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  You're right! They could have strung the wolves together to make a rope!
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  Like the Ski lifts? Actually pretty hard to fall out. It's balanced with your weight around 20-30% to the back, bit like a rocking chair. It's easy to throw yourself into the landing, because the upper body rocks the whole chair forward with your ski's hitting the ground usually. Tho... it's fairly common for some newer people to take an extra spin around their first time on the hill. >
  
  Quoted as the safest mode of transportation in North America.  Source: pub quiz masters everywhere 
  The supporting math apparently looks at fatalities per passenger mile... >
  
  I'm shocked that it beats airplaines. They travel way further and are very safe. Maybe it is because there are few fatalities for chairlift? I wonder what the numbers look like for smaller injuries. >
  
  Yea but the lifts ate just going on a continuous circle for at least 8 hours a day with you riding it multiple times. I can totally see it evening out. >
  
  How many times do you need to ride to just match the distance taxiing to the runway? One flight is probably more distance than 99% of people's yearly chairlift distance. >
  
  Not sure how long all the lifts are, but I typically ski close to 1 million vertical feet per season, sometimes more. That’s around 190-200 miles per season. The resorts track this information using my lift pass. >
  
  Is that just vertical feet, or length of chair? The ones I know of only track vertical feet, and that's a lot less than distance on chair, so it's likely much farther in chair rides.
  For example, Northwest Express at Mt Bachelor is almost 9,000' long, but "only" almost 2,400' vertical.
  But yeah, even in just vertical, that's well over 200 miles per season. Get some!
  (Edit, just saw you said "not sure how long the lifts are," so yeah, definitely a lot more than 200mi!) >
  
  Yes it’s just vertical feet, not length of chair cable. Just pointing out that the lift can be much longer than the guy I responded to thought. >
  
  Yup, misread your comment at first, but left mine up to help illustrate the length of chairlifts.
  See ya on the slopes! >
  
  Haha yeah I think I misread yours too! Can’t wait for snow, I’m headed to Summit county for the whole month of February… >
  
  I fell off of one as a kid. Granted it was just taking off and I fell off because I wanted to see if I could skid my ski across the top of the snow and it got stuck causing me to face plant. Dad had to make the quick decision of jumping off at like 6ft. Kids are dumb. >
  
  My mum once pushed my brother off the lift at around that Hight because he couldn't get fully on, and she was seriously worried he would fall off higher up. this was a while back when he was around 10, but still a funny memory >
  
  Boy do I have the terrible movie for you, Frozen 2010.
  3 kids gets stuck on a ski lift for 90 minutes >
  
  I still think they could have strung their clothes together for a makeshift rope. >
  
  You're forgetting the wolves