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Pat Donnelly
September 9th, 2008, 09:22 AM
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LeeW
September 10th, 2008, 01:21 PM
Juicy stuffs!! Thanks, Pat!
skategoat
September 10th, 2008, 01:30 PM
FYI, there will be an extra fee to ride the Gondola, over and above your lift ticket.
pebu
September 10th, 2008, 01:50 PM
I'd still ride it... At least once anyway. That is to say IF I ever get to whistler.
Allee
September 10th, 2008, 02:12 PM
Glass and a 1400ft drop? Hell yeah!
Gtanner
September 11th, 2008, 09:16 AM
I'll be there in February... and will surely take a ride.

Now I'm just waiting to hear about the first base-jumper off one of the cars....that would be cool to see!

-Gord
rhaskins
September 11th, 2008, 11:08 AM
with an unsupport span width of 1.8 miles, isn't it a little susceptible to being moved around a lot in a stiff breeze? How do they dampen something like this out? Who is going to hose off the glass bottom after the inevitable sea sickness? I know I would ride it, especially if the wind was up.

Rick
pebu
September 11th, 2008, 12:38 PM
I'd imagine being such large cars and such a large span (ie, large mass) it won't really feel like it's moving all that much. Taking the analogy to an extreme, it's kind of like standing at the top of the gateway arch... It moves, but the frequency is so slow that you don't notice it unless you're really sensitive.
rhaskins
September 11th, 2008, 04:19 PM
It will be interesting. They have probably modeled it extensively for low frequency vibration effects and amplitude, but, then again, there is room for error. It is gonna be really great none-the-less.

Rick
pebu
September 12th, 2008, 06:31 AM
It indeed has potential to be a spectacular thing. At the same time though it has potential to be a spectacular fail (I sure as hell hope it isn't). Can't win if you don't play though.
skategoat
September 12th, 2008, 07:13 AM
I can see how everyone will want to take one ride and that's about it. Why do I need to go Peak to Peak anyways? If I'm at the peak, don't I want to ride down? What would be a lot more useful is a gondola that travels from Blackcomb base village to Whistler base village. It's a bitch walking that in hard boots. That might also relieve some of the pressure on the bars at Whistler base and give the Blackcomb merchants more business.