Sunday River chair fail

http://www.pressherald.com/2016/07/13/sunday-river-ski-lift-found-damaged/

YIKES!

that is a failure mode I had never heard of before

Apparently in 2007 SR had a base terminal that had problems with losing ground underneath.  But that terminal didn't completely come down.

https://liftblog.com/2016/07/13/sunday-river-lift-severely-damaged-as-terminal-falls/

Another crappy Borvig lift fails.  Ski areas should be purging their mountains of those death traps.  Suicide Six is replacing their Borvig double with a Poma quad this summer.

I think we need laws banning chairlifts.

Tremors. Just kidding, giant man eating earth worms probably aren't likely but this does sound like an erosion thing and not a lift thing to me.

erosion happens.

“Thank God it happened in the summer when it was not in use,”

I'll say. Thanks God !

skimore wrote

http://www.pressherald.com/2016/07/13/sunday-river-ski-lift-found-damaged/

From the article:
"The National Ski Areas Association could point to only one other similar failure, at New Hampshire’s Gunstock Mountain Resort in 1990, when the foundation of a newly installed lift separated, causing the terminal to fall over.

After that incident, workers installed additional rock anchors to ensure the concrete foundations of other lifts didn’t detach from the mountainside, said Greg Goddard, general manager in Gilford, New Hampshire."

PeeTex wrote

I think we need laws banning chairlifts.

That's more like something Mikey would say.  You want more chairlifts because fewer people will hike and you get the backcountry to yourself.

snoloco wrote

Another crappy Borvig lift fails.  Ski areas should be purging their mountains of those death traps.

Will be curious to read the investigation report in a few months....

But come on, snoloco.....at this early stage all things point to foundation failure....that has nothing to do with the lift make. Now if the lift mfr also installed the foundation to their specs then yes...that's a reflection on Borvig engineering----but not the lift itself.

Borvig has had 3 failures that caused injuries in recent years.  Spillway, King Pine, and Thunderstruck Triple.  This one didn't cause any injuries because the lift wasn't in use, but had it been, there would've most certainly been many injuries and likely deaths.  

That's why Peetex is right. Lifts are physically dangerous and they congregate too many people on the hill. At the least all high speed lifts should be eliminated. Also snowmaking permits should be established and only available to resorts that average under 150". The benefit would be confining the people who enjoy this experience. It's a poor use of a natural resource anyway

Ok so you want more people tracking out the backcountry instead of being concentrated in one area leaving anyone willing to hike with untracked powder all day every day.

We need to be improving technology, regressing.  

If a ski lift falls in the forest, and nobody hears it..........

snoloco wrote

Ok so you want more people tracking out the backcountry instead of being concentrated in one area leaving anyone willing to hike with untracked powder all day every day.

We need to be improving technology, regressing.

Concentrate all the people who like a groomed snowmaking experience  to a select few areas and decrease uphill capacity were it snows

you should investigate if they used a private personal server and delete emails marked (c)...  hahahahahahaahah

ScottyJack wrote

you should investigate if they used a private personal server and delete emails marked (c)...  hahahahahahaahah

You do realize that isn't  real issue