Tuesday, December 16, 2008

dec 16 - at least it wasn't the peak to peak

24hr snow = 0
base depth = 59
cumulative = 186
freezing level = valley
days riding = 0

five day forecast

day1 0-2 day2 4-6 day3 0 day4 0 day5 0

OK - i'm sure by now everyone out there has heard about the excalibur gondola collapse. the best info i've found is here:

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/thebigblog/archives/157146.asp

seems like everyone got lucky and no serious damage was done. but i gotta laugh at some people's reactions, like TW37. yeah - i'm sure whistler is "unsafe". i'm sure we manufacture all our own gondolas on site to much lower standards than the rest of the world. whatever dude - just stay home.

having said that, maybe they should have done a quick inspection while they had all those world-class engineers here building the peak to peak.

well, a gondola collapse isn't going to keep me off the mountain, but -20C and no snow will. so i'm still waiting for a good reason to go up, and there's still nothing in sight.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Is there any word on when it might be fixed?

dynaman said...

haven't heard anything yet, but based on what i've seen in the past i would say at least a week if not more. i'll post if i hear anything.