Skating and hockey have been popular winter sports in the Whistler area for over a century, especially when weather conditions make for less than optimal skiing. The Woods and Jardine-Neiland children played hockey with shovels on Alta Lake ins the 1920s and 30s while in the 1960s the Alta Lake Community Club reported on Friday […][...]
When Whistler Mountain opened for skiing during the winter of 1965/66, it had four lifts (one gondola, one chairlift, and two T-bars), all supplied by GMD Mueller of Switzerland. The company of Gerhard Mueller also won the contract to install the gondola and chairlift and two of his employees arrived in the area in the […][...]
Today Whistler Blackcomb has a fleet of 30 snow cats grooming the resort each night. This is a far cry from the limited grooming that occurred when Whistler Mountain opened in 1966. Those lucky enough to have skied on Whistler Mountain in the 1960s may remember moguls the size of Volkswagens and ski runs covered […][...]
As we have recently learnt at the Whistler Museum, maintenance problems can pop up at the most inconvenient times and create quite the disruption. The same was true when a truck came down on power lines in Whistler one New Year’s Eve. Disposing of human waste was an ongoing challenge for residents of Alta Lake […][...]