Justice Served: Jim Thorpe’s 1912 Gold Medals Restored

In my article “Pro vs. Am” (July-August 2022), I discussed the historic conflict between the concepts of amateurism and professionalism in skiing and Olympic sports. The most tragic victim of this conflict was Jim Thorpe, who won two gold medals in the 1912 Olympic Games in the decathlon and pentathlon, two of the most difficult of all sporting events. 

Thorpe dominated the 1912 Olympic Games, with Swedish King Gustav V telling him at the medal ceremonies, “Sir, you are the greatest athlete in the world.” However, Thorpe had earned $25 a week while playing semi-professional baseball before his Olympic career, and in 1913, he was stripped of both medals by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) under the era’s strict rules governing amateurism. Historians consider this action to be a combination of racism against Thorpe, who was Native American, and a rigid adherence to the idea of amateurism. 

In 1982, the IOC partially restored Thorpe’s 1912 successes by declaring him co-winner of the two medals. But that partial victory is now complete. In July, the IOC announced that Thorpe is now officially recognized as the sole winner of the decathlon and pentathlon at the 1912 Stockholm Games, while the two athletes who received the medals after they were stripped from Thorpe will be recognized as co-silver medalists of their events. When Thorpe died in 1953, the New York Times called him “probably the greatest natural athlete the world had seen in modern times.”

John W. Lundin
Seattle, Washington

Amateur Athletes? Hardly

John Lundin (“Pro vs. Am,” July-August 2022) is right to point out Avery Brundage’s hypocritical stands on amateurism in Olympic competition. But Brundage’s hypocrisy went beyond the unfortunate examples Lundin cites. Even though most Soviet Union and Soviet Bloc Olympians (and other top athletes) were supported by their governments, Brundage saw no problem in their participation in the Olympics. The value of that government support far exceeded the value of prizes or endorsements that led Brundage to disqualify famous athletes such as Karl Schranz. Athletes from the Soviet Union and the states it dominated were often paid by the military or other state institutions without having to do much other than train and compete. Some amateurs!

Ivo Krupka
Former President
Canadian Ski Hall of Fame and Museum
Ottawa, Canad

T-Bar Timeline

I have a correction to make about the Sugarloaf poster in the “Many Gems at Swann’s Winter Auction” (May-June 2022). Those are all T-bars, not chairlifts, on the poster. The poster was created later than 1955. The lower of the tandem T-bars was built in the summer of 1956; the upper T-bar was built the next summer. The lower left T-bar was built later. 

Jean Luce
Carrabassett Valley, Maine

Correction

Due to an editing error, we reported in the July-August issue that Hedda Bernsten and her husband, Tyler Conrad, spend summers in New England. In fact, they live near the ski resort of Hemsedal, Norway, in the winter and in coastal Tønsberg, in the summer.

The Vail-based entrepreneur revisits his World Cup and pro racing careers. 

World Cup and pro ski racer Mark Taché has known Marco Tonazzi for 44 years. Nothing surprises him about the Italian’s achievements. “Nothing at all,” says Taché.

(Photo above: Tonazzi winning the 1985 Italian slalom championship)

Not that Tonazzi runs six businesses in Colorado and Italy with neither a business nor college degree. Not that Tonazzi was the 1990 World Pro Ski Tour Rookie of the Year without ever having made an Olympic appearance. Not that Tonazzi, a slalom specialist, made a World Cup podium in giant slalom—at Adelboden, Switzerland, the crown jewel of GS racing—marking the first one-two finish for the Italian men’s team in 10 years. Not that Tonazzi, who wasn’t even a downhiller, finished the 24 Hours of Aspen race (alone) after 11 knee surgeries.

Surprising or not, Tonazzi’s life has taken an incredible trajectory through three decades of pro and Italian ski racing history, overlapping with legends Gustavo Thöni, Alberto Tomba and more.

The story begins in Udine, a city of 100,000 in the northeast corner of Italy. Tonazzi was a city boy, but his family had a cabin in Valbruna, not far from the renowned ski club at Monte Lussari in the Julian Alps, near the Austrian and Slovenian borders. Back then, school came first, so after class Tonazzi would catch a ride from Udine to Lussari and ski for 90 minutes before the lifts closed.

