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    Chair 6 at Crystal gone?

    Slide took out chair 6 at Crystal? Any details?

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    Quote Originally Posted by AlpenChronicHabitual View Post
    Well that sucks...

    And, holy crap!

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    Some pics in the pnw thread

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    holy shit.

    so what happens after something like that? they have to take everything down in the spring and retest all the towers and rebuild? is that covered by insurance?

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    also, could they not have foreseen that and done some kind of avalanche mitigation before it got that huge?

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    Quote Originally Posted by spook View Post
    also, could they not have foreseen that and done some kind of avalanche mitigation before it got that huge?
    Over heard "oops [comma] fuck"...

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    Quote Originally Posted by spook View Post
    also, could they not have foreseen that and done some kind of avalanche mitigation before it got that huge?
    They control it just a shitty snowpack/weather year for the PNW
    “I have a responsibility to not be intimidated and bullied by low life losers who abuse what little power is granted to them as ski patrollers.”

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    Couple more photos from a friends Facebook account... Wow!

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    According to Crystal Mountain Facebook page:

    Slide was at 4:45pm, after close. No injuries. Patrol tossed bombs and the whole hill slid.

    Crystal will soon be selling old individual chairs to collectors. They plan to replace the lift with "something like the Northway lift."

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    Wow. Headed there Friday with family for Buddies. Guess we won't be hiking the King this weekend.
    "We need sometimes to escape into open solitudes, into aimlessness, into the moral holiday of running some pure hazard, in order to sharpen the edge of life, to taste hardship, and to be compelled to work desperately for a moment at no matter what. -George Santayana, The Philosophy of Travel

    ...it would probably bother me more if I wasn't quite so heavily sedated. -David St. Hubbins, This Is Spinal Tap

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    control work the day before!!!

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    Rust in Pieces old friend, you will be missed.
    Quote Originally Posted by hortence View Post
    When I did twice the work for half the control, I was a whiny little bitch

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    Quote Originally Posted by AlpenChronicHabitual View Post
    Over heard "oops [comma] fuck"...
    Sorta like here


    I don't know any Russian, but pretty sure "oh Fuck!" was uttered somewhere

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    just wow. definitely glad no one was hurt.
    j'ai des grands instants de lucididididididididi

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    Quote Originally Posted by The Duke of Hurl View Post
    Wow. Headed there Friday with family for Buddies. Guess we won't be hiking the King this weekend.
    Me too. That hike just got a whole lot longer.
    Move upside and let the man go through...

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    They were planning on replacing the old double this summer anyway, correct?

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    The Crown...

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    wow some of that video had some huge chunks of snow. since i've never been, the video made it a lot bigger than i realized from the pics.

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    spook Guest
    hard to believe the lift shack is still standing at all

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    Just goes to show, you can't control the avalanche, but the avalanche will control you.
    long live the jahrator

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    Very cool article from the perspective of the trollers who set off that slide. Plus some video of the first troller to realize that the slide took out ch 6... http://kimkircher.com/2014/03/12/wha...h-a-chairlift/

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    Note the expression of Kim in the middle:
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    A pic from Tuesday, looking up into C-Basin from below the debris field.
    Unlikely they are going to be able to run a groomer over this to flatten it out. Buldozer time?
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    Good runs when you get them.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TomK View Post
    A pic from Tuesday, looking up into C-Basin from below the debris field.
    Unlikely they are going to be able to run a groomer over this to flatten it out. Buldozer time?
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    That's a groomer track in the lower left
    “I have a responsibility to not be intimidated and bullied by low life losers who abuse what little power is granted to them as ski patrollers.”

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    Since they can't run the chair why even bother? I would think they'd just let it melt, or at least wait until they actually need to remove the old lift.

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