Guests to California’s Mt. San Jacinto State Park found themselves stranded on a mountaintop after the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway malfunctioned, and then the tram paused operations for several hours overnight. Some people essentially spent the night there, not able to catch a ride down until 4:30 AM. Fortunately, the guests were not outside in cold, and they had food, drinks, blankets, and kids’ coloring books courtesy of the tram operating company.
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Local news reports that the tram malfunctioned around 8 PM last Friday, leaving “hundreds” of people stranded at an elevation of about 7,500 feet. Some guests reportedly became sick due to the elevation. One person noted that there was a lot of unease among the stranded guests due to a lack of concrete information, and there were children sleeping on the floor.
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