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Correspondence and Invoices

Correspondence and invoices regarding sale and printing of photographs, potential for the Garibaldi region as an Olympic venue, and the inclusion of Haney in Garibaldi Provincial Park boundary.

1988/89 Blackcomb Employee Manual Package

A package for new employees working at Blackcomb Mountain, in the 1988/89 ski season. This package contains a variety of pamphlets all with various information a new employee should know for working at Blackcomb Mountain. The contents of the package include;

  • Blackcomb at Whistler "Summer Magic" pamphlet - Which discusses some of the activities one can engage in on Blackcomb Mountain.
  • Blackcomb Summer Glacier Skiing 1989 pamphlet - Which discusses Glacier skiing on Horstman Glacier as well as pricing.
  • Blackcomb Magazine - Which discusses some of the new features of Blackcomb Mountain, and other various ski related topics for Blackcomb
  • 1988/89 Blackcomb Mountain guide - Which shows the various runs and lifts of the mountain
  • Blackcomb Kids Kamp Pamphlet - Which describes the Kids Kamp program, lessons for children to learn how to ski. And also includes pricing
  • Blackcomb Ski School Pamphlet - Which details the ski lesson programs one can enrol in, which includes pricing for the various types of lessons
  • Blackcomb "Upwardly Mobile" Pamphlet - This pamphlet describes two corporate packages that businesses can take advantage of at Blackcomb, One is the Mile High Club, which is a membership that can be used by anyone in the company. The other is the Mountain Mardi Gras, which allows 20 or more people on the mountain as well as being served meals and drinks
  • Blackcomb Men's Mountain Masters Pamphlet - Which describes a more advanced ski lesson course which focuses on bumps, powder, gates and more, as well as pricing for the classes
  • Blackcomb Greg Athans Adult Mogul Camps - Which describes a two day class taught by Greg Athans for Moguls and steep terrain skiing.
  • Blackcomb Ladies Unlimited Pamphlet - Which descries a ski course for women which teaches steep skiing techniques.
  • Blackcomb Perception Ski Workshops Pamphlet - Which describes a ski workshop created by Kathy Kreiner to help teach Sports Psychology, and focuses more on the mental aspects of skiing.
  • Blackcomb Racing Pamphlet - Which discusses the various races held at Blackcomb and information for enrolling in them
  • Blackcomb Statistics pages - Three printed pieces of paper stapled together which describes the various statistics of the mountain such as elevation, weather, lift capacity and so on.

Ski Films

Various ski films from Jim McConkey's personal collection. Some are films with McConkey in them and others are just general ski films that he owned.

2010-2017

Various newspaper clippings from newspapers such as the Whistler question, which relate to aviation in the Whistler Valley. Many of the articles are about heli-skiing, aerial search and rescue, aircraft accidents, and aerial photography/reconnaissance.

1999-2009

Various newspaper clippings from newspapers such as the Whistler question, which relate to aviation in the Whistler Valley. Many of the articles are about heli-skiing, aerial search and rescue, aircraft accidents, and aerial photography/reconnaissance.

1984-1988

Various newspaper clippings from newspapers such as the Whistler question, which relate to aviation in the Whistler Valley. Many of the articles are about heli-skiing, aerial search and rescue, aircraft accidents, and aerial photography/reconnaissance.

Whistler/Garibaldi From Space

A pamphlet depicting a view of the Whistler and Garibaldi region from space. It highlights many geographical key points in the region, and it has a writeup on the region and how the photographs were abled to be captured, by the Landsat 5 a U.S. satellite and records info from both visible and non-visible parts of the spectrum.

Unclimbed and Unmapped Peaks - Panorama from Black M[oun]t[ain] - Sept. 12, 1923

  • WMA_P88-01-022
  • File
  • September 12, 1923
  • Part of Neal Carter

Panoramic photograph (composed of four photographs taped together) taken by Neal Carter on September 12, 1923 from Fissile Peak (formerly known as Red Mountain). Mountains that can be seen include Diavolo Peak, Parapet Peak, Mt. Isosceles, Copper Peak [now Mt. Price?], Mt. Mamquam, Castle Towers Mountain, the Tantalus Range, and the Cheakamus Glacier.

