BY CADDIE NATH SUMMIT DAILY NEWS, Oct 1 -- Co-founder of two of Summit County's four ski resorts and local legend Max Dercum died Friday, Sept. 30, just days shy of his 99th birthday. Dercum passed away at a retirement home in Evergreen, where he lived, Jefferson County...
In 1935 Seattle native Al Nydin had the idea for a magazine about skiing. Until that time most ski periodicals and annuals were association-published. In publishing America's first independent, commercial magazine, Nydin used the title SKI. The first issue appeared in January...
On July 19, the Australian post office issued three skiing and snowboarding stamps honoring the 150th anniversary of skiing in theSnowyMountains. The 1859 Australian gold rush drew thousands of miners and would-be miners to New South Wales. They came from all over the world,...
With the coming of the Depression, Jim Huebner had to leave his failing farm and move to Fresno. An enthusiastic self-taught tennis player, in 1931 he set up a small shop to string rackets and sell balls, near the public courts in Roeding Park. Badger Pass got started as a ski...
Skiing Magazine Index includingRocky Mountain Skiing 1949-52 National Skiing 1949-52 Skiing Magazine 1958-1986 Rocky Mountain Skiing November 15, 1949 Italy Enters Top Contestants for FIS Downhill and Slalom pg.1 Whiteface Ski Area...
Fernie Alpine Resort celebrates its 50th anniversary this winter, with special events culminating in a Fernie Heritage Week in late March. But first there's the matter of a new lift. The Polar Peak fixed triple goes to a new summit at 7,050 feet elevation, serving a steep...
Louis Emile Cochand died on July 17, 2011 at the age of 94. A leader and top competitor in the second generation of organized Canadian skiing, Cochand was born into the most famous family of racing and resort-building in Quebec’s Laurentians. Louis was the son of Swiss ski...
[caption id="attachment_482" align="alignleft" width="150" caption="Bud Klein"][/caption] Kirkwood,Calif.lost two founders this summer. Bud Klein, 83, died May 5 inStockton, Calif. Klein was a football and baseball star at University of the Pacific and Stanford. In 1950,...
Ralph Outlaw Walton, Jr., died April 17 in LaGrange, Ga. After earning a degree in electrical engineering atAuburnUniversityin 1951, Walton served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps and then did classified work in nuclear weapons. He then held management positions at Westinghouse...
John Falconer Fisher III – Jack Fisher – died June 14 inBarre,Vt., at 97. In 1939, Fisher took advantage of snow trains hauling skiers from New York City to nearby Hillsdale, N.Y., to open a couple of rope tows on land he bought 2.5 miles east, on the...
Preserving Skiing's Heritage: The World's Ski Museums By E. John B. Allen and Jonathan Robinson In nearly all the skiing countries of the world-China, Slovenia, Spain and the United Kingdom are the latest to make the attempt-there are museums or parts of museums and...
A 19th century Rennaissance Man—and yes, eccentric—this Austrian’s extraordinary achievements were largely responsible for the sport we know today. By E. John B. Allen, PhD If modern skiing owes its development to one extraordinary...
Boyne Mountain, the Midwest’s largest ski resort, has a further distinction: it is virtually a museum of lifts. The collection started in 1948, according to lift historian Kirby Gilbert, when Boyne’s shrewd, machinery-savvy owner Everett Kircher bought the original 1936...
Skied for 55 or more years, Ruthie’s Run on Aspen Mountain has been the venue for classic, hotly contested World Cup and Roch Cup races. On the mild upper section, the whims of wind and waxing have often decided the downhill winners over the years. If you’re an intermediate,...
Once in awhile even a trivial challenge can change your life. By Seth Masia 1983 was the 80th anniversary of the “tourist” route from Chamonix to Zermatt, a high traverse of about 100km across the glaciers, cols and couloirs through the Waliser Alps. To celebrate, the...
The Mason Beekley Collection of skiing art and photography is looking for a new home. “When one door closes, another opens,” said Nat Messina, an attorney and director for the Beekley Family Foundation. The Foundation learned in mid-September, 2009, that the $5 million...
FIS mandates 35-meter minimum radius for men, 30-meter for women. Despite protests by many racers, the International Ski Federation (FIS) is on track to require longer, straighter giant slalom skis in World Cup and Olympic competition beginning next season. Early last...
Henry M. Yaple, the chief librarian at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash., spent 11 years assembling a massive bibliography of skiing. The goal was to list every book, dissertation, film video and piece of software published on skiing, in English, between 1890 and...
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...
Skiing Heritage obituaries Dick Hauserman, Vail pioneer dead at 93 Toni Sailer, Olympic and World Champion Andrea Mead Lawrence, activist, Olympic champion Wolfgang Lert, racer,coach, filmmaker, importer Stu Campbell, instructor,author, coach Nick Hock, 10th...
