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We're constantly talking about rucksacks here but what about the current fashion to have the straps of salopettes hanging out at the back. It surprises me that there aren't accidents with this as well.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@bertie bassett, Yes probably more likely on those older seats but I've seen someone dragged around by the more modern chairs. I think they had a strap got caught in the safety bar mechanism.
And I'm sorry but unless you have gone to great pains and/or your sack is completely full it will have dangling straps. I know people who say to me 'oh I always tuck them away' but those same people typically do not tuck them back away after whipping the sack off to grab a warmer hat or whatever or after taking a bit of a tumble that has loosened those straps.
I do mainly off-piste and ski mountaineering and I always carry a sack (even if I'm not planning to ski off-piste I may well change my mind and so need all my av stuff). I have now got into the habit of swinging my sack to the front for EVERY chair lift. It only takes seconds and a few more to get sorted at the other end. Seems just plain silly to me to not do it.
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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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@MadMountainMan, Myself and MrsS also always wear rucsacs - and the only time either of has ever had an issue is when she had swung hers around to the front on one of the old 2 man chairs in Cervinia. A dangling strap, that would not have been dangling in normal wear, caught as she tried to dismount. She managed to disentangle herself and dropped off as the chair started to go back down the hill, where the liftie stopped it retrieved her sac. I personally have no doubt that rucsacs swung around the front are more dangerous than when worn properly.
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Having more recently started to wear a backpack whilst skiing (for the necessaries to keep two littlies on the slopes) I have never seen a sign saying not to wear them on the lifts nor been told to remove it, but that maybe a result of skiing in NZ for the last few years.
Certainly had a close call with a loose buckle slipping down between the slats and nearly getting caught so had then made sure all were out of the way and could feel sitting a bit to far forward than should have been. But never having thought of consequences this severe will certainly move it around to the front in future, asked/signage or not.
Does anyone know if it was a chest strap that then caused the strangulation?
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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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| ster wrote: |
| Does anyone know if it was a chest strap that then caused the strangulation? |
Interesting point. I could certainly see how a chest strap could cause that when suspended by the sack.
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| ster wrote: |
| I have never seen a sign saying not to wear them on the lifts nor been told to remove it, but that maybe a result of skiing in NZ for the last few years. |
After first hearing about this story I made a bit more of an effort to keep an eye out for them, and on my two trips earlier in the year (3V and La Plagne) saw them on most lifts. Despite this I never once got questioned or told that I shouldn't wear my bag.
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Another reason to feed my irrational fear of chairlifts versus ski tows. 
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Blimey, hadn't realised the danger, I don't ski with one but always mountain bike with one in the alps and it's an onld camelback with straps dangling everywhere. In 7 times biking in France I've only been told once to take it off.
I now won't need to be asked..!
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