At age 9, he entered—and won—his very first race, on a plastic surface in Tarvisio. “The [ski] wax was diesel fuel, mixed with oil,” he says. “There was a little box with two rollers. You would roll your skis over the rollers to get them to run faster on plastic.”

In 1977, Tonazzi competed in the Italian junior championships, where he was the youngest by three years in his age group. He recalls, “I wasn’t a favorite. I didn’t have a uniform. I had a hand-knitted sweater by my grandmother. My brother was my coach.” Yet win he did, and at age 18, Tonazzi made Italy’s A team at the tail end of the Italian racers’ Valanga Azzurra (“Blue Avalanche”) heyday, becoming a teammate of Thöni and Piero Gros. “They were my idols,” he says. Eventually Thöni became his coach. “But I was a rebel,” adds Tonazzi. “They called me ‘Ragazzo Hippie,’ Hippie Boy, because I had long hair and the Sony Walkman was just invented so I would ski listening to music. It was wild! An athlete on the national team listening to the Beatles while training! I got fined by the federation for having the Walkman always on my head.” Listening to the Beatles, he claims, is how he learned to speak English.

Tonazzi made his World Cup debut in 1980, at age 19, with less than stellar results. “I sucked really bad in ’83, ’84,” he says. So he was put on the B team, and one day in Bulgaria, he was chasing a teammate between trees and through powder. The teammate stopped abruptly, Tonazzi caught him. “I was all happy and cheering, then I flew off an edge and fell about 25 to 30 feet from the top of a skier’s underpass,” he relates.

Had he not suffered a concussion and brain hematoma, says Tonazzi, “I would have been cut, I was doing so poorly. But because I was injured, they gave me another chance.” On the B team, he eventually won the 1985 Italian national championships and 1985 World University Games, both in slalom.

“I came back to the World Cup, and I don’t know how the secret of giant slalom revealed itself to me, but somehow I got it,” Tonazzi says. In December 1985, he finished eighth in Alta Badia, Italy, from the back of the pack. The next month, he placed second at Adelboden—the Kitzbühel of GS courses—wearing bib No. 40, behind Italian teammate Richard Pramotton. It was Tonazzi’s 25th birthday and time to cash in on a promise. “My dad declared that he would stop smoking if I ever made the top three,” he says. “He thought he was safe,” but his son called him on it in a TV interview.

On the World Cup, 1986 turned out to be Tonazzi’s best year. It also marked the arrival of a new roommate, Tomba. “I was kind of the old wise guy at 25, so they thought I’d keep him in check,” Tonazzi says. Tomba was a city boy, too, from Bologna, and when Tonazzi drove west to camps or races, Tomba’s father would drop off his son to carpool.

“The thing about Tomba,” Tonazzi says, “he didn’t change because of his success. His attitude, mannerisms, ideas, behavior remained the same—to his credit. That was the true Alberto from age 16—a crazy, talented, explosive athlete who thought he was the best in the world before he became the best in the world. I think that’s what made him the best. He really believed he was, knew he was and just went down that path.”

Tonazzi competed on the World Cup through 1989, but he was eager to get away from the confinement and politics of the national team. “I always thought the pro tour was a place where you make your choices,” he says. “I was dreaming of that. I was also dreaming of driving across America in a big car with the radio on. I wanted to do that so badly that when the team came back, I was still ranked 24th in the world in slalom, but I said, ‘I’m done.’ I did it on my terms, which was important to me.”

In his first season as a pro, he drove around the U.S. with two 1984 Olympians, Slovenian Tomaz Cerkovnik and Swede Gunnar Neuriesser, and competed head-to-head against Austrian powerhouses Bernhard Knauss, Mathias Berthold and Roland Pfeifer. Tonazzi loved it. “Someone said they would have to stop the tour to make Marco stop,” he recalls.

But that’s not how it ended. In 1997, says Tonazzi, “I was done. My knees were really not healthy. I was almost 37, super-old.”