Caption: "UNCLIMBED AND UNMAPPED PEAKS - Panorama from Black M[oun]t[ain] - Sept. 12, 1923"

Caption: "Cha[rle]s Townsend beside Cairn on Wedge M[oun]t[ain] summit. - 1:15pm Sept. 10, [19]'23"

[Neal Carter has also traced the tips of a mountains and glaciers in view on the back of the photograph with a labels written backwards so that if you hold the photo up to the light, the labels appear superimposed on the image. The labels read Mt. Diavolo, Mt. Mamquam, Mt. Isosceles, Parapet Pk., Copper Peak, Cheakamus Glacier, Castle Towers, and The Tantalus Range. All mountain labels contain elevations.]

1974-2007

Photographs of people skiing and snowboarding on Blackcomb Mountain and Whistler Mountain, aerial and panoramic shots of Whistler Valley, alpenglow over the mountains, Rainbow Park, Whistler Village, ski in and ski out condominiums, hiking, group portraits of Mountain Hosts and Ski Patrol, gondolas, chairlifts, T-bars, freestyle skiing and snowboarding, restaurants and hotels, cabins, Slush Cup, Peak to Valley Race, Molson World Cup Downhill, ski racing, Black Tusk, Fissile Peak, heli-skiing, Franz Wilhelmsen and Bob Ainsworth on Whistler Mountain, Roundhouse Lodge, Tremor Glacier on Tremor Mountain, the Saudan Couloir Ski Race Extreme, picnics, Pemberton Icecap, Ipsoot Mountain, Burnt Stew Basin, telemark skiing, people carrying surfboards on a beach, running, Snowboard Cross, apres ski, moguls, mountaineering, Wedge Mountain, 7th Heaven, River of Golden Dreams, portraits of John "Rabbit" Hare and Greg Griffith with his photography equipment, Joffre Lakes, Elfin Lakes, Beaver Pond, Cheakamus Lake, Pemberton, Phalanx Mountain, Creekside, Inawashiro Ski Resort in Japan, sumo wrestling, avalanches, Rendezvous Lodge, Wedgemount Lake, Lost Lake, Alta Lake, Green Lake, Squamish, Nicklaus North Golf Course, Mt Weart, Rimrock Cafe, Longhorn Saloon & Grill, Anasazi Restaurant, Highway 99, Tantalus Range, windsurfing on Howe Sound, rafting, fireworks, mountain biking, Singing Pass and Musical Bumps Trail, and the Metzler family cross-country skiing.

1978-2007

Photographs of people skiing and snowboarding on Whistler Mountain and Blackcomb Mountain, heli-skiing and heli-boarding, a train in the Cheakamus Canyon, freestyle skiing and snowboarding, backcountry skiing, aerial photography, the Blackcomb Powdercats and grooming, the Inukshuk on Whistler Peak, a helicopter evacuating someone, apres ski, alpenglow, sunset, cross-country skiing, windsurfing in Squamish on Howe Sound, night photography, Whistler Golf Course, Furry Creek Golf Course, Nicklaus North Golf Course, Chateau Whistler Golf Course, Mount Weart, Wedge Mountain, a farm in Pemberton, condominiums, picnics, mountain meadows, hiking in Singing Pass, mountain biking on Whistler Mountain and Blackcomb Mountain, the Garibaldi Gruel, rafting on the Elaho-Squamish River, Garibaldi Lake, Black Tusk, Whistler Village, climbing in the Tantalus Range, skiing at Vail and Mt. Hood, a couple on the beach in Hawaii, paraskiing, family portraits, Roundhouse Lodge, Rendezvous Lodge, the Purcell Range, Village North, Upper Village, Wedgemount Lake, someone snowboarding a halfpipe on Whistler Mountain, panoramic photography, T-bars, cars in a parking lot, Highway 99, a couple eating ice cream at Cows Ice Cream, canoeing, pubs, a tugboat hauling logs, a swimming pool, Halloween, Christmas in Whistler Village, cabins, fly-fishing, kayaking, hot tubs, and the Molson World Cup Downhill.

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