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Garibaldi

  • WA_2013_026-01-03-001
  • File
  • [1927-1928]
  • Part of Brooks fonds

Photographs of mountaineering, female mountaineers, hiking, climbing, Luxor, Pitt Valley, Sphinx, Garibaldi Lake, crevasse, Garibaldi, Gentian Ridge, Black Tusk, alpine flowers, Sentinel, Castle Towers camp, and The Table.

Barrier - June 5, 1991

Photographs taken by Robert Clark Kline on a mountaineering trip to the Barrier on June 5, 1991, including shots of crumbling cliff faces on the Barrier, Garibaldi Lake, Lesser Garibaldi Lake, Black Tusk, Mt. Garibaldi, Mt. Price, Clinker Peak, Empetrum Ridge, Rubble Creek, Cheakamus River, the Stawamus Chief, and a wooden footbridge covered in snow.

Captions:
001: "1 - June 5, 1991 Wed[nesday] - Centre left - accident site - Right edge - better route"
002: "2 - Accident site - just to the right of huge cracked boulder"
003: "3 - as #2 taken from top right of #1"
004: "4 - S[outh]W[est] along barrier (tipped to the right)"
005: "5 - joins #4 and on angle"
006: "6 - S[outh] from edge of barrier = Mt. Garibaldi top left"
007: "7 - joins #6 from different point - Mt. Price and Clinker Peak behind tree at centre - This is where the lava came from to build the barrier"
008: "8 - joins #7 - Garibaldi Lake through notch at centre - 10,000 year old lava to right - 300,000,000 year old seabed to left - Empetrum Ridge top left."
009: "10 - joins #9"
010: "9 - joins #8 - Black Tusk top left"
011: "11 - 135mm of #9"
012: "12 - Looking down a chute of the Barrier - Rubble Cr[eek] top left"
013: "13 - joins the right of #12 - Rubble Cr[eek] left centre bottom"
014: "14 - Part of route up showing just over the ridge in the foreground"
015: "15 - S[outh]W[est] to inflow of Lesser G[aribaldi] L[ake]"
016: "16 - opposite to #15 - exit at centre"
017: "17 - W[est] across L[esser] G[aribaldi] Lake"
018: "18 - joins #17"
019: "19 - Damage caused by snow"
020: "20 - Garibaldi L[ake] taken from exit"
021: "21 - as #19"
022: "22 - S[outh] along the Cheakamus River to where it joins the Squamish R[iver] + [?] to the Stawamus Chief just left of centre"

Letters from Rene Widmer to Whistler Museum & Archives

Letters from Rene Widmer to Alyssa Bruijns (Head Archivist & Collections Manager, Whistler Museum & Archives) sharing stories of his time working with Cliff Fenner in the Garibaldi Provincial Park area.

  • Letter 001: References the Whistler Museum exhibit on Cliff Fenner, and shares autobiographical details of his employment as a park ranger in Garibaldi Provincial Park, how he came to Canada, how he met Cliff, and a rough timeline of his activities and jobs in the 1960s.
  • Letter 002: Offers to sign a donation form for the Whistler Museum and to translate his diary entries from his time in the Black Tusk area from German to English.
  • Letter 003: Elucidation of more specific memories from his time as a park ranger under Cliff Fenner's mentorship, including a trip leading girl guides from Squamish into the park to camp at Taylor Meadows and lyrics to a song the girl guides created about Widmer's role leading the climbing and hiking party.
  • Letter 004: Contains explanation of enclosed translated diary entry from 1961 detailing 'The Visit of Judge Wilson' to Garibaldi Provincial Park while Rene Widmer and Dick Bond were rangers there.

Garibaldi Camp

Photographs of Camp Garibaldi (at Garibaldi Lake), Alpine Club of Canada camp, tent camping, Sphinx Bay, The Table, Garibaldi Meadows, female mountaineers, Hiking, mountaineering, summit cairn of Castle Towers, Castle Towers, Black Tusk, a picnic during a climb, and Emmie Brooks.

Goat Ridge and Panorama Ridge - July 29 and August, 1988

Photographs taken by Robert Clark Kline on a mountaineering trip to Goat Ridge and Panorama Ridge between July 29 and August, 1988, including shots of Garibaldi Lake, Panorama Ridge, Sphinx Glacier, Rubble Creek, The Barrier, Britannia Beach, Goat Ridge, Woodfibre, Mt. Garibaldi, a helicopter, and Howe Sound.

Captions:
006: "14 - joins 13, also joins 1 & 5 on next film - to the N[orth]E[ast] Cinder cone centre left - low point of divide in foreground."
007: "13 - N[orth] over Helm Lake from divide - Whistler M[oun]t[ai]n top left"
008: "12 - Garibaldi Lake E[ast] from near outlet - Panorama Ridge at left edge"
009: "11 - Sphinx Glacier"
010: "10 - Panorama Ridge"
011: "9 - W[est] down Rubble Creek from the Barrier"
012: "8 - joins 9"
013: "7 - Firewood heading for Lake Garibaldi climbing over the Barrier - Aug[ust] 23 [19]88"
014: "5 - Britannia Beach"
015: "4 - Lakes or ponds on shoulder of Goat Ridge - Woodfibre in background"
016: "3 - S[outh] to Britannia Mines [Workings?] - Lions are top centre"
017: "2 - S[outh]West] to Howe Sound"
018: "1 - July 29, [19]88 - N[orth] from Goat Ridge to Mt. Garibaldi - Black Tusk just visible top left 1/4"

Slides 2

Photographs of an avalanche, hikers, Black Tusk, Garibaldi Lake, a cabin buried in snow, skiers, snowshoeing, a ptarmigan, ski touring, a photographer, a snowfield, sunsets, an A-frame house, a snowman, ski gear, and a skier on top of a buried cabin.

Slides 5

Photographs of a cabin buried in snow, ski touring at Black Tusk and Garibaldi Mountain, a photographer near Garibaldi Mountain, Garibaldi Mountain, hikers on scree slope, a hiker in a meadow at Black Tusk, a ski track, a skier with gear looking into a tunnel, hikers on top of a rock formation, a helicopter on grass with a building and trees behind, Garibaldi Lake covered in snow, a yellow boat on Garibaldi Lake, and hikers on a mountain ridge.

Slides 6

Photographs of 1960 and 1964 Garibaldi Park maps, the diamond head area, an aerial view of Whistler Mountain from left ridge to Singing Pass, snowfields, the main upper bowl in Whistler Mountain, hikers at Black Tusk and Garibaldi Lake, hiking at Garibaldi Mountain, and the helicopter used for the Olympic site search.

Caption on FEN_02_02_006_003: "Diamond Head area. Search for Olympic site. Site not suitable".
Caption on FEN_02_02_006_004: "AERIAL VIEW | Whistler Mountain left Ridge to Singing Pass R."
Caption on FEN_02_02_006_008: "Main upper bowl Whistler Mtn Top of Olympic Area foreshortened view. Straight Track made by Al Menzies. Olympic skier in fantastic run".
Caption on FEN_02_02_006_012: "Diamond Head area. Search for Olympic site. Site not suitable".
Caption on FEN_02_02_006_016: "Fueling up in Squamish in search for site".

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