He also wanted to do one more thing: the 24 Hours of Aspen race. “To me, it was as close as I could get in skiing to a survival situation,” he explains. “Ski racing is intense, but what’s so tragic about one minute, 20 seconds? There’s no survival. I was missing this idea of fighting with myself through pain, being tired and more than tired. That was the only thing I knew in ski racing that existed.”

To enter, Tonazzi had to be part of a two-person team from the same nation, so he recruited countryman Josef Polig, the 1992 Alpine Combined Olympic gold medalist. Tonazzi was recovering from knee surgery and now says he had “no clue” how to train for 80 runs down Aspen Mountain—a quarter-million vertical feet—at downhill speeds.

Every team had a support crew. Tonazzi’s included Taché, who had never done the event himself despite being a local. “It was a horrific event,” says Taché. “I mean, it’s gnarly. Your partner and you just tuck in behind each other and literally go straight down from the top to the bottom. The lighting wasn’t very good. There’d be totally dark spots. And it’s early season, so all the terrain was more pronounced.”

After about five hours, Tonazzi was flagging so Polig took the lead. Then at around 1 a.m. Polig said, “I’m done. I’m scared, I can’t hold on anymore.”

Responded Tonazzi, “One more. Stay behind me. We won’t push.” At the bottom, they got on the gondola and Polig reiterated, “Marco, I can’t do it.”

“One more,” Tonazzi said,

At the top of the gondola, the competitors ran and jumped into the skis awaiting them, the way they started each lap. “I run out, look at the skis next to me and nobody’s there,” Tonazzi says now. “I turn around and see Joe in the gondola riding back down. So that’s it. I was disqualified.” He skied down alone.

“At the bottom, I asked, ‘What do I do?’” Tonazzi says. “Someone said, ‘Keep going. You won’t be ranked, but who cares?’”

The event raised money for charities, one of which supported children with terminal illnesses. Eventually, after about 15 hours of skiing, Tonazzi stumbled again into the gondola. This time, three kids—beneficiaries of the fundraising who were “paired” with the Italian team during the race—peered into his car and yelled, “Marco! Don’t stop!”

The moment is as vivid and raw as it was 25 years ago. “The doors closed to those three kids that are probably long gone now,” he recalls. “So I skied through the night by myself and finished at noon the next day. It was a great memory. It gave me even more than I expected. I did everything I wanted to do in skiing.”

Tonazzi returned to Vail, where he was living with Amy Wheeler, a ski model known for action shoots for films and magazines. In 1999, they married and now have two daughters: Isabella, 20, a freshman at Montana State University, and Liliana, 17, who plays volleyball in high school. Neither one ski races.

These days, Tonazzi runs six businesses. In Colorado, he owns the Minturn Inn (a bed and breakfast between Vail and Beaver Creek); the Hotel Minturn a few blocks away; Mangiare, an Italian food market farther down the road; and the Valbruna clothing store in Vail. He also co-owns the Valbruna Inn in Italy and runs Valbruna Travel, which enables him to guide at least one summer and one winter trip to his hometown. More recently, he bought half of Astis, a company that makes distinctive leather ski mittens featuring beaded patterns and fringe.

Thanks to Tonazzi’s willingness to empower his staff and delegate work, all of the businesses appear to be thriving. “I try to [hire] people who are better than I am at what they do and give them room to do what they like, to the best of their ability,” he says. “I tell a lot of stories and sometimes they look at me like I’m a lunatic, but I think if they know who I am—my values, morals and ethics—I don’t need to run the business myself. They will make the decisions and run the business like I would, no matter where I am.”

As for why he has so many businesses, the answer is in his nature. “Even while racing, I was always easily distracted by other passions,” Tonazzi explains. “When there’s something I like, I cannot say no. It’s like a missed opportunity. So I kind of take on too much and juggle and try not to drop anything.” 

New York-based sportswriter Aimee Berg wrote about freestyle champ Kari Traa in the September-October, 2021 issue.

Photos courtesy Marco Tonazzi.

Using the website for research

The skiinghistory.org website has become an invaluable research tool for students and writers. An increasing number of journalists now rely on the site as a fact-check resource. Here’s a quick summary of some of the techniques that can quickly find accurate information on names, places and dates.

