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Thread: Chair 6 at Crystal gone?
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03-10-2014, 07:47 PM #1
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03-10-2014, 07:57 PM #2
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03-10-2014, 08:00 PM #3spook Guest
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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03-10-2014, 08:01 PM #4spook Guest
also, could they not have foreseen that and done some kind of avalanche mitigation before it got that huge?
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03-10-2014, 08:48 PM #5
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03-10-2014, 08:52 PM #6
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03-10-2014, 08:57 PM #7
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03-10-2014, 11:17 PM #8
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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03-11-2014, 02:22 AM #9
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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03-11-2014, 06:21 AM #10
control work the day before!!!
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03-11-2014, 07:21 AM #11
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03-11-2014, 08:13 AM #12
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03-11-2014, 11:21 AM #13
just wow. definitely glad no one was hurt.
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03-11-2014, 11:36 AM #14
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03-11-2014, 01:56 PM #15
They were planning on replacing the old double this summer anyway, correct?
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03-11-2014, 02:56 PM #16
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03-11-2014, 05:10 PM #17
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03-11-2014, 05:16 PM #18spook Guest
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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03-11-2014, 05:18 PM #19spook Guest
hard to believe the lift shack is still standing at all
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03-11-2014, 05:26 PM #20skin track terrorist
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Just goes to show, you can't control the avalanche, but the avalanche will control you.
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03-12-2014, 01:17 PM #21
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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03-12-2014, 01:50 PM #22
Note the expression of Kim in the middle:
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03-12-2014, 08:03 PM #23
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03-12-2014, 08:19 PM #24
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03-12-2014, 10:05 PM #25
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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