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The Dave Murray Downhill is named after Dave Murray, one of the original “Crazy Canucks,” and one of the most popular ski personalities Canada has ever produced. After retiring from the Canadian Ski Team in 1982, he joined Whistler Mountain as Director of Skiing and created a series of events and programs targeting mature skiers.
In 1992 Snow Country Magazine, one of North America’s most prominent ski magazines, voted Whistler Resort the Number One Ski Resort in North America, the first of many accolades to come. In 1998 Whistler and Blackcomb Mountains merged under the direction of a company called Intrawest, a move many saw as inevitable.
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- 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.
Apr 4, 2015 · The new area opened up, including four powder bowls, wide open glacier skiing, and it also provided visitors with a vertical mile (1,609 meters’/5,280 feet) of skiing. A year later, Whistler Mountain responded with a high alpine triple Chair lift called Peak Chair, opening Whistler’s highest peak (1,530 meters’ (5,020 feet).
Whistler, often referred to as Whistler Blackcomb, is a town located in the mountains of the British Coast. Formerly, in 1932 its famous ski mountain was called London Mountain due to a British mining operation located in this area. Years later, in 1965, it was renamed Whistler. The current town of the same name, before the 70’s, received the ...
Mar 6, 2017 · Here is a brief glimpse at the resort’s history: from its beginning as London Mountain to its Winter Olympic debut. Whistler’s beginning starts in the 1860s when British Naval Officers came to the area and called the main peak London Mountain. Whistler then became the most popular summer destination west of the Canadian Rockies in the 1920s ...
Building a world-class resort. By the mid-1970s, local visionaries, dreaming of the Olympics, began plans for a world-class summer and winter resort. The Resort Municipality of Whistler (RMOW) was incorporated on September 6, 1975. At the time of incorporation, fewer than 1,000 people lived in Whistler.