First, there are three major search tools available: site search (also called text search), page search and magazine-archive search.

The site search tool will survey the main skiinghistory.org website content, including the index of back issues and the indices to SKI, Skiing and Snow Country magazines and the ski bibliography. To use it, find the white rectangular text-search box in the upper right corner of the page. Enter the word or phrase you want to search for. This could be a name, a place, a topic, or a date. Then hit Enter or Return. You'll get a list of all the pages within this site which contain that word or phrase. You may go to each page in turn by clicking on its title.

Hint: If you’re looking for a multi-word term, like a name, put it in quotes. That will narrow down the search results dramatically. For instance, searching for Hannes Schneider will return all pages with the name Hannes, (Hannes Nothnagl, Hannes Trinkl, etc.), and all pages with name Schneider (Othmar Schneider, Herbert Schneider, etc.) but "Hannes Schneider" in quotes will return only Hannes Schneider himself.

Some of the pages that come up are very long – especially the magazine index and bibliography pages. Rather than scroll through these documents line by line looking for the reference you want, use the page search tool. While holding down the Control key, hit the letter F. A small text-search box will open at the top or bottom of your screen (top or bottom depends on the software installed on your computer). Once again, type in the name, place, race or other term you’re looking for. Then use the up and down arrows to move to the next occurrence of that term within the page.

Finally, the Skiing Heritage archive in Google Books has its own very efficient internal search tool. Use the text search box and check the box labeled "seach all issues,' or scroll down to "Browse all issues" where you can read each issue organized chronologically.

Once there, you’ll see a text search box. Put a check in the “Search All Issues” box, then enter your search terms in the box and hit the Enter or Return key. As usual, putting your search term in quotes will narrow the search results. –Seth Masia

The On-line Encyclopedia  of Washington  History

• Milwaukee Ski Bowl, 1938-1950: Revolution in Local Skiing, Essay 10060l http://historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=10060
• Cle Elum Ski Club, 1921 - 1933, Essay 10169 http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=10169
• Seattle's Municipal Ski Park at Snoqualmie Summit (1934-1940),  Essay 10362 http://historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=10362
• Skiing at Martin, the Northern Pacific Stop at Stampede Pass, Essay 10615 http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=10615
• Early Skiing in the Washington Cascades, Part I:  1914 - 1937, Essay 103012 http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=10312
• Early Skiing in the Washington Cascades, Part II:  1938 - 1949, Essay 103014 http://historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=10314
• Ski Lifts, Inc. and the First Northwest Rope Tows, Essay 10716 http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=10716
• Mountaineers Patrol Races at Snoqualmie Pass: A Grand Tradition Revisited, Essay 10755 http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=10755
• Washington Skiers in the 1936 and 1948 Winter Olympics, Essay 10786 http://www.historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=10786
• Norway’s Crown Prince Olav Skis at Mount Rainier on May 24, 1939, Essay 10974 http://historylink.org/index.cfm?DisplayPage=output.cfm&file_id=10974
• Military Skiing at Snoqualmie Pass During WW II, Essay 20508, http://historylink.org/File/20508
• Aerial Tram on Mount Rainier: Twenty Years of Debate, Essay 20554, http://historylink.org/File/20554

The Canadian Ski History Writers Project (CSHWP) is an ongoing collaboration between the Canadian Ski Hall of Fame and Museum (CSHFM) and the International Skiing History Association (ISHA). The project was conceived back in 2009 by Morten Lund, ISHA founding editor, and John Fry, past ISHA chairman, with initial funding by The Chawkers Foundation. More recently Ken Hugessen, ISHA board member, has generously provided bridge-funding while long-term underwriting is arranged.  The goal is to preserve and celebrate Canada’s skiing heritage — and to raise awareness about this rich legacy within Canada and internationally — by commissioning and publishing well-researched, authoritative articles both online and in print. 

In addition to publication on the CSMHF Website (see links below), most of the articles are published in ISHA’s bimonthly journal, Skiing History(SH). SH is distributed in print to more than 2,200 avid skiers, ski historians, ski museums, ski-industry leaders, and former and current World Cup and Olympic competitors around the world—primarily in the United States and Canada. A free subscription to Skiing History magazine is provided to all CSHFM members who join at the “Supporting" level.

