With safety bar up, he apparently was leaning forward to adjust his bindings and fell out of the chair - down 47 feet.

I remember almost having the same thing happen to me on one of Roundtop's doubles. I was leaning forward and playing with my boots when the chair suddenly stopped and I pitched forward -- but did not launch, but it was close.

This is a cautionary tale that needs to be repeated as it can be so easy to forget that you CAN fall out of a chair.

https://www.summitdaily.com/news/customer-airlifted-from-keystone-resort-following-fall-from-chairlift/

A good reminder to us all.  Son thinks it's cool to have the bar up.  It really isn't.  Also think about northeast conditions where the chair can have a film of ice on it often... not a good scenario.

Now 2 more boarders fell out of chairs on different days at Breckenridge.

 https://www.summitdaily.com/news/breckenridge-ski-chairlift-fall-december-16/?utm_source=newsletter&utm_source_platform=pinpoint&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=LocalNewsFlash&utm_id=TG9jYWxOZXdzRmxhc2gyMDI0LTEyLTIxIDA3OjAwOjAw&utm_term=2024-12-21

It's terrifying to me watching people send their kids to ski lessons at 7Springs. 
These are the most unprofessional inexperienced instructors I've ever witnessed in my life.  They have been taught like robots to have the kids follow them in "pizza" zig zagging the entire way down the most drunk infested green trails at 7Springs. 
Worse, 90% of the instructors DO NOT lower the bar for the kids.  They barely pay attention to them.  Please do not enroll your kids in 7Springs instruction if they are young.  

So far the best I've seen in my limited resort visits has been Snowshoe.  The instructors there seem competent and focused.  

Grumpy dad wrote:

It's terrifying to me watching people send their kids to ski lessons at 7Springs. 
These are the most unprofessional inexperienced instructors I've ever witnessed in my life.  They have been taught like robots to have the kids follow them in "pizza" zig zagging the entire way down the most drunk infested green trails at 7Springs. 
Worse, 90% of the instructors DO NOT lower the bar for the kids.  They barely pay attention to them.  Please do not enroll your kids in 7Springs instruction if they are young.  

So far the best I've seen in my limited resort visits has been Snowshoe.  The instructors there seem competent and focused.  

Not really the same thing but I took my daughter to Whitetail last year for a lesson. This was the one weekend we got snow and it was chaotic. I drop her off the for the lesson, no issues there, but I come back for pickup and there's no sign of her. no worries, they might be getting another lap in. 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 40 minutes later, still no sign. I know the resort was chaotic that day but they get priority on the lifts so it shouldn't have been that long. I asked the staff if they knew where she was? no idea. The answer I got was that they just let the older kids (she's 11) go they don't hand off back to a parent. What instructor is/was she with? no idea. So where's my kid? no idea. She showed up over an hour late. 

Now I get that it was chaotic that day but there were a few things that really shocked me. How do you not know which kids are with which instructor? How do you not know which instructors/classes are running late? If you knew those 2 things you could tell me, hey she's with X instructor, they're running late, expect them back at about this time. If I knew those I'd be fine. Having no idea where my kid is over an hour after she was supposed to be back was kind of ridiculous.

If that happened to me, I would have called the state police immediately. For the resorts sake. 

DCSteaze wrote:

 

Grumpy dad wrote:

It's terrifying to me watching people send their kids to ski lessons at 7Springs. 
These are the most unprofessional inexperienced instructors I've ever witnessed in my life.  They have been taught like robots to have the kids follow them in "pizza" zig zagging the entire way down the most drunk infested green trails at 7Springs. 
Worse, 90% of the instructors DO NOT lower the bar for the kids.  They barely pay attention to them.  Please do not enroll your kids in 7Springs instruction if they are young.  

So far the best I've seen in my limited resort visits has been Snowshoe.  The instructors there seem competent and focused.  

Not really the same thing but I took my daughter to Whitetail last year for a lesson. This was the one weekend we got snow and it was chaotic. I drop her off the for the lesson, no issues there, but I come back for pickup and there's no sign of her. no worries, they might be getting another lap in. 20 minutes, 30 minutes, 40 minutes later, still no sign. I know the resort was chaotic that day but they get priority on the lifts so it shouldn't have been that long. I asked the staff if they knew where she was? no idea. The answer I got was that they just let the older kids (she's 11) go they don't hand off back to a parent. What instructor is/was she with? no idea. So where's my kid? no idea. She showed up over an hour late. 

Now I get that it was chaotic that day but there were a few things that really shocked me. How do you not know which kids are with which instructor? How do you not know which instructors/classes are running late? If you knew those 2 things you could tell me, hey she's with X instructor, they're running late, expect them back at about this time. If I knew those I'd be fine. Having no idea where my kid is over an hour after she was supposed to be back was kind of ridiculous.