{"id":2104,"date":"2008-10-10T11:08:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-10T18:08:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2008-10-10T15:06:44","modified_gmt":"2008-10-10T22:06:44","slug":"old-man-first-to-ride-peak-2-peak-at-whistler","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/?p=2104","title":{"rendered":"Old Man First To Ride Peak 2 Peak At Whistler"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dyk-span.jpg\" onclick=\"window.open('http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dyk-span.jpg','popup','width=207,height=100,scrollbars=no,resizable=yes,toolbar=no,directories=no,location=no,menubar=no,status=yes,left=0,top=0');return false\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/dyk-span-tm.jpg\" height=\"96\" width=\"200\" border=\"1\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"4\" vspace=\"4\" alt=\"Dyk Span\" \/><\/a><strong>Whistler&#8217;s <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ww1.whistlerblackcomb.com\/p2pg\/contest\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ride of Your Life<\/a><\/strong> competition to see who will be the first to ride their new <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.peak2peakgondola.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Peak 2 Peak<\/a><\/strong> gondola has one winner so far: 90-year-old <strong>George Huxtable<\/strong> says he &#8220;can&#8217;t wait to ride the new Peak 2 Peak Gondola&#8221; according to a story on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/theprovince\/news\/story.html?id=779a2102-5076-4dde-8e1d-094590f56e65\" target=\"_blank\">Canada.com<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I haven&#8217;t stopped jumping up and down since I heard,&#8221; said Huxtable, who rarely misses a day of the skiing season. &#8220;I have skied since I was four years old and I have been on every contraption that man has invented to go up the mountains easily and then fall down.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>There is room for 19 more for that first ride into the abyss. For nomination forms and contest rules go to <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ww1.whistlerblackcomb.com\/p2pg\/contest\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.whistlerblackcomb.com\/gondola<\/a><\/strong>. Us, we&#8217;re staying on the ground. They say it&#8217;s <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/ww1.whistlerblackcomb.com\/p2pg\/safety\/\" target=\"_blank\">totally safe<\/a><\/strong>, but we&#8217;re not interested in it being the last ride of our life. George, on the other hand, seems to have no problem with that possibility.<\/p>\n<p><strong>[Link: <\/strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.canada.com\/theprovince\/news\/story.html?id=779a2102-5076-4dde-8e1d-094590f56e65\" target=\"_blank\">Canada.com<\/a><\/strong><strong>]<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whistler&#8217;s Ride of Your Life competition to see who will be the first to ride their new Peak 2 Peak gondola has one winner so far: 90-year-old George Huxtable says he &#8220;can&#8217;t wait to ride the new Peak 2 Peak Gondola&#8221; according to a story on Canada.com. &#8220;I haven&#8217;t stopped jumping up and down since [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boardistan.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}