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These Cromwell teenagers were riding the
ski lift at Powder Ridge ski resort in Middlefield to go snowboarding. The
two wanted to get off the lift early, before it reached the loading zone,
but this stunt cost one of the teens her life.
“Powder Ridge had a tragic incident involving
a young girl Friday night. The two were traveling up the ski lift and
decided to exit before getting to the unloading area. One of the young
girls made it to the ground on her own, and the other one became stuck,
trapped on the lift and was carried up the hill,” Chad Johnson of Powder
Ridge Ski Resort.
Lauren Ramsey’s helmet was
trapped between the safety bar and seat. When ski patrol reached her at
the loading zone at the top of the hill, she was unresponsive. The
14-year-old, who was snowboarding just moments before this happened, died
early Saturday morning. Those who were at the scene of the accident are
still trying to absorb the magnitude of what happened.
“We’ve never seen anything like it. We
couldn’t even imagine it to be possible,” Chad Johnson said.
The ski resort believes what happened there
Friday night could happen again, not just there, but at any resort. There
is simply no way to possibly keep people from getting off the lifts before
the loading zone. It is a risk that people take, and it has happened at
other resorts with far less tragic results.
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