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Back to the Blog: Whistler’s Sea to Sky Highway Closed

By ⋅ July 31, 2008 ⋅ Email this post Email this post ⋅ Print this post Print this post ⋅ Post a comment

Imagine if this happened during the 2010 Winter Olympics: The only route between Vancouver and Whistler will be closed for about five days thanks to a gigantic rock slide yesterday. Some stories estimated the slide contained 16,000 cubic feet of rock. It doesn’t look like anyone was hurt.

The net result is that tens of thousands of tourists are stranded, as it’s damn near impossible to get back and forth without the Sea to Sky Highway, where the slide took place. The ride is two hours on the Sea to Sky Highway, eight hours if you take the detour. Ouch.

While it’s not likely to happen during the 2010 Winter Olympics, imagine if it did? What a nightmare.

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