A video of someone being belayed off of the broken ski lift at Timberline. My heart goes out to those injured.
— Samuel Frasch (@frasch_samuel)
Here is a quick video from timberline today. My heart goes out to anyone that was injured.
— Samuel Frasch (@frasch_samuel)
Bad day at timberline
— Chase Fowler (@fowler_chase)
WASHINGTON 鈥斅燗 ski lift failure at Timberline Resort Saturday morning left 100 people聽stranded and two others injured.
A mechanical failure around 9 a.m. on the聽“Thunderstruck” triple chairlift caused the cables to drop, Timberline officials said in a statement. The resort聽was subsequently shut down.
Officials say nine people聽were evaluated.聽Two people with non-life threatening injuries were taken to a local hospital.
The Thunderstruck triple lift is not operating. We do not have all details at this time and our immediate focus is on our skiers.
鈥� Timberline WV (@tline)
The ski patrol was on the scene and began a lift evacuation. It took approximately two hours to remove the rest of the skiers in the lift chairs off the lift,聽听谤别辫辞谤迟蝉.
草莓传媒 listener Gary Madison from McLean, Virginia says he and two boy scouts from Woodbridge were rescued from the lift after being stuck for about 90 minutes.
草莓传媒 Twitter follower Philip Garrett tweeted that he and his ski team fell from the lift.
and whole Wintergreen ski team fell from lift. Super lucky
鈥� Philip Garrett (@GarrettPhilip)
It鈥檚 was not immediately known what caused the lift to malfunction.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
