding lifts in NA...


If you have to ask you're not cool wink

I suspect its down to legacy reasons that many people who grew up skiing as kids got used to riding chairs without safety bars (and in many cases without significant exposure). Also its not the lack of safety bars that in itself causes accidents but rather faffing, not sitting properly etc.
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fatbob, then again i sometimes wear sunglasses with a helmet Laughing

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Also its not the lack of safety bars that in itself causes accidents but rather faffing, not sitting properly etc.


could be but it scares the sh*t out of me if the bar isnt down and a chair starts swinging around...
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When we skiied Alta, ther wasn't a safety bar *fitted* to the chair, so there was nothing to put down!
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a young male snowboarder failed to unload. His helmet caught on the chair seat and he remained “suspended by the helmet chin strap

I thought that snowboarders were supposed to ride like that on lifts. If not, what exactly is the point of them wearing helmets?
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skimottaret wrote:
It always makes me wonder why it is "uncool" to have the bar down when riding lifts in NA...


i'm from canada and grew up (stupidly) riding with the bar up 90% of the time despite not liking heights. i think it's just conditioning: most kids in NA learn to ski on daytrips or evening sessions with their schools at small resorts near the cities. most of the lifts there are (1) quite short, and (2) have no footrests, so there isn't as much incentive to put it down. combine that with trying to impress your little mates with very little adult supervision, and there's your reasons.
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Boredsurfing, Laughing
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Specialman wrote:
...err. think Whistler is off my list of destinations this year!!!


whistler has a storied history with lifts... back in the 90s whistler was the place where detachable (i.e. high speed) chairs first demonstrated a worrying tendency to jump off the cable during to the up and down bouncing that follows an emergency stop.

lucky no one was on the chair. if it was straight up metal fatigue on the bolt, i'd be curious to know who the manufacturer was. anyone ride the harmony chair lately?
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The 90s issues with detach chairs at Whistler were Yan (Lift Engineering) lifts. part of the issue was use of so called gravity grips. All Yan detach lifts have either been heavily modified and retrofitted with new grips or completely replaced.
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...err. think Whistler is off my list of destinations this year!!!


Went to Whistler in late January confident that all its lifts would have been minutely checked in view of the incident, and so it proved. I heard that all Canadian ski resorts had been ordered by the government to check all their systems within a week.
Also travelled in the new Peak to Peak gondola four times. Longest unsupported span in the world for a cable gondola, over 1000 feet above the valley floor in the middle Shocked and very picturesque. Four times was enough, though - what happens if that goes wrong? Puzzled
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SkiGranny wrote:

Also travelled in the new Peak to Peak gondola four times. Longest unsupported span in the world for a cable gondola, over 1000 feet above the valley floor in the middle Shocked and very picturesque. Four times was enough, though - what happens if that goes wrong? Puzzled


You probably have long enough to write your will before you hit the ground Smile
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SkiGran wrote:
- what happens if that goes wrong? Puzzled


Something bad.

pistehors wrote:
...The opening of this cable car was marred by tragedy. On the 13th of January 1989, a week before the planned opening, the cable car slid and fell 200 meters from its cable killing eight passengers....
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weel we are off to whistler in a 2 weeks so hopefully there won't be any more problems Puzzled

am looking forward to trying the peak to peak snowHead maybe we'll take a parachute just in case
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My paranoia is justified then.
Bring back the draglifts I say.
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arnt most of these incidents people doing stupid things rather than the lifts breaking.. bloke trying to get wife on chair gets knocked over.. bloke hangs onto chair and goes past net.. woman falls over on conveyer thing..
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rob and sharon, Good luck with that. Wink
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SkiGranny wrote:
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...err. think Whistler is off my list of destinations this year!!!


Went to Whistler in late January confident that all its lifts would have been minutely checked in view of the incident, and so it proved.


So after this minute detailed check a chair falls off the cable <2 months later wink
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Peter S, shall we start on the drag lift horror stories next? Shocked
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fatbob,

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So after this minute detailed check a chair falls off the cable <2 months later

What was this? I haven't seen anything about this. Puzzled
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Peter S, shall we start on the drag lift horror stories next? Shocked


Oooh yes, lets. My sister was on her very first drag lift and the person behind her fell over, pinging the button towards her, striking her head and making a huge gash. Blood all over the snow, bloodwagon etc. etc. OMG did I mention head injury....
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Winterhighland wrote:
Peter S, shall we start on the drag lift horror stories next? Shocked


I have a drag lift horror story - but will refrain from telling unless people really want to know. Quite gory. I'll stick to the chairs.
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[ i wont be on a chairlift for some time Cry ]
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we are off to whistler in a 2 weeks


These been two already and these this happen in three's - you know Twisted Evil
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SkiGranny, The clue is in the opening link.
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The point about a draglift is that you carn't fall out of the sky from one and if it breaks down you aren't going to die of exposure. snowHead
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Peter S wrote:
The point about a draglift is that you carn't fall out of the sky from one and if it breaks down you aren't going to die of exposure. snowHead


But you can get severe cable lash injuries if one snaps under tension - I'm pretty sure gruesome deaths like this are a feature of some teen horrror movies - Final destination maybe (not involving ski tow).
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