Word: chairlifts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...NAOC proposed a compromise to raise the start of the downhill course by 60 meters, as long as the new addition would be between the park and a chairlift that runs along the edge of the park. FIS had originally objected on the grounds that the skiing time for the current course--about one minute and 30 seconds--was too short to be a "true Olympic test". Additionally, FIS asked to use part of the restricted area on the grounds that recreational skiers were already using the part of the park that Kobayashi claimed previously to have rare plants that...
...much for the chairlift, a relatively advanced way of getting to the top of Mt. Brokenleg. Remember, people stand in long lines in the freezing cold for the privilege of riding on a chairlift...
Getting off the chairlift, you fall down, and the chair smacks you in the back of the head. You pass out, and the people in the chair behind you ski over your face...
Mere days, then, after finishing my Slavic 101 final, I found myself alone aboard a chairlift on the side of a cheesy hill in central Massachusetts. Rented skis clung tenuously to the plastic-and-foam boots on my feet...
...over it. The instructor brought my ski back, and I mounted the evil chairlift once more--I conquered it the second time around. I made an unassisted run down the hill. Victory. And then once or twice more before lunch...