I’ve had an “almost” lift fail at Breck where someone accidentally sat in the seat I was intending to sit in and I immediately had to shift over. One of those scenarios where people sometimes don’t pay attention to how people arrange themselves on the lift.
Did the video cut away for two minutes during the stop at the bottom? Where did the three minute claim come from? The length of that stop was not on them, from what I'm seeing. Looked like lift or, more likely, liftie issue.
I think the lift stopped at the beginning because of their downloading friend getting on. Otherwise the liftie would've just slowed it down. You can hear him say the chair number that the other guy was downloading on.
The odd one leaves something stuck like a pole, or sometimes themselves, anything or any one on the chair, gotta tell the chair number to bottom station. So much stuff went on I put a journal in the top station, it was a great read!
Ha! In Perisher we used to unload them and they'd have to spend the rest of the day getting back. No one was permitted to ride down. Its hard to fly like an eagle with so many turkeys around. Our nickname for day trippers was "Turkeys".
When I was a young kid, I remember falling off the lift seconds after we got on. I fell forward from 3 or 4 feet in the air and displaced a rib. Believe it or not, on the same day I jumped off onto the unloading area because I didn't get off in time. The lift operator was like "I could've stopped it for ya," but his claim did not seem possible because the safest place, obviously, to stop the chair was at the 180° turn. To add to that, the lift was above this crazy black diamond with a sub-generous grooming.
I fell off after loading once too, my dad held me by my hood for a few seconds before the lift stopped. I still suck at getting off the lifts today, I’m better at riding the tow rope.
@hank chinaski Lifts generally aren’t designed for downloaders. There are no dedicated load or unload points, and the lift was not really designed to handle the extra load. That aside, the main point of a ski lift is to ride up and ski down after all.
you're a bit whiny if you're going to complain about that. Newbies should be on the newbie lifts, which is where they were. What's a cool Jerry like you doing on that lift?
It’s not a newbie lift. There are several signs indicating that this lift only serves intermediate terrain. They should have seen those signs yet still demanded to download and hold up everyone else once they reached the top. The only trails off the top of this lift are blues (albeit easy ones)
I swear, when I was 5 years old and skiing for the first time, I loaded the chairlift flawlessly with no slow button. These girls should really get their act together and take a lesson. Unloading was a whole different story when I was 5. I basically stayed on the chair only to realize that I had to get off. I rolled off the chair knocking over all of the cones in the unloading area.
@@collinparsons3363 I think that one of their boyfriends was probably a good skier while the other thought that the terrain off of E was too hard, so he downloaded. The blues off of E might be the easiest blues I've ever skied.
@@mainelift5651 What also annoys me a lot is when lifties slow down non-beginner lifts every time a kid gets on. This is particularly awful at Gore Mountain.
The resort should take their lift tickets away from them. Please go straight to Apres Ski. I have a feeling they are the type who head straight to Apres Ski on future ski trips. 🤦🏻♂️🙂
Y'all expect people who've never gone skiing to be experts at something they've never done? Y'all hating. Watching this because thinking of going skiing.
@[R E D A C T E D] I'm glad your 6 year old can make it down the intermediate runs on his own. He's 100% better at skiing than I am. Great job, I'm proud of you. 👍
I had your initial reaction as well. like "why is this guy picking on the newbies" BUT. It's one thing to be uncertain, timid, scared of loading the lift. But they just weren't paying attention to their surroundings at all; just plain ditzy. It's dangerous. Furthermore, I looked up this resort's trail map, and this lift goes up to Blue runs, there's two other lifts (and 3 magic carpets) nearby that would have kept them on the Greens. They got on a lift not knowing where it went.
Oh my, what the! That’s very annoying, these type of people who don’t know what the heck they are doing but try it anyway thinking it won’t make anyone mad (they keep causing lines and lift stops so they do make folks mad) I can’t stand em.
Well, they are obviously beginners. I'm more curious about why they chose that hill over the beginner run or even taking lessons if it's their very first time.
That is the most bunny hill if I ever saw one.. That onloading looks a little nasty though. Just let them off, possibly fall, learn from their mistakes and let them down the mountain. What a waste of everyone's time having them to lift down again. Again, why would anyone do a quad Karen and film people trying to learn how to ski, promoting themselves to be better, taking the EXACT SAME LIFT?
They are so inexperienced that they don't even try to make an effort to get off and ski down thus screwing over everyone riding the lift to have to wait for their dumbass to get down. That's what's so funny about it
they're not paying attention to anything around them, so they're tangling up their skis with one another and making everyone wait. plus, you're not allowed to go back down the chairlift, but these fools didnt read the massive signs saying NOT A BEGINNER LIFT so they went up and then had second thoughts.
That terrain is a beginner run. You can see it in the video. This is just a wine by the poster nothing more. Seen much worse than that on what are actually lifts serving advanced terrain. Just a low level of tolerance by the poster.
