WATCH: 600lbs Chairlifts Getting Blown Around Like Nothing In Montana Winds

“For anyone interested……. today’s wind at the top of the Palisades chairlift. The chairs you see swinging weigh 600 lbs. Easy to see why we closed all lifts today.”

Good call by Red Lodge Mountain up in south-central Montana for putting a wind hold on the Palisades Chair yesterday. No safety bar on this high speed quad so that would have been a dicey place to be sitting when those gusts picked up:

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