Since 2009, SH has published more than two-dozen articles funded by the Chawkers Foundation through the CSHWP. The articles are available for free download by clicking on the links below.

Articles

1. Canada’s Team at the 1936 Olympics, by Lori Knowles (published April 2023)
2. Canada’s Forgotten Ski Center, by Joseph Graham and Pierre Dumas (published Oct. 2020)
3. Excellence on the Escarpment, by Lori Knowles (published September 2019)
4. The Slim Look, Irving Margolese profile, by John Fry (published December 2018)
5. Penguin Power! by Cara Armstrong and Lori Knowles (published June 2018)
6. The Art of the Unexpected, by Lori Knowles (published November 2017)
7. Quebec’s All-Time Ski Area Inventory, by Jeremy Davis (published July 2017)
8. Hill 70 at Mont St. Sauveur, by Bob Soden (published June 2017)
9. Loads of Fun on Ski and Snow, Snow Trains, by Corey Ford (published May 2017)
10. All or Nothing, Nancy Greene’s 1967 World Cup title, by Michel Beaudry (published March 2017)
11. The Firth Twins – Shirley and Sharon profile, by Bob Woodward (published January 2017)
12. Grand Dame – Mont Gabriel celebrates 80 years, by Robert Miron (published November 2016)
13. The Man Who Came to Dinner and Stayed a Year, by E. John B. Allen (published November 2016)
14. North America’s Ski City – Montreal, by Bob Soden (published September 2016)
15. The Lost Trails of Paul d’Allmen, by Joseph Graham (published April 2016)
16. Whistler’s Big Birthday, by Michel Beaudry (published February 2016)
17. Sweet Success – Bee Hive competition, by Caroline Forcier Holloway (published March 2014)
18. Made in Canada – Canadian Ski Manufacturers, by Bob Soden (published September 2013)
19. Mount Washington – Skiing Vancouver Island, by Jenny Clayton (published August 2013)
20. The Queen’s Winter Reps – Governors General of Canada, by Amy Tector (published November 2012)
21. Revelstoke – British Columbia Comeback, by Jenny Clayton (published August 2012)
22. Mt Norquay – Alpine Training Ground, by Jacqueline Louie (published May 2011)
23. Canada’s Johnny Fripp, by Lori Knowles (published March 2011)
24. The Crazy Canucks, by Michel Beaudry (published August 2011)
25. Golden-Girl Anne Heggtveit, by Lori Knowles (published December 2010)
26. McGill vs. Dartmouth: A Storybook Rivalry, by Tom Peacock (published Sept. 2010)
27. E Pluribus Skium – Canadian Ski Instructors history, by Bryon Rempel (published June 2010)
28. The Crazy Canucks, book reviews, by Michel Beaudry (published June 2010)
29. Chalet Cochand – Part 2, by Chas Maclean Cochand (published March 2010)
30. The Incredible Emile Cochand – Part 1, by Chas Maclean Cochand (published Dec. 2009)

With thousands of photos, clippings, film and manuscripts, this collection tells the ski story of the Intermountain West. By Mike Korologos

Pictured above: Dr. Greg Thompson, co-founder of the J. Willard Marriott Library Utah Ski Archives, and Molly Creer, moving image and sound archivist in Special Collections, display a few items from the library’s extensive ski archives.

To the first-time visitor, the shipping and receiving dock at the main campus library at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City appears similar to one you’d see at a grocery or furniture warehouse—high overhead clearance, heavy-duty rubber bumper guards on the dock platform, oversized metal doors with wire security windows and several “no parking” signs. 

Pictured to the right: Hollywood leading lady Claudette Colbert strikes a publicity pose on the front porch of the Alta Lodge in the early 1940s. Photo credit Clyde Anderson / special collections / J.  Willard Marriott Library / University of Utah

If you’re delivering boxes of old documents, news clippings, files, photos, videos, scrapbooks or collections for inclusion in the library’s Utah Ski Archives, the dock takes on an entirely different persona in that nanosecond when you notice the person about to receive your materials is wearing white gloves.  

