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		<title>Neal Carter Climbing Album</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:05:55 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Among the tens of thousands of historical photos that the Whistler Museum holds in our archives, I think Neal Carters’ are my favourites. Carter was one of the most prolific mountaineers on the BC Coast during the 1920s and 1930s, gaining several first ascents. He also managed to turn his climbing hobby into a career, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mountainnerd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11534131&amp;post=1095&amp;subd=mountainnerd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Deep Summer slideshow</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 21:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffslack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new job at the Whistler Museum has given me the opportunity to work on a bunch of interesting projects. For one, I&#8217;ve been contributing weekly content to  the new site Whistler Is Awesome (part of a network of &#8220;_____ Is Awesome&#8221; sites).  This week&#8217;s post is the second half of a profile I wrote about pioneer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mountainnerd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11534131&amp;post=1081&amp;subd=mountainnerd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Mining Whistler’s Past</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 09 Jul 2011 02:00:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is a re-post that I originally wrote for the Whistler Museum blog. *** Whistler draws people from around the world for any number of reasons: skiing, biking, wildlife viewing, night clubs, fine dining, mining… wait, mining? Although a largely forgotten aspect of our region’s past, the (mostly unfulfilled) promise of underground riches was one [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mountainnerd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11534131&amp;post=1058&amp;subd=mountainnerd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Garibaldi Park: &#8220;Vancouver&#8217;s Alpine Playground&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://mountainnerd.wordpress.com/2011/05/13/garibaldi-park-vancouvers-alpine-playground/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 13 May 2011 03:50:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffslack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m deep in the final stages of thesis writing here, so I&#8217;ve got a bit of a &#8220;lazy&#8221; post this month. Last weekend I attended the bi-annual BC Studies Conference in Kelowna. This year there was a good deal of environmental and recreational history- themed presentations, including papers on the fertile ground between these two fields [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mountainnerd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11534131&amp;post=1034&amp;subd=mountainnerd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Not So Humble Roots</title>
		<link>http://mountainnerd.wordpress.com/2011/04/11/not-so-humble-roots/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Apr 2011 23:03:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffslack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Growing up on a farm south of Winnipeg, I dreamt of British Columbia. Totem poles and snow-capped mountains symbolized the west coast province. I fell in love sight unseen with the west beyond the west. In these opening lines of her best-selling history of British Columbia, The West Beyond the West, Jean Barman, nicely summed up the romantic [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mountainnerd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11534131&amp;post=386&amp;subd=mountainnerd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Retro Natural History Artwork</title>
		<link>http://mountainnerd.wordpress.com/2011/03/25/retro-natural-history-artwork/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:39:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffslack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[As a child I spent countless hours browsing through the world atlas and set of natural history encyclopedias that sat on my mother&#8217;s cluttered bookshelf. Nowadays websites like Wikipedia do an admirable job satisfying (and fuelling) this sort of wandering curiousity, and Google Earth is a pretty amazing update on the old-fashioned globe, but computer [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mountainnerd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11534131&amp;post=905&amp;subd=mountainnerd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Whistler &amp; Region Repeat Photography Project</title>
		<link>http://mountainnerd.wordpress.com/2010/12/29/whistler-region-repeat-photography-project/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 29 Dec 2010 08:16:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffslack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[If a picture is worth a thousand words, then a lot can be said about as picturesque a place as Whistler. Thanks to the efforts of a century’s worth of residents and visitors, a rich photographic heritage exists documenting the landscape surrounding what is today Whistler, British Columbia. While pioneers such as the Alex &#38; [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mountainnerd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11534131&amp;post=743&amp;subd=mountainnerd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Spearhead Huts</title>
		<link>http://mountainnerd.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/spearhead-huts/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Dec 2010 02:55:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffslack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Like most backcountry skiers, nights spent in ski huts are among my most cherished mountain memories. Sleeping in a snow cave might put hair on your chest, but after a long day in the mountains, the basic comforts provided by a mountain hut can seem like the Ritz-Carleton penthouse. Uniquely social places in the midst of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mountainnerd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11534131&amp;post=701&amp;subd=mountainnerd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>A Couple of Magazines Worth Checking Out&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://mountainnerd.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/a-couple-of-magazines-worth-checking-out/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Nov 2010 01:53:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffslack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ski season is here! To celebrate opening day here in Whistler, I&#8217;ve got some more big mountain ski content for you. If you were interested by my recent post about the confluence of freeriding, extreme skiing, and ski-mountaineering, then there is plenty of stuff to check out in the latest round of ski and snowboard [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mountainnerd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11534131&amp;post=681&amp;subd=mountainnerd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Alpinists: First Nations in the Coast Mountain Past</title>
		<link>http://mountainnerd.wordpress.com/2010/11/06/ancient-alpinists-first-nations-in-the-coast-mountain-past/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 06 Nov 2010 05:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>jeffslack</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This article was published in the latest issue of Mountain Life Magazine (Fall/Winter 2010). Pick up a free copy if you are in the Vancouver/Sea-to-Sky region, or view it online here (page 88-89). Sure, old-growth forests are nice and the ocean’s pretty cool, but the alpine is where it’s at. There’s nothing like standing amidst jagged [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mountainnerd.wordpress.com&amp;blog=11534131&amp;post=503&amp;subd=mountainnerd&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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