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From: acton@ubc-cs.UUCP (Donald Acton)
Newsgroups: net.rec.ski
Subject: Re: 1 mile vertical drop
Message-ID: <94@ubc-cs.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 12-Nov-85 17:51:26 EST
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Posted: Tue Nov 12 17:51:26 1985
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In article <5820@tekecs.UUCP> waltt@tekecs.UUCP (Walt Tucker) writes:
>I see that Whistler Mtn in British Columbia just added a chair lift that
>increases their vertical drop to 5280 FEET.  This takes the record as the
>ski area with the longest vertical drop in North America from neighboring 
>Blackcomb ski area, which has about 4200 vertical feet.  

This information is slightly wrong in that Walt has the two mountains mixed
up. Whistler did add a new chair lift but it didn't increase the mountains
vertical drop any. The new chair is suppose to come up from the back bowls
and ends near the upper lodge. Whistler has also increased the capacity of
its two T-bars. Blackcomb added a new T-Bar increasing its vertical drop
to 5280 feet. This has also opened up a lot of new skiing terrain and they
hope to remain open into June. (There is even talk of providing skiing for 
12 months of the year.) 

Previous to Blackcomb's expansion Whistler had the longest vertical drop at,
as Walt said, around 4200 ft and Blackcomb wasn't far behind. This new addition
gives British Columbia the two mountains with the largest vertical drop in 
North America and they are right beside each other. Skiing opened there this
past weekend (Nov 8) but I didn't go. If any of you wanf more info just drop a 
note and I will try and help.

  Donald Acton