Tag: Blackcomb Skiing Enterprises

Museum Musings
Ski-Town Stories

Reaching 7th HeavenReaching 7th Heaven

October 26, 2021 Whistler Museum 0 Comments

When Blackcomb Mountain opened for skiing in 1980, it had four triple lifts and one two-person chair that carried eager skiers up to the top of today’s Catskinner lift. In 1982, the Jersey Cream Chair expanded the lift-accessed terrain available on Blackcomb, but the mountain still needed something more to compete with Whistler Mountain. They […][...]

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Ski-Town Stories

Blackcomb’s DIY WiringBlackcomb’s DIY Wiring

October 20, 2020 Whistler Museum 0 Comments

Today we take the ability to receive or make a call for granted, but for those preparing to open Blackcomb Mountain in 1980 it would not have been as easy as picking up the phone. It appears that months before the mountain was set to begin operations their phone system was already under quite a […][...]