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Hochgurgl on the rarely open Vorderer Wurmkogllift (i) & (ii).
If you've been on it then once is definitely enough as it's 1802m meters of pure hell.
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
T bar, L2A glacier, start of October, it was a snowheads bash, 2006 or 2007.
2 of us had a lesson with Easiski.
The glacier had poor snow cover and the end of the lift had a very steep short section just before the dismount area.
I reckon that me and the other snow head, with all our gear in, tipped the scales at around 275kg.
Easiski was on the bar behind us. Just as the 2 of us got to the top of the steepest but of the off ramp,.the cable of our tbar snapped.
Utter carnage, and Easiski couldn't stop laughing for about an hour |
I've only popped in here for a repeat of this story 
2007? And a whole load of sH with new boots from one of the bootfitting days that were 3 sizes smaller than the previous pair?
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Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?
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@_sam_?,
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.
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I hooked a button under wrongly & got dragged up while getting my dangly bits crushed. Always wear supporting underwear.
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as a snowboarder, the nightmare was the first day as a boarder trying a button lift (in Greece), as i was trying to figure out how the hell will i manage with this thing.
I was alone (with my wife) so do not bother for other people, but it took me the whole day till i manage to go till the end.
And it was round 300m
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Woah time travel IS possible - the tow is alive and well…..
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I'd be the one who forgets to release at the top! Looks amazing though 
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@valais2, Best crowd filter ever. Also easy to dig the poles out of avalanches and put it back together again.
Also means cheap passes but brutal for snowboarders like me especially backhand.
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snowHeads are a friendly bunch.
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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The t-bars back from La Rosiere to La Thuile 
The uplift track is an absolute riot. I've got 30 years of snowboarding experience and I'd confidently class myself as an expert rider but that lift absolutely terrifies me. It's not steep but the uplift track looks as though it's been battered by mortar shells. Full of holes, snowbanks, huge off camber sections. I barely make it up but it's utter carnage for people falling off
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| boardinbob wrote: |
The t-bars back from La Rosiere to La Thuile
The uplift track is an absolute riot. I've got 30 years of snowboarding experience and I'd confidently class myself as an expert rider but that lift absolutely terrifies me. It's not steep but the uplift track looks as though it's been battered by mortar shells. Full of holes, snowbanks, huge off camber sections. I barely make it up but it's utter carnage for people falling off |
Try the one in Hochgurgl in my earlier post if you ever have the opportunity as it makes the one in La Thuile seem like a nursery slope one in comparison.
Love La Thuile by the way.
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You know it makes sense.
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That is quite different - but economical to install!
In Flims of all places there is the Mughels tow rope, which is a relatively short rope you just grap onto to get you up what would otherwise be an annoying shoooshh
There is a T- Bar up through a forest in Stari Vrh which has a sign proudly proclaiming to be the worlds steepest T-bar. It wouldn't be a good one to fall off, and fortunately we never did.
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| Jammy 07 wrote: |
Hochgurgl on the rarely open Vorderer Wurmkogllift (i) & (ii).
If you've been on it then once is definitely enough as it's 1802m meters of pure hell. |
I think I know that one. ONly skied one long weekend there but I remember being slightly off balance all the way up and various bits of me screaming by the top.
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Poster: A snowHead
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Obviously A snowHead isn't a real person
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The old summit platter lift at Lake Louise was pretty brutal. The runs alongside it were graded double black and there was a rope alongside to grab hold of if you fell! Even all 100kg of me felt like I was being lifted up! It didn’t even go quite to the top either so after all that you had a short side step to the blue run!
Now replaced a couple of years ago by a 4 person chairlift on a different route - you’d be hard pressed to work out where it used to run
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@Hyst, what’s amusing about that is the way they are SO still so as not to disturb the balance of things - as I would be - ‘please let this stop, please let this stop….’
I assume they lived….
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I can’t remember exactly the resort, but picture a t-bar going up a gap between two pistes. I’m there with my partner as the lift comes to a halt. We’re waiting for quite some time, which is causing some problems. One of the people on the bar in front falls off and starts heading towards us at speed. I had time to think “I wonder how you avoid this” before she went straight through us, sending us flying into the people behind. Luckily we managed to head sideways into soft snow and stop. No damage was done and we were able to collect lost poles and ski onto a nearby run.
Less dramatically I remember a day in Fageralm where I fell off every single lift. By the end of day the lifties were all grabbing the bars and carefully helping me on.
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Can I add a button lift story here?
Schladming, about 1986.
Our group are all in the button lift, no idea which one by the way, it was a long one and went up amongst some trees.
It stopped.
It stayed stopped.
Still stopped.
No piste visible...what to do?
