Vail Gondola WTF

[summit]

It's been down for 5 days now 6? Vail dh riders have been over at Keystone. Heard it took all day to evac.

[Dee Hubbs]

It's been down for 5 days now 6? Vail dh riders have been over at Keystone. Heard it took all day to evac.

Call went out at around 8:45 that an evacuation process was happening. Patrollers that were called in for the exercise worked until 4pm. Last cabin was evacuated around 3:30pm. That was with the lift at about 20% capacity. Imagine it was 5 hrs later with the lift full of July long weekenders on both upload and download lines.

[Cruiser]

Need drones with pizza and beer...

[JongDoe]

Perhaps someone got the righty tighty, lefty loosey thing mixed up?

Winner here

[Kopi_Red]

Attachment 288065

Yup. A couple of C clamps and some slow set marine epoxy and it'll be as good as new.

[summit]

Call went out at around 8:45 that an evacuation process was happening. Patrollers that were called in for the exercise worked until 4pm. Last cabin was evacuated around 3:30pm. That was with the lift at about 20% capacity. Imagine it was 5 hrs later with the lift full of July long weekenders on both upload and download lines.

Sounds shitty, as in the tourists would be shitting in the gondola cabins.

[m2711c]

Need drones with pizza and beer...

You can't count on that there technology to save your ass just yet...... that's why i depend on pocket beers and the Pizza Pouch™.











Why take chances when you could be eating pizza?

[Dantheman]

Call went out at around 8:45 that an evacuation process was happening. Patrollers that were called in for the exercise worked until 4pm. Last cabin was evacuated around 3:30pm. That was with the lift at about 20% capacity. Imagine it was 5 hrs later with the lift full of July long weekenders on both upload and download lines.

Wow.

[redacted user]

Vail offering soul crushing lift experiences year round now, impressive.

[Rideski]

+

[pureantigravity]

Shouldn't this thread be in the main ski thread?

[MakersTeleMark]

Just maybe, maybe, there was a 200 person club members only dinner with almost 300 lobsters scheduled for that day.

You got lobsters? You drive up and make lobster rolls and freeze the meat.

Just sayin'. Plus a maybe couple few thousands of dollars, couple, in revenue on the 4th, 5th, etc.

Not a peep. Only one injury thank budda. A full on panic attack as the gondi hit the tower.

Now, where do I shit when I'm up there for 5+ hours? Piss off the other side!

Could have been so much worse. Hopefully someone FOIA's the tram board report.

[SB]

Hole in the middle of the floor for drainage and bombing.

[gatorboy]

https://www.vaildaily.com/news/eagle-bahn-gondola-reopens-six-days-after-breakdown/?fbclid=IwAR2P9I5yaTSrWkaYHpL4iWrlmjAvmnc3ba1Ax0y_ qyq4QeoUEkbTycecmI0

“an issue with certain bolts on one of the lift towers,” Vail Resorts said in a statement.

Bolt issue? It seems to me that there is an excessive amount of force pulling that tower uphill. JM$0.02

"...after a safety monitoring system detected the issue with the bolts....." Are there sensors at each junction?

Obviously Vail wants to keep this quiet, as does every resort. This would not be good for the industry.

[The AD]

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It would be a pretty good April Fools gag to throw a couple random c-clamps on the tower flanges as if they were actually holding the towers together. See how many people would notice.

[pureantigravity]

“an issue with certain bolts on one of the lift towers,” Vail Resorts said in a statement.

Obviously.

And they didn't use those bolts on the other towers ... or on any of the other tower installations recently at other resorts such as recently built lifts at [insert other Vail Resorts resorts name here]?

They used stainless-steel bolts instead of steel?

Or what?

[Timberridge]

stainless

Let's not bring Bobby into this.

One would think for the prices Vail charges they might consider using titanium.

[k2skier112]

unobtainium

[snoqpass]

Only dentist in here, no lift mechanics?

[pureantigravity]

Paging AvE to the armchair analysis phone ...

[abraham]

Only dentist in here, no lift mechanics?

Official opinion:
Shit looks broke

[MakersTeleMark]

https://www.vaildaily.com/news/eagle...ter-breakdown/

[The AD]

In other words Vail still ain't talking. At some point I would assume the state lift board will issue a report, but that could be a while.

[ill-advised strategy]

was this "safety monitoring system" just somebody with eyes and a cell phone riding the lift?

[Tippster]

1. Ice jacking leading to metal fatigue

2. Remove gondola cars from rope, remove rope from shivs (may need to do this at multiple towers to get enough slack), pull rope clear from tower, rig crane (heli or truck crane) to tower, lift, unbolt, inspect, reinstall if no repair is necessary

Oh, so an afternoon, a couple of buddies, and a case of National Premium should do it?

was this "safety monitoring system" just somebody with eyes and a cell phone riding the lift?

..or was it a robot meant to LOOK like somebody with eyes and a cell phone riding the lift?