Faulty cable cuts power to Snow King, about 300 other customers
A faulty underground cable caused about 300 customers in Jackson to lose power for a couple of hours Wednesday evening, and stranded some Snow King Mountain Resort skiers on chilly evening chairlifts for about 15 to 20 minutes. Reports of the outage at Snow King began to come in to the News&Guide not long before the hill's closing time at 6:30 p.m. At least one skier said she was stuck on the Cougar Lift for between 15 to 20 minutes as they waited for auxiliary power to kick in and get the lift-riders to the top of the chair. After dismounting the lift, skiers and snowboarders had to traverse...