In the weekly Museum Musings column in Pique Newsmagazine, we mostly explore and share stories of the past. Rarely, however, do we go back thousands or millions of years as is required when talking about the geological history of our region. In celebration of the Sea to Sky Fire and Ice Aspiring GeoRegion, the Museum […][...]
In the past we’ve covered the building of various backcountry huts situated around Whistler, beginning in the 1960s. Gothic arch huts have a place in much more recent history as well, as the Watersprite Lake Hut proves. After the completion of the North Creek Hut in the fall of 1986, the British Columbia Mountaineering Club […][...]
Over the past year the Whistler Museum and Archives Society, with the support of Virtual Museum of Canada, has been working on the release of a new online exhibit entitled: Coast Mountain Gothic. Gothic arch huts are modest yet iconic structures that played a major role in the exploration of the Coast Mountains of British […][...]
Today we’ll be continuing the story started a few weeks back on the gothic arch huts built by the UBC-VOC. The tale began with the Brew Hut, built with the $30,000 the VOC got as compensation for the materials used to build the Whistler Club Cabin. After using one of two pre-fabricated huts for the […][...]