 Poster: A snowHead
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So far so good, I've never been is a real broken lift incident, save once.
My great friend Tim, now sadly skiing pure powder up there in the heavens did actually break a lift though:
We've all done it from time to time...on a drag lift going wide and seeing just how wide you can get. Who can lay down the widest tracks?
Don't deny it...you know you are guilty to some extent!
Schladming 1983 (I think). Tim was determined to lay down The Widest. He was a strong guy. He was so wide, and putting so much horizontal strain on the drag wire that as it went over the pylon it popped off the rollers. The whole lift just unraveled!!
We all just hung there on our buttons...a steep and narrow lift track through trees.
After about 15 mins a skidoo came roaring past, and after another couple on minutes came back down with Tim on board.
We later found out that the lifties had taken him to the police station where they held him for several hours in the cells and tried to fine hime about £10,000 for the cost of repairs! Tim explained that he was just a universsity student and that they had no chance of him being able to pay that kind of money. That evening they let him go...to a hero's welcome at our hotel!!
God bless you Tim...I still think of you every single time I ride a poma lift.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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Nope, never broken one, nor hit on the head by one.  Sorry!
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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I'd say the Balma bucket lift in Alagne is as broken as you can get and still operating...and the cable car it feeds, which spans a huge height, isn't much better. Should have been retired years ago but it serves such great terrain nobody has the heart to do it...!!!
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I got stuck on the Innerwengen chairlift one evening, we had to be wound back down by hand and then walk back to the village, but that's the worst I've had to cope with
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I broke a button on a Poma lift, once. And, I do not want to see any comments about me being too fat, thank you 
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boredsurfin, was probably on there before you
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mjg, I hope that you are not suggesting that boredsurfin, is a little heavy 
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You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
You'll get to see more forums and be part of the best ski club on the net.
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mjg, shouldn't you be doing something else by chance? B--ks?
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Ray Zorro, yeah, got to get a couple of hours in now before I revel in England's spanking!
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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But before I go here's number 300!
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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Books!mjg,
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| boredsurfin, was probably on there before you |
What you trying to say?
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You know it makes sense.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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umm!
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Poster: A snowHead
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boredsurfin, We could have a "is my ass fatter than your ass" comp, if you are not sure 
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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I skied with a chum at Glencoe some years ago, he's a reasonably "beefy" chap. We endeavoured to go up one of the tows.
Snapped the rope.
Again.
And again.
After three T-bar ropes the liftie suggested that one more failed attempt would result in removal of lift passes. Somewhat unfair I thought - in retrospect and after reading anothre thread clearly lift maintenance at fault.
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