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Photographs of Wedgemount Lake hiking.

Summer Solstice Issue

The Rolling Whistler Review, Summer Solstice Issue, year unknown. A short newspaper dedicated to fiction, poetry and art by Whistler locals, called a "potpourri of local creativity."
Table of Contents:
1 Almost an editorial by Peter Vogler - a short introduction to the paper and information about print runs
2 Mountain Madness by the Great Brettski- a short article about the first Blackcomb Sextathlon
2 A Eulogy for Hippiedom by Sarah Dobell - a short article about hippie culture in the 1960s
3 The decay of the Whole gives rise to Its parts by Mark Bell - a poem
3 The Rock Poem by Mags - a poem
3 Mary by Stephen Vogler - a short fable
4 Giant Ants in My Apartment by Dean Eyre - a poem
4 In Verse With the Universe by Iole di Carlo - a poem
5-6 Nosing About With Bugsy by Peter Vogler - a travelogue about a roadtrip in Washington State
7 Assorted comics and drawings
8 Living on the Edge by Richard Gagne - a narrative about a backcountry skiing experience on Wedge Mountain

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Photographs of the Whistler Golf Course with Whistler Mountain in the background; an aerial view of the top of Blackcomb Mountain with views of Secret Bowl, Saudan Couloir, and Horstman Glacier; the finish area of the Molson World Cup Downhill on Whistler Mountain; Whistler Village with Blackcomb Mountain in the background; avalanche blasting on a mountain ridge; and views of Alta Lake with Wedge Mountain, Mount Weart, Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains in the background.

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Photographs of mountain views within the Coast Range, snow-covered roads with mountains in the background, a small bridge near the back of Hearthstone Lodge and Tapley's Neighbourhood Pub with Blackcomb Mountain and Fissile Peak in the background, and the sunrise behind Wedge Mountain.

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Photographs of condominiums on the side of Blackcomb Mountain [Benchlands?] with Wizard Express Chair in the foreground and a group of people on the slopes, various views of Whistler Village in the winter during the day and night (buildings and chairlifts include: Pan Pacific Mountainside, Sundial Hotel, Clocktower Building, Executive Inn & Suites, Carleton Lodge, Excalibur Gondola, Chateau Whistler Resort, Le Chamois, and Crystal Lodge), cross-country ski trails in a misty and snowy landscape with a cabin in the background, Whistler Mountain with skiers and Big Red Express, the sunset on Wedge Mountain, views of Wedge Mountain, Mount Weart with the moon overhead, other snowy mountain views that include a frozen lake, a creek in winter, and ski tracks through fresh powder on a back bowl or in the backcountry.

Captions:
001: "Ski in ski out condos Whistler B.C."
002: "Whistler Village In Winter"
003: "Blackcomb Mt. Whistler, B.C."
005: "Whistler Village in winter Whistler, B.C."
006, 007: "X-C Ski Trails Whistler"
008: "Whistler-Winter Chateau Whistler Resort & Base of Blackcomb B.C."
009: "BIG RED EXPRESS"
010, 011: "Whistler Village/Winter Whistler B.C."
012: "Whistler Village in Winter"
013: "SUNSET WEDGE MTN"

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Photographs of Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains with the moon above and Whistler Village below, a snow-covered log cabin, Wedge Mountain and Mount Weart with Alta Lake below, and Whistler Village under construction with the Telemark Place and Tantalus condominiums.

Mammals of the Alta Lake Region of South-western British Columbia booklet

A booklet entitled "Mammals of the Alta Lake Region of South-western British Columbia" by Kenneth Racey and Ian McTaggart Cowan. The booklet is noted to be "reprinted without change of paging from the report of the Provincial Museum, 1935". Contains a description of the Alta Lake region including weather patterns, vegetation and the surrounding mountains. Provides descriptions of 1-2 paragraphs for each of the 42 mammals present in the Alta Lake region. Also includes five plates of black and white photographs of the landscape in the area.
Pictures are titled as following:
-"Looking south from Mount Overlord, Black Tusk at right, Mount Corrie and Cheakamus Glacier in centre."
-"Looking north from shoulder of Mount Overlord, peak of Overlord and Fitzsimmons Glacier at right, Mount Trorey at left - Hudsonian and Arctic Zones.
-"Nita Lake, altitude 2,100 feet - Canadian Zone coniferous forest".
-"Timber-line in Avalanche (Singing) Pass, looking north; Blackcomb Peak in background across Fitzsimmons Valley."
-"Cheakamus Lake and Glacier."
-"Cheakamus Canyon - Canadian Zone forest, western cedar and western hemlock predominating."
-"Devil's-club in Sitka spruce bottom-land - Canadian Zone."
-"Alta Creek and brushy meadow-land at north end of Alta Lake - brush is willow and red alder."
-"Alta Lake from the west, Wedge Mountain at extreme right."
-"Winter nest of Phenacomys olympicus."
-"Alpine meadow habitat of Phenacomys, Synaptomys, and Microtus richardsoni."

Camp at Wedge Mountain - Sept. 9-13th [1923]

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  • September 9-13, [1923]
  • Part of Neal Carter

Photograph taken by Neal Carter of Charles Townsend standing outside a camp site with Wedge Mountain in the background in September, [1923].

Caption: "Our camp from Sept. 9-13th at timberline on ridge leading to Wedge M[oun]t[ain]. Elev[ation] 6500 ft. Wedge M[oun]t[ain] in background."

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Photographs of alpenglow on Blackcomb Mountain, forests and stormy skies, various Whistler Mountain views (including the backcountry, Flute Ridge, Symphony Bowl, Roundhouse Lodge, and Piccolo and Oboe Peaks), various Blackcomb Mountain views (including: 7th Heaven and 7th Heaven Express with Black Tusk in the background), and the sunrise and alpenglow on Wedge Mountain.

Captions:
001, 009: "Alpenglow Diseased Ridge Blackcomb"
002: "Mountain Light Whistler, B.C."
003: "Back country Whistler"
004: "Clearing storm Whistler Mt."
005: "Blackcomb Winter Alpenglow Peak"
006: "Skiers on Flute Ridge Symphony Bowl Whistler Mtn"
007: "Back country Whistler"
008: "Symphony Bowl Whistler"
010, 011, 019: "Winter- Whistler- Ski Symphony Bowl Whistler"
013: "Roundhouse Lodge Whistler Mtn"
014: "Symphony Bowl w. Piccolo Flute & Oboe Peaks Whistler Mt."
015: "7th Heaven Express and Black Tusk"
016: "Sunrise on Wedge Mt. Whistler B.C."
017: "Whistler, B.C. Alpenglow Wedge/Armchair"
018: "Clearing storm Whistler"
020: "Out of bounds Whistler, B.C."

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