Bar up or bar down?

[saratogahalfday]

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.

It's is VT law.

 

[riverc0il]

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.

Smuggs lifties watch the chairs go up and will stop the lift and get on the speaker if you don't put the bar down.

Outside of VT, I always leave the bar up unless someone else puts it down. Just let me know before you do it. AND its your responsibility to put it back up (with warning).

 

[Sbob]

Bar down since the 70's . I was on a significant rollback that snapping to a stop and swung the chair like a pendulum . Scarred me to the point I get chills thinking about it.

No Hunter , at the highest possible point of course.

I was on Kingpine at Sugarloaf a month before that famous rollback. Although that incident there was no sudden stop.

 

[D.B. Cooper]

Bar down, always. Especially since I know a guy who had a medical "incident" where he lost consciousness on the lift and, were it not for the bar and another person on a quad chair, May have slid off.

That said, and to Camp's point, there's nothing like an open bar. F 'n' a!

 

[raisingarizona]

The foot rest is a welcome feature while knocking out hot laps imho.

I really don’t get people’s problem with pulling it down. Newer snowboarders here seem to struggle with the foot rests though.

As mentioned, immediate pull downs without warning are lame. I e been bent over unbuckling my boots and had the bar pulled down on my head.

Also, as I’m now approaching 50 I’m actually concerned about having a medical incident (as already mentioned) and falling off. I think that’s fair.

 

[Andy_ROC]

The foot rest is a welcome feature while knocking out hot laps imho.

I really don’t get people’s problem with pulling it down. Newer snowboarders here seem to struggle with the foot rests though.

As mentioned, immediate pull downs without warning are lame. I e been bent over unbuckling my boots and had the bar pulled down on my head.

Also, as I’m now approaching 50 I’m actually concerned about having a medical incident (as already mentioned) and falling off. I think that’s fair.

A bar slammer story.
I got on a HS quad with a mother and her small child. Mom literally slams the bar on my head before the chair left the station. Then the part that makes even less sense, well before the offload she raises the bar when the chair is dangling high in the air.

 

[MiSkier]

The foot rest is a welcome feature while knocking out hot laps imho.

I really don’t get people’s problem with pulling it down. Newer snowboarders here seem to struggle with the foot rests though.

As mentioned, immediate pull downs without warning are lame. I e been bent over unbuckling my boots and had the bar pulled down on my head.

Also, as I’m now approaching 50 I’m actually concerned about having a medical incident (as already mentioned) and falling off. I think that’s fair.

The D8 lift at Boyne Mtn a foot rest that is more snowboarder friendly. It uses small triangles vs the bar that went across.

 

[Benny Profane]

Smuggs lifties watch the chairs go up and will stop the lift and get on the speaker if you don't put the bar down.

My buddy and I were loudly admonished in a foreign language by a liftie at the top of a quad in France when we arrived. We realized that we brain faded and didnt put the bar down. Jeez, they are serious about that stuff over there.

 

[tirolski]

The foot rest is a welcome feature while knocking out hot laps imho.
I really don’t get people’s problem with pulling it down. Newer snowboarders here seem to struggle with the foot rests though.

There’s a foot rest on the old Riblet double at Song but that lift is only used when needed.
The other 3 chairlifts don’t have foot rests at Song.
Lab has foot rests on all 3 of their’s though.

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[raisingarizona]

The D8 lift at Boyne Mtn a foot rest that is more snowboarder friendly. It uses small triangles vs the bar that went across. View attachment 19709

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