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Garibaldi [1]

Photographs of Garibaldi Park including, but not limited to, mountaineering and skiing.

Each transparency has the code "GZ" with a respective number.

Lynn Peak, Garibaldi Lake, Black Tusk, and the Barrier - 1990-1991

Video material taken by Robert Clark Kline of mountaineering trips, including Lynn Peak (16 mins.), Garibaldi Lake on February 28, 1990 (23 mins.), Black Tusk on March 27-28, 1990 (30 mins., 20 sec.), and the Barrier on June 14, 1990 (11 mins.), on June 5, 1991 (18 mins., 40 sec.), and on July 23, 1991 (10 mins.). The videocassette label has notes stating these descriptions written by Robert Clark Kline.

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.

Garibaldi Park

Photographs of Garibaldi Park that include mountains, Black Tusk, climbers, Garibaldi peak, and a crevasse.

FEN_02_07_001_01 labelled "# BGZ 55" and has Fenner's address stamped: "1010 Keith Road West Vancouver, B.C.".
Caption on FEN_02_07_001_02: "[Mary] II | Oliver | Mary N. | Harris | A crevasse | Garibaldi Peak in background. Sept/51"

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"

The Black Tusk - Garibaldi Park, B. C. Postcard

Postcard depicting a mountaineering party gazing upon Black Tusk in Garibaldi Provincial Park, [possibly in the 1920s]. In red lettering at the top, "The Black Tusk" and "Garibaldi Park B. C." are written. Verso also shows red lettering reading "Garibaldi National Park Series - Timms. Vancouver Canada". In pencil, ""The Grousers" c/o 1223 Fifth Ave, New Westminster, BC" is written, as well as "Sat[urday] me thinks" and "Dear fellas:". The postcard has no stamp. The photograph was taken by Philip Timms, of Vancouver.

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.

Black Tusk

Photograph of man standing beside Black Tusk peak. Photographer's shadow cast on ground. Glass slide framed with blue tape.

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