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Alex Talking Tapes - Triathlon & A Day in the Life at Whistler

File is a cassette tape featuring Alex Douglas talking about an average day in the life of a staff member at the Dave Murray (or possibly Toni Sailer) Summer Ski Camp, as well as a triathlon he ran in Vancouver.

  • A Side: Opens with discussion of windsurfing, jam-making, picking and stewing fruit. First half of "A Day in the Life at Whistler" - wake-up, breakfast at "Nasty Jack's," preparing the campers for the day, gondola/chair ride, hike up to glacier, skiing, daily tasks (salting snow, shovelling), helping campers, getting everyone off hill, afternoon activities, lunch, discipline, supper.

  • B Side: Second half of "A Day in the Life at Whistler" - meetings, afternoon activities (volleyball, sauna, frisbee), bedtime, counsellor meetings, dealing with difficult campers, staff duties, working airport duty, dance on last night of camp, adults' camp, movie nights, friendships made at camp. Also discusses his participation in a triathlon held in Vancouver.

Audio Material

Series consists of a cassette tape featuring Alex Douglas talking about the [Dave Murray] Summer Ski Camp and a triathlon in Vancouver.

Digital photos

Subseries consists of 3 CDs containing 41 digital photographs of people and events at or related to the Toni Sailer/Dave Murray Summer Ski Camps and Mount Seymour.

Ski Industry Professional 2009 event

File consists of a London Drugs Photo Station CD containing 10 digital photographs. Most show people at a Ski Industry Professional event held in 2009 at Mount Seymour. Six of these photos can be found online at the Mount Seymour History Project's website (see 'Source' below for link).

  • 001 - a man and woman cutting a 'Happy Birthday' cake.
  • 002 - two men in a room with many posters and photographs; one man wears a DMSSC sweater and holds two photo album pages.
  • 003 - three women with wine glasses seated indoors.
  • 004 - a woman and two men standing indoors.
  • 005 - two men standing indoors near a red banner reading "thirtytwo."
  • 006 - two men with plates of cake standing indoors. In the background is a sign reading "Welcome to Mt. Seymour."
  • 007 - two men standing indoors in front of a poster reading "Mount Seymour History Project."
  • 008 - a woman and man standing beside a table of framed photographs.
  • 009 - a woman in a red jacket standing in an outdoor garden.
  • 010 - the Warren G. Harding memorial in Stanley Park.

Toni Sailer Summer Ski Camp extras - People + Events 1978

Photographs of Toni Sailer Summer Ski Camp in 1978 including group portraits, mingling outside, campers on the glacier, a spread of food and drink, obstacle races, trampolining, canoeing, sailing, and swimming in Alta Lake.

Identification according to ADOUGLAS-03-01:

  • 001 (53-12) – July 1978, “[Group] shots poor shadow.”
  • 002 (56-8) – July 1978
  • 003 (53-11) – July 1978, “Sharon Alberti, ball between the knees race.”
  • 004 (53-18) – July 1978, “Vancouver trip group at Stanley Park.”
  • 005 (53-20) – July 1978, “[Obscene?] jesters!”
  • 006 (53-21) – July 1978, “Ken, Steve, Andrew, Ron.”
  • 007 (60-13) – July-August 1978, “Wayne, Nancy, Wayne, Toni toast the luncheon.”
  • 008 (60-11) – July-August 1978, “Scotty, Don, Danny [joking] around.”
  • 009 (60-10) – July-August 1978, “Lunch on top of the mountain.”
  • 010 (60-16) – July-August 1978, “Line up for lunch time.”
  • 011 (60-15) – July-August 1978, “Lunch time.”
  • 012 (52-10) – June-July 1978, “General Beach shots.”
  • 013 (53-9) – July 1978, “Dizz stick teams cheering everyone on.”
  • 014 (53-7) – July 1978, “Beach shots.”
  • 015 (53-8) – July 1978, “Beach shots.”
  • 016 (53-3) – July 1978, “Beach shots.”
  • 017 (53-17) – July 1978, “[Group] shots poor shadow.”
  • 018 (52-14) – June-July 1978, “General Beach shots.”
  • 019 (52-15) – June-July 1978, “General Beach shots.”
  • 020 (52-8) – June-July 1978, “Tramp shot.”
  • 021 (50-19) – June 1978, “Field day at the school, dizzy stick contest.”
  • 022 (56-10) – July 1978, “Lone canoeist.”
  • 023 (56-11) – July 1978, “Canoeist on Alta Lake.”

Douglas, Alex 'Axel'

Toni Sailer Summer Ski Camp People + Events 1978

Photographs of campers at Toni Sailer Summer Ski Camp mingling outside, playing games, playing tug-of-war, sailing, and swimming in Alta Lake.

Identification according to ADOUGLAS-03-011:

  • 001 (50-18) – June 1978, “Field day at the school, dizzy stick contest.”
  • 002 (50-20) – June 1978, “Greg’s team, Floyd, Lori.”
  • 003 (50-21) – June 1978, “Wendell, Gary, Bill, Susan (white, green shirt).”
  • 004 (52-9) – June-July 1978, “Chris Herdman, Wayne Wong, Donny Mc.”
  • 005 (52-13) – June-July 1978, “Chris Herdman in the water, [?] in the Kayak.”
  • 006 (52-19) – June-July 1978, “two of the campers sailing.”
  • 007 (52-21) – June-July 1978, “the boys back from canoe trip, [Dish?], Jeff Zeligen.”
  • 008 (53-1) – July 1978, “Canoe race, 1 down 3 to go.”
  • 009 (53-2) – July 1978, “Canoe race participants waiting.”
  • 010 (53-4) – July 1978, “Greg Lee after the dizzy stick.”
  • 011 (53-5) – July 1978, “Laura Adler going for it.”
  • 012 (53-9) – July 1978, “Dizz stick teams cheering everyone on.”
  • 013 (53-10) – July 1978, “Toni Sailer just a bit dizzy.”
  • 014 (53-13) – July 1978, “Sharon and Shelly cheering on Donny Mc tug of war team”
  • 015 (53-14) – July 1978, “[Group?] shots poor shadows.”
  • 016 (53-15) – July 1978, “Not many on the tug of war rope.”
  • 017 (53-16) – July 1978, “Ken, Ken, Bill, Niaomi, Steve, ?, Jim.”
  • 018 (53-19) – July 1978, “Vancouver trip group at Stanley Park.”
  • 019 (56-12) – July 1978, “Steve pouring water on Niamia.”

Douglas, Alex 'Axel'