JACK CHRISTIE
THE Expanded & Updated
WHISTLER
BOOK
AN ALL-SEASON OUTDOOR GUIDE
Copyright © 2009 by Jack Christie
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Library and Archives Canada Cataloguing in Publication Christie, Jack, 1946 – The Whistler book : an all-season outdoor guide / Jack Christie. —Rev. and updated ed.
ISBN-print: 978-1-55365-4 47-6
ISBN-ebook: 978-1-926812-34-2
1. Whistler Mountain Region (B.C.)—Guidebooks. 2. Outdoor recreation—
British Columbia—Whistler Mountain Region—Guidebooks. I. Title.
FC3845.W49C56 2009 917.11’31045 C2009-903763-7
Editing by Naomi Pauls and Derek Fairbridge
Cover and text design by Peter Cocking and Naomi MacDougall
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We gratefully acknowledge the financial support of the Canada Council for the Arts, the British
Columbia Arts Council, the Province of British Columbia through the Book Publishing Tax
Credit, and the Government of Canada through the Book Publishing Industry Development
Program (BPIDP) for our publishing activities.
For Louise For Derrick and Dixon Thompson For Randy Stoltmann and John Clarke (Xwexwselken)
Contents
3 Squamish and Paradise Valleys
6 Cat Lake and Brohm Lake Interpretive Forest
WHISTLER
7 Black Tusk and Garibaldi Lake
8 Brandywine Falls Provincial Park
9 Callaghan Valley
10 Cheakamus River and the Whistler Interpretive Forest
11 Cheakamus Lake
12 Whistler Mountain
13 Valley Trail
14 River of Golden Dreams
15 Blackcomb
16 Rainbow Mountain
17 Singing Pass
18 Whistler Bike Routes
19 Cougar Mountain and Ancient Cedars Grove
20 Wedgemount Lake
PEMBERTON
21 Whistler to Pemberton
22 Nairn Falls Provincial Park
23 Pemberton and Area
24 Pemberton Bike Routes
25 Lillooet Headwaters
26 Mount Currie to D’Arcy
27 Birkenhead Lake Park
28 Barkley Valley
29 In-SHUCK-ch Forest Service Road
30 Duffey Lake Road
31 Lillooet and Beyond
LIST OF MA PS
