the whistler peak to peak ride is 36 seconds long.
the whistler peak to peak ride is 36 seconds long.
how long is the whistler peak to peak ride?
36 seconds
the peak 2 peak gondola is a tri-cable gondola lift at whistler blackcomb resort in whistler, british columbia, linking whistler mountain's roundhouse lodge with blackcomb mountain's rendezvous lodge. it is the first lift to join the two side-by-side mountains. it held the world record for the longest free span between ropeway towers—3.03 kilometres (1.88 miles) until 2017 when the eibsee cable car exceeded it by 189m. it is still the highest point above the ground—436 metres (1,430 feet.) (a temporary aerial tramway in switzerland used between 1979 and 1986 had larger span.) the peak 2 peak gondola was built by the doppelmayr garaventa group in 2007 and 2008 at a cost of cdn$51 million. the peak 2 peak gondola is the first doppelmayr "3s" tri-cable lift in north america; there are four similar but smaller lifts in europe which were built in 1991, 1994, 2002, 2004 and 2010 in switzerland, austria, france and germany. whistler-blackcomb has touted the gondola as an iconic attraction and uses it to transport skiers in the winter months as well as sightseers year round.
peak 2 peak gondola
in response to blackcomb mountain's construction of three high-speed quads, whistler mountain undertook one of the biggest ski-lift construction projects ever realized in canada at the time, the construction of the whistler express gondola. carrying passengers vertically and horizontally over 63 support towers, the lift opened on november 24, 1988. in 1990 whistler began upgrading its aging fleet of fixed grip chairlifts with the addition of its first high-speed quad chairlift. the green chair express, which replaced the two green chairs, was built by lift engineering (yan), and substantially cut long lift queues in the green area of the mountain. a year later, whistler mountain replaced three double chairlifts and the original creekside gondola with two high-speed quad chairlifts, the quicksilver express and redline express lifts, also built by lift engineering. 1994 saw the removal of the blue chair, and the construction of the harmony express to little whistler peak, built by poma.
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