Keri Crafts of Burlington was on the lift with her two daughters for around 2.5 hours and witnessed people jumping from the lift:
“We got off and we were so frozen, it was probably 20 degrees, maybe. With the winds and snow, many people we talked to were like, we can’t even ski down.”
Stowe reports this is the first time in nearly a decade that it has had a lift evacuation. A state inspector visited Stowe on Monday to evaluate the lift which was built in 1979. Stowe plans to have the lift repaired and ready to operate this weekend.
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