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Chairlift Saga -- continued from page 3 watched as David was placed on a special "freight" chair about 50 metres behind him. Because it was loaded an awkward angle, the stretcher was almost knocked off the lift when it went past the first tour. In order to save David, Alex had to jump from his chair onto the next tower and wait until the "freight" chair approached. at precisely the right moment, Alex jumped from the tower onto the "fright" chair and quickly repositioned the stretcher. Later that day, Alex confronted the lift operator and told him his presence was no longer welcome on the mountain, according to Alex, he never reappeared on the mountain. The most spectacular mishap on the Hollyburn Chairlift occurred late in the evening on December 26, 1962, when 56 young people coming from a social event at Hi-View Lodge were left stranded on the lift for hours. Four youths at the bottom station started to swing the chair as they turned around a large pull mechanism. The swinging motion flipped the cable out of the pull mechanism causing the cable to sag up and down the mountain. One of the chairs was dragged into a tower, which subsequently pulled the structure down. Fortunately there were no serious injuries. would not be replaced for several years. A similar dilemma faced Hollyburn ski lodge operators and cabin owners on the morning of June 6, 1965. During the previous night, a fire had destroyed beautiful Hi-View Lodge and severely damaged the upper station of the Hollyburn Chairlift, thereby cutting off easy access to cabins and ski trails. I : A . `Ti m V.' -l There was little anyone could do. Most of the firefighting equipment on the mountain had been stored in the lodge. While Fred Russell went down the mountain to report the fire to West Vancouver Police, a bucket brigade worked hard to save Oscar Peterson's cabin which stood next to the chairlift station. Fortunately, the cabin survived and the fire did not spread into the neighbouring forest. Over the years, there has been much speculation about how the fire started. At the time of the fire, Hollyburn Aerial Trams Ltd. was facing financial ruin. There had been little snow during the 1962/1963 and 1963/1964 ski seasons. Ironically, during the winter of 1964/1965 there was too much snow low down on the mountain. It had been expensive clearing the road to the bottom of the chairlift. A week before the fire, the lodge had been closed and the electrical power to the lift and the lodge cut off. The previous Thursday, Hi Colville had announced the company was going into voluntary bankruptcy. page 4 I SS·· ;% Such incidents did not enhance the reputation of the Hollyburn Chairlift. Three years later a spectacular incident caused its demise. Imagine waking up one morning to learn that major sections of the Cypress Bowl Highway had been swept away by a massive landslide and