There is a NEW Gondola at Whistler/Blackcomb (British Columbia) for the 2010 Olympics - but ALREADY OPERATIONAL!!!

I was up in Whistler for my Unlcle & Dad's birthday - since my Dad passed three years ago, I thought it would be great to spend July 8th with my Uncle!  He loved it and we drove up to Whistler for lunch!  The ROAD is not finished!!!  But all of the ski venues ARE!!

Here's a picture from the New York Times of the new gondola:

                           
The article is about skiing in the SUMMER at night, in NORTHERN MOST Sweden - Riksgransen - which is a nice article.  But if you click on the picture show, there's also the above picture.  PLUS MANY OTHER GREAT SHOTS - go see!

There is also a GREAT map, but I am not able to copy it, here at Weather Underground - the WUNDER map of Siberia - NEGATIVE 50 and below!!!   Luckily we are SOUTH, a long ways, of that!!!