Whistler – The Non Riding Side

Last Sunday I was cranking laps in Whistler and misjudged the opening corner on Lower A-Line.  End result was not good.

I really need to wear pads… lesson learned.

What to do in the best bike park on the planet and your not able to ride ?  Turns out a seasons pass at the bike park is good for all mountain access including the $50 million Peak to Peak Chair that was built for the 2010 Olympics .  I decided to take full advantage of this.

I hopped on the Whistler Village Gondola and took it as far as I could. At the top I walked down  to the Peak Express Chair which took around 10 mins.  This takes you as high as you can go on the mountain and I thinks it’s 7,100 ft.  I didn’t have anything good for a camera so my BlackBerry had to do.

Top of the world !

Black Tusk in the background.

Coming down the Peak Chair was the highlight for me.  Super scary as you are really high up but what a great view.

I am now off to try the to Peak to Peak.  Basically the Gondola takes you from Whistler Mountain to Blackcomb Mountain in 11 minutes (4.4 km’s).  It holds world records for the longest free span between ropeway towers at 3.03 kilometres and highest point above the ground—436 metres. Impressive to stay the least.  The 360 degree views were spectacular and impressive.

That’s a long ways down.

From the Peak to Peak Gondola, I took the Solar Coaster down to the Wizard Express which drops you down to base of Blackcomb.

All in all it was a great tour of the local mountains which I’ve never really stopped to smell the flowers sort of speak of as it’s usually go go go.  All and all it was a great time and sometimes nice to take a break of just pinning it all day.

Cheers,

JW