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Strat
12-16-2008, 11:07 PM
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/12/16/canada.gondola.accident/index.html

And you thought it was bad when Slide Brook stopped over the big ravine...

smootharc
12-17-2008, 09:20 AM
...in Colorado (sidecountry) and Utah (Snowbird inbounds) recently....and not a good week indeed.

freeheel_skier
12-17-2008, 10:44 AM
...in Colorado (sidecountry) and Utah (Snowbird inbounds) recently....and not a good week indeed.

Vail inbounds on Sunday I believe.

http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20081214/NEWS/812149983/1078&ParentProfile=1062&title=In-bounds%20avalanche%20catches%20Vail%20skier

Inbounds Sunday @ Snowbird

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705270509,00.html

Three women dide of CO2 poison in a car @ Squaw

http://www.montereyherald.com/state/ci_11251771

Very sad for skiers indeed! :cry:

smootharc
12-17-2008, 11:34 AM
...learn the post-incident analysis of the avalanche deaths.....beacons used ? avy danger levels at the time ? equipped partners ? etc.

The incident in Colorado I was referring to was a death in Aspen sidecountry....a patroller. Flying solo in the sidecountry.

http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/131040

freeheel_skier
12-17-2008, 12:50 PM
...learn the post-incident analysis of the avalanche deaths.....beacons used ? avy danger levels at the time ? equipped partners ? etc.

The incident in Colorado I was referring to was a death in Aspen sidecountry....a patroller. Flying solo in the sidecountry.

http://www.aspendailynews.com/section/home/131040

Very sad story. Makes you wonder how someone so expierenced can make a poor judgement call. I feel so sory for his family.

I was at the canyons last year and couldn't believe how many people were hiking up beyond the Ninety nine 90 lift exiting the gates with no pack, or shovel and I assume no beacon! Totally insane!

madhavok
01-06-2009, 09:34 AM
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0106091vail1.html

YIKES! :oops:

noski
01-06-2009, 09:56 AM
Oy! ....the things you people are willing to endure boggle my mind..... ;-)

Strat
01-06-2009, 10:46 AM
And that, kids, is why you button your snowpants all the way to the top.

Plowboy
01-06-2009, 10:54 AM
http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/years/2009/0106091vail1.html

YIKES! :oops:

:oops:

Elaine: It shrinks?

Yard Sale
01-06-2009, 10:59 AM
Makes a strong argument for the good ol union suit or one piece long johns . . . . . or at least maybe some zinc on the tenders.

freeheel_skier
01-06-2009, 01:51 PM
:oops:

Elaine: It shrinks?[/quote]

I was in the pool ! I was in the pool!!!!!

HowieT2
01-07-2009, 08:09 AM
All the focus is on the naked guy hanging upside down from the chair but all I see is powder. Nice powder.

Treeskier
01-07-2009, 09:23 AM
I saw the same chair left up due to wind on Brovo over the holiday and quickly alerted the lifty who...thank god...had the second left to drop the seat before the guest loaded. They did not even know it happened.

And now it's snowing!

TOS
01-07-2009, 01:59 PM
How much is he going to get? I am not a big proponent of suing, but this guy has a case. The lifties did not catch the seat in the upright position.

The pics were on the "Today" show. Most reasonable people would expect to be able to safely sit down on a chairlift, with out having to worry about the seat being up. This would be an easy sell to a jury.

freeheel_skier
01-07-2009, 02:31 PM
How much is he going to get? I am not a big proponent of suing, but this guy has a case. The lifties did not catch the seat in the upright position.

The pics were on the "Today" show. Most reasonable people would expect to be able to safely sit down on a chairlift, with out having to worry about the seat being up. This would be an easy sell to a jury.

The fact that he was hanging upside down naked for 15 min would say he has a case. I expierenced the same thing this past weekend that Treeskier did.....Lifties were inside and stoped the lift before disaster happens. Which brings me to another question:

Doesn't anyone look behind them before sitting down on a chair lift?

vonski
01-07-2009, 03:27 PM
it depends on the day. If it is snowing or has snowed and there is snow on the chair I usually try to swat it with my poles to clean it off. I was pushed off the edge of the loading ramp not sitting down quick enough by Northridge one year while cleaning the seat. Kinda funny!!! Always look at the fixed grip chairs as they approach though as they come in Quicker.

I would think something like this might get settled with a season pass or forever season pass or a weeks stay or something. Vail does not want a lawsuit. They were probably making offers as they got his pants back on.

Dellwood
01-08-2009, 04:04 PM
New York Post article today.

headline

"Ski-Buff fotog butted out"

The photographer who grabbed the butt-baring shot of a skier dangling from a Vail chair lift got bum's rush from his boss. ..... after the photo appeared in The Post and other media.

