Greyhound do a day trip return to Whistler from Vancouver package which includes passes for all gondolas and chairlifts for $80 or so. Pretty good value. The trip up the Sea to Sky highway takes 2 1/2 hours and is spectacular.
A 15 minute walk from Roundhouse Lodge gets you to The Peak chairlift, then up to the peak of Whistler Mountain
Our 30 minutes or so at the peak saw visibility come and go as the clouds passed by
The trip down on the chairlift is equally as spectacular as the trip up
The Peak2Peak gondola is world record breaking
1. Longest unsupported span of 3.024 kilometres
2. Highest lift of its kind at 436 metres above the valley floor
3. Completes the longest continuous lift system on the globe
The trip from Roundhouse to Rendezvous was quite crowded, but we decided to return to Roundhouse again on an empty gondola
We stayed on the same gondola for the trip back because of the solitude. I thought it might have been a good chance to join the mile high club (albeit less than a mile) - but it takes two to tango!
The view up the valley from the gondola
And the view down. A trip on the 2 chairlifts from Rendezvous down to Blackcomb, and a scenic trip back to Vancouver on Greyhound, ended a memorable day