Yes, white gloves—to protect your materials (that “ski stuff” that’s been gathering dust for decades in the attic, garage or crawl space at home) from the body oils that fingerprints might place on them. What’s more, if you return to the library months or years later to look up an item in your donated materials, you too will be required to wear white gloves before you are allowed to handle any of that once-forgotten, almost-trashed “ski stuff.”

Such is the meticulous care that underscores the receiving, identifying, labeling, categorizing, cataloguing and filing of materials at the J. Willard Marriott
Library’s Special Collections, thus making them easily referenced by an international audience of students, scholars, researchers, historians, authors, reporters, photographers and others. It’s a ski historian’s nirvana, especially for researchers mining for nuggets of information regarding the history of skiing in the Intermountain Area (comprising Utah, Idaho and Wyoming).  

Viewed in total, the collection includes several thousand photos, plus negatives, movie film, video cassettes, scrapbooks, news clippings, lift tickets, brochures, letters, interviews, posters, personal manuscripts, oral histories, books, and ski team and ski area files. (For an overview of the collection, see “Details” sidebar on page 13.) Dr. Gregory C. Thompson, assistant dean and director of Special Collections at the library, co-founded the ski archive in 1989 and has watched the collection grow exponentially ever since.

“Funding wasn’t a big deal when we got our first few collections,” Thompson recalls. “But we sure can’t say that now. While we’re thrilled to see the archives grow into such prominence, with that growth comes the continual task of raising funds.” While the library’s annual budget covers the collection’s basic costs—such as salaries for key employees—the staff also raises outside funds through events, foundations, and individual and corporate donors. 

This additional revenue supports part-time student employees who help with organizing, scanning and developing the collection; and the costs of storage, preservation, acquisitions and the Website.

Among the early significant collections that Thompson describes came from Alta, Utah’s first lift-served ski area (1938). In 1989 the library’s development director, the late Sue Raemer, was a second-generation ski instructor at Alta, where she learned that the company was looking to significantly thin its vast files, some dating to its mining heyday of the 1870s. 

That’s when Raemer and Thompson had an “ah-ha” moment:  “Why not have Alta donate its unwanted documents to the University of Utah library’s Special Collections?” Raemer’s foresight and fortuitous dual employment were coupled with Thompson’s expertise in launching archives to give birth to a cocktail party for 200 local ski aficionados who heartily endorsed the Ski Archives idea.

Within a few years that cocktail party evolved into a ski season-launching extravaganza called The Utah Ski Archives Ski Affair. The event is the library’s most prominent outreach activity, raising $40,00 to $50,000 every fall (see sidebar). Another significant library outreach effort links the archive with the Alf Engen Ski Museum, in Park City, which serves as a repository for multi-dimensional collectibles—such as trophies or equipment—that the library does not store. (The museum is an ISHA partner, and Skiing History serves as its official publication.)

“The affiliation with the museum gives the library’s historical preservation efforts a very broad visual component that is popular with the public,” says Thompson, a long-time member of the museum board of directors.

The ski museum is housed in the S. J. (Joe) Quinney Winter Sports Center at Utah Olympic Park. Opened in 2002, the museum exhibits an array of historical ski items and is home to the Intermountain Ski Hall of Fame and the Professional Ski Instructors of America/Intermountain Hall of Fame. One level above is the George S. and Delores Doré Eccles 2002 Olympic Winter Games Museum. Admission to both venues is free. 

Pictured to the left: In this early 1940s photo, majestic Mount Superior serves as a backdrop for skiers at the Alta Lodge. Photo credit: Clyde Anderson / special collections / J.  Willard Marriott Library / University of Utah

Individually, the museum and archive are each a rich cache of ski history in its own right. Combined, they become an unmatched treasure that’s mined daily by casual visitors and serious researchers. And your “ski stuff” is in the thick of it.

Mike Korologos is the former ski editor for The Salt Lake Tribune and served as Communications Director for the Bid and Organizing Committees of the Olympic Winter Games of 2002. He was inducted into the Intermountain Ski Hall of Fame in 2009.

