Paula Peterson, South Tahoe Now
A chair fell from a cable at Heavenly Mountain Resort at south shore Lake Tahoe on Sunday, resulting in dozens of people being stranded for two hours before being evacuated from the lift.
The incident happened at around 11 a.m. The unoccupied chair fell off the cable and the lift was immediately shut down. There have been no reported injuries.
Lara Miller of South Lake Tahoe was among those stranded on the North Bowl chairlift. She said the resort’s ski patrol checked on the stranded skiers during the two hour ordeal.
South Tahoe Now made a call to Heavenly’s public relations team at 11:15 a.m. to check on the incident. At that time they said, “the mountain operations crew is looking into the lift issue.”
Miller was near Tower No. 7 on the North Bowl lift, and South Lake Tahoe local Matthew Collins was at Tower No. 23. They were communicating with themselves, and others, on Facebook as they were waiting for the lift to move.
This is a fixed grip triple chair on the Nevada side of the South Shore resort near the Boulder Lodge. Their maintenance team will be evaluating what caused the chair to fall and will keep the lift out of service until it can be determined to be safe.
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