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A_Whelan
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Hey
People have post stuff about shit they saw on the lift in threads, but there is no thread for it all. So here it is. Post your lift stories, it can be anything at all. Heres mine.

I was going up the lift during night sking and it was dead silent because it was a pretty crappy night and no one was around. So I was sitting there by myself when all of a sudden I heard what soounded like a gun shot. I almost shat my pants. Turns out it was a tree that had been iced up by a snow gun and it couldn't take it anymore so it commited tree suicide and cracked off. Pretty cool.

Another time my friends and I were about to get on the lift and this guy flies by us and gets on the lift we were getting on. We didn't care and stopped and got the next one. So half way up the hill he lifts up the saftey bar thing and hurls himself off of the chair. He landed on his side and snapped a ski in the process. Then he picked it up and tried to ski off, but ski patrol caught time.

And there were a bunch of times when people have dropped shit off the lift of double ejected their skis some way, but thats really not a story.

Post yours.
Cheers,
-aaron
Nov 5 2006 11:44AM
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Peach.
Posts: 3879 - Karma: 933
all right i got one
i had just got on the lift with this little girl and here mom. the girl was probably 5 or 6 maybe  i dont know anyway when we go to sit down the little girl just keeps standing until the mom grabs her. so were pulling here up on to the chair when the lift girl finally stops it were a good 15 20 feet in the air.
we cant get her on the chair.
then her coat starts to slip off so the ski patrol under us tells us to drop her.
that was so hard

not many things brake me up but that did
Nov 18 2007 1:32AM
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sack
Posts: 4881 - Karma: 147
hahaha
Nov 23 2007 3:18AM
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meltonsnow
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on the ICIEST day i've ever  been skiing i saw a guys die when i was on the lift with my dad.  it had rained pretty much all night n than frozen over in the morning.  he was at the top of the mountain n lost an edge on the ice n than slid head first directly into a rock wall on the side of the run (which knocked him out), only to proceed down the steepest run on the mountain face down.  The whole way down the run his wife was trailing him on her ass screamin in absolute horror, but couldnt catch up to him.  at the end of the run he slid head first into another rock wall at an estimated 80 mph.  u all could imagine wat that was like.   it was probably the most traumatizing experience that i've ever had on the ski hill n still comes to mind every time i slip out a little bit on a patch of ice.
Nov 23 2007 4:35AM
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oiECSoi
Posts: 1447 - Karma: 10
that sucks especially cause his wife saw the whole thing go down. it woulda sucked more if he had started bleeding after hitting the first rock and just left a gnarly blood trail all the way down to the 2nd rock.
Nov 23 2007 2:19PM
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mike_e
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wait did he actually die? if so..shit
Nov 23 2007 2:24PM
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Smidt
Posts: 339 - Karma: 11
how is that immature? they were 10 thats pretty fucking mature if you ask me adn pretty fucking dope
Nov 23 2007 7:30PM
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televback1
Posts: 386 - Karma: 11
a friend of mine tried to piss off the chairlift and missed a little and it went over him
Nov 23 2007 7:39PM
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I-Ski-AK
Posts: 1378 - Karma: 22
First chair lift of the season. last saturday...

waist deep pow everywhere and some dude is bitching about how the groomers are all torn up already...i turned my headphones up real loud. and he poked me and asked if i agreed with him. i just started jammin out and he then proceeded to fall when the lift got to the top...
Nov 23 2007 7:43PM
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canadianskier
Posts: 601 - Karma: 184
One time me and my bro rode up the chair with a couple of ignorant yanks, and we pretended to be bob and doug mackenzie, it was good, i kinda wish i caught that one on video
Nov 23 2007 8:12PM
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theres_ghosts
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i was skiing at solitude wit me uncle and we're waiting in the lift line.  the people in front of us go to get on the lift and for  some reason my uncle just follows them and dosnt realize that it isnt his turn.(hes from florida)  So when the chair comes around he gets all tangled up in the two other people and they all eat shit and the chair just hits them in the back.  when they were untangled and got on the chair the two other people where all like what the fuck were you doing and stuff.  i got to ride in the chair behind them.  many laughs
Nov 24 2007 1:32AM
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Shpadoinkle
Posts: 10437 - Karma: 84
hahaha...or hanz and franz
Nov 24 2007 2:19AM
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P-JO
Posts: 6853 - Karma: 75
I was skiin with 3 other kids and we went to get on a 4 person high speed chair lift which wasn't that big.  I was on the outer edge and thought I was in line to get on.  All of a sudden the chair lift whips around, and the armrest side part catches me in the ass, takes me up about 20 feet, I fall like 10 feet into some pow face first and my skis pop off.  I was pretty embarrassed.
Nov 24 2007 2:32AM
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mtbakerteacher
Posts: 4185 - Karma: 20
I was sitting on a lift talking to some older guy, and he asks my friend and I how old we are and we said, "16 what about you?" he says, "30
" and we asked him how that was and he said, "It's great! The best part about being 30 is re-discovering 20 year old women"

