Skiing History Magazine
The May-June issue of Skiing History will hit the mail around May 13 (a Friday, of course)., but will be posted online about a week ahead of that.
Look for these articles:
-Skiing Schruns and the Montafon Valley: The old smuggling route between Austria and Switzerland where refugees escaped during World War II.
-Marco Tonazzi, the Vail-based entrepreneur recalls his days on the Italian ski team and adventures with Thoeni, Tomba and Gros.
-Lifts that went nowhere: Gone are the weird experimental ski lifts that didn’t pan out.
-Willy Schaeffler, rebel at heart.
-Warhol in Aspen.
-The man who designed the medals: artist Helmut Zobl.
-Swann poster auction results.
-Report on Skiing History Week in Sun Valley.
-Fritz Wiessner, world-class climber and ski wax alchemist.
To read the new issue online and get the print magazine, visit skiinghistory.org/join.
Test Your Skiing Knowledge
Each issue of SeniorsSkiing.com has a picture to help test your skiing knowledge. Generally, the pictures are from collections in a variety of participating ski museums, which we encourage readers to visit.
Last issue’s challenge was to identify the woman in this picture. She is the only female skier to win three Olympic golds in alpine in a single Olympics (2002). Roger Evans was the first reader to name Janica Kostelic of Croatia. She also is the first woman to win four golds in alpine at the Olympics. She retired in 2007. Asked about ski racing, she said, “It’s just a race. Just like every other one. You have some good days and some bad days.” Ain’t that the truth.
Test Your Skiing Knowledge (or some version of it) will resume in the Fall.
LUV2SKI
The ski license plate gallery continues to grow. Art Sexauer, whose ARTSKI plate is part of the gallery, sent in this SKI plate on his son’s car. And longtime contributor, Jan Brunvand, caught ALTADAB on his camera. Then he asked around for the meaning of “DAB”. His son explained that “DAB” can be either a form of greeting or a form of marijuana.
If you spot a candidate for the LUV2SKI license plate gallery, please email a picture to jon@seniorsskiing.com.
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