Whistler Blackcomb has announced that they will begin building two new high speed chairlifts this summer!
Chairlift 1: Harmony High-speed Six-pack
Whistler Blackcomb’s Harmony high-speed, quad chairlift will be replaced with an all new Doppelmayr high-speed, detachable, six-pack. The new chair will have the same alignment as the current Harmony quad; spanning 1,729 meters (5,672 feet) in length, with a vertical rise of 525 meters (1,722 feet). The upgrade will dramatically improve the uphill capacity by 50 percent, going from 2,400 skiers per hour to 3,600. The Harmony Six will service terrain spanning from the edge of the Symphony Amphitheatre all the way over to Glacier Bowl.
Chairlift 2: All New Crystal Zone High-speed Quad
Whistiler Blackcomb’s Crystal Zone will see an all new high-speed quad that will deliver skiers and riders to the same location as the current triple chair. The alinement of this new quad will eliminate the need to utilize the Excelerator Chair to access many Crystal Zone trails including Ridge Runner, Rock ‘N’ Roll, and gladed trails like Outer Limits. The new chair will also make it even quicker to return to the Glacier Express chair to access Horstman Glacier, Blackcomb Glacier and Spanky’s. The name of this new chairlift will be determined through a competition to be announced by Whistler Blackcomb later this winter.
Construction on the lifts will begin this spring and are expected to open at the beginning of the 2013-14 winter season.
*Images From: Whistler Blackcomb
Well there goes crystal…
farewell, 11am crystal pow stashes.
no doubt
Ruins Crystal, increases traffic on Spanky’s and adds 50% more upload to Harmony. How is this good?
Mixed feelings about the new Crystal chair. That’s one of my favourite zones which means more laps but possibly more traffic as well. Ah well, it’s all good.
Hey whistler, how about adding NEW terrain, instead of just increasing the traffic on areas that are currently locals’s stashes?
HAHAHAHAAHAHA suck it
Just another reason why i want to live in whistler instead of squaw…
I hope youre not American. Canadians will give pretty much every nationality a working holiday visa unless you are from the states. Its quite bullshit really, and the main reason I support making Canada the 51st (52nd?) state.
cause we dont wanna deal with asshole americans!
So Squaw (KSL) is spending their money at Whistler instead of new lifts/terrain at Alpine/Squaw
Goota spend where the customers go I guess…..
I could care less.
I think you mean you could not care less.
No i think he actually could care less, but he’s choosing not to.
so he does care. ok. who cares.
Will be nice to be able to lap spankys and blackcomb glacier without going back to excelerator, but I’d rather see lifts to new terrain.
New Crystal chair… well there goes Fraggle!
Yeah, its too bad it goes directly over top of it instead of on one of the sides.