I track everything with my Garmin watch and sync to Strava. When skiing (alpine skiing). Strava detects lifts and cuts them out so that the height profile becomes somehting like this (lifts take no time and do not count towards total distance):
This is a fine feature which was requested here:
However, there is a bug in this logic. This is implemented in such a way by just removing all points where you are traveling upwards (sitting in a lift). This assumes that the lift only travels in a direct path, which is correct for majority of lifts. But larger gondola-lifts often have a middle-station and then continue the second part in a different direction than the first part. This confuses the Strava algorithm and causes the GPS to be drawn directly from the start of the lift to the end of the lift, not going through the middle station. This same phenomenon occurs when linking two lifts without going downhill in between.
This can easily be seen by comparing the original GPS track from Garmin and the trimmed GPX file that can be downloaded from the Strava activity. Here is an image highlighting the problem.
My simple suggestion is to detect when there is a change of direction on the uphill, and include one GPS point where the direction changes.