That poor kid.
Prayers for his family.
Was the safety bar down...?
If he was with his ski team, it was possible they were horseing around the way kids do, punching each other in the arm, reaching across, whatever, and slipped under the bar.
The story give no accounts or details. No matter how it happened, it is still a tragedy.
They have some of the scariest chairlift rides around. I could barely stand it when they came to a stop and your over one of the cliffs with an amazing distance to the ground. I can’t imagine the horror not only of the fall, but of the poor kid left in the chair alone.
Just seven. There really should be an age limit older than that to ride on a chair without an adult. Seven shouldn’t be without an adult. Really. Not on those lifts.
“was riding with fellow members of a local ski team Sunday..”
I’m sure those fellow members know exactly what happened — I hope it wasn’t horse play that included pushing, or someone is going to have to carry quite a load of guilt for a long time.
How sad, I doubt there was any natural snow for him to land on... Very dry up there this year...
Sugar Bowl does not have much for beginners or intermediates, the place does have some serious terrain, I have skied there back around 1990 and I actually worked for Heavenly down at South Shore.
There was a movie filmed there about a blind Vietnam vet, a really good serious and funny actor, I forget the name of the movie but the scene of the gondola being pepper sprayed was interesting, they used a gondola from another ski resort. And when the baddie was cut in half and fell down the cliff, well that was just Hollywood magic.
May he RIP.