| Fifty million dollars and a year and a half later, | | | | pumping, a glass-bottomed cabin might! Two of the |
| December 2008 marks the opening of Whistler's | | | | 28 cabins will allow visitors to simulate the experience |
| Peak to Peak Gondola. | | | | of floating above the valley floor. |
| This behemoth boasts the highest and longest | | | | Peak to Peak Gondola access is included with |
| unsupported horizontal lift span in the world. It's the | | | | multi-day Whistler lift tickets. Edge Cards and some |
| only gondola of its kind in North America; no other ski | | | | Whistler passes will require holders to pay an extra |
| resort runs a suspended horizontal lift connecting | | | | fee for Peak to Peak Gondola access. |
| mountain tops. The addition of the Peak to Peak | | | | How will the Peak to Peak Gondola Change the Way |
| Gondola also puts Whistler in the record books for | | | | You Ski Whistler? |
| the longest continuous lift system in the world. | | | | Dining at the Roundhouse (on Whistler) and skiing |
| It sounds huge, but how huge is it? | | | | Seventh Heaven (on Blackcomb) can happen in the |
| Peak to Peak Gondola by the Numbers: | | | | same day. You'll access more terrain at higher |
| - 28 cabins with the capacity for 28 guests | | | | altitudes, quicker and easier. Double the high alpine |
| - 11 minute journey time | | | | powder will be at your fingertips. |
| - 24 feet/second speed | | | | Skiing earlier and later in the season will be more |
| - 4,100 passengers/hour capacity | | | | enjoyable as it becomes much easier to avoid |
| - 49 second wait time between cabin departures | | | | snowless patches, closed runs or time-wasting |
| - 4.4 kilometres total journey distance | | | | gondola downloads. Poor snow seasons or snow |
| - 1400 feet above valley bottom | | | | recession due to global warming will have a minimized |
| - 3.024 kilometres of unsupported span | | | | effect on Whistler resort with skiers able to ski the |
| If the height and speed don't get your adrenaline | | | | tops all day. |