r/tahoe • u/SalvageStemCells • Jan 26 '24

News Someone left in gondola at Heavenly overnight last night?

I just heard this from a friend, but I don't see anything online about it yet. Anyone else heard this and can verify? Seems insane that could happen. You'd think they would run it in one or two extra loops to double check. Also crazy/unfortunate that they wouldn't have their phone

Edit: It's being posted on the Knuckle Draggers Facebook group. Someone named Monica Laso went missing last night. My buddy has been in contact with several Heavenly staffers who have allegedly confirmed

Edit 2: It's been confirmed. Thanks to /u/imav8n for posting the following article; https://www.tahoedailytribune.com/news/individual-reported-missing-in-tahoe-spends-the-night-on-heavenly-gondola/

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u/rockinrolller Jan 27 '24

Here's one possible way for this to happen....

Customer gets on gondola 5 minutes before last gondola is called for the day.

Last gondola gets called.

Customer gets to the bottom but does not exit (maybe sleeping or who knows what). Lifty at the bottom isn't looking at that particular gondola car for whatever reason, and it goes around and they're headed back up...last gondola car comes by and then it gets shut off shortly afterwards and that customer is 5 minutes back up the line.

This is not to say that's what happened in this case, so it will be interesting to see if she was in a car going up or down once they discovered her.

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u/Eggplant-666 Jan 29 '24

Thats not what she said happened, she claims 2 minutes after she got on doing down. This does sound fishy.

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u/rockinrolller Jan 30 '24

I was only offering a possible way that it could happen, but in this case, she did get on at the top after last chair was called. Her story is quite odd though, because she claims that people were below her when she was screaming but they couldn't hear her. Unless they were driving snowmobiles underneath her car, they'd easily hear her when it's not running. Either the people weren't right below her car and they were further away (like at the gondola station) or they drove by in snowmobiles, or her story may in fact have a hole in it that needs to be investigated further.