174 Colorado skiers and snowboarders saved after a lift fractures
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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 1 minute to check out
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 ...