WHISTLER getting bigger?

i too have heard of this possible expansion, but it is of course speculation. there is a lot intrawest wants to do with the place. i even heard they were brainstorming a tram from whistler to blackcomb...that would be the shit, scary shit.


''fishin' for the general.''

ah... notin like 2 tacky ass mountains joined by the tram...they arent tacky now.. but shit... but whistler is a huge place so its not too surprising that they are making an effor at it, but that sounds cool

-Grant-

Chicken Wang?

Whistle ris the shiznat.. thatpalce should be made bigger i mean thye hsould aim to make it like chamonix u know like a big interconnection of mountains all linked.. ven though no independent mountians would get in. thye hsould still make it huge
Id like to give NS.COM the greatest toast honor of all the gold medal 40 toast

europe is crazy with thei trams and stuff... i wonder how thick those cables would have to be to connect the 2 mountains.......

-Grant-

Chicken Wang?

sweet, cypress is gonna expand and get some new chairs if the olympics make it.

yeah, a lot depends on the olympics coming to the areas...like goddam mother fucking road tolls.


''fishin' for the general.''

road tolls? when were the olympics the cause of that... mayb ihave my head too far up my ass

-Grant-

Chicken Wang?

cypress licks ass tho





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If the olympics come to vancouver, cypress gets the frestyle and halfpipe. Im gonna be first in line to try the olympic half pipe.

yeah, there is specualtion of putting tolls on sea to sky to raise money to refurbish it


''fishin' for the general.''

if they did i think it would be worth it, that road is so crazy, but a new road would also mean more people going up there but i think Whistler has reached a point where there so crowded more people wont make much of difference, hopefully one day the expand acros the valley to what i think is called rainbow mountain but i could be and am probably wrong about that name.
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I can't beleive you think it would be ok for the government to put a toll on the 99. I guess you do not drive the highway often enough to understand what a toll would mean finacially for some people. Anyway thanks for posting that, for sure you get the prize for the stupidest thing I herd today.
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Cypress doesnt have a steep enough run for freestyle.





4:20 is the time when we should all just get wasted.

if there are to be toll booths made, they will be firebombed. there is no chance in hell that i will pay $32 to drive a perfectly fine pre-existing highway.

let's get this straight once and for all. roads are safe, DRIVERS are dangerous. the road is fine, it is the numb nutted prairie bred idiot stick who has never seen a mountain highway who is a threat. don't fucking drive it you dipstick! there are many existing shuttle services which are comfortable, affordable and cheaper then renting a car. the village shuttle is free in whistler. don't waste another parking space because you couldn't be bothered to walk 4 minutes to the lift you fat assed bastard.

i like the idea of the olympics because it will mean many benefits for the province as a whole (new convention center, improved transportation infrastructure, new sporting facilities, increased tourism revenue, etc), but it also means fucking up alot of things.

the callahan lake area will no longer be the domain of snowmobilers as they will be building the nordic (and undoubtedly other ski facilities) jump there. not to mention how butt FUCKED the locals will become. housing prices will rise, locals will be forced to live further and further away from prime real estate, increased prices for everything from food to socks, the destruction of the 'small village' feel of whistler.

i'd wager money that many locals would have their leases conveniently expire right before the olmypics so that the landowners could reap the exponentially greater tourist dollars that come during that time.

is anyone aware of what intrawest executives dream of? it isn't a friendly ski town, let me tell you that. i know that they are mostly rumours, but they come from fairly reliable sources.

the free parking lots in the village will be replaced by hotels and mountain parking will become a primarily undergroud, pay parking thing. they want the tram from mountain to mountain. a big eyesore in my opinion as it will detract from the view of fissile and cowboy ridge. kybers will get fucked up the ass since they want to develop housing there and put a chair lift right up the heart of it from function. think about how they're going to try to clean up whistler's 'family image' as well. no more rowdiness... and this is just the tip of the iceberg.

i like rowdiness. i like uncrowded ski hills. i like a community as opposed to a city.

come on now. the olympics are a boon and a source of pride for a nation as a whole, but as a skier, do you really give a fuck? as cool as it would be to see the canadian hockey team kick the shit out of the yankee team again, i wouldn't trade a bucket of piss for the olympics if it threatened the whistler i love and cherish.

i do know the other side of the coin, but who cares? keep whistler good for as long as you can. prolong what you have before the inevitable arrives. so what if they'll develop whistler to that extent, just 5 years further down the road? that's five more years of intangible greatness.

if you ask me, the town is too big already. the olympics are propagated by already wealthy landowners who are looking to make a quick buck and who don't really care about preserving the light hearted mentality of whistler.

sorry, this was a really long rant but it's something that really pissed me off.

fuck the olympics.

very acceptable, you are very intelligent, i just gained a lot of respect for you, that was the most wirht while post i have ever read on here...it is good that you see both sides and ealborate on them, i have nothing more to say, except that they aren't only repairing the roads, but they want to add extra lanes in where they can, sweet, more traffic.


''fishin' for the general.''

whoah, i agree, i enjoyed reading that at 6 in the morning, believe it or not...i don't really care for the olympics too much either. Very creative writer tho, you should try and focus some of that energy towards magazines, public, etc and maybe make your point heard...

yeah its getting way to big out thier. The mountain has way to many people and the town isn't the same as it used to be. We should all listen to Rasta Stevens, who's in P-Tex Lies and Ducktape.