Ski lift riding odds...

There never seems to be a dull moment when riding a lift...

This past Wednesday, as I was skiing with my spouse, we rode twice the same lift with the same person on two different occasions! Did you understand what you just read?

Let me detail the story one lift ride at a time. We first picked up a single on the Iron Mountain high-speed quad chair. Let's call him the “Brit”, then two rides later another single joined us on that same chair that we'll call the “pilot”.

When we were totally frozen and decided to go home, we rode the triple Shortcut chair and who was our neighbor, but the “Brit”, who explained to us that after a four-year job stint in the USA, he was about to return to England.

Then, from the base of the Canyons, we rode what is called a cabriolet, a people mover that shuttles skiers from there to the parking lot, and who was next to us? The “pilot” who worked for Fedex and will soon move to Europe too and be based at the one of the company's European hubs, in Paris.

Now, you tell me, what could be the odds of this ever happening on the 41 lifts that count Park City Mountain?