Vail Sucks!

[cinnabon]

" The Pinata for Gay-Ski Week is ready!"

This made me LOL

Poor guy, that is too funny.

[shaggy433]

lol
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[bfr]

great laughs....

Nice to see instead of more avy shots.

[bfr]

Follow up discussion by the Vail Daily editor is here:
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/2009901039966

Some very funny commentary...
"The head of Vail Mountain, Chris Jarnot, called in Saturday, furious that we published the photograph.

He had spoken with the skier, who was understandably traumatized by the experience of dangling off the chair, figuring this would be how he ended his time on earth."

"Here is what was in my mind in approving publication:
1. Is it news? Unless people routinely dangle upside down off chairlifts, the answer is an inescapble yes."

"To me, the picture documented a moment, a scary one for sure. We all could identify with the skier’s predicament and feel for him; there’s no stigma in an accident. And no one would know who he was by looking at the picture. "

You can comment to the editor what you think of it at the above link...

[bfr]

Found the cached article (minus the picture) on Google:

Vail photo: Over-exposed on the slopes
Skier got stuck in a revealing position while riding up the Blue Sky Basin chairlift on Vail Mountain

A skier got stuck in a revealing position while riding up the Blue Sky Basin chairlift around 10:30 a.m. Friday. Mountain personnel spent about 15 minutes trying to throw him a rope over the chair so the skier could pull himself up but then backed the chairlift up and pulled him down. After he was rescued, he got back on his skis and went back up the slopes.

[bfr]

Tempting to submit this to a bunch of papers...let everyone share the laugh. AP might run with it. This guy could be (in)famous!! His own YouTube montage...etc. Interviews with Matt Lauer, Ellen, Jay Leno.... HaHaHaHaHa!!!

[Rontele]

Tempting to submit this to a bunch of papers...let everyone share the laugh. AP might run with it. This guy could be (in)famous!! His own YouTube montage...etc. Interviews with Matt Lauer, Ellen, Jay Leno.... HaHaHaHaHa!!!

Kind of like wook #17!

[Telelomax]

I can't think of a better thread to make my first post. That is some of the funniest shit I have seen in a long time.

[skier219]

Can't confirm it, but heard one of the lifties forgot to put the seat on the chairlift down. And supposedly the guy's wife was still in line and yelling at everyone who had their cameras out taking pictures of the poor bastard. Even better, they put that shit in the VailDaily this morning.

I've seen gapers flail their way onto a chair and flip the seat up in the process, causing a similar issue (minus the junk show of course). So I wouldn't be surprised if the guy or the other passenger did it. Entirely within the Seinfeld-esque parameters of the story. Kramer (flailing wildly) and George get on the chair, Kramer knocks the seat up while Costanza is focused on what sandwich to eat (or maybe a latex salesman job?), and then Costanza falls through the chair with his pants down, subject to major shrinkage. It all makes sense now.

[H-man]

The woman in your avatar is a personal friend of mine.

Now back to your regular Vail bashing.

[wolfelot]

This guy needs to capitalize on this. Interviews with all sorts of skiing magazines can be had, The Daily Show could run it, Weekend Update on SNL, Maxim, SI, etc. Has this guy hired an agent to hand his 90 seconds of fame?

[St. Jerry]

This guy needs to capitalize on this. Interviews with all sorts of skiing magazines can be had, The Daily Show could run it, Weekend Update on SNL, Maxim, SI, etc. Has this guy hired an agent to hand his 90 seconds of fame?

I'm afraid that's not the way he will "capitalize" on it. I say the over/under is $500K.

[leftfield]

And then today there was this gem in the VD's 'letters to the editor'

What gives with the paucity of groomed runs? Only one or two per lift since we arrived on the 29th.

I’ve been reading hints in the Vail Daily about the resort being in trouble, but this is no way to get more customers. My family takes a ski vacation two or three times a year. We decided to try Vail again this year, figuring it would be less crowded than years past.

It does seem to be less crowded, but its difficult to find many runs my whole family can do together, since so few are groomed.

I just checked Whistler, Park City and Big Sky. Big Sky has only a few per lift, but Whistler has 67 groomed runs, and Park city has 40. Is this some kind of austerity program to economize?

Diane ******
Conway, Ark.

[Rager]

The depths of idiocy shown by lifties is unfathomable. It's like, in order to be a lifty you have to get a lobotomy first.

REALLY? I'm guessing Bentley that this is you hanging from the lift dork-first

[bfr]

I'm afraid that's not the way he will "capitalize" on it. I say the over/under is $500K.

I know a local attorney who does work for Vail Associates...I'll see if he's heard about this yet...

[tandan83]

Oh My God! After the last few weeks of constant gaper-fest, this pic has made it all worthwhile.

A+!

[f2f]

i'm sorry i'm late with this:

[G]

^ f2f, that's fucking awesome.

[NorthernSpotted...]

This makes me feel better about the fact that I wear boxers under my base layer.

Nothing weird about that. From now on I'm going tighty-whities, base-layer, boxers, then outer layer just in case...

How do you sit on a slow moving detachable chair, and not realize the seat isn't down? Then, instead of yelling to the lifty your shit ain't right, ride the chair up a tower or two, or at least long enough to fall through and broadcast your junk to the world of beaters.............

Full circle shit show of junk. What an idiot. God has given you your sign..........

This is a good point. A spaced out lifty didn't notice the seat was down as I was getting on a detachable at Kilington yesterday. I had more than enough time to flip it down myself and load the chair safely.

Yeah, I know... I'm awesome.

[Ripzalot]

a friend of mine was there that day and sent me the following email:

I was out boarding with a few friends at Vail and started up the
skyline express lift when we noticed a huge queue. Turns out a guy and
his kid jumped on a chairlift that had the seat folded up and ended up
getting his pants caught and somehow fell forward. He was dangling
like a slab of beef for at least 15 minutes while the lifties tried to
get him down. The whole situation went from bad to worse exposing the
twigs and berries or in this guys case just the berries. He kept
trying to pull his jacket up to hide. Fighting gravity is tough
though! Must be doing a "Silence of the Lambs" impersonation if you
know what I mean. Check out the look on the lifties face!! Not how
you want to start out the new year!

[SkiNowWorkLater]

a friend of mine was there that day and sent me the following email:

I feel bad for the dude in the yellow helmet. In the second picture it looks like he's about to get bare ass to the face!

[smmokan]

Its safe to say VR is going to be paying out the ass for this one.

[Micol]

Those newest pictures are priceless! I do feel bad for that guy and his kid. I used to work that lift. There's going to be a high price paid for not paying attention and flipping that chair.

Looks like the liftees are still wearing the blue DNA jax from like four seasons ago. And, I guess after this settlement, they will be wearing em for the next decade +.

Yellow helmet is way too much close to that action!

[f2f]

wait until TGR is named as an accomplice in the lawsuit

[Micol]

wait until TGR is named as an accomplice in the lawsuit

I dont think so. If Vail wants pictures like these suppressed, they can do a coupla things. Try to scare with legal action (bluff), or offer to buy the pictures. Pictures are copyrighted artistic images owned by the photographer.