After a while a snowmobile came racing up...and shortly after racing down with my mate Tim as a passenger.
After another while another snowmobile came up with a liftie telling us that the lift was kaput and directing us to get off and to go left through the trees.
We continued to enjoy our day...but where was Tim?
We continued to enjoy our evening...but where was Tim?
The next day at breakfast Tim appeared and told his tale:
He had been experimenting on the drag lift to see just how far off the track he could get his skis...he was a strong lad and had got a lot of lateral force going...enough to pop the cable off its rollers at a pylon!!
The liftie who picked him up took him to the police station and he spent the night in the cells!!
They had threatened him with a huge fine, something like 10,000 pounds, but he was a student and just told them he had no money, so after a while they realized that was pointless and released him.
Tragically Tim was mown down and killed by a white van man a couple of years later. I still miss him and think of him just about every time I ride a drag lift.
RIP fella...
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@rungsp, that was fun…until the last part. Very sad.
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Being on a t-bar when my kids were small wasn't that much fun, particularly the steep bits
To make it work for them you have to have it behind your knees and sort of sit on it to stop it getting too high for them - ouch!
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My day of boarding sucked, I learned to use a t-bar under a terrace full of rowdy spring drinkers who got well into my progress, more people watching every try. No other route out. It must've been half an hour of repeated attempts before an ever increasing audience. Hugely embarrassing at first as a shy 18 year old, but I accepted my fate eventually and started to take encouragement from it as cheers increased the further I got. When I finally got over the crest and out of sight it was to a huge chorus of applause.
Then a few days later I fell in the dismount area of the same t-bar... As I looked back to check for danger the guy behind me let his bar go, it sprung straight into my face. Within minutes my eye was so big I couldn't see out of it and stayed swollen shut for a week. Left eye too, and I'm left foot forward on a board. Managed to get down safely with the help of a very kind French nurse who happened to see me sat at the top looking sorry for myself. I did have a cool blood red eye for a long time though which was kinda rad:D
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| Jammy 07 wrote: |
| boardinbob wrote: |
The t-bars back from La Rosiere to La Thuile
The uplift track is an absolute riot. I've got 30 years of snowboarding experience and I'd confidently class myself as an expert rider but that lift absolutely terrifies me. It's not steep but the uplift track looks as though it's been battered by mortar shells. Full of holes, snowbanks, huge off camber sections. I barely make it up but it's utter carnage for people falling off |
Try the one in Hochgurgl in my earlier post if you ever have the opportunity as it makes the one in La Thuile seem like a nursery slope one in comparison.
Love La Thuile by the way. |
I’ve suffered both of those !
I love La Thuile also.
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Having been the liftie on the T Bar at Sheffield Ski Village the levels of incompetence are bewildering. It was basically 3 goes then you’re off to the beginner slope as the queues built behind you. The mid station exit often caused an issue as well. Riding that many time prepares you for most things, ditto the old button lift at Rossendale where I learned. No tales of issues from myself though.
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That thing was a nightmare though! Easy enough on skis but so hard as a snowboarder.
Got dragged up after a fall right at the start SO many times as I don't think the lift hut could see the very bottom (pr m maybe you all just didn't really care!)
Also the stupid mid-station exit to go onto the snake (later halfpipe) was so difficult on a snowboard with one food. It was narrow and quite steep and had several turns to try and navigate.
Anyway a consequence of learning on that, I'm totally awesome at drags 
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And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
And love to help out and answer questions and of course, read each other's snow reports.
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| Frosty the Snowman wrote: |
T bar, L2A glacier, start of October, it was a snowheads bash, 2006 or 2007.
2 of us had a lesson with Easiski.
The glacier had poor snow cover and the end of the lift had a very steep short section just before the dismount area.
I reckon that me and the other snow head, with all our gear in, tipped the scales at around 275kg.
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I was a few yards below you that day 
I blame the lifty. I presume the t-bar has a wight limit and - whatever it was - you and II clearly exceeded it by some margin.
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@Red Leon,
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You know it makes sense.
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Main Basin tow at Glencoe. Typcial Scottish conditions with rocks, gaps and heather on the uptrack. Going up with my wife (we're both snowboarders). She's riding the T "normally" and I'm in front, with the T behind me and nothing to hang on to. My (hungover) wife falls off and lets go of the T bar. Her end pivots round on the spring tension and catches me full in the mouth. Just a burst lip, but blood fountaining everywhere and looking spectacular on the snow. Cue ski patrol visit, etc. I was fine. She was sheepish.
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Otherwise you'll just go on seeing the one name:
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The monster 1mile achingly boring / freezing cold one (amongst others) on the glacier at Saas Fee
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