They spent almost an hour in line, yet more and more skiers came, bonding as they waited . . . and waited. Beginning after World War II and for the next 40 years, weekend skiers waited in lift lines so long that the person next to you had time to describe where he was...
Giant slalom was invented in Italy in 1935 -- the result of an accident of weather, according to a recent article in the magazine Sciare. It happened when a downhill race, scheduled to take place on January 19, 1935, in Mottarone, above Lake Maggiore in Piedmont, had to be...
At first a gimmicky convenience, the boot buckle took ten years to earn its place among the sport’s enduring inventions. By John Fry Fifty-seven years ago a former stunt pilot and Swiss inventor named Hans Martin sold the world’s leading ski boot company, Henke, his...
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[caption id="attachment_1139" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="Bob Smith skiing for Dick Barrymore, 1967"][/caption] Bob Smith, Pepi Stiegler and Sam Southwick skiing powder at Jackson Hole for Dick Barrymore film Watch the ISHA Video! Shot during Skiing Heritage Week...
Former Cranmore Mountain owner/general manager Herbert Schneider, 92, of North Conway, died in Portland, Maine, June 10. Born May 20,1920, Schneider was the son of Ludwina (Seeberger) Schneider and legendary Austrian ski instructor Hannes Schneider (1890-1955) of St. Anton am...
Donald Jerome “Jerry” Berg, aka Bergie, died in a bicycle accident near his home in Minturn, Colo., on June 4. He was 61. A natural athlete, Bergie grew up skiing in the Midwest and joined the Vail Ski School in the early 1970s. He was a PSIA trainer, examiner and alpine...
A letter from Sven Coomer Over the past couple of years, with the return to commercial success of "three-piece" or "open-throat" boot designs, popular magazines and newspapers have run a number of articles containing a misleading account of the origin of the concept. The...
By Luzi Hitz, Switzerland Although the spiritual roots of “modern” skiing are found in the 19th century in Norway, it was the British, fascinated by the image of the naturally virtuous mountain folk and the alpine scenery—described among others by Jean-Jacques...
By Jason Blevins, Denver Post Frank Bulkley II helped more kids go skiing than just about anyone out there. Bulkley, the founder of Denver's venerable Eskimo Ski Cluband the famed Ski Train, ferried tens of thousands of kids — and then their kids — between Denver and...
Bob Smith, the California orthodontist who invented the double-lens powder goggle, died in PalmDeserton April 18, from complications following surgery to implant a heart pacemaker. He was 78. Robert Earl Smith grew up in San Carlos,Calif.and attended Stanford and the San...
Joy Piles “Lucky” Lucas, 94, died inSpokane,Wash., in February. Raised by Forest Service parents at the Barlow Pass Ranger Station, she began skiing in 1938 and soon married Jim Lucas. Beginning in 1940, the couple ran the Deer Park Ski Lodge and ski school in the Olympic...
Chris Gribbin, 90, died in March. In 1943, he was a founding member of the Ski Instructors Alliance of Canada and its first paid employee, running the office and training programs from 1949 to 1962. An English instructor at the Universityof Montreal, Chris also coached its...
Bob Cram: Lifetime Achievement Award for Illustrated Ski Humor Bob Cram's genius in portraying the comical side of the American ski experience started when, at age 8, he was smitten by an irresistable urge to draw. Spontaneous talent, plus his love affair with skiing,...
This story was published by HistoryLink.org, a free online encyclopedia of Washington state history. By John W. Lundin and Stephen J. Lundin March 16, 2012 [caption id="attachment_1057" align="alignleft" width="260" caption="Milwaukee Ski Train (image courtesy of...
Didier Cuche, 37, who retired last month after 17 years on the World Cup circuit, made a farewell run on Saturday in 1930s-era gear, including leather boots and wooden skis with pre-Kandahar bindings. Click here for the Universal Sports...
Kikkan Randall on Sunday became the first American since Bill Koch (1982) to win a cross-country World Cup, clinching the sprint series with one race left in the season. US Ski Team release: FALUN, Sweden (March 18) – American Kikkan Randall (Anchorage) validated another...
In 2009, the Aga Khan Foundation came to Afghanistan’s Bamiyan Province with the idea of implanting a ski culture. Ample snow, 16,000-foot mountains and crushing poverty made it an intriguing prospect for economic development purposes. Although still very much in fledgling...
The complete contents of Snow Country, the award-winning magazine for skiers published between 1988 to 1999, can now be viewed on line. This valuable new historical resource is available thanks to Google Books, which scanned and digitized the pages of all of the magazine’s...
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