Details

Here’s a sampling of the archives’ holdings:
• 250,000 photos, slides and negatives (20,000 digitized and available online) 
• 300,000 photos donated by Ski Racing Magazine, plus 100 bound volumes (1940s–2011)
• 250 photograph collections
• 250 manuscript collections
• 300 oral histories 
• 100 audio-visual collections
• 500 videos, film and audio tapes
• Extensive materials from the Bid and Organizing Committees of the Olympic Winter Games of 2002
• Records and photos from almost every ski area in Utah and several in Idaho and Wyoming
• Scrapbooks of prominent ski industry pioneers
• Photo collections of the U.S. Forest Service’s role in ski safety and multiple use of public lands
• Records of the Professional Ski Instructors of America/Intermountain Division
• Documents from the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Assn.

The J. Willard Marriott Library is the main academic library of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. To learn more about the library’s Ski Archives, and to search the digital collections, go to: http://www.lib.utah.edu/collections/ski-archives/index.php. For more information, call program manager Judy Jarrow at (801) 581-3421.

1948: Merger of three periodicals into a single SKI Magazine.

          Launch of Rocky Mountain Skiing Magazine.

1959: Launch of Ski Life Magazine, New York City.

1962: Ski Life and SKI Magazine merged in a single magazine owned by Universal Publishing & Distributing Co., New York.

1964: Ziff Davis Publishing purchases Skiing Magazine, Denver, and moves it to New York.

1972: The Times Mirror Magazines Co. purchases SKI Magazine and Ski Business from Universal Publishing & Distributing.

1985: Ziff Davis sells Skiing Magazine, Skiing Trade News to CBS.

1987: Diamandis Communications Inc. buys Skiing Magazine and its related publications from CBS.  Times Mirror Magazines buys Skiing Magazine and Skiing Trade News from Diamandis.

2000. The Tribune Company, Chicago, buys Times Mirror Co., including its ski media – SKI and Skiing, and Warren Miller Productions.

2001. Time Inc., through its newly formed subsidiary Time 4 Media, buys Ski and Skiing, Transworld Snowboarding, Freeze and Warren Miller Productions from The Tribune Company.

2006: Time 4 Media discloses its intention to sell the ski and snowboard magazines and the Warren Miller film unit.

The ski magazines, and their changing owners

(Not for re-publication or website/Internet use. Author owns all rights.

Originally published in the December 2006 issue of Skiing Heritage,

this article can be viewed via Google Books at www.skiinghistory.org)

The shifting ownership of America’s ski magazines -- for a long time the world’s biggest in advertising sales and circulation – has a history of controversy and colorful personalities, on and behind the scenes. Truthfully, the magazines have probably changed hands no more often and with no less tumult than have ski areas and equipment suppliers, since ski publishing is subject to the same seasonal financial stress. But by their nature, the publications are more visible, their sale the subject of intense curiosity and scrutiny. They’re read by hundreds of thousands of skiers and carry advertising from scores of resorts, boot and ski companies, and skiwear makers. When new publishers take over, familiar names of editors and advertising executives disappear from mastheads, and occasionally re-appear on others with breathtaking swiftness. Fresh strategies for success are trumpeted by the new owners, giving rise to head-scratching skepticism about the veracity of earlier proclamations of success.

IN THE BEGINNING

Although it can’t be called “oldest continuously published,” SKI Magazine certainly has the most extended lineage of any U.S. ski periodical. In 1935, Seattle journalist Alf Nydin had the idea for a national periodical that he called SKI Magazine. He published his first issue in January, 1936. The next season, Nydin abandoned the title ‘SKI,” changed his new magazine’s name to Ski Illustrated and sprucing it up with graphics and color. Nydin also apparently sensed that if he wanted to ascend into the big leagues of publishing he needed to move Ski Illustrated  to New York City, and the magazine existed there briefly.

The opportunity to use the abandoned title “SKI” was briefly seized in 1941 by magazine writer David Judson (later, a ski area operator and a founder of the National Ski Areas Association). Judson published only three issues, then sold SKI back to Ski Illustrated, and left to join the 10^