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Whistler - Peak to Peak Gondola
 Poster: A snowHead
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Sorry if anyone has already reported this, havent been around much recently. Blimey it will cause some debate, but be a huge change if it comes off.

(Pique Newsmagazine article)

Some stats about the new gondola:

• 4.4 km in length from Roundhouse to Rendezvous

• 2.9 km free span

• highest point is 415 metres

• 26 gondola cars

• capacity for 30 people per car (24 sitting, six standing)

• capacity to move 4,000 guests per hour (2,000 each way)

• four towers

• gondola type: Doppelmayr 3S
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Nice!
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HI Wear The Fox Hat, should have known you would notice that one.

It will be amazing me thinks (environmental issues aside), and really help the ski out at end of the day, if people can do it straight from the right mountain.
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Robbie, but it could also make one mountain busier than the other - people could be up in sunburnt, then very quickly get over to 7th H when it opens...

Overall, a good idea. Next time I'm there, I'll be able to start my Apres in Merlins every night!
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Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.

Yes, but make it easier to escape the tourist crowds too, if you can just pop over to the other one.

oooh, Apres in Merlins, that in itself is a good enough reason to hope it goes ahead!!
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I've always found there to be plenty of skiing on either mountain, never really needed to move between the two of them during the day.
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Only good reasons I can see for it are:
- Makes Blackcomb more accessable from Creekside (I'm pretty sure this must be the _real_ reason for it as Intrawest seems to be throwing a lot of money at Creekside)
- Would make for pretty spectacular views - though pretty scary too!! Shocked

I reckon if you try hard enough it wouldn't take all that much longer to ski to the base and go back up again

How often would it be open? - it gets pretty windy up there! Maybe it'll be a funky 2 cable one like the one at Val Despair - that seems to go in all weather.
Maybe they should throw some money at the existing gondolas to avoid the queues at the base (they cocked up big time this season by converting Fitzsimmons to a bike lift at the start of march only for winter to arrive (maybe this was the plan!) and the village gondola to break down on a saturday with 43cm of fresh snow!).
I hate it when they jam 10 people into the gondola and you have to stand all the way - and oh didn't I mention it has had a few mechanical issues - Robbie, didn't you get to find this out first hand? rolling eyes snowHead

Mmmmmmm - Merlins..... nachos...... Extremely lounge (it must be February soon?) snowHead
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After all it is free Go on u know u want to!

stuarth, Could you possibly be referring to the time that darn gondola had to stop so hard, and swung so much, that i was in imminant danger of vomiting all over the DM coaches, so close to it, that i had taken my helmet off ready to sacrificie it as a recepticle?? Embarassed

Only 77 sleeps for me Very Happy
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Robbie, I hope you had the plugs in it!! Shocked
I think that would be the same time that I was in a Gondola full of people who had been playing spoof all night - quite amazing how much vertical movement you get!!
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That gondola can be quite hellish can't it?
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Robbie, and stuarth, think I was on the same gondola last March with a stag party...... we were stuck for half an hour at end of day
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Robbie, hi nice to see you back. How's the shoulder?
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Helen Beaumont, Hello *waves*

Shoulder is really good, the surgery was amazing, very painful at the time, but the recovery has been great. As of a few weeks ago i have been back riding my bike and playing golf, so all good. It is pretty much fixed and ready for the ski season. Still cant put any direct weight on it, so will have to find some poor sucker to carry my skis for me, but apart from that all good.

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