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Whistler Peak Ski camps
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1974-2007

Photographs of skiing, hiking, mountain views, chairlifts, Whistler Village, powder skiing on Whistler Mountain and Blackcomb Mountain, Slush Cup, snowboarding, Whistler Village and chairlift construction, pubs, windsurfing, aerial photography, Creekside, Franz's Run, gondolas, cat-skiing on Blackcomb Mountain the year prior to its opening, backcountry skiing, apres ski, kids ski camps, avalanche control, golf, heli-skiing, and Upper Village.

1990-2000

Photographs of snowboarding, freestyle snowboarding, terrain parks, halfpipes, the Blackcomb Windlip, Blackcomb Glacier, snowboard cross, snowboard slalom on Blackcomb Mountain, Ski Scamps, the inukshuks on Whistler Mountain, Whistler Express Gondola, Sun Bowl, Roundhouse Lodge, Wedge Mountain, floatplanes flying, Excalibur Gondola, Ziggy's Bowl, Birkenhead Peak, Ridge Run Chateau Whistler Resort and Upper Village, Whistler Air, Whistler Peak, the Disabled Skier Championships, adaptive skiing, skiing, freestyle and steep skiing, Emerald Express Chair, Symphony Bowl, Harmony Bowl, and mono-skiing.

Prints 090-112

Photographs given to Janet Love Morrison by Intrawest.

Photographs of Franz Wilhelmsen skiing with Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau, a Garibaldi Lifts Ltd. Summer Camp ski pass, Whistler Village in the midst of construction from Whistler Mountain, a ski school group photo with children posing with Willie Whistler, Garibaldi Olympic Development Association (GODA) notice of annual general meeting form 1966, Garibaldi Lifts Ltd. Subscription Agreement, a letter from Franz Wilhelmsen to Florence Strachan notifying the sending of the Garibaldi Lifts Ltd. Subscription Agreement, a flyer about Jim McConkey and Bob Dufour's Garibaldi Ski School, a group of children in ski school with their instructor, a baby on skis, a group photo of Yosemite Ski School from Winter 1948 (including, from left to right, Bob Berelsford, Ross Moore, Norm Palmer, Jim McConkey, Chuck Freshwater, Nic Fiore, Tony Freitas, Bill Cahow, and Luggi Foeger), Alta Lake train station on the PGE, Myrtle Philip in her elder years walking with Gary Watson, a sign on Whistler Mountain listing the town services in the 1970s [post-it reading "For Sure"], Roundhouse, Eric Beardmore and the Woodward family skiing Whistler Mountain, Jim McConkey skiing Whistler Mountain, the front cover of the September/October 1963 issue of Skier Magazine showing Willy Schaeffler and Franz Wilhelmsen inspecting the mountain, skiers posing, Whistler T-bar, skiers from Garibaldi Ski School posing for a portrait, children posing with their instructor, and a woman from Ski Patrol.

Prints 113-127

Photographs of newspaper articles on the development of early Whistler Mountain, hotdoggers (including Wayne Wong) posing, children skiing, a large group photo of ski instructors, Gerry Rinaldi ski racing down Whistler Mountain, a Toni Sailer summer ski camp flyer, an annual ski pass for Garibaldi Lifts Ltd. for Dr. Fred Harder for 1966/67, an annual ski pass for Garibaldi Lifts Ltd. for Gordon Harder for 1966/67, the first guests to sign in at the Chateau Whistler Resort, skiers outside Roundhouse, skiers relaxing while looking at Whistler's Peak, people sitting in lawn chairs outside Roundhouse, Jim McConkey skiing off a snowy cornice on Whistler Mountain in The Vancouver Sun, 1971, and two skiers in powder.

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Photographs of Antonin Lieutaghi snowboarding Ziggy's Bowl, Wade Sutton skiing Sun Bowl and Symphony Bowl, Olivier Roy snowboarding Blackcomb Mountain, Jacques Morel skiing Whistler Mountain, Heather Roberts skiing Whistler Peak, Joel Lammers and Kelsey Nash skiing Ziggy's Bowl, Ski Scamps on Whistler Mountain, children skiing, cross-country skiing, groups of skiers outside of Roundhouse facing Whistler Peak, and the Inukshuk near Roundhouse with the Whistler Express Gondola in the background.