Tag: Fitzsimmons Creek

Kayakers as Glacier GaugersKayakers as Glacier Gaugers

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Featured Image: Lyall Featherstonehaugh paddles the Cheakamus River on May 11, 1980, during a demonstration organized for the Whistler Chamber of Commerce to showcase kayaking opportunities in the Whistler area as part of their May Day celebrations. Whistler Question Collection. Longtime Whistler kayaker Shawn ‘Puddles’ Hughes left me with an interesting concept: he said he […][...]

A Wet End to August, 1991A Wet End to August, 1991

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Recently, we were tasked with finding more information about a flood that washed out and damaged several bridges over Fitzsimmons Creek in the 1990s.  As it turned out, the flooding had happened exactly 28 years before we looked into it, with the bulk of information found in the September 5, 1991 edition of The Whistler Question. […][...]