The National Ski Areas Association has compiled this chronology of 354 American ski resorts. Howelsen Hill Ski Area CO 1915 Eaglebrook School MA 1922 Granlibakken Ski Area CA 1927 Cooper Spur Mountain Resort OR 1927 Mt. Hood Skibowl OR 1928 Seven...
Date and Location of Past Winter Olympics 1924: Chamonix, France 1928: St. Moritz, Switzerland 1932: Lake Placid, N.Y. 1936: Garmisch, Germany 1948: St. Moritz, Switzerland 1952: Oslo, Norway 1956: Cortina, Italy 1960: Squaw Valley, USA 1964: Innsbruck,...
Google search within the site You can quickly determine if a topic of interest to you can be found here at skiinghistory.org. Move your cursor, and click on: http://www.skiinghistory.org/index.php/search/ (An alternative access mode is described at the end of this...
Compiled by Jim Fain Overview of Leading Racers at the NASTAR Championships This page contains an overview of leading racers in three categories: (1) number of first-place medals; (2) number of podium appearances; and (3) number of years participating in the...
ISHA’s Guide to Ski-History Reference Works Worldwide By E. John B. Allen This bibliography provides a guide to 375 articles and reference books that explore the history of skiing worldwide. It’s designed to provide a starting point for anyone wanting to learn more...
[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...
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...
Index to Periodicals Indices to American Ski Magazines Snow Country back issues: full run of the magazine at Google Books archive Snow Country Index: Index of all issues by author . This is an Excel file, organized alphabetically by author. Snow Country Index: All...
The Story of Modern Skiing, by John Fry University Press of New England 2006 • 408 pp. 90 illus. 6 x 9" Sports & Recreation / History $27.95 Cloth, 1-58465-489-9 The book is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and the publisher's website (www.upne.com), and in...
To search this site for a specific person, place or event, go to http://www.skiinghistory.org/index.php/search/ Enter your search term (the words you want to search for) in the text search box on that page. The results page will show the number of references found within...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The journal was started in 1989 by Glenn Parkinson as a six page newsletter under the name Blizzard. In the third issue, the name was changed to Snow News. In 1991, the journal was acquired by I.S.H.A. and in 1993 the name was changed to Skiing Heritage. In 1994 Morten Lund...
1905-1933 Lake Placid Club Lake Placid Club Notes, annual, the first U.S. ski periodical, published by the Lake Placid Club Lake Placid, NY; Lake Placid Club News issued periodically in parallel 1927-1930 1906-1924 NSA Year Book, published annually and The Ski Sport...
by Morten Lund, Kirby Gilbert, Andrew Leser and Alan Adler February 1941 (Adler) (Frontispiece-"Afternoon Skiing" by Soltan Sepeshy) A Month With Bertha by Lowell Thomas, Jr. pg. 11 Avalanche pg. 14 Master the Fundamentals by Friedl Pfeifer pg. 16 Adelbert Stems by...
January,1960 European Highlights by Roland Palmedo pg.12 Die Tiefdecke Technick by Rink Earle pg.18 Those Hot North American Gals (Pitou, Snite & Heggtveit) by Lucile Wheeler pg.23 For Six Olympic Minutes (Penny Pitou & Dick Taylor) pg.24 Borscht, Bagels and...
