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High winds strand riders for hours on two chairlifts in US
 Poster: A snowHead
Poster: A snowHead

A mechanical failure on the Pioneer Express chairlift at Winter Park Resort stranded skiers and riders for 3 hours in blizzard-like conditions on Sunday afternoon. Winds were estimated to be 50 to 60 miles per hour, and caused a chair on the lift to swing and jam into the top terminal....A man and a woman fell out of the chair near the top ramp, but they were not injured. Ski patrollers evacuated all 115 stranded passengers. No one was hurt but there were one or two cases of mild frostbite.

See: http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20080101/NEWS/401885205

A strong gust of wind was also to blame when a chair on the Summit Quad chairlift became entangled with a communications line at Whiteface Mountain on Saturday afternoon. It resulted in a derailment and automatic stoppage of the lift.

In all, 47 skiers and snowboarders had to be evacuated over about 3 hours. Trained Whiteface personnel got them down using ropes.

See: http://www.firsttracksonline.com/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=3600
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