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WTF Is Happening With North America's Ski Lifts?

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I saw this on a Belgium Construction & Engineering Chat Group (unrelated to Wintersports)

This is Concerning Shocked Shocked Shocked

Could be the similar to the maintenance symptoms/standards (lack of) the American aviation industry is having the last 12 months


http://youtube.com/v/RqlJLt4Pi20?

0:00 Intro
0:45 Montana Snowbowl Chair Detachment
2:35 Winter Park Gondola Failure
3:55 Heavenly Comet Express Chair Collision
5:43 Sun Valley Lookout Express Bail Failure
6:47 Mission Ridge Chair 4 Detachment
8:22 Attitash Flying Bear Grip Failure
10:04 Mount Bohemia Double Chair Detachment
10:41 Mission Ridge Chair 4 Detachment (Again)
11:43 Kicking Horse Gondola Detachment
14:08 Red Lodge Chairlift Ejection
15:12 Has the 2024-25 Season Been A Lift Safety Outlier?
16:40 Final Thoughts
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Clearly Donald Trump is to blame Very Happy
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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?
Blimey.
Bigly problems.
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munich_irish wrote:
Clearly Donald Trump is to blame Very Happy

People are blaming Trump for the egg shortage.

I’m waiting to see who will be the first cartoonist to come up with one of Trump laying eggs. Laughing
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abc wrote:
munich_irish wrote:
Clearly Donald Trump is to blame Very Happy

People are blaming Trump for the egg shortage.

I’m waiting to see who will be the first cartoonist to come up with one of Trump laying eggs. Laughing

Or as we say in the Broad Acres "sh****g bricks".
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Elon will sort the egg shortage out - going to launch a new product line... DOGEggs.

Meanwhile the Universite Aix-Marseille is offering blanket visa applications for US scientists who have lost their jobs and research grants.
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@stanton, Wonder how many of these resorts are owned by Vail (Epic) or Ikon and if they are sweating their assets to breaking point, or cutting back on local maintenance crews in order to benefit from economies of scale.
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@Ozboy, I think two (Attitash & Heavenly).

Others: There is a place for political discussion, but this isn’t it. Please take it outside or to the AZ. There aren’t enough politics-free zones as it is.
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They can't really be blamed for a chair hitting a pillar due to excessive swinging if that was caused by the passenger,

Having said that, they do appear to have a number of maintenance issues over there. Absolutely zero excuse for locking mechanisms on removable chairs to be worn and ineffective.
Many of their lifts are quite old and rickety, which suggests a distinct lack of investment over the last 20 years.

Complacency by management who have got into the mindset that the business will still come, regardless of lift quality?

How do their lift pass prices compare to Europe?
Prices in the Sella Ronda haven't increased much above inflation in the last few years, and the amount of money they have spent on new lifts and snow making is incredible.
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I recently saw footage of the Kickinghorse gondola on the ground. It had not become detached, the bar from the gondola up to the rope had fractured. The top part of the bar was still attached to the rope.
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@kditrj2d, interesting, not the horse I would’ve bet on.
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