Snowboarder describes 15-hour ordeal trapped in a gondola at ski resort in Lake Tahoe
Snowboarder describes 15-hour ordeal trapped in a gondola at ski resort in Lake Tahoe
A snowboarder spent 15 hours trapped overnight inside a ski lift gondola amid freezing temperatures at a Lake Tahoe resort, according to officials and media reports.
Seems like some dumbass didn’t do their job.
Yup, the liftie didn't notify the bottom terminal of the download, and killed the chair after the last uphill mark. This right here is a massive failure in training and communication.
“The safety and wellbeing of our guests is our top priority at Heavenly Mountain Resort,” said Tom Fortune, the resort’s vice president and chief operating officer, in a statement.
🤔
Certainly not on top of "do a once-around to make sure nobody got left"
Huh. Anyone else see that movie Frozen? No, not that one.
Interesting, I have never heard of it before
First thing I thought of when reading this. I refer to it as the original Frozen.
Not blaming her, but why not bring your cell phone? So it wouldn't get damaged? It's one thing if there was no signal up there, but I'd have my phone with me due to situations like this.
You'd bring your expensive device that is easily destroyed by water to engage in a water-reliant sport while surrounded by mountains likely to block the device's signal?
You wouldn’t bring your life saving water-resistant GPS and communication device into the mountains when sustained exposure to weather would kill you? Also most of Tahoe has pretty good cellular reception, especially high up on a gondola.
My phone literally has a satellite based SOS feature for situations where you’re stuck in the wilderness. It has the ability to kick up its transmitter power to search for any signal in order to dial 911. It’s a literal lifesaving device, and it’s practically water proof. Yes, it would go with me.
People in this thread seem to think snowboarding is this nice gentle activity where you never slam down into some hard surface ever.
LOTS of people don't bring their phones when they hit the slopes. They know what they are in for, and aren't stupid enough to break their $800+ phone on the off chance the mountain fucks up an extremely basic process.
If she’d been with Larry David she would have at least had some edible underwear for sustenance.
Lawsuit??
That's when you resolve a dispute in front of a judge
Thanks, Shirley!
She didn’t have her cellphone, so she couldn’t call for help either.
Phones aren't just for playing music. It's certainly not her fault this happened but if she hadn't left her phone somewhere else this would have been over inside an hour.
You fall a lot snowboarding, it’s more about not breaking your phone than whether or not you want to listen to music or have a need for it. There is risk to taking it and risk to not taking it
I'm well aware of the risks of winter sports. Getting stuck somewhere on the mountain is about as bad as they get. If you're alone your phone is pretty much the only tool you have to prevent that from happening if you get injured.
Learning from other people's mistakes is how you keep them from happening to you. That's what you're supposed to do, not make excuses for them. If you're more concerned about the possibility of breaking your phone than being able to call for help after reading this then you didn't learn the right lesson.
It's
certainlynot her fault this happenedbut if she hadn't left her phone somewhere else this would have been over inside an hour.And if she hadn't gotten stuck in the gondola this never would have happened.
I already said this shouldn't have happened but that's not exactly the point, is it? The point is that she had a device that was capable of solving this problem but she chose not to bring it. There may have been a good reason for that but we don't know.
If you don't take your phone you're assuming that everyone involved will do their job correctly 100% of the time and that just isn't realistic, as evidenced by the fact that we are talking about this situation right now. Maybe getting stuck on a ski hill overnight is a risk you're willing to take in order to avoid potentially damaging your phone but I think that's a bad bet. I'll take my phone and call for help when needed. Getting stuck on a gondola is not the only situation in which having your phone with you could be useful.
The overnight low temperature was 23 degrees
You mean -23°??? Oh... Fahrenheit
Well it was in Tahoe, so it would be weird if they were using Celsius