Tag: Willy Schaeffler

Environment & Biodiversity
Mountain Culture

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

October 26, 2013 Whistler 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 […][...]

Environment & Biodiversity
Olympics
Ski-Town Stories

A Clean SlateA Clean Slate

September 28, 2013 Whistler Museum 0 Comments

Every autumn the mountains are born-again, baptised by a blanket of frozen water whose crystalline forms are revered for their meteorological, rather than priestly blessings. But imagine, for a moment, what it must have been like to encounter these mountains for the first time, before our impressions had been shaped by chairlifts, lift-lines, and Instagram… That’s […][...]