Chairlift Evac II

Today was a stormy day. It was cold and extremely windy and snowing hard. In the morning I skied the T-Bar two times. The first time we came down Horseshoe Bowl. The visibility was so poor you couldn't see the snow beneath your feet. I fell a bunch of time trying to ski through the mogul field. The second time we skied through the North Bowls. We had to traverse into the wind and we basically had no idea where we were. If I wasn't familiar with the mountain, I would have gotten lost up top. Shortly after these runs we got word that the Independence Superchair on peak 7 had broken down. It was bad enough that the ski patrol had to do a chairlift evacuation to get the people off of the chair. Luckily there were only 33 people on the chair at the time. If it were full there could have been upwards of 340 people. As the mountain safety department we were called over to the peak 7 patrol hut in case the patrollers needed any assistance. When the evac was nearly complete we did sweeps on peak 7 to make sure everyone was out of the area. This was after the runs had been closed for more than 2 hours. The snow had been piling up the whole time. I swept Ore Bucket and there were no tracks at all. It was great skiing. Another example of the hardships I have to endure for my job :-).