SEATBELTS !!!!  ALL THE LIFTS NEED SEATBELTS !!!

For real, how hard is it to sit on your ass for a few minutes while you go
up the hill?  Don't fall off and you get to enjoy a longer ride down, how
simple is that?


>From: Dana Dorsett <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: Vermont Skiing Discussion and Snow Reports <[log in to unmask]>
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [SKIVT-L] Green Mountain Flyer at Jay Peak
>Date: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 15:38:30 EST
>
>Edwin Cowey <[log in to unmask]> writes:
>
> >I too have been concerned about chairs without saftey bars.  While skiing
> >in Alta (where saftey bars are almost non-exeistant) a friend tried to
> >encourage me by saying it is as safe as sitting on a park bench.  Problem
> >is, I have fallen off of several park benches during my college years,
>
>I dare express here the images that come to mind.  Suffice to say that
>none of the activities that I can imagine causing you to fall off park
>benches should be attempted on a ski lift- with or without safety bars! :-)
>
>But I'm not so sure how much if any "safety" the bars add for non-
>intoxicated adults.  I've seen several minor injuries caused by the
>bars (banged heads, scissor-trapped arms, banged knees/shins etc.)
>while I've never seen anyone fall off a lift that didn't have them,
>once they'd gotten on successfully. I s'pose you'd have to do the
>math to figure out how many minor bangs adds up to one fall and the
>severity of the injuries, etc.  But safety bars are still sort of a
>solution-problem.
>
>I hope they don't start requiring them on park benches now :-)
>
>dana
>
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