An opening package from the opening of Whistler Express gondola in 1988. The package contains a large black and white photographic print of the gondola, a news release, statistics, a list of consultants, a historical summary, and a real estate plan, summary of the Whistler Mountain Ski Corporation, a pamphlet, a menu, and two stickers.

Documents collected by Sonya McCarthy from Whistler Blackcomb, including: the Whistler Express Gondola opening package; programs and rates for the mountains; events; pamphlets; a gondola area map; a Whistler Mountain Development Plan package; and information on summer hiking, ski schools, and 7th Heaven.

Photographs of people standing outside the Roundhouse, a poster of Rob Boyd for Dave Murray's Molson Masters Camps 1986/87, an advertisement to get a season's pass, skiers gearing up, an advertisement for the Canadian Amateur Ski Association, the original Whistler Gondola, ski run construction (felled logs), an advertisement for Whistler Mountain as 'The Big Old Softie', a road-side sign announcing the construction of the Whistler Mountain resort, a child skiing, and Village Square packed with spectators for the medal ceremony of the Molson World Cup Downhill.

Photographs of the Whistler area taken by local photographer Rick Flebbe.

001: Lower Joffre Lake
002: Bridge of Sighs, Rainbow Park
003: Rafting on Green River
004: Whistler Resort and Rainbow Mountain
005: Blueberry Hill and Rainbow Mountain
006: Lost Lake Cross Country Skiing
007: Beverly Lake and Rainbow Mountain
008: Whistler Express Gondola on Whistler Mountain
009: Rainbow Park
010: Whistler Resort and Rainbow Mountain
011: Meadow Park
012: Ridge Walk on Blackcomb Peak
013: Alpine Meadows
014: Cheakamus Glacier from Blackcomb Mountain

• All the titles come from the plaques that the photographs were displayed with at the Crystal, except for the ones with asterisks, which are missing their plaques. The plaques are stored with the photographs.

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.

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.

Photographs of Whistler Express Gondola in summer with Whistler Village below, and the newly renovated Roundhouse Lodge in summer on Whistler Mountain with Emerald Express.

Photographs of the dock at Lost Lake with Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains in the background, Whistler Express Gondola with Whistler Peak in the background, and Whistler Express Gondola in summer with Whistler Village below.

Photographs of aerials of Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains with Whistler Village and Alta Lake below, a dock at Lost Lake with Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains behind, Chateau Whistler Resort as seen through the trees from Whistler Mountain, Whistler Village in summer and winter with Blackcomb Mountain in the background, Whistler Express Gondola with Whistler Village below, a group of skiers on Whistler Mountain, windsurfers in Howe Sound near Squamish, Whistler Express Gondola with Whistler Peak behind, Brett Carlson and Damian Cromwell skiing Whistler Peak, skiers on Symphony Bowl, Whistler Village in summer near Skier's Plaza, Carleton Lodge, Delta Mountain Inn/Hilton Whistler Resort, and a mountain biker in the Whistler Mountain Bike Park below Fitzsimmons Express Chair with Carleton Lodge and Skier's Plaza in the background.

Captions:
003: "Lost Lake Whistler B.C. Canada"
004: "Whistler Village w Alta Lk & Blackcomb/Whistler Mtns"
005: "Chateau Whistler Resort Summer"
006-008: "Whistler Village & Blackcomb Mtn. B.C. in summer"
009: "Aerial Blackcomb & Whistler Village B.C. Canada"
010, 011: "Gondola & Whistler Village Whistler B.C. Canada"
012: "SKI FASHIONS - WHISTLER BLACKCOMB 1979 IN BG"
013: "Windsurfing Squamish B.C."
014: "Gondola & Whistler Peak Whistler B.C. Canada"
015: "The Peak Whistler Mtn Skier:Brett Carlson"
016: "The Peak Whistler Mtn Skier:Damian Cromwell"
017: "Skiers on Flute Ridge Symphony Bowl Whistler Mtn"
018: "Summer:Whistler Whistler Village"
019: "Summer:Whistler Whistler Express Gondola & Whistler Village"
020: "Summer:Whistler Whistler Village"

Photographs of the renovated Roundhouse Lodge in summer with Emerald Express Chair, Whistler Express Gondola on Whistler Mountain with Whistler Village below, and Skier's Plaza in summer with Carleton Lodge, Sundial Hotel, and Delta Mountain Inn/Hilton Whistler Resort.