Lifetime Achievement Award to Jeff Leich
Ullr Awards
Skiing in the Eye of the Artist, by E. John B. Allen
Celebrate Winter: An Olympican's Stories of a Life in Nordic Skiing, by John Morton
Thirty...
They spent almost an hour in line, yet more and more skiers came, bonding as they waited ... and waited.
Lift lines have been part of the ski experience as long as there have been lifts. Is there...
Ski lift evolution is dotted with failed experiments.
(Photo above: The Mount Hood Skiway launched in 1951. The enormous weight of the buses meant the lift hauled 72 skiers per hour—when a chairlift...
There was more to Willy Schaeffler than stern disciplinarian.
By PETER MILLER
During the 1970-71 World Cup season, the men of the U.S. Alpine squad clashed with their coach, Willy Schaeffler. After...
Sven Coomer recalls the design process leading to Nordica’s groundbreaking boots.
As told to Seth Masia
In 1962, I went to Chamonix to watch the FIS World Championships and got to train with the...
The Forgotten Era of Ski Jumping
Sun Valley opened in December 1936, and the next spring it hosted America’s first international Alpine competition, the combined event that became known as the...
Belatedly elected to the Hall of Fame, the charismatic skier drove the professionalization of Alpine ski racing.
From the moment he entered the world on January 10, 1945, a ball of energy and gangly...
Can Vail Resorts improve employee and customer relations?
By Seth Masia
From the January-February 2022 issue
(Posted February 12, 2022) Overcrowding and staff shortages at ski resorts first...
What to Expect When You're Inspecting
By Edith Thys Morgan
When Alpine skiing athletes head to the Beijing Olympics, they will do so with an unprecedented lack of knowledge about the venue. While...
By Seth Masia
The VR17, engineered for French ski racers, was imitated by ski factories around the world.
From the January-February 2022 issue
The Dynamic VR17 remains legendary, and for good reason...
In 1964, the Kokanee Glacier gave birth to Canada’s national ski team.
Canadians fared poorly at the 1964 Olympics in Innsbruck. Only Nancy Greene had a top-10 finish (seventh in downhill). In May...
Megève celebrates 100 years as the first purpose-built ski resort in France.
Megève, the posh ski resort just off the main road between Geneva and Chamonix, has been managed by the Rothschild banking...
Before P-tex, there was Kofix. It drove a revolution in ski racing.
When Alpine skis had wooden bases, it was common to waterproof them with celluloid lacquer, made by dissolving celluloid in ether,...
Meet the folks who built Aspen’s first chairlifts, 75 years ago.
Aspen Mountain celebrates its 75th anniversary of lift-served slopes this winter, but the area’s skiing history started well before...
By Greg Fangel and Paul Hooge
How Christian Lund mopped up rivals while making the world’s best-known hickory skis.
Illustration above: Henry Hall (1893-1986), of Ishpeming, Michigan, was just one of...
By Aimee Berg
The Norwegian mogul champ is back home in Voss, raising kids and running a $70 million company. But she still flies through the air.
At 14, Kari Traa started skiing moguls in oversized...
By Charlie Sanders
Photo by Robert Doisneau/Getty Images
As a professor of entertainment law at New York University, I’ve taught courses on the relationship of music to history. I’ve also been skiing...
By Maurice Woehrlé
Archaeology and DNA evidence support the theory that skiing arose east of the Baltic, at the end of the last Ice Age.
Translated by Seth Masia
Where and when was skiing invented?...
By Edith Thys Morgan
Where are they now? The first American to win a World Cup race starts a new life.
Photo above: Kiki at the World Cup GS in Val d'Isere, December 11, 1969. Popperfoto/Getty Images...
By Peter Oliver
Ski racers take extreme measures to get—and keep—a winning boot.
Ingemar Stenmark spent almost his entire World Cup career in Caber’s blue Alfa boot (top of page). He ran his first...