Ski History

That Old Ski Poster on the Wall

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Vintage ski posters are a fixture in many ski chalets and lodges. Since the late 1990s, their values at auction have increased. To learn more about their history and their values, we interviewed Nicholas D. Lowry, President and Principal Auctioneer of…
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Tread Of Pioneers: A Blast From the Past

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Quaint Museum Reveals Steamboat Spring's Rich History. In 1947 an AP dispatch to 1,000 daily papers dubbed Steamboat Springs, Colo., “Ski Town, USA” with the declaration that of its 1,700 residents, 1,685 were skiers. The others were children…
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Historic Blandford Ski Area Poised To Bite The Dust

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This Wonderful Family Area Is Simply Out Of Money. [Editor Note: According to the Westfield News, Springfield Ski Club's members will be meeting on July 18 to approve the sale of assets to the owners of Ski Butternut. If two thirds of the total membership…
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Milestones of Modern XC Skiing In the US

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Remember Skiing On Wooden Skis With A Pine Tar Base And Lathered In Klistervox? Wasn't That Long Ago. Editor Note: XCSkiResort Publisher Roger Lohr has catalogued the main events that propelled XC skiing from a peculiar sport with a small following…
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SeniorsSkiing Guide: Saving Laurel Mountain From Obscurity

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Western PA Pioneer Area Comes Back To Full Operation. There has been a lot written about the lost ski areas.  For one reason or another, ski areas sometimes are unable to meet the financial or operational requirements and end up closing the lifts. …
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New England Ski Museum Tells 3,000 Years Of Ski History

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From The Stone Age To Today. The tiny museum in Franconia, New Hampshire is located next to Cannon Mountain's gondola base, and it's a wonderland. Even before you enter, you're intrigued by what you see just outside the door and you ask yourself: "What's…
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From One Ski Pole to Two

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A Personal Experience As Told To Alan K. Engen. The late Ruth Rogers Altmann, a good friend and longtime Alta skier, was born in Vienna in 1917. She learned to ski in the Austrian Alps. Ruth’s earliest ski lessons involved the transition from Mathias…
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Long Pole Skiing

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What Is Old Is New Again. Last season, 38-year-old Ma Liqin visited Norway to demonstrate an ancient skiing style still used in the Altai Mountains, a range located at the intersection of China, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Mongolia. People in that region…
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History, Memories, Books, And More

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ISHA's 2016 Skiing History Week at Aspen. The International Skiing History Association (ISHA) and the US Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame held their annual Skiing History Week at Aspen on April 5 - 10. My wife Judy and I attended, partly for the presentations,…
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Returning To X-C: New Technology, New Found Serenity

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John Christie, Ski Industry Veteran, Re-Discovers His Love For Cross-Country Skiing. Editor's Note: SeniorsSkiing.com is proud to have this contribution from John Christie. John is a legend in the ski business. Founder, owner and/or manager of…
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Remembering The Great Big Washington’s Birthday Touring Race

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 Such Fun. Should We Do It Again? What a celebration of winter it was. Imagine several hundred cross-country skiers, some serious racers—even Olympians—, college kids, couples and families, office people (like us) up from the Big City, all in…
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Why Ski?

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From NSP Eastern Division Safety Team, Corinth, NY
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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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