Scare chairs / lifts

Iceman wrote:Cheers for that, I hate gondolas as it is! In my head, there is a massive rush at the start to get 4 people in with rucksack and H then the ski/board on the outside. I spend the whole journey convinced that my skis will fall out, esp when go over the pylons! I go not enjoy them

The cable cars I am ok with. Unless I think of the James bond film when they all got stuck

Give me a drag lift any day.......

Probably safer than flying. The difference is that you can't look directly in a plane. Oh man, can you imagine standing in plane while looking down 35,000ft below your feet :shock:

I know a few who aren't too keen on this one in St Anton:


Mind you it's this one you really want to avoid:

Andy what happened here in st Anton?

That's the standard way they remove injured skiers from the pistes in St Anton, off to hospital dangling on a wire strapped to a doctor. I seem to have quite a few photos of rescues in my St Anton photos. No one I know so far, luckily.

There's a chairlift in St Anton that does cause a sharp intake of breath as you come up on a steep arrete, with nothing but precipitous drops on either side! Makes that Alpe D'Huez thing look like a lift for babbies!

I think I know the one you mean, is it the Valfagehr on the route back from Stuben? Heated seats if I remember correctly.

No it's the Schindler chair. Steep rise and then it plateaus out at the top ad you've got about half a mile sheer drop beneath you. Fantastic views.

If you're scared of ski lifts, maybe you should take up a different past time? I've got a mate who allows the type of lift to dictate where he will ski and I can't just go up the mountin and ski around with him as he will proper get wound up about a lift and refuse to go on it.
Don't you Stewart?????

Tony_H wrote:No it's the Schindler chair. Steep rise and then it plateaus out at the top ad you've got about half a mile sheer drop beneath you. Fantastic views.

If you're scared of ski lifts, maybe you should take up a different past time? I've got a mate who allows the type of lift to dictate where he will ski and I can't just go up the mountin and ski around with him as he will proper get wound up about a lift and refuse to go on it.
Don't you Stewart?????

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