Winters at Alta Lake were a quiet season for the small community without the crowds of summer visitors. Whistler Mountain did not open for skiing until 1966 and until then downhill skiing in the valley was uncommon. Instead winter sports centred on and around Alta Lake. In addition to cross-country skiing, snowshoeing and sleigh rides, […][...]
Over the decades Whistler has been home to clubs and teams for pretty much any sport you can name – skiing, swimming, squash, soccer, hockey, field hockey, baseball, tennis, rugby – you name it and someone in Whistler has likely played it. Ice stock sliding, a sport more commonly associated with European countries such as […][...]
Usually, if there is a hard winter, you can expect a baby boom by next spring. That is also true for the Whistler winter of 1976/77 which was arguably the worst season since Whistler Mountain began ski operations. November 1976 was dry with a cold north wind blowing in late November and into December. Those conditions […][...]