The Choking Doberman Lives...

the hook: an enduring urban legend

Way back in 1985, a ski lift at Colorado's Keystone resort collapsed, killing two and injuring scores more. The tragedy happened a week or so before Christmas on a Saturday, prime vacation skiing. At the time a Denver resident and avid skier, I knew plenty of people out on various slopes that day. In the following weeks, at least half a dozen people told me that they knew the person next in the lift line when the bull wheel collapsed.