I was skiing at Mammoth a couple of weeks ago and the line for Chair 4 (a detachable Quad) was pretty long, but the resort had groupers keeping the chairs full and the lines moving. I was in a party of three, and the grouper paired us with a snowboarder from the singles line.
After we went through the RFID gates, he turned to me and said "The chair isn't big enough for four" and cut us off, sitting in the center of the chair so we couldn't get on. It happened really fast and frankly we were confused, so I am not really sure how he did it.
He rode up the chair in front of us by himself while we on the chair behind him, trying to figure out exactly who he thought he was.
When we got to the top of the lift, we figured out who he was... He was someone who didn't know how to ride a chairlift. At the unload position, he had the most awkward fall, sliding sideways down the unload, such that the lift operators had to stop the lift for a good two minutes while he got up.
He shouldn't have been on the lift, and what he did was wrong. But I'm glad he didn't take us all down with him. If I fell like that every time I attempted to get off a lift, I would probably think four people is too many for a Quad chair as well.
Sorry for the digression. The story reminded me of my last trip. I am excited to ski Gore later this season!
