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Avalanche Derails Key Las Lenas, Arg. Chairlift After 5-Foot Snowfall

Las Lenas's Marte chair accessed terrain in 2011. photo: snowbrains

An avalanche collided with the Neptuno chairlift at Las Lenas ski resort in Argentina and derailed the chairlift’s cable from 5 lift towers yesterday. The Neptuno chairlift provides access to the badass Marte and all of Las Lenas’ best freeride terrain. It is unknown how long it will take to repair the chairlift. Las Lenas ski resort in Argentina just got 40″ of snow at their base and 63″ of snow up top. The place is buried in snow right […]

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SnowBrains | July 15, 2015
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2 Critically Injured After Chairlift Falls at Crystal Mountain Ski Resort, B.C.

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Two people have been critically injured and two received minor injures after an empty chair hit a ski lift tower at Crystal Mountain ski resort nearl Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada on Saturday around 11am. The empty chair that hit the tower causing the cable to derail. All the chairs in the area of that derailed tower instantly fell about 20 feet to the ground. ‘The chair was swinging and hit the tower and that was it’- General Manager Mike Morin told the CBC. The two injured men were in the […]

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SnowBrains | March 3, 2014
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