Pro Tip for Snowboarders

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Monte Meals
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Pro Tip for Snowboarders

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Please clip in to chair before adjusting your binders

FINAL UPDATE: Witness reportedly saw man adjusting his snowboard binding before he fell 47 feet from chairlift at Keystone Resort
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Re: Pro Tip for Snowboarders

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Although sad, that will go down as one of the dumbest accidents in history. Hope he fully recovers.

I do not remove anything or attempt to adjust anything below my waist when on a ski lift. That includes gloves/mittens. Seen too many gloves in the snow below the lift. Whatever it is, it can wait.
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Re: Pro Tip for Snowboarders

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It's not just snowboarders who should hear this, anyone riding a chairlift in any fashion should know not to do dumb things up there. In 2023 a skier fell off a lift at breck, because he was clearing snow off his chair. Unfortunately it was a fatal decision. Liftys should be instructed to clean chairs off before opening. I had to last season as a lifty. I always told people if it can wait, it can wait. Simple things like taking your phone out on the lift could be dangerous. Be careful and have out there, and please tell your chairmates when lowering that safety bar....please please!
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Re: Pro Tip for Snowboarders

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" mom wants a state law requiring restraint bar use "

https://www.summitdaily.com/news/colora ... -keystone/
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Re: Pro Tip for Snowboarders

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It's interesting that locally, restraint bars are not usually put down? I've never taken a ski lift in Colorado, but I've taken them in the Northeast and elsewhere and often they won't let you move until the bar is down or there's someone there helping to put the bar down before you actually leave the starting area.

In such a litigious world we are in where there's permits or licensing required for everything, guard rails on most things, disclaimers before you step foot on the ground it's surprising there's such a lax environment around this.

In Japan, where risk mitigation/"management" is over the top at times, it was also surprising; we needed to take a ski lift to access a trail for a couple mountains and we remarked that they were surprisingly exposed, optional bar and easily over 75 ft off the ground at times, swinging in the wind and with the steepness with little protection other than just holding on. We were thankful to get on the ground and frankly the ski lift ride was a more scary than anything we saw on the mountain regardless of its exposure.