This Is What Happens When You Don't Do Your Chin-ups
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Frozen is seriously the worst film ever made in the entire history of celluloid. It was a fucking insult to my arse to make it sit through that shit.
I had a friend in high school jump off one because he dropped his bowl. Wasn't very high (no pun). The resort also had this 4 person enclosed gondola that we use to take to the top...smoke would literally be pouring out of it when the attendants opened the door - always got an illegal smile out of every one of them.
Snowball fight on the chair lift with no safety bar! Gotta say, I have a tough time feeling bad for someone who did that.
Falling off when just getting on is one thing. I'm sure we've all done it, and have witnessed it even more times. Falling off half way up the hill is a little different though, and it takes some stupidity to accomplish that.
Hardly anyone uses the safety bars. Maybe 1/5 rides someone actually wants to pull the bar down. It is super awkward and uncomfortable for snowboarders unless there are only a few people on a 5+ person chair. Kid is just lucky he wasn't at Vail, Beaver Creek or Winter Park, he would be dead.
WTF...
Been snowboarding for about 16 years and never once felt uncomfortable. But then in Switzerland everyone pulls the bar down anyways.
My girlfriend is the same way. We're taking a trip this weekend to Snowshoe and I told her if she starts freaking out about the ski lifts she has to stay back at the lodge.
A lot of resorts don't even have bars on their ski lifts. In fact, most of the resorts in Vermont don't. They want to retain the classy slow Vermont ski lift experience and none of them have bars. They aren't the highest off of the ground but they are longgggggg. All of them take 10+ minutes to get to the top.
It was a sick movie lol.
Do you guys have the footrests on the bars there? They are located in a less than ideal spot for snowboarders and it makes it hard to rest the board in a comfortable way if the chair is full, or at least that is my experience. I prefer to rest my board on my other foot which is very hard with the bars down here at the Colorado resorts. I am quite tall though. I tend to stick to the gondolas or the 6 person super-chairs anyway.
Jhoffy, every time I glance at your sig all I see is, "female college student? PM me." :love-smiley-086:
no one ever drops the bars on a chairlift unless it's blizzard conditions, and even then I haven't done it. The best chair lifts are the old ones at certain resorts from like the 60s that are basically two elementary school chairs duct taped to a dowel hanging from a rope. Good times.
I've spent a lot of time on the mountain, and even so chair lifts scare the shit out of me. I drop that security bar, and the clutch the side and back of the lift in terror. Sometimes those things get rocking pretty good, and if you slip you won't be holding on for long with gloved hands.
In the last year or so I've somehow manged to develop Gephyrophobia. So far I haven't noticed it being a problem with just heights without bridges, but then again, I haven't really had a chance to test it.
I haven't been skiing in a couple of years and the lifts never bothered me before, but now with the new phobia, I wonder if I'm going to be one of those people having 10 minute long panic attacks in these barless chairs. :/
