Somehow, we’ve only got one more week of This Week In Photos left after this one. Though the year seems to have passed alarmingly quickly, we’ve really enjoyed sharing photos from The Whistler Question with you each week. Be sure to take a look through past weeks – you never know if there’s something (or […][...]
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With the world watching, the mountain began to fall apart. It was early March 1979, and heavy rains had turned a mid-winter snowpack already beset by persistent depth hoar into a sodden mess. The avalanche hazard went through the roof. This was a mountain manager’s nightmare, but as they say, “through adversity comes greatness.” Patrol began doing […][...]
Whistler Film Festival and Whistler Museum are excited to present a screening of Pro Patrol followed by a talk by Roger McCarthy about the early days of ski patrol. The event is on December 7th from 4pm to 6pm at Whistler Museum. Pro Patrol is a 1980 film that was the first of director Curtis Petersen’s career. […][...]