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The rough around the edges image is all part of the Silverton appeal.
A few shitters, rickety chairlift, canvas lodge, old school buses and milk trucks shuttling you around, it's what makes the place sweet.
You have to cross a creek by foot when you're done skiing Colorado & the Stooges. It's not because there too cheap to buy a few 8x8s...
There’s ANSI and ASTM standards as well as regulations in Colorado that cover this as well as the forest service SUP as well as the ski areas lift operations manual should spell out exactly how this is done, part of the lift inspection in this state ( Washington )covers written operational plans I’m guess Colorado has something similar in place, my guess is Silverton will pay
Wouldn't a lift like that be checked regularly by the State? Those guard rails aren't even up to code and the platform is made up of thin aspen logs [emoji15]
Brills and others worked super hard to build that place. And it is amazing things have gone as well as they have safety wise. I know they've pissed some people off...
I've had hellaciously good times there, so much so I complained bitterly when (winter) unguided went away and prices rose because it meant I couldn't play.
It would be a shame to see it go under. It would be a shame for skiers, a shame for Silverton, and a shame for all those that made the place what it is.
Mistakes were made and they cost a lady her independence, mobility, and so much more.
It is a shame what that lady has to go through the rest of her life.
I hope insurance makes things as good as can be for her and that Silverton Mountain lives.
It reminds me of skiing at La Grave - the mid mountain loading station, the shitty infrastructure, shots at the top station way after the téléphérique shut down. That said, getting off the lift at Silverton with your pack on one hand and your poles in the other is usually the crux of the run....
You live near Silverton now
No chair exists that I can't ski
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seattle bro
come hit some green insteada them CI’s
CODS
since I know lots about insurance I'll tell you what I think, but most of my insurance knowledge is limited to making sure someone pays the bill every month
they have a liability policy but it's capped on how much it will pay out, ie if I cause bodily damage to someone my policy will only pay out 1 million bucks
so insurance will pay, but someone else will have to come up with the rest, the owners have no say in anything, the insurance company will make all the decisions for them with their lawyers
Their rates will then go through the roof after the settlement, that's if anyone will insure them after the case is settled, most insurance companies will settle out of court and as fast as they can, twenty years ago they used to hem and haw about paying and would fight anything, these days they write a check and have people sign away their rights to make any claims against the defendant quickly
So yeah pretty much how insurance works for everyone and everything. Thanks for the knowledge extremely enlightening.
What we don't know is what their cap and if they have extended their policies in any way to protect themselves.
That download ramp is scary period. They wanted people to walk down that? Even with the chair stopped that would be dicey. Build an effin snowbank to the side and cut some snow stairs into it. Better just don't do scenic tours.
Would be a shame if a stupid marketing decision closes a resort like this.
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Hope they survive the litigation, Silverton has a lot of radness and is unique.
The unload is pretty tame compared to some of the fixed grip chairs I grew up riding as a kid, but if you are going to allow foot traffic then there really should have been a little more awareness on their part.
I'd say it's unlikely Silverton has a policy that has a lower cap for bodily injury as compared to some other type of liability; injury resulting in paralysis is one of the highest-exposure risks of running a ski resort.
You guys are pussies. That's not that bad. It offloads directly at an uphill wall of snow and the chair runs slow as fuck. I've always seen a lift op working the top and standing on the platform to the left. I've seen offload ramps at Mt Baker that are steeper and worse than that. Sure, maybe it's not a Vail style lift where it comes to a goddamned stop before you gently stand up and scoot away. But it's not that that fucking hairy.
This place is getting soft.
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This, and I hope for the best for the women as well.
And, g-bus, no shit.Quote:
The unload is pretty tame compared to some of the fixed grip chairs I grew up riding as a kid, but if you are going to allow foot traffic then there really should have been a little more awareness on their part.
The old school baker lift ramps early season come to mind.
surprise this hasn't been resolved out of court, though it still could be.
but if a judgement against the ski area occurs, its very doubtful it would cause the current owner to go under. even if it did, its not like the ski area would sit idle or go away forever.