British Columbia
Whistler
A mountain bike trail map of Whistler, British Columbia, combining the trail network with the surrounding topography.
A-Line is younger than B-Line: B came first, named for the detonating cord used to blast a stump off the trail.
$63
Ink & paper: Black
Size: 12×18"
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- 12 × 18 inches
- Drawn on 98 lb (160 gsm) archival cotton paper
- Precision technical pens and archival inks
- Signed and dated on the back
- Ships flat, protected, ready to frame
Each map begins with elevation data and is drawn by a pen plotter in our Vermont studio. Mechanical precision, plus the texture and small imperfections of real ink on paper.
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+ About this map
Lift-served mountain biking was invented by a disillusioned breakfast server. Eric Wight opened the Whistler Backroads bike shop in 1982, first proposed running the chairlifts for bikes in 1985, and spent eight years persuading Whistler Mountain to agree, which it finally did in 1993. He ran the fledgling operation until 1998, when Intrawest, the mountain’s new owner, declined to renew his contract, and his company moved on to guided canoe and kayak tours. The park he started above Whistler Village is now the biggest lift-accessed network in the world, with 143 trails and 62.3 miles of singletrack.
The map traces every run down the contours of Whistler Mountain. The contour lines stack relentlessly, thousands of feet of lift-served vertical, and the trails carve across them in long, switchbacking descents that funnel back to the village at the bottom. You can pick out the classics by shape alone: the straight, committed fall lines and the wide, sweeping berms of the jump trails, all draining toward the same lift line.
+ Map details
- Whistler
- British Columbia
- Canada
- Pacific Northwest
- 7,153 ft / 2,180 m
- 50.0839N 122.9672W
- Mountain bike trail map
- Original pen plot, archival ink on cotton paper
- 8 × 12 in · 12 × 18 in · 18 × 24 in
- 143 trails, 62.3 miles of singletrack
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