Slide took out chair 6 at Crystal? Any details?
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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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Some pics in the pnw thread
Originally Posted by AlpenChronicHabitual
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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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Over heard "oops [comma] fuck"... Originally Posted by spook
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03-10-2014, 08:52 PM #6
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They control it just a shitty snowpack/weather year for the PNW Originally Posted by spook
“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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03-10-2014, 08:57 PM #7
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Couple more photos from a friends Facebook account... Wow!
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03-10-2014, 11:17 PM #8
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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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03-11-2014, 02:22 AM #9
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Wow. Headed there Friday with family for Buddies. Guess we won't be hiking the King this weekend.
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03-11-2014, 06:21 AM #10
would you ski this?!?
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control work the day before!!!
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03-11-2014, 07:21 AM #11
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Rust in Pieces old friend, you will be missed.
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03-11-2014, 08:13 AM #12
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Sorta like here Originally Posted by AlpenChronicHabitual
I don't know any Russian, but pretty sure "oh Fuck!" was uttered somewhere
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03-11-2014, 11:21 AM #13
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just wow. definitely glad no one was hurt.
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03-11-2014, 11:36 AM #14
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Me too. That hike just got a whole lot longer. Originally Posted by The Duke of Hurl
Move upside and let the man go through...
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03-11-2014, 01:56 PM #15
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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 #20
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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
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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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03-12-2014, 01:50 PM #22
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Note the expression of Kim in the middle:
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03-12-2014, 08:03 PM #23
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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?
Good runs when you get them.
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03-12-2014, 08:19 PM #24
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That's a groomer track in the lower left Originally Posted by TomK
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?
“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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03-12-2014, 10:05 PM #25
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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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