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What started as a single Olympic dream in 1966 has evolved into the largest ski resort in North America, with a slew of accomplishments to back it up.
Finally, on January 15, 1966 Whistler Mountain officially opened for skiing, and a new era in Canadian skiing began. Franz Wilhelmsen points to his new ski resort, winter 1966. GODA made a total of four separate bids for the Winter Olympics.
With the advent of the ski resort in the late 1960s, the name was changed to "Whistler" to represent the whistling calls of the marmots, which are also known as "whistlers", that live in the alpine areas of the mountain.
- Whistler Blackcomb was originally established to be a host of the Winter Olympics. In 1960, the Canadian Olympic Association visited British Columbia looking for potential sites for the 1986 Winter Olympics.
- Whistler Mountain once had another name. Around the same time that GLC broke ground, they decided they didn’t like the name of the mountain, which was London Mountain in 1965.
- A large addition to Highway 99, aka the Sea to Sky Highway, was specifically built for access to Whistler. Beginning in 1964, GLC funded and extended the single-lane gravel hydro service road—which was the only way to access Whistler at the time— into a two-lane road from Squamish to Whistler.
- Roundhouse Lodge dates back to Whistler Blackcomb’s early days. The Roundhouse Lodge, atop the Whistler Village Gondola, has been around almost as long as skiers have been schussing on Whistler Mountain.
Before becoming a ski area and Host Mountain Resort for the 2010 Olympic and Paralympic Winter Games, this was a place that drew visitors from far and wide. First Nations History. Modern History.
Oct 28, 2015 · Meanwhile, they officially opened Whistler to the public in February 1966 with a silver four-man gondola, one double chair, two T-Bars, a day lodge and the most vertical drop in a North American ski resort. But back then they didn’t have sophisticated grooming machines and the moguls were big.
In 1962, some businessmen presented Whistler’s bid to host the 1968 Winter Olympics with the aim of creating a ski slope in Whistler. This bid was unsuccessful, and it was not until 1966 that Whistler officially became a tourist destination for skiing.
