Tag: Skiing

Filming Mountains: Celebrating Whistler’s Rich Ski & Snowboard Filmmaking HeritageFilming Mountains: Celebrating Whistler’s Rich Ski & Snowboard Filmmaking Heritage

November 5, 2013 Whistler MuseumWhistler Museum 0 Comments

Home to legendary terrain, prodigious snowpacks, and a uniquely creative and motivated collection of mountain-folk, Whistler has been a global epicentre for ski and snowboard filmmaking for close to three decades. The sheer amount of snow-riding bliss and wizardry that has been captured on film in our mountains and purveyed around the globe has played […][...]

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A Clean Slate, part 2A Clean Slate, part 2

October 26, 2013 Whistler MuseumWhistler Museum 0 Comments

Following up on our post from a few weeks ago, where we looked at Whistler Mountain as A Clean Slate, with the photos from Franz Wilhelmsen & Willy Schaeffler’s initial inspections from 1962, today we will look a little deeper into their first impressions of the undeveloped mountain . Schaeffler’s report following their July 1962 survey […][...]

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Diamond JimDiamond Jim

September 7, 2013 Whistler MuseumWhistler Museum 4 Comments

While writing last week’s post about Okanagan Helicopters, we realized that we hadn’t posted anything about “Diamond Jim” McConkey yet. We couldn’t let that injustice continue, so, here you go. Jim McConkey was the ski school star of early Whistler Mountain. With a magnetic personality and his shock of white hair — “Diamond Jim” is […][...]

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Celebrating Tyrol Lodge’s 50th

Celebrating Tyrol Lodge’s 50thCelebrating Tyrol Lodge’s 50th

August 1, 2013 Whistler MuseumWhistler Museum 0 Comments

Travelling along Whistler’s westside, properly known as the Alta Lake Road, is a bit like travelling back in time. The arrival of downhill skiing in the 1960s caused the pace of life in our valley to shift gears completely. While gondolas and condos, followed by full neighbourhoods and villages grew around the flanks of Whistler […][...]

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