#17-Whistler

The road to Whistler is another beautiful trip! The Canadians put a great highway in from Vancouver to Whistler to make traveling to the Olympics safer and easier...and they did a great job! This park is one of the many stops on the way...

Provincial Park is a campground, too. Very pretty-and VERY busy in the summer, especially the weekends..

The road to Whistler just whets your appetite for what's coming up...

Yep, this is the Gondola ride..the first portion is about 25 minutes of breathtaking beauty.

But this portion is Awesome! Peak 2 Peak is the longest independent span in the world....

Again, too much to see!

Here's what a gondola looks like...during peak season they put 10 people in one gondola comfortably. The grey ones have a glass bottom! Of course, we rode both.

It looks like somebody drew these ribbons of white through the mountains...

But there's a dam right in the middle-it powers all the gondola and other lift operations!

Truly 360 degree scenics....

This is a shot of the river through the glass bottom gondola

As we leave one station...

And right on the peak of Blackcomb-Whistler himself!

I don't know if it's the snow or the red shirt, but people were coming up to Jack shouting Santa! He was very gracious and even gave some of the girls his business card....But then they told us a storm was coming and we had to be evacuated-now!

Our now traditional "coming"

And "going" shot

I bet it was wonderful during the Olympics!