Ski Steamboat For Pete's Sake

2: Archibald & the General Store

22 min · 11 de jul de 2023
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Pete tells the story of how his forefathers got to Steamboat in the late 1800s and walks us thru their journey from Scotland to Hahn's Peak to Steamboat plus the crush of the depression even in a little Northwest Colorado town.

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3: Steamboat Gondola Rescue of 1972

In the winter of 1972, a descending unoccupied gondola car fell 200+ feet to the ground on a windy day above Heavenly Daze at Steamboat Ski Resort.  You'll be hard pressed to find any coverage of the event other than a brief mention.  Back then, Twitter wasn't a thing and the press wasn't always privy to near-catastrophe.    A few brave ski patrol members worked into the night to safely belay all of the stranded skiers down to the ground. Pete was one of them.   Three towers supported the bi-cable system, which carried 90 six-passenger  cabins.  That means the gondola cars were much higher up in the air than they are today.   Pete went from one gondola car to the next between his assigned two towers using a hand-powered bicycle type apparatus that latched on to the swinging cable above.  Not one person was injured.

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