[cgh]

We fought a similar gondola project in my town and won. Developers wanted to build a gondola to the top of the Stawamus Chief, a big granite monolith on the edge of town. It got shot down. The fact that it's a provincial park probably helped. The gondola got built in a more suitable location, to the top of a nearby ridge, and now everyone is happy.

Hopefully the people organising against this Grand Canyon silliness see similar success.

[japhyr]

Thank you for doing that. I hope to climb the Chief some day, and I'll be happy not to top out in front of a gondola depot.

[cgh]

Well, I'd like to take some real credit, but all I did was sign a petition and mutter darkly. There was a lot of opposition and I guess every name made a difference.

As far as climbing the Chief goes, get up here, you aren't getting any younger. A bunch of great new routes have gone up over the last few years, including some stellar moderates:

http://squamishclimbingsource.com/sunset-strip/