New gondola will Chiefly be a boon to Squamish
17 October, 2013
Jayson Faulkner says he would have been on the front lines if someone tried to build a gondola on the iconic Stawamus Chief near Squamish.
“If they wanted to build a gondola up the Chief, the hiking community would have laid down in front of the bulldozers, including me,” says Faulkner, an outdoorsy Whistler entrepreneur who’s also a municipal.
For Faulkner, fighting the public perception that he and four co-founders wanted to desecrate the hiking hot spot was the major challenge in getting the go-ahead for the $22-million project....
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Story by Ian Austin, The Province
Photography by Ward Perrin, The Province