Nearly 70 people rescued from a gondola cabin in an upstate New York ski area.

After mechanical problem forced a shutdown of the lift system, leaving skiers stranded for hours up to 70 feet in the air.

Staff at Gore Mountain in North Creek and nearly 90 miles north of Albany,

and state park rangers climbed lift poles and used rope and body harnesses to lower people to the ground. The operation took

nearly five hours. No one was injured. About 67 skiers and 20 gondola cabins were helped back

down to the ground. There was, though, some anxiety among those trapped and worries about having

to use the bathroom. Although the temperatures were below freezing, the cabins did remain warm, and the doors were closed, and the sun was shining. It was sobering and something I'll probably carry with me for the rest of my life, said Kevin Bullen. He is a 64-year-old physician assistant, a longtime skier. He was stuck in one of the cabins for five hours. He says, you think nothing of getting on a lift or getting getting on a gondland. Now you're going to think twice. You're going to make sure you go to the bathroom. Maybe have a power bar with you. Make sure you're prepared, just like if you're going on a hike in the woods. Our question, when did you have a crisis of the battles? 206-803 rock. Hello, Magnum. Welcome to the men's room.

Hello, guys. This one might take a while because it was just a whole bunch of things went wrong before I could make it to where I wanted to be.

So I was headed to work, headed down the road. I got about a mile and a half away from work, and it hit me.

Oh, my wife wanted to do a flaxseed diet. So I started a flaxseed diet like three days before. Nothing was happening. So, of course, you know, me being a man, oh, I'm going to increase my flaxseed. So I put in two or three scoops instead of the one I was supposed to. The next day, I'm headed to work.

That's where we picked back up.

I was about a mile and a half from home, a half mile from Starbucks.

Heading to Starbucks to go and leave myself.

There's a school bus ahead of me.

It puts some signs out.

It stops me.

I'm like, crap, sitting there clenchedenched I mean my butt was up off of the seat

I was clenched

it finally made its move

I got around it and I could see down

the road that the left-hand turn lane

had turned red so I was like oh cool

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