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The Campaign for Footrests on Chairlifts

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Poster: A snowHead
Not everyone will agree with this, but many experts believe there's a powerful case for footrests on chairlifts.

I guess it depends on how much you like dangling your legs and feeling a sense of weightlessness.
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David Goldsmith, That picture looks like there are foot rests but this skier has sort of missed them?
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Yup, there are footrests on that chair
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I didn't say there weren't
Neither did the Campaign for Footrests on Chairlifts
The point is: the footrests on that chair are rubbish ... clearly
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Invent a new foolproof device, and just wait for the fools to move their standards.
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What ARE you guys on about - there's no footrests Shocked (check out the chairs coming back down, for a start..... rolling eyes )
You're confusing the preceeding chair for a footrest on the chair the bloke's falling off of.
Those chairs could do with safety bars, too.....
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All very good points
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Manda, um. I think you may be a little wrong.
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What I see (between the man's legs) is a J-shaped section of tubular steel. I think he's intending to use it as some kind of crotch rest, but hasn't quite dangled far enough yet.

What do you reckon, ladies?
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Manda, um you are incorrect I can clearly see combined safety bar/footrests on the oncoming chairs of the pull down variety, the bar you can see behind the seated skier is the counterballence to the safety bar and if you look carefully you wll see the footrests are all that's stopping the skier falling off, they appear just behind his right knee and about halfway up his left thigh.

David Goldsmith, this was not a case of footrests being needed, rather it is an example of why ski trousers/sallopets should not be made of really slippery material, it's probably also an example of why some people should never be allowed on a chairlift
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DGO, I don't think it's quite as simple as you're making out. The footrest clearly isn't up - otherwise you'd see the framework looking the same as the chairs coming down.
The footrest clearly isn't down - otherwise you'd see the distinctive T-shaped part of the framework (i.e. the footrest) where his feet ought to be.
The footrest has either been removed from that particular chair, or the idiot has sawn it off - probably along with the safety bar.
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it is down - he's got one under his right knee and one under his left thigh hasn't he?!
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I wonder if the photo's been doctored - kind of makes sense, though you'd wonder about the motive.
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David Goldsmith, I don't think it's been doctored.

Also, for those who can't see the footrests in both the down and up position, I've drawn ellipses round them.
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nightshift's got it, I reckon - he's going for the footrest as a kind of thigh hook for both thighs.
He's either got a sore @rse, or he's given up his seat for an old lady.


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Or resting a large rucksack on the seat.
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Thanks for the ellipses, Fox. Very nicely done.

What happens to him at the top of the lift, and could you put an ellipse around it?


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What happens to him at the top of the lift, and could you put an ellipse around it?


Good question, with all his weight resting on the footrests it would seem unlikely that he'd be able to open the safety bar, I hope the fifty at the top was keeping his eyes open or there could potentially have been a very nasty accident Shocked
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Wear The Fox Hat, Brilliant. You are a technical genius
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It always amazed that in the States...of all countries...!!!! how many lifts didn't even have safety bars on them....and Ssh has said that this is still the case in some areas
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I was with a fellow snowHead I think last Jan, when I saw a boarder in a similar position to the guy in the photo at Arc 1800. Convinced he was going to drop off at any second, I didn't bother getting my camera out - and then he hung on for what seemed like five minutes at least. He was over a massive pile of deep, soft snow at the time, no more than maybe 6 metres up, everyone yelling at him to just let go, but he dangled there for ages.

Chairlift (stopped by liftie) was equipped with footrest but he was probably trying to be clever, didn't pull the bar down straight away when getting on, usual thing...
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A couple of other questions seem to arise from that photo:

1. If one skier hogs both sides of the footrest in this way, what's the other passenger supposed to do? Or is the idea to ride a double chair with three people (two on the seat, one on the footrest)?

2. What nationality is 'Mr Thigh Hook'?
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PG, yes it was 3rd week of Jan. I was with you in the short lift queue when the boarder got it all wrong on mounting the chair with his buddy. Don't recall it being quite as much as 6m but he definitely thought twice before letting go - or maybe fatigue set in. snowHead
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Charles Darwin

had quite a lot to say about primates who fall off chairlifts
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David Goldsmith, looks like the primate in your photo had difficulty with the comparatively simple act of perching (credit to Monty Python. Flying Sheep sketch)
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