Escaping from a ski lift?
Discussion
Imagine you are on the last lift up the mountain of the day. You're the only one still skiing, it's dark, and all of a sudden the lift stops and all the lights go off. The drunk 18 year old lift operator has forgotten about you and gone home. To make matters worse after today the mountain is closed for the next 5 days. No one is coming. Under you is a 100ft drop onto slightly sloped hard pack snow and your lift is bang in-between 2 pylons. You have no mobile phone. You have all your skiing clothes on, poles and skis. What is the best way to escape?
130R said:
chim said:
Easy one, just climb up on the wire and monkey across it to the pole and climb down the pole, skis on, down the hill and go home.
I think you'd have to be very strong to monkey across, also the steel wires are razor sharp. Possible though.130R said:
Conian said:
bend a ski pole, stand on the chair to loop the pole over the wire
zip down, stopping to negotiate where the wire connects to pole until you get to either loose snow or a drop that wont break ya legs
Only problem might be if you have fiberglass poles zip down, stopping to negotiate where the wire connects to pole until you get to either loose snow or a drop that wont break ya legs
Take your rope out of your pack, tie it securely round the pole that connects the chair to the wire, attach pack and skis and lower them to the ground, rappel down, skis on, headlamp on, Bob's your mother's brother. You do lose the rope, but I only carry 30m, so no choice there. I assume you could sue the resort for the cost of replacement later.
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