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What's going on at sugarloaf?

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fujarome
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Just heard from a friend that people have been stuck on a lift for awhile, and there are some injuries?

Anyone have any news? Mostly just curious. Hopefully no one is seriously hurt or anything.
Dec 28 2010 11:28AM
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RudyGarmisch
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Ski Patrollers rock, from what i heard and saw today the Sugarloaf crew did a great job of helping the injured and getting everone down. You guys deserve a big thank you.
Dec 28 2010 8:41PM
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Pudge
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where'd your green name go? ):
Dec 28 2010 8:51PM
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PacificRimJob
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Crazy shit...

Dec 28 2010 11:14PM
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PacificRimJob
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Ha. Apparently a chair fell off on the rickety ass double chair that goes to the top of the mountian at the local hill here a few days ago... Luckily it was blowing 60, and the lift was closed, but the chair just lost grip on the cable and dropped like a sack of bricks, 46 feet to the snow below. Weird stuff.




Either way... the fact that they had to belay people from 30-40 feet or so is nothing like what happened when the squaw cable car had an accident in the 80's...

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^that's a 10" thick cable slicing the cabin in half... at ultra high tension. The lift is a 3 cable design, and the main cable just dropped in the wind. That cabin had to be hundreds of feet up above the ground... which would have either been a massive death cliff, or extremely rugged, rocky terrain.

Ever since this accident, squaw has been ULTRA tentative to run their lifts with high winds... Doesnt help that most of their non-high speed lifts are still old Yans...


Dec 28 2010 11:38PM
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zagfan5
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madd madd +k to you.
Dec 28 2010 11:47PM
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gwhitey
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oh fox.
Dec 29 2010 12:37AM
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kstanz
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im kinda confused as to how the life derailed, all the lifts i know look attached to the cable at the top? but anyways thats super freaky and hope everyone's okay. props to alll the patrollers!
Dec 29 2010 12:52AM
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dmc12380
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^the chair didnt come off the cable, the cable fell off the wheels at one of the towers. at least from what i understand.

I couldnt even imagine that, especially if you have the bar down and the chair hitting the ground, you would just get mangled
Dec 29 2010 1:24AM
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fujarome
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I assume they have it for just such instances. Or if they need to shuttle things to/from elsewhere on the hill during days when they can't run or disturb the lifts. Always a convenient thing to have around.
Dec 29 2010 4:46AM
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skichicky3
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there's a restaurant mid mountain that does fancy dinners at night, and they use the cat to bring people up there
Dec 29 2010 7:16AM
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Jodi
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HAHAHA! HEY NS!!!!!!

As your friendly News Anchor, (and I'm pretty sure I'm the only NS'er employed as a news anchor) I am totally in awe of how completely fucking horrible the reporting is on this. So initially I thought, maybe it's just the American news, then I saw on my network this morning (CTV Canada AM) that people were "stranded for hours on a rusty chairlift". I couldn't believe the fear-mongering sensationalism that has gone into play here.
Anyway - For The Record, I am anchoring the noon hour newscast in just under an hour, and I too am running this story in my newscast (international news segment). I assure you, for what it's worth, that I will not be introducing the piece with the way every other non-skier "if it bleeds it leads" mentality that the rest of the news networks have.
On behalf of skiing news anchors everywhere, I apologize for our ignorant peers.
Dec 29 2010 9:35AM
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Barefootin_Fiend
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Is there a link where we can check out your newscast online?
Dec 29 2010 10:44AM
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Pudge
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holy shit. i thought i hated fox before.
Dec 29 2010 10:46AM
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Broha-X-Press
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crazy stuff...i was there trying to figure out why the hell the upper mountain lifts were closed until i heard the cable derailed

just glad i was lapping the 20 inches of pow off the super quad when it happened
Dec 29 2010 6:55PM
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AWALLRUS.
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why is there two chair lifts running parallel to eachother like 15 ft apart?
Dec 29 2010 7:59PM
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spaustin889
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alot of mountains do snow-cat tours too. Uber gay and lame, but im sure the old people like it
Dec 30 2010 9:11AM
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spaustin889
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also, just listened to the fox news cast...and F*CK THAT FIRST NEWSCASTER!!!!


so much bs in her segment. my fave quote "now the lifts were about 15 feet off the ground, and when you add in the chair lift its like another 15 feet that people would have to fall"

if the chair lift is 15ft off the ground, and your feet sit 2 feet below the lift (+ the weight of riders sagging the lines a bit) wouldnt you be a little bit closer to the ground...and NOT 15 ft. higher???


kinda amazing how much shit people can make up and how much of it we actually listen to simply b/c we dont know facts and they exploit people on that aspect
Dec 30 2010 9:22AM
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Broha-X-Press
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one goes a couple hundred yards farther
Dec 30 2010 8:39PM
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