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Test Your Skiing Knowledge

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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. In the 1930s the hill pictured…
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When Errol Flynn Skied at Alta

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Many famous Hollywood movie stars came to Alta to ski during the 1940s. Two of the best known were Claudette Colbert and Ray Milland, but most famous of all was Errol Flynn, the swashbuckling leading man. My uncle, the late Sverre Engen, was Alta's Ski…
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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. This image is from the Utah Ski &…
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Ski Industry Remembers: Scenes From 60 Years Ago

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A Blizzard Of Memories From Ski Industry Association Video. SnowSports Industries America (SIA) is the ski trade association of suppliers to consumers.  Think equipment manufacturers, clothing designers and providers, retailers, reps and media, everyone…
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Straight Down: Cody Townsend and Gravity

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Now This Should Tighten You Up. Cody Townsend, professional free skier and athlete, takes on the most improbable ski run we've ever seen.  The scene is a near vertical chute in Alaska's Tordrillo Mountains, more like a elevator shaft than a ski run.…
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Breaking News: Mount Snow to Celebrate 60th Anniversary on Founders Day, December 12

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Walt Schoenknecht's Vision Was Far and Creative When Mount Snow’s visionary founder, Walter Schoenknecht, stood atop Mount Pisgah in over a foot of freshly fallen snow back in autumn of 1949, he knew he had found the perfect place to build his dream…
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When Skiing Was New: Early Scenes From 30s To 50s

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Skiing was once considered a fad like Mah-Jong.  That was a long time ago. Here's a seven-minute series of clips from John Jay's "Ski Down The Years", a visual history of skiing from the early days of rope tows in the mid-30s in New England to the…
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When Going Up Was Half The Fun

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Early New England Tows We Still Miss. I've been skiing for 65 years, grown and raised in Concord MA.  I made my first turns on Punkatasset Hill, a no-lift neighborhood ski hill. That’s where I side-stepped to the top to pack the snow before…
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Snowbird’s Pipeline Conquered By Junior Bounous at 80 (Taken March 8, 2014)

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Snowbird's Pipeline (the top to bottom ravine in center of picture) : One of North America's toughest ski routes, descends from Twin peaks above Snowbird. First skied by Junior Bounous in the early 70s. He skied it again during his 80th year. Junior…
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Skiing Super Heroes!!

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Spidey and Cap'n America, Skiing's Super Heroes, about to save the day at the top of Snowbird tram. Senior Skiers, do you ski in costume? If you could choose one, what would it be?
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Remember this?

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He isn't falling.  He's demonstrating a ski technique from the 70s practiced by jet-setting ski racers.  What is it called?
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Long Time Between Runs

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It is a sunny and cold Thursday morning in early February.  There are a handful of other skiers on the mid-New Hampshire ski area lift.  I decide to go right at the top.  Trail is untouched, the corduroy grooming marks fresh and waiting.  I turn,…
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