So a week ago I met with a new therapist at an old road and it looked like a shed and it was really small. Obviously there were rooms in it though. She asked me to sign a paper but crossed out my signature after which was weird.
She told me that she wanted to go on a gondola lift with me. It wasn’t up a mountain though, it was basically a ski-like lift that circled around some fields and the edge of a town. She said that it was therapeutic and that her discussions during it would change my perspective of life. However, I just felt anxious during the lift. I was holding onto the bar and couldn’t focus on what she was saying. The nature was beautiful and there was a mini waterfall we passed by and it looked rainbow under the sunlight. The only thing I remember her saying is “we all have some small bad things happen to us” and when we passed an old basketball court a guy was hit in the head with a basketball and we both held in our laughs. Then when I was about to get off the lift I fell too early and felt sad. I was embarrassed too but joked that I can sue the company that made it. The worst part of all, she said she had to go to yoga practice after and handed me a slip showing quotes and “life-changing thoughts” but left me and I had to call an uber after I walked over a bridge once I realized I was lost and had no idea of where I was, and my parents drove home already after they dropped me off. The therapist just felt off and I never saw her again. I don’t get how a gondola lift would at all seem therapeutic.
I've tried to make it a few different ways from both Pinnacles and Dipper side but can't seem to figure out a traverse that makes it. Anyone know if it's possible?
I’ve skied my whole life. I go every year, yet my least favorite part is doing the lifts. The rocking back and forth, the thin hook keeping me from plummeting to my death, the rope that looks like it’ll snap at any moment...
It’s scary.
Especially rollbacks.
If I get ski lift tickets with vail ski resort, does that mean I’ll be doing the ride in the gondola ?
I was in one of those indoor gondola's on a skiing vacation, it was only me, some russian guy and a ski instructor who was privately hired by the russian guy, the russian guy was on the phone for the whole journey talking to his secretary talking about moving funds booking flights and arranging meeting's it was insane, the ski instructor was also all over him saying things like "next time you come make sure you ask for me" I'm assuming he was a very generous tipper or something. later on in the day I found out roman abramovic (chelsea fc owner) was in the resort at the time and it came to me than it was 100% him, I was in a gondola on my own with a ski instructor and roman abramovic
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I found it! (the winning google search was "romance book gondola ski goggles")
It's The Man She Loves to Hate by Kelly Hunter.
The book begins with the heroine talking to her boss/friend/father figure, before getting in a gondola to get down the mountain and home. The hero jumps into the lift right before it starts moving, and the h recognizes him as the town's golden boy and tries to ignore him. She's very thin and small and is wearing goggles and a hat and a bulky coat, so the H mistakes her for a teenage boy. They sit in awkward silence, but at some point the gondola gets stuck and stops moving. He asks if she has any food in the box of office stuff she's taking home, and eventually gets her to remove the gear/reveal she's a woman (I think she's a petite redhead). Then the cable snaps and the car falls, and they end up fighting through a blizzard to get to the ski rescue cabins on the mountain. The exposure nearly kills the hero (who might have been injured) and the heroine has to physically drag him to safety. Once indoors, I think she strips him down because of possible hypothermia. Her family is just her/her mom, and she's been ostracized by either the hero's family or the town as a whole, so there's some tension between them. They're stuck in the cabin for a while (but not the whole book) and eventually have to decide if they can be together in the real world, especially since the heroine has moved to a new city/town.
I read it maybe a year or two ago, and I've been googling and sifting through Goodreads with no success. I don't think it was by a big name author, but I also don't think it was a total unknown. It was a bit of a slow burn with medium heat, and I'm pretty sure I'm remembering the details correctly.
https://www.seatoskygondola.com
Anyone know?
