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Whistler Mountain ski patrol manual from the 1982/1983 winter season.

Table of contents:

• Introduction
• Ski Patrol Skill Levels
• First Aid Supplies
• Ski Patrol Dispatch
• Patrol Guest
• Alpine Office
• Communications Procedures - Alpine Office Secretary
• Toboggans
• Accident Reporting
• Accident Photography
• Weather Recording & Reporting
• Avalanche Hazard Forecasting
• Avalanche Control:
• Ski Cutting
• Explosives Safety
• Use of Handcharges
• Use of Avalauncher
• Cornice Control Procedures
• Helicopter Bombing
• Avalanche Rescue:
• Avalanche Search Plan
• Search By Electronic Transceiver
• Avalanche Rescue Dogs
• Lift Evacuation - Plan & Methods
• Gondola Evacuation
• Self Evacuation
• Snowmobile Operation
• Speed Control
• Sign Line Violators
• Race Patrol
• Public and Staff Relations
• Sweep Procedures
• Missing Persons - Night Search

Whistler Mountain News newsletter given out to guests and passholders in Spring 1992. Articles include:

• Avalanche dog team awarded top level
• Why Little Red had to go
• New faces
• Snowboarder's Responsibility Code
• Growing pains
• Peak Performers
• Ultimate guest service
• Racers travel to Olympics and Italy
• The Racer's Code of Etiquette
• The front lines
• Of grandmothers, dogs, gates and Cates
• Special Events on Whistler Mountain
• Bumps, boards, gates, powder, and more

Whistler Mountain News newsletter given out to guests and pass holders in Spring 1991. Articles include:

• Will the Peak Chair open today?
• 25th Anniversary Celebrations continue
• "In Style" by Gary Athans
• The Green Chair
• Ski Scamps Special Events
• The Half Pipe

Photographs of [Noble house on Alta Lake?], Wedge Mountain, Tokum Corners, Chris Stethem setting avalanche charges for cornice control.

Whistler-themed colouring book created by the Whistler Museum and Archives using traced photographs from the archives featuring prominent Whistler figures and scenes. The book was sold at the Whistler Museum's gift shop and other locations in Whistler Village.

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.

Photographs of cross-country skiing (including a couple dressed in red attire), drawn charts/graphs, helicopters and bombs exploding on mountains (for avalanche control).

Photographs of architecture, helicopters, and bombing (for avalanche control).

Photographs of a woman at the start of a ski race on Whistler Mountain (Stephanie Sloan's Women Only Program on Whistler Mountain), a line of children skiing through a course, a view of explosions on a mountain for avalanche control, various views of mountain peaks, Horstman T-Bar on Blackcomb Mountain, and views of Black Tusk as seen from Whistler Mountain.

Captions:
001: "Winter/Whistler Stephanie Sloan's Women Only Program at Whistler, B.C."
014: "Blackcomb Mtn. Horstman Glacier"
019: "Winter/Whistler Whistler Mountain at Sunset"

Photographs of a group of people and one woman cross-country skiing, shots of people doing avalanche control including photos inside a helicopter and bombs within the frame, and children racing on Whistler Mountain [possibly a ski camp] where the ski poles have balloons on the top.