Belle seems to be keeping everything open this year when they have the snow.
At least ya didn’t have to stay overnight in the gondola.
Whataway to run a shitshow.
Woman thought to be missing was stuck 15 hours overnight up on a gondola at Heavenly Ski Resort
When Monica Laso planned a skiing trip with her friends to Heavenly Ski Resort, she never imagined she would spend 15 hours overnight hanging in the sky on a gondola.www.kcra.com
She didn’t have a phone with her but where's the RFID tech &/or a liftie when ya need one to get on a lift?
Maybe Fail will comp her some ancillary attachments & add it to their bottom line.
Still could qualify as a 10 buck or more write-off.
Crazy story, in 1999 two women spent the night on the Southern Comfort chair in Big Sky. After they were found in the morning, two of my friends, who were bellmen at the hotel, drove them an hour to where they lived in West Yellowstone. One drove them in a van and the other drove their car for them. The women, obviously cold and hungry, asked to stop at the gas station for some hot drinks and snacks. They asked the guys for money since they didn’t have any. They went on to explain that they had set fire to all of the bills they had and dropped them from the lift in a vain attempt to signal some passing groomers.
@Ripitz should get extra points for his Montana skiing stories comments.
It was February 24, 1999. They were stranded for 16 hours and the low was 25 degrees.
Article says OSHA fined them for avalanche control going on while folks were grooming below on Feb 20, 1999.
What did the bottom operator have to say? Or was it a policy fail? The gondola mishaps always seem to be a download that doesn’t get communicated to everybody
That area used to close at 3:30. Ski Patrol would rope off the runs with a disc stating that the lift is closed and then do their sweep. Patrol would then load along with the bottom operator or the operator would snowmobile out. I believe the women were at fault. They lived locally and owned an outdoor gear shop, they weren’t just some dumb tourons. They should have known better. I’m sure there was a phone in the shack they could have used. I think someone also self-loaded once at the end of the day in the Back Bowls at Vail and got stuck. From what I remember he jumped off and broke a leg but was able to make it down to a phone at the bottom shack.
