Orlando

I was there in 1972 the day the Hyak ski lift went in reverse out of control, witnessed it from beginning to end. No one was killed, but several injured including a permanent spinal injury. That day Hyak offered lift tickets to any skier donating a dollars worth of canned food for a food bank, remember this was during the Boeing recession in the Seattle Area, so the area was very crowded. The above video is very similar to what I witnessed. Fortunately most skiers on the lift were grabbed off the chairs before going around the bull wheel. However, the area had no method at the time to rescue stranded skiers remaining on the lift, and they remained stranded for many hours well into the dark.