Bar up or bar down?

[MarzNC]

I only had one grumpy rando complain that I preferred the bar down.

The only time I got a serious complaint was at Alta a few years after safety bars were installed on Collins. I rode up with a mother and her son, perhaps 7 or 8. I put the bar down after asking. She glared at me and said (pointing to her son): "I hope you didn't put the bar down for him!" I told her "no" and that I liked to have the bar down. She wasn't happy the entire ride up.

There are times when I ride single out west where I won't bother to ask about putting the bar down. As a single, I'll be on the side so can hook an arm around the armrest. But if the chair stops for any reason, I'll put the bar down while waiting for it to start up again.

Much prefer the bar down.

 

[Harvey]

To me it's like insurance, except that it is free.

I always reach my hand up and hold the bar and either let someone else actually lower it, or do it very slowly myself if no one takes the lead.

 

[SayvilleSteve]

A couple seasons ago, a friend and I were joined by a random stoner on the summit quad at Whiteface. I grabbed the bar and started to pull it down and the rando goes, "aw man, you use that shit?" He proceeded to smoke the whole way up, telling us all about his excellent homegrown--he was quite a character. Now, literally every time that friend and I ride a lift together one of us says to the other "you use that shit?" within seconds of the bringing the bar down.

 

[tirolski]

A couple seasons ago, a friend and I were joined by a random stoner on the summit quad at Whiteface. I grabbed the bar and started to pull it down and the rando goes, "aw man, you use that shit?" He proceeded to smoke the whole way up, telling us all about his excellent homegrown--he was quite a character.

Dang boarder,...?

 

[Campgottagopee]

I like the bar open

 

[Brownski]

I feel like leaving it up is an old school teenage rebellion thing. I don’t really care but I got pretty religious about putting it down when I started teaching my kids- I used to even put my poles across their laps

 

[SayvilleSteve]

Dang boarder,...?

Definitely a skier, but maybe he didn't have poles? It's been 4-5 years.

 

[not2brite]

AFAIK, it's the law in NYS also.

It’s the law in Vermont at least according to signs prominently displayed at Sugarbush. I did see it at one other Vermont (maybe Stowe?) but nowhere else.

 

[not2brite]

I only keep the bar up at Face Lift at Whiteface and others like it with the safety stops that are only big enough for the leg of a 12 year old.

 

[SayvilleSteve]

It’s the law in Vermont at least according to signs prominently displayed at Sugarbush. I did see it at one other Vermont (maybe Stowe?) but nowhere else.

A liftie at a mid-station on Morse (at Smuggs) firmly suggested that I put the bar down as I passed through two weeks ago--I assumed in deference to the law. I did notice they had a sign on a subsequent run.