An large tornado damaged several lifts and other buildings at Snow Ridge Ski Resort late last night. The ski area, located in Turin, New York, posted this morning that all three of its chairlifts sustained damage from extreme wind and falling trees. Photos showed lift buildings overturned, safety bars blown off chairs and towers de-roped.
All of the lifts at Snow Ridge date back the 1950s through 1970s. The Little Mountain and North doubles appeared to sustain the most damage from the storm. “The Ridge got hit pretty hard by last evening’s tornado,” Snow Ridge wrote this morning on Facebook. “Everyone is safe, which is the most important thing but this damage really hurts. We are devastated but will rebuild,” the mountain wrote.
Update: The National Weather Service determined the tornado was an EF-3 with peak wind gusts estimated at 140 mph near Snow Ridge.
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Wow talk about not much left on the mountain…the power of Mother Nature when she is pissed off!!!!!!!
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The best idea is to replaced the damaged lifts because the parts were terribly damaged in the storm. A tree fell on Chair 3 at Sandia but there is nothing that needs to get replaced since the tree was taking small damage compared to the tornado
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I imagine they’re going to do a thorough inspection, repair the lifts to operational condition, then perform a complete line inspection before they make that call.
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Sure.. if you have the money.
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