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FILE – The sun shines onto Vasquez Cirque, brand-new surface for Winter Park Resort, Feb. 1997, Winter Park, Colo. AP Photo/Byron Hetzler, File
By Associated Press
December 22, 2024|5:20 PM
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WINTER SEASON PARK, Colo. (AP)– Officials were examining Sunday what triggered a fracture in a Colorado ski lift that required the evacuation of over 170 stranded skiers and snowboarders.
The gondola lift at Winter Park Resort, about 70 miles west of Denver, immediately stopped when it spotted the fracture in a structural piece of the lift simply after twelve noon on Saturday, resort representative Jen Miller stated. Individuals riding in the gondolas were decreased down by ropes throughout about 5 hours, she stated.
No injuries were reported throughout the saves, which came at the start of the hectic vacation ski season.
Ski patrolers got in the cabin of each gondola from above and reduced individuals’s devices to the ground before utilizing a rope geared up with a seat to decrease each of the 174 travelers to the ground, Miller stated.
Employees were changing the area of the lift that split Sunday as state regulators and the lift’s producer dealt with resort authorities to examine what triggered the fracture, Miller stated. The resort still had 21 other lifts open.
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