Nearly 300 people were stranded for two hours on Whistler’s Village Gondola yesterday (Monday, January 10, 2010) around 9:45 AM, according to a story on The Province.
[One trapped woman] said she phoned the mountain’s toll-free number twice, but was disconnected both times. She then checked the mountain’s social media pages, only to be frustrated by a lack of details. . . “Being stuck that long and not being able to contact the staff at Whistler was really aggravating,” she said. “We kept checking Facebook and Twitter and they weren’t saying anything except that it was a mechanical issue.”
The gondola finally moved enough to allow all the guests to exit. Those stranded were reportedly given food and drink vouchers and free lift passes. The gondola is reportedly closed until the cause of the problem can be completely investigated. This is just the latest in a seemingly annual lift and/or gondola failure at the financially troubled resort.
[Link: The Province]
Wonder how many people joined the ‘Mlle-Lo’ Club and humped the afternoon away in a Ganja-la. God knows my libido would have been exercised while stranded.
It’s a real stretch to say the reosrt is financially
troubled. The parent companies; Intrawest and fortress were/are,
but Whistler Blackcomb was always the cash cow for them. However WB
went puiblic this past fall, so it no longer has to contribute
capital earnings towards debt payments for Intrawests and fortress.
Hence that big capitial investments the resort made to it’s
infrastructure this past fall. Now it they’ll only replace that
effing gondola.
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