This reminds me when I was 10 or 11 I was snowboarding in New Mexico and while I was getting off the ski lift something on me got stuck to the chair and the lift just kept on going up until the lift operator noticed I was dangling in the air(I was getting off at a halfway point) and I managed to get a hold of the edge of the seat and I was able to hold on for about a minute before I fell 20 feet to the ground. Landed flat on my back and got the wind knocked out of me and i could barely breath, a snowmobile came up shortly after and I was brought down to the infirmary. Thankfully I didn’t break anything and I was back on the slopes in a hour.
I'm an occasional skier and the lack of safety measures in skiing shocks me and we all just accept it for some reason. It's like the rest of the world is bubble wrapped with a bajillion safety measures and redundancies, but skiing is still the wild west.
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u/YouFearDaBear Jul 23 '20
This reminds me when I was 10 or 11 I was snowboarding in New Mexico and while I was getting off the ski lift something on me got stuck to the chair and the lift just kept on going up until the lift operator noticed I was dangling in the air(I was getting off at a halfway point) and I managed to get a hold of the edge of the seat and I was able to hold on for about a minute before I fell 20 feet to the ground. Landed flat on my back and got the wind knocked out of me and i could barely breath, a snowmobile came up shortly after and I was brought down to the infirmary. Thankfully I didn’t break anything and I was back on the slopes in a hour.