<P> Intrawest announced the gondola project to employees and the Municipality of Whistler's Council on September 19, 2005, and held a community open house shortly thereafter . At the time, construction was expected to start in the summer of 2006 and continue for 2 years for an opening for the 2007 - 2008 ski season . On March 30, 2006, it was announced that construction would be delayed by one year . Whistler Blackcomb announced on April 17, 2007, that groundbreaking would occur in May 2007 . </P> <P> Whistler - Blackcomb broke ground for the Peak 2 Peak Gondola in a ceremony on May 21, 2007 . The Doppelmayr Garaventa Group would supply the gondola itself and Timberline Construction was the general contractor and Glotman Simpson were the Consulting Engineers . Fatzer AG of Switzerland would make the four track cables and one haul rope that would carry the gondolas across the valley while CWA, also of Switzerland, would build the 28 gondola cabins . </P> <P> 80 workers from Whistler Blackcomb, Doppelmayr Garaventa, Timberline Construction and North Construction worked throughout the summer of 2007 . Work completed on the Blackcomb side by that summer included the relocation of the top terminals of the Solar Coaster Express and Catskinner chairlifts on Blackcomb, excavation of both terminal locations, foundations for both terminals, foundations for all four intermediate towers, and steel erection of towers 2 and 3 . Construction stopped for the winter in November 2007 . </P> <P> During the winter, the remaining two gondola towers and each terminal's machinery were built at the Garaventa factory in Goldau, Switzerland and the Doppelmayr factories in Wolfurt, Austria and St. Jerome, Quebec . Fatzer AG manufactured the four track cables and haul rope that would suspend the gondola cabins . The five spools of cable left Europe by ship on April 10, 2008 . By the time construction started again in the spring of 2008, ten feet of snow still covered the mountains and concrete had to be transported up the mountain by helicopter . Towers 4 and 1 were completed in early spring using mobile cranes . </P>

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