Leitner-Poma in Grand Junction manufactured and shipped a replacement tower beam a few hours after Winter Park closed, evacuated The Gondola

Park's gondola reopened after breaking over the weekend. The popular Colorado ski resort had to shut down the gondola on Saturday after a malfunction and the approximately 175 passengers on it had to evacuate the lifts by climbing down ropes.

Ski patrollers climbed up the lift towers, shimmied to each of the gondola's cabins and lowered the occupants' equipment before helping people down one at a time.