Although there isn't much history to the lift itself, T-bar 2 is still quite special. Whistler Mountain had 4 lifts installed for the opening to its inaugural season in 1965. They included the gondola, Red Chair, T-Bar 1 and T-Bar 2, all were Mueller lifts. The T-Bars ran parallel to each other, serving the highest lift-served point at the time. Soon, Blue Chair and Green Chair were added into the area in 1966 and 1968, expanding terrain, but the T-Bars remained. Olive Chair and Orange Chair were installed in 1972 to help with out-of-base capacity, Green 2 was added next to Green in 1974, and Little Red next to Red in 1978, but the T-Bars were not replaced. Whistler Mountain opened lift serviced access to the new Whistler Village, with three new lifts, and eventually adding Whistler Village Gondola, the T-Bars stayed around. Even as Whistler Mountain truly entered the modern era with more high-speed lifts, the T-Bars still stuck around. In 2017, the year before Emerald 6 Express was installed, T-Bar 1 was finally removed, leaving one t-bar, T-Bar 2.

T-Bar 2 is a 1965 Mueller T-Bar, using Doppelmayr springboxes and T's, Mueller lattice portal towers, Mueller sheaves, and Mueller bottom drive/tension station and top fixed return. While T-Bar one has since 2017 been removed, the lattice portal towers remain to carry the comm line, which is necessary for T-Bar 2 to run. Whistler Mountain has plans to replace this T-Bar in the future, possibly with a high-speed chair starting at the bottom of Franz's Chair (a lift that almost never runs, and only ran this season at all due to construction delays of Big Red 6 Express), and ending at the top of the T-Bar. Until then, T-Bar 2 takes skiers and boarders back in time in this area of the mountain, showing Whistler Mountains roots.

Timestamps:
0:00 Bottom Terminal
1:19 Ride Up
5:48 Top Terminal

Recorded on February 18th, 2023
GoPro Hero 10 Black, 4k, 30 fps, Horizon Leveling

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