"It looks like I'm going to lose my job over the photo," he said. "But the photo is worth it."

Plowboy
01-10-2009, 06:49 PM
From the vaildaily.com


VAIL, Colorado — Marty Odom’s now infamous photograph of an exposed skier in Blue Sky Basin in Vail, Colorado has made him more popular than he bargained for, and all the attention isn’t paying off, he said.

Odom, a photographer for Sharpshooters on Vail Mountain, caught a photo of a skier who fell through the chair while trying to upload Sky Line Express on New Year’s Day. The skier was left dangling by his pants, hit buttocks completely exposed.

Odom, who wasn’t working at the time, snapped a photo of the incident with his own camera, which then got published in the Vail Daily. Other photos of the accident also made their way onto various Web sites.

News of the incident has gone across the world, and Odom said he’s received 75 to 100 calls from media across the world wanting to hear about the incident and buy rights to his photograph.

“I had 18 missed calls on my phone when I woke up this morning,” Odom said. “I’ve gotten calls from Korea, Norway, Finland, the Today Show, Extra, Fox, ABC and everything in between.”

But the response hasn’t been all positive. He’s gotten his fair share of hate mail, too.

And while various photography services have wanted to buy the photo from Odom, he said he is not allowed to sell the photo because his contract with Sharpshooters contains a “no-compete” clause.

Odom was suspended from work until further notice the day after the photo was taken.

He offered to buy the photos from the company, but Sharpshooters told him that they were going to announce they owned the photo and that it would not be released.

Odom, who is now unsure of his job, said he had hoped the photo would bring in some income.

“There are a lot of people offering money for it, thousands of dollars worth,” he said. “But I can’t make any money off it, and I don’t have a job.”

While the town is still abuzz about the photo, Odom said he’s just worried about whether he’ll be able to stay in the valley.

“I feel like now I’m on a blacklist with Vail Resorts and I won’t be able to get a job anywhere now,” he said. “That sucks, because I’ve been here for a few years. This is my home mountain.”



Gets more interesting... Maybe the truth?

VAIL, Colorado — SharpShooter Imaging, an on-mountain photography company, issued an apology Thursday for a photo taken by one of it’s photographers of a half-naked skier hanging from a Vail chairlift.

The photo, taken by photographer Marty Odom on New Year’s Day, caught an unidentified skier exposed and hanging by his pants while trying to board the Skyline Express Lift (Chair 37). The photo was published in the Vail Daily, across the Internet, and was the subject of talk and news shows across the world.

“SharpShooter Imaging deeply regrets any embarrassment the unauthorized taking and subsequent release of this photograph may have caused to the guest involved, and all other guests and employees of Vail Resort,” said a SharpShooters press release.

“It is our strict company policy to respect the privacy of all resort guests at every resort we represent. The employee who breached company policy while on duty, by his unauthorized release of this image, has been suspended while the incident is investigated.”

The skier was unhurt, and Vail Resorts said it is looking into the incident.

Odom, who said he was not working at the time and used his own camera, has been suspended from his job until further notice. However, SharpShooters spokesperson David Peri said that Odom was indeed on-the-clock, in uniform and using a company camera at the time.

“He had punched in, and everyone in the locker room had seen him,” Peri said. “We’ve presented the evidence to him, and he’s since apologized and admitted he was on the clock that day.”

Odom did not return calls to his cell phone on Thursday night.

SharpShooters said it did not come forth with the information when the incident first happened because they were initially lied to about when the photo was taken and have been investigating the incident.

The Wheatridge-based photography company, which stations photographers at the top of lifts to snap photos, said it wants to “ensure this does not happen again” and makes protecting mountain guests a top priority.

“That is why we’re so chagrined at this,” Peri said. “Our reputation is the most important thing that we own. This is just the dishonest efforts of one individual to do what was unethical to begin with. He had no right to appropriate, give them away, or trade them for any reason whatsoever.”

freeheel_skier
03-03-2009, 09:32 PM
http://www.kcra.com/news/18847660/detail.html

This Blows!! :( Headed there next week. Thoughts and Prayers.........Family, Friends and Co-Workers.....

freeheel_skier
03-26-2009, 10:41 PM
I really hate this thread!

Everyone skiing fat skis today......this is the dude to thank! RIP Cliff Huckstable.

http://espn.go.com/action/freeskiing/blog?post=4018726

http://www.redbullusa.com/articlePrintVersion.action?articleID=1132342145912-260745888

Hawk
03-27-2009, 06:42 AM
I saw the report last night. There will never be another like him.