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When a Chairlift Ride Goes Wrong at Big Bear Mountain Resort You bought a lift ticket at Snow Summit or Bear Mountain and you trusted the chairlift to bring you back to the top. Instead, the seat dropped out from under you — or your daughter, or your brother, or your partner. Now you are reading this on a phone in a hospital room, in a rental car on Highway 18, or at a kitchen table in the San Bernardino Mountains trying to understand what just happened and whether anyone has to pay for it. A 21-year-old rider at Big Bear Mountain Resort slipped out of her chairlift seat and dangled in the air for the length of the lift line. Her twin sister and a friend grabbed her arms and held her until the chairs reached the top terminal and ski patrol reached her. The fall was caught on a bystander’s phone. The resort’s first public statement was that “proper safety protocols” had not been followed by the passengers. That statement is the first move in a defense playbook you should know about before you sign anything, talk to any adjuster, or accept a single dollar from the ticket…