A skier is sitting on a slightly swaying chair, soaking in the scenery and knocking snow from their topsheets with a ski pole. All of a sudden the skiers riding the chair hear a creak and suddenly a snap. The chair all of a sudden is approaching the snow and that’s all she wrote.
This is every skier’s worst nightmare.
Luckily, no skier or snowboarder was on a chair that fell from the lift on Sunday morning at Heavenly Mountain Resort in South Lake Tahoe. According to the Reno Gazette-Journal, the accident happened on the North Bowl lift when a single chair fell from the cable. The incident occurred at approximately 10:58 am and resulted in Ski Patrol evacuating the entire chair.
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65 people were consequently evacuated from the North Bowl chairlift.Â
The North Bowl Chair has since been closed and an investigation by the resort’s lift maintenance team is currently underway.
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I hope the folks stuck on the chair got some serious vouchers…
