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Chairlift pileup closes Maine's Big Squaw Mountain
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Multiple chairs slipped this afternoon at Maine’s Big Squaw Mountain, necessitating a rope evacuation of the Donaher triple chair .
Fortunately nobody was hurt. Here's an account of what happened: “I was riding the triple at Big Squaw around 1:00 when I noticed chairs coming down which had slid into each other. About two minutes later, the lift stopped. We were told that there was a partial derailment on the downhill side near the summit (likely tower 9 or 10). I’m not sure what caused the chairs to slide into each other or why the lift didn’t stop immediately. Maybe they were catching in something or hitting a tower. Everyone was evacuated by rope within an hour and the staff did a great job. They had three different teams evacuating people. We were given vouchers to use later in the season.”
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I'm so grateful we have been spared any risk of such an event in most ski resorts this side of the pond ... (!)
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bobski62 wrote:
I'm so grateful we have been spared any risk of such an event in most ski resorts this side of the pond ... (!)


Does Gudauri not count as this side of the pond?


http://youtube.com/v/Ied6Np5wZcM
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jabuzzard wrote:
bobski62 wrote:
I'm so grateful we have been spared any risk of such an event in most ski resorts this side of the pond ... (!)


Does Gudauri not count as this side of the pond?


http://youtube.com/v/Ied6Np5wZcM


Pretty sure bobski is talking about resorts being shut this season hence this can't happen to us...
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Legend., That was my thoughts too, on bobski62, comments.
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Yes, indeed, @Legend., @Bones. Though having watched the Gudauri video from @jabuzzard- OMG, that's horrific! It looked at the end as though the worst hit still managed to get pulled out alive once it was finally stopped. And a relief that nobody was hurt in Maine.

Will this turn into a "ski lift malfunctions" thread? Other than plain stoppages, only ever seen a chair run backwards once, 2009 in Meribel (Chaudanne) and that was super slow, to evacuate it. Even last year when the whole of Tignes had a power outage, they all ran forwards on backup motors to clear folk off them.
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This new case is chairs slipping on the cable (strange as they are fixed grip chairs). The Georgian case was the brakes failing on the main cable wheels. 2 very different things
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So gravity (weight of the skiers sat on the chairs) was what was driving it backwards?
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@bobski62, yes.

I think it's a double fail safe system to stop that happening but both had been removed.
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