By Seth Masia Skiers have been following rails into the snowy mountains for 140 years now. 1868 was the year the Mt. Washington cog railway first hauled passengers to the summit. The cog railway didn’t run during the snowy months, because New Hampshire’s vicious weather...
The first "safety" bindings, by Portland skier Hjalmar Hvam, weren't all that safe. But 50 years ago, Cubco, Miller, Look and Marker began to change skiing's broken leg image. By Seth Masia By the mid-Thirties, half of the great inventions of alpine skiing were already in...
By Seth Masia When the first “shaped” skis arrived at ski shops in 1993, they were a revelation. Deep sidecuts to help skis carve short, clean turns had been sneaking up on us for a century – so slowly that only a very few savvy ski designers, largely outside the...
Compiled by Morten Lund and Seth Masia Prehistory: Rock paintings and skis preserved in bogs show that hunters and trappers used skis at least 5000 years ago. [caption id="" align="alignleft" width="487" caption="Classic Norwegian painting of 2-year old prince Häkon...
Compiled by Morten Lund Updated by John Allen and Seth Masia Also see History of Skiing Timeline at the FIS website Also see A Short History of Alpine Skiing Also see A Short History of Skis Also see Lou Dawson's detailed Timeline of Ski Mountaineering 1850—Sondre...
Crans-Montana, Kitzbühel dispute first downhill race In early April 2011, a commemorative race was held on the ski slopes of Crans-Montana, Switzerland, to mark the 100th anniversary of the first Roberts of Kandahar downhill. Some 260 participants, organized into 60 teams,...
