Woman thought to be missing was stuck 15 hours overnight up on a gondola at Heavenly Ski Resort

San Francisco Chronicle / SFGate.com ^ | Jan 27, 2024 | By Carolina Estrada, KCRA

[ealgeone]

Not a single luxury.....

[JJBookman]

...I can HOWEVER, afford to go skiing.

[Drew68]

The workers should have a strict policy of running the lift a complete loop before shutting it off at the end of the day.

I'll bet that's policy.

But it takes a long time and the workers had places to be and things to do.

The American work ethic has gone in the toilet. Whether it's ski-lift operators or Boeing employees, nobody cares anymore.

[steve86]

“She should have thrown a ski pole at them.”

Snowboarder.

[T.B. Yoits]

The workers should have a strict policy of running the lift a complete loop before shutting it off at the end of the day.

Yeah, by forcing the boss who hired the idiots to ride the last loop. The boss hired the idiot, let the boss spend the night trapped in a box in the cold.

[steve86]

Heavenly is notorious for having A LOT of traverses. It’s work, especially on a snowboard. Also, at Whistler-Blackcomb on skis with full mile vertical I remember being dang near too tired to ski down at end of long day.

[Chode]

OK, i don’t know from snowboards but i’ve been damn tired skiing and there always seemed to be greentrail somewhere to glide down...

[broken_clock]

See, another reason why snowboarding is dangerous ;-)

[roving]

I saw that movie.

[Toespi]

We were at Steamboat, I am a blue diamond at best. I missed a sign and ended up on a double black. Fell 15 feet into the run, took my skis off and went down on my rear for about thirty minutes. Best decision I ever made

[SaxxonWoods]

OSHA drawing up requirement for a phone in every gondola and a person on call 24 hours a day.

[rmichaelj]

Generally places will have the one of the workers up top ride the last gondola down and not let anyone else on. When the worker gets o the bottom the line is considered cleared and is shut down. Maybe that was the procedure there too and it just wasn’t followed?

[HombreSecreto]

I think I can guess the name of the worker...

[Chode]

ouch...

[thecodont]

I saw that movie.

Frozen? (Not Disney's 2013 Frozen).

[Billthedrill]

Well...it’s always the last place you look, isn’t it?

[drwoof]

Yep. They’s gots procedures for these kinds of things... Somebody didn’t do their job. Why, who knows. But somebody didn’t do their job.

[gunnut]

Gondolas are enclosed so without forcing a door or busting a window, she could not throw anything.

[bigdaddy45]

With Mary Ann, Ginger, and all the coconut cream pies you could eat, I never could understand the rush to leave. Hell, at my age Mrs. Howell looks pretty good.

[desertsolitaire]

It’s primitive as can be!