It’s been a tough couple of weeks for chairlifts at New Hampshire ski areas. On Monday it was Pats Peak’s turn.

High winds that buffeted the state dislodged a cable that pulled the area’s newest lift, the Peak Triple installed in 2017. This left roughly 120 skiers stranded for more than an hour in mid-afternoon until they could be lowered to the ground on ropes by ski area crew. Nobody was injured.

Monday’s winds led several ski areas in New Hampshire and other New England states to close some gondolas or chairlifts or even shut for the day. Gusts in the Concord area topped 56 mph, according to the National Weather Service while Mount Washington reported one blast of 161 mph, the 9th-highest ever recorded there.

Pats Peak General Manager Kris Blomback said that most lifts that were put on a “wind hold” Monday were at “substantially higher altitudes and exposure” than the mountain in Henniker.

“Most lifts in the state that were similar to ours in terms of profile, exposure and altitude were still operating,” he wrote in response to a query from the Monitor.

Pats Peak coincidentally names most of its trails after some form of wind or storm, like Bluster, Breeze, Hurricane, Twister, and Nor’ Easter.

Blomback said the area’s review of the incident indicated that “a heavily loaded chair that was exaggerated to one side” was part of the issue.

“We have never had a wind-related deropement in our 64-some-odd-year history that I am aware of,” Blomback wrote. “Five other chairlifts at our facility all ran without issue. This particular lift ran for six hours before the incident.”

The Pats Peak incident came as a chairlift at Gunstock Ski Area failed due to a gearbox problem and followed a Feb. 5 incident in which a stalled chairlift at Cannon Mountain forced 60 skiers to be evacuated down by rope. Most seriously, on Feb. 2 a loaded chairlift fell off the wire at Attitash Mountain Resort, injured the skier who was riding in it.

The problems were particularly painful for ski areas because this is school vacation week in Massachusetts, which boosts attendance here.

Chairlifts in New Hampshire are inspected by a New Hampshire Division of Fire Safety program called Tramway and Amusement Ride Safety, established to oversee New Hampshire ski industry resources, including ski tows, ski jumps and gondolas. It also oversees carnival and amusement rides, rope challenge courses, canopy tours and inflatable devices.

The chairlift that stalled at Pats Peak was one of its newest.

“Each morning, we monitor the weather and run the lifts based on forecast, design parameters, and how the lift has operated in the past through similar conditions,” Blomback wrote. “The Peak Chair Triple has not had issues in the past with any of the aforementioned criteria and has operated reliably since its installation in 2017.”