Skier Suffers Exposure

Posted by Miss Cellania in Odd News on January 7, 2009 at 12:52 pm


A ski lift mishap at Blue Sky Basin resort in Vail, Colorado left a 48-year-old man hanging upside down without his pants on New Years Day.

It appears that the chairlift’s fold-down seat was somehow not in the lowered position, which caused the man to partially fall through the resulting gap. His right ski got jammed in the ascending chairlift, and that kept him upended since his boot never dislodged from its binding. As seen in the photos on the following pages (which were snapped by fellow skiers), the Skyline Express lift was stopped shortly after the pair’s botched boarding resulted in the man dangling from the lift. The exposed skier was stuck for about 15 minutes before Vail personnel backed the lift up and successfully dislodged the unidentified man from the four-seat chair.

Link -via YesButNoButYes


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10 comments to "Skier Suffers Exposure"

  1. kuanes
    January 7th, 2009 at 1:27 pm

    The photographer was actually an employee of the resort. Guess who just got fired today?

  2. Christophe
    January 7th, 2009 at 2:34 pm

    Shrinkage!

  3. Ali S.
    January 7th, 2009 at 5:07 pm

    That's one trip he won't forget!

  4. sw
    January 7th, 2009 at 5:22 pm

    that must have been a horrible experience.

    but look how close the resort employee's face is to that man's bare ass!!!!

  5. Rocky Rook
    January 7th, 2009 at 5:34 pm

    Sounds as embarrasing as that first date that girl had where she had to pee in the dead of winter and she peed on the back bumper of her date's car ... got her butt stuck so her date tried to thaw the pee-ice by peeing on it himself! It went downhill from there.

  6. steve smith
    January 7th, 2009 at 5:35 pm

    Yeah Technology.
    In the old days, only those actually at the ski lodge would be laughing at your embarrassment. But nowadays thanks to the internet, Entire regions of the country can laugh at your bare butt being dragged up the mountain while you unintentionally moon the entire ski slope. I wonder how long this will take him to live down?

  7. DOJ
    January 7th, 2009 at 6:01 pm

    This is exactly why I wear bib style ski pants.

  8. Ali S.
    January 7th, 2009 at 10:19 pm

    @ Rocky Rook

    I do hope you just made that up. Because if not... O_O

  9. Miss Cellania
    January 7th, 2009 at 10:39 pm

    Ali, it's an old joke. Some girl told the story on Jay Leno way back, but there's no evidence that its true. See the entire text here:

    http://www.misscellania.com/miss-cellania/2008/1/6/snowfall.html

  10. ted
    January 8th, 2009 at 6:39 pm

    What a horrible experience.


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