The Only Time It's OK to Jump Off a Chairlift

Outside Podcast

Sports, Wilderness

4.4 • 2.1K Ratings

🗓️ 22 January 2020

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

At some point, almost every skier or snowboarder who has sat on a stalled chairlift has wondered, Could I just jump off here? The resounding reply from the experts is no, no, no. Don’t jump off the chairlift. Not ever. In addition to the high risk of getting injured yourself, you’re putting the people on other chairs around you in danger in ways you don’t understand. So stay put, and wait for the lift to restart. Or, in those rare instances when the chair really is broken, wait for ski patrol to get you down. But there are those truly unique cases when breaking the rules may be the only option. In this episode, we tell the story of very unlucky snowboarder who was forced to make the worst kind of choice.

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0:00.0	This episode of the Outside Podcast is brought to by the 2020 Ford Explorer,
0:06.0	with available intelligent four-wheel drive and the terrain management system
0:10.0	it's built for life's adventures.
0:12.0	And if anyone is finding adventure these days, It's
0:15.0	Eric Larson.
0:16.0	I think for me one of the ways,
0:18.0	the easiest way to describe what I do with
0:20.0	professional camper,
0:22.0	but realistically, you know know I'm a polar adventure
0:24.6	and expedition guide I mean my wheelhouse is long freezing cold supper fests.
0:28.8	If you're not familiar with Larson here's a quick highlight reel.
0:33.0	One of the greatest polar explorers of our age,
0:35.0	and he's fatpikes 700 miles to the South Pole.
0:38.0	He's also skied to the North Pole in summer,
0:41.0	when the melting sea ice is especially dangerous.
0:45.0	In addition to those first-of-a-kind expeditions,
0:47.0	Larson has been to the polls more times than any other American,
0:51.0	and he's the only person on the planet to ski to both poles and climb to the summit of Mount Everest in the same year.
0:58.0	All of which is to say, Eric Larson really enjoys snow, ice, and cold.
1:05.0	And I think the thing about winter that I really like
1:07.4	is that it adds a level of severity
1:10.3	to any situation that you're in so that you have to be much more diligent you
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