{"id":12162,"date":"2009-12-07T12:45:39","date_gmt":"2009-12-07T20:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12162"},"modified":"2009-12-07T13:08:24","modified_gmt":"2009-12-07T21:08:24","slug":"another-chair-down-at-whistler-blackcomb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=12162","title":{"rendered":"Another Chair Down At Whistler Blackcomb"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/whistler_logo.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/whistler_logo.jpg','popup','width=186,height=62,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/12\/whistler_logo-tm.jpg\" height=\"66\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Whistler Logo\" \/><\/a>Whistler sure seems to be having fun with its lift towers lately. On Sunday December 6, 2009, the Big Red Express lift was stopped and 100 people were evacuated after &#8220;a device on one of the towers fell off,&#8221; according to a story on <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprovince.com\/sports\/Chairlift+malfunction+strands+skiers\/2311648\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Province<\/a><\/em><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what <strong>Dave Brownlie<\/strong>, president of the Whistler-Blackcomb ski resort said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We had lift maintenance personnel inspect the situation,&#8221; Brownlie told The Province. &#8220;They determined that it was then safe to run the people off the line. . . He described the broken part as &#8220;a compression mechanism&#8221; that is installed on some towers to keep pressure on the top of the cable as it passes over rollers on the tower.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This is just the latest in a series of lift problems at the mountain over the past year. A <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=7093\" target=\"_blank\">drive motor failure<\/a><\/strong> on the Peak 2 Peak last April caused an unscheduled closure, a &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=5611\" target=\"_blank\">broken bolt<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; stopped Blackcomb&#8217;s Harmony lift last February, and a &#8220;<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=3270\" target=\"_blank\">partial lift tower collapse<\/a><\/strong>&#8221; on Whistler Blackcomb&#8217;s Excalibur Gondola in December of 2008 resulted in several minor injuries.<\/p>\n<p>Maybe this is what happens when the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=4735\" target=\"_blank\">company that runs the resort is flailing<\/a><\/strong>. Good thing those Olympics are right around the corner.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theprovince.com\/sports\/Chairlift+malfunction+strands+skiers\/2311648\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Province<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whistler sure seems to be having fun with its lift towers lately. On Sunday December 6, 2009, the Big Red Express lift was stopped and 100 people were evacuated after &#8220;a device on one of the towers fell off,&#8221; according to a story on The Province. Here&#8217;s what Dave Brownlie, president of the Whistler-Blackcomb ski [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,12],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12162"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12162"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12170,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12162\/revisions\/12170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}