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Looks like someone with an interest in Powder Mountain Resort Ltd. has been editing the history section for their own benefit... — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.19.178.99 (talk) 20:30, 1 April 2013 (UTC)
I'm quite confused by the Powder Mountain resort stuff. Can we please get some sources on some of this info? From my knowledge there was an attempted development in the 70's. They started logging for the resort. Then the guy split town without paying any of the loggers, causing an even bigger rivalry between Whistler and Squamish as the Squamish loggers had bad vibes for ski resorts in general. Many of the cut lines for the planned resort roads go through the sections with major old growth cedar. It seems like the whole resort was a plan to get some nice cedar for cheap. I had no knowledge of these other complications. So it would also be great to get sources on this info.
The mid valley was made into a provincial park in the early 80's i believe. http://www.env.gov.bc.ca/bcparks/explore/parkpgs/callaghan_lk/ — Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.3.208.234 (talk) 08:04, 8 May 2013 (UTC)
This article needs to be split between Whistler Olympic Park, which redirects here, and the purely geographic article by this title that it should be. The Callaghan Valley has a history and geography independent of its existence as the site of an Olympics venue. The brochure/p.r. agency-like quality of this page isn't as bad as 2010 Winter Olympics but it betrays the same traits. I'll be back with material on the aborted Powder Mountain Resort and mines in the area, etc.....Skookum1 (talk) 03:08, 15 August 2008 (UTC)
[undent]Made the split, now it's the Olympic Park that's more of a stub than this one, as I myself knew would be the case as I knew how much there was about Callaghan Valley independent of its status as the loation of an Olympics venue. Whistler Olympic Village I linked in the split-off article and it eveidently needs an article, or maybe there's already one under another title that could be redirect to.....Skookum1 (talk) 17:15, 26 August 2008 (UTC)
In the near future I would like to add more info on some sections of the history of the valley. Including North Aire (sp) mines, as well as Mad River mountain lodge which started around 1984 and still opperates today in the northern section of the valley around conflict lake under the name Callaghan Country (www.callaghancountry.com) There was also a plane crash in the upper valley circa 1950´s of a world war 2 bomber, where I believe 2 pilots died, and there is a memorial at Alexander falls for the fallen men. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 190.139.60.218 (talk) 14:04, 27 February 2012 (UTC)
Tried looking up geology for Alexander Falls, which I suspect is formed by a lava ledge, been years since I was there though....and found this pdf from consultants reporting on site feasbility/geology/climate etc for the Olympics; it has geological and geographical information that could be incorporated here, as well as details on teh site of the Olympic Whistler Park, haven't read it yet, though did find that the geology section confirmed my suspicion that the Brandywine Lava Plateau is the same lava flow as found in the bottom of Callaghan Valley; doesn't say how old it is, though; guess it's from Callaghan or one of its vents anyway....so this is a volcanic feature, and I'll add the WP.Skookum1 (talk) 20:21, 19 August 2008 (UTC)