 Poster: A snowHead
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| Peter S wrote: |
| Unreliable loading of chairlifts is one of the reasons ski areas choose Gondolas, where possible, these days. Safer and more efficient. |
Or magic carpet loaders. After a while hating them I've now got used to them.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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@sugarmomma666 there's a picture in this thread. Footrest goes between legs rather than either side.
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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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| denizente wrote: |
| @sugarmomma666 there's a picture in this thread. Footrest goes between legs rather than either side. |
You mean the chairlifts where there is an individual footrest for each seat? If so, the boarders I ski with don't have any issues with having the bar down (which is probably for the best, as in some cases the bar is automatic, so they don't have a choice).
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Yeah those centre bars aren't really an issue for boarders. The guy manspreading with his skis next to them maybe. Monoskiers I guess have to put up with the arsecrack wedgie and take 2 seats (which to be fair is what I do anyway if the chair is pretty empty).
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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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Rope tows are better anyway
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You'll need to Register first of course.
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From that article
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| Oxford and Romero lowered the restraining bar on about half the chairs they rode that day. The bar was not lowered when Romero fell. Oxford can’t really point to any reason why they did not lower the bar as they settled on the Ruby Express that Wednesday. |
I just don't get it. Is there some sort of macho "We don't need no steenkin safety bar" thing or what? I just cannot imagine how or why anyone would not lower it every time.
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| Chaletbeauroc wrote: |
From that article
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| Oxford and Romero lowered the restraining bar on about half the chairs they rode that day. The bar was not lowered when Romero fell. Oxford can’t really point to any reason why they did not lower the bar as they settled on the Ruby Express that Wednesday. |
I just don't get it. Is there some sort of macho "We don't need no steenkin safety bar" thing or what? I just cannot imagine how or why anyone would not lower it every time. |
Do you wear your helmet while driving?
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| abc wrote: |
Do you wear your helmet while driving? |
Only when I've driven racing cars on tracks.
I do always wear a seatbelt though.
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That's worth a read.
Thinking about it, as the US is famously litigious, one might expect them to have more, not less, safety. But the article says that the maximum cash-back for brain death is only a couple of hundred grand.
With 9 deaths across the US since 1973... well it's not a lot of money. Resort areas do mandate that their employees use safety gear, but I'd bet the potential for significantly larger litigation exists there, because safety during employment is a different type of risk.
This is interesting: "The researchers found that use of the restraining bar mirrored helmet use in geographic regions from a decade earlier...".
The family of victim #1: “ ...Why do we not have better protections for skiers on chairlifts?”. What, like safety bars?
The NSAA 2024 report on lift safety ignores the issue completely, which is a bit strange.
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