Great advice to live by.
Nov 24 2007 4:35AM
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Microcosm
Posts: 4765 - Karma: 153
alriiight, sooorry. I agree, it's really funny.
Nov 26 2007 5:10PM
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[]Soul_Steeze[]
Posts: 2357 - Karma: 60
more stories more stories!!!!!

i love this thread
Nov 26 2007 7:08PM
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Beans13
Posts: 441 - Karma: 12
HAHHAHA
This happened to me though only worse
We were in the lodge on a shitty day and scanning channels.
People were trying to find eachother and we were messing with them confusing them you know telling them we were on the other part of the mountain,
I guess thy found each other, and they walked into the lodge- where we were.
Pretty awkword
Nov 27 2007 4:42PM
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KeithB.
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I was on the chair at Temple mnt. in N.H. laughing at something, I don't remember what, not paying attention when my friend lifts the bar and breaks off half my tooth.
Nov 27 2007 5:19PM
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Microcosm
Posts: 4765 - Karma: 153
I had just gotten on the lift at killy and I was swinging my skis back and forth and when I swung them back the tip got stuck in some snow and they flew off. I felt like a n00b and I was ready to ski down 1 ski, which isn't hard on a green but I didn't want to waste time at the beginning of the day, when a smiling instructor got off carrying my ski.
Nov 27 2007 5:22PM
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Sheltron3030
Posts: 1826 - Karma: 110
i once saw a gaper from the lift. it was awesome. he fell and was too fat to get up so ski patrol had to tie 2 sleds together to get him down.
Nov 27 2007 6:51PM
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ShadyHillGroup
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i was at mt snow sunday, what ever that double is right next to the park, fucking really slow, anyways, im by myself i slide up to get on the lift, a snowboarder behind me gets too close to the lift, gets clipped and gets dragged by the lift and pulls himself onto the seat, while all of this is hapening i dive out of the way, pull myself back up and get ready to get on the chair...again...wrong, some joey is already sitting down on the lift coming behind me...i dive out of the way again. this may not seem that fun but boy did the lifty and i have a laugh at how dumb some gapers can be
Nov 27 2007 7:06PM
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JuliusJ
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haha well we've fit like 6 people to a chair on a quad and a friend will take his skis off and put them back on the chair. haha its prett funny
Nov 27 2007 7:11PM
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CS_Films
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I was standing next to a lift at the top  A snowboarder had clipped his other boot in so it was easier to get off the lift.  Little did he notice he had clipped in the the foot rest between his legs.  He had strapped himself to the lift.  
Nov 27 2007 9:20PM
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CS_Films
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I was standing next to a lift at the top  A snowboarder had clipped his other boot in so it was easier to get off the lift.  Little did he notice he had clipped in the the foot rest between his legs.  He had strapped himself to the lift.  
Nov 27 2007 9:23PM
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Beans13
Posts: 441 - Karma: 12
The funny (or sad) part about this was that their kid had broken their leg.  They were getting ready to go to the hospital and they were ripping.
We were like uhhhhhhhh... and put our shit on and got the fuck out of there... up to the top at the tram house to do it again.
Nov 28 2007 3:58PM
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Beans13
Posts: 441 - Karma: 12
good for him
snowbladers are fags
kill them all
Nov 28 2007 4:01PM
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Beans13
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One time at Jay peak I was taking the t-bar in back of this noob who had taken like 6 tries just to ride the damn thing.  After he got going, he decided it would be fun to do slolom turns in the track.  i think he was having fun until he went on the wring side of the tower...
Yeah he didnt even realize it unlil the tee snapped back and hit him
hahahahhahahahahhahahhahahhahahahahahhahahahahahah
I cant think of any other time ive laughed that hard.
Nov 28 2007 4:17PM
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Phantom
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They forgot me and my dad were on the lift, and we just sat there for like 30 minutes.
Nov 28 2007 4:42PM
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I-Ski-AK
Posts: 1378 - Karma: 22
those instructors are always so giddy, and i love the icon

+ Karma
Nov 29 2007 1:50PM
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whattheshit
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had to take the chair that services the bunny hill to access the other part of the hill (blue mountain)  as my brother and i are going up i guess some snow falls off and hits a chinaman below.  the guy yells from below and he is pretty pissed.  he is already getting out of his bindings and walking up the part of the hill where it forks.  so as we are coming down the dude is standing right in the center where it forks, so i go one way and my bro goes the other as this guy is lunging at us. 
Nov 29 2007 3:04PM
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ParkE
Posts: 1388 - Karma: 190
me and my friend got stuck on a lift for about an hour and he started to laugh and pissed himslef
Nov 29 2007 3:22PM
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Beans13
Posts: 441 - Karma: 12
hahahah
funny shit
Nov 29 2007 3:45PM
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Billy_B
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mine is falling off the ft about 7 feet in the air.
Nov 29 2007 7:29PM
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rsr1080
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Ive seen this happen before, same thing a little girl (probally 7 or8) fell  15 to 20 feet onto hard pack and only broke her collarbone
Nov 29 2007 7:39PM
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Microcosm
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thank you kind sir.
Nov 29 2007 10:36PM
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DANETRON
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ha i love your use of the word "chinaman"
Nov 29 2007 11:02PM
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BravoWhiskey5280
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one time I was strollin through country boy at Breck and this kid rides up to the side of a jump about 30-35  feet...he keeps doin it all day so eventually some dude comes out and tells him just to go for it...This kid was about 13 years old but you could tell he was loaded because of all the nice gear  he had...so he drops in going WAY to slow...gets to the kicker goin bout 5mph and goes bout 10ft in the air then drops straight on to flat ground...funniest thing ever because the kid sat there crying after words saying that he didnt know "the gap was that big".... finally ski patrol had to come and get him and take him off the jump...

Later on those jumps my freind was goin for it and some texas gaper cuts right on top of the knuckle of the jump and stops...my freind didnt know he was there and about killed him...i was yellin at the guy but he didnt hear me... freind got in big fight with him afterwards...
Nov 30 2007 12:59AM
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ParkE
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oh man dude if i get hit with piss at creek ill shit
Nov 30 2007 4:37PM
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SteezyasPie
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bump, im lovin this, i need more!
Jan 1 2008 5:51PM
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jeremy.g
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that is so ridicoulusly gross
Jan 1 2008 6:21PM
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A_Whelan
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Good stories, bump for a new season of funny shit.
-aaron
Jan 13 2008 11:26PM
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Elg
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Most hills here in norway have at least one of these lifts that looks like a T turned upside-down, you probably have them in the states too. Once i saw this dude bend his knees to gain some speed while going up, and then he stopped sideways. then when the lift caught up with him and started pulling again he just popped and pullet of a flatspin in the lift! There is a video of the same guy doing the same thing on freeskier.se.

Jan 14 2008 2:45PM
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breckfreeskier
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yea dude, I have seen that video and it is ill. The chairlift is creatively named a T-bar, by the way 
Jan 14 2008 3:06PM
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Beans13
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i was up skiing at jay on Saturday, and we saw these people below us, with some ski patrol sleds.  Some 5 or so year old fell off the chair just before the end, but still like 25-30 feet up.  I guess the liftie at the top saw it, and stopped the chair.  The dad kicked off his skis and jumped off (I guess he thought he could help).  He ended up breaking his ankles, and of course the kid got wicked banged up way worse.
Jan 14 2008 4:11PM
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PASKIINGSUCKS
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That's it, when I have a kid I will always carry rope in my backpack cause no way in hell would I wanna be a dad stuck in a situation like that.
Jan 14 2008 4:36PM
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oiECSoi
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did he start yelling i've got borken ankles!!!!!? haha and did the people on the chair behind him start yelling "he's got broken ankles!!!!"
Jan 14 2008 5:48PM
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Shorton
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bump for more funny stories
Jan 15 2008 9:25AM
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sirskizalot
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u thought throwin mayonaise at people wus kool wen u were 13
Jan 15 2008 10:56AM
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defcutskier
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exactly the same thing happened to me, but i was a little older, i think 12-13 or so and i wore a sweater... i realy thought i'm going to die too :)
Jan 15 2008 10:59AM
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tele_tom
Posts: 135 - Karma: 10
at my hill all the lifts have big piles of snow right after the start, and all the 4yearolds from ski school allways get their tips caught and faceplant of the chair.

and last year I was up at spirit mt. with some friends and we saw all these patrollers below the lift, turned out a guy had hit a tree w/o a helmet and died. not so funny.
Jan 15 2008 12:44PM
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overthehead
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one of my friends pushed another one of my friends off the lift.  He was fine and it was only like ten feet
Jan 15 2008 2:14PM
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