Whislter Bike Park
Whistler Mountain also features a mountain bike park that uses the Fitzsimmons and Garbanzo quad chairlifts, as well as the Village Gondola to shuttle bikers to around midstation, at 1,200 m (4,000 ft). The park has 36 trails for all skill levels totalling 200 km of trails. There are smooth trails with gentle banked corners for beginners, steep twisty trails for intermediates, tight trails with jumps and stunts for advanced riders, and challenging trails with giant jumps, drops, and root-strewn terrain for the experts.
The two high speed quad chairlifts used by the bike park have every second chair replaced with a bike rack during the summer. The rack fits four bikes, three in grooves and one on a hook on the side of the chair. The bikers then get on the next chair which is a normal passenger carrier. A smaller rider base, due to expert-only trails, necessitates that the Garbanzo Express only has one quarter of the Fitzsimmons' capacity for the time being.
The bike park has two zones. The Fitzsimmons zone (the lower zone) and the Garbanzo zone (the upper zone). All riders take either the Village Gondola or the Fitzsimmions quad to the Olympic Station area. Then advanced and expert riders can take the Garbanzo quad up further to the Garbanzo zone. Garbanzo riders can return to midstation or Whistler Village, the base of the bike park. From the top of Garbanzo to the village is an impressive 1100 m vertical descent; eclipsed only by the more expensive guided descents from the top gondola station or the top of the Peak Chair, the highest accessible point on the mountain. "A-Line" is the most well-known track. "The Boneyard" is the collection of jumps visible from the base.
The park hosts two large, annual mountain biking competitions/festivals. Crankworx is held in the summer; Joyride Huckfest is held in the fall.
Blackcomb Magic Bike Park
At the base of Blackcomb is Magic Park, three downhill trails designed to give beginners an introduction to downhill biking. The first of these trails, "Easy Rider", opened on 18 June 2005. The two trails are wide and smooth, forgiving for beginners. The park is accessed from the Magic Chair, a short triple chairlift that only gains 94 m of vertical (as compared with the 1,200 m of vertical in the Whistler Bike Park).
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