ISHA's Awards Banquet, held April 12 in Vail, honored the best works on ski history published during 2012. Billy Kidd ISHA Lifetime Achievement Award: Broadcasting Billy Kidd retired from ski racing due to injuries in 1972, after nine years on the U.S. Ski Team...
The following people have been elected into the U.S. Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame for the Class of 2012. Wayne Wong is regarded by many as a living legend. He was the leading and most popular skier of his day when hotdog or freestyle skiing was emerging on the scene. The...
Wherever there’s a sports hall of fame, controversy inevitably arises about who is elected and how. The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall ofFame (USSHoF) is no exception. The first criticism of the nomination and election process appeared in SKI Magazine only a dozen years after...
FOUNDER CALLS IT A DISSERVICE TO GUESTS The National Standard Race, NASTAR –designed in 1968 - brought the equivalent of golf’s par to skiing. Now, one of the eight original NASTAR ski areas, Vail, has decided to pull itself and its other Colorado ski resorts out of the...
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...
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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,...
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...
By MICHAEL WARREN Associated Press Jan. 24, 2012 BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — This has been the busiest summer in history for Antarctic expeditions, with dozens of skiers reaching the end of the Earth to mark the centennial of man's first journey to the South...
The 2011-12 ski season marks a half century for Sun Peaks Resort (formerly Tod Mountain), which once offered some of British Columbia's most challenging inbounds skiing. The 3,678-acre ski area, 30 miles to the northeast of Kamloops, B.C., will commemorate the golden anniversary...
BY JANICE KURBJUN Photo: Trygve Berge was ready to catch first chair at the base of Peak 8 much like he did 50 years ago when he helped start Breckenridge Ski Resort. A celebration was held Friday in honor of the 50th anniversary of skiing at Breckenridge. Summit Daily /...
Yvan Pierre Taché passed away peacefully, at his home in Carbondale, Colorado, on October 11th, surrounded by his loving wife and five children. He was 86 years old. Born April 16th, 1925, in the village of St. Jovite, in Quebec’s Laurentian Mountains, with nearby Mont...
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...
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...
It’s been an historic year for ski jumping. Ski Flying Record On Feb. 11, Johan Remen Evensen took advantage of the newly-enlarged Vikersund 225-meter ski-flying hill in Norway, to set a new world record of 246.5 meters. That surpassed the previous record of 239m, set...
By John Fry The overall World Cup championship was to have been determined by a single giant slalom race, to be held on Saturday, March 19th in the 4,921-foot high Swiss ski resort of Lenzerheide. On the eve of the race, Germany’s Maria Riesch led America’s Lindsey Vonn by...
