June 28, 2026

The Queens County Citizen

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The Mont-Sainte-Anne ski lift still has problems

The Mont-Sainte-Anne ski lift still has problems

Mont-Sainte-Anne (MSA) users were stuck on bubbled chairlifts for about an hour while employees had to evacuate customers and replace part of a ski lift.

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The Express du Sud, the only lift that allows you to reach the summit or connect to another chair to go north, closes around 1:10pm to 2:10pm.

Photo by Jean-Francois Racine

According to skiers on site, after the evacuation of the chairs was completed, the MSA maintenance team replaced a part and after conducting tests with empty chairlifts, the lift was back in operation.

Photo by Jean-Francois Racine

Several employees are required to evacuate the premises and provide briefings to the public on site.

“Patrolers are very transparent and reassuring,” he said Log A woman who remains motionless in a bubble.

Photo by Jean-Francois Racine

As the ski resort is very busy, the mechanical problems came at a very bad time with the several centimeters of snow that had fallen over the past two days.

After the gondola crash in December, Mont-Sainte-Anne resumed its operations last Sunday, January 8.

– In collaboration with Jean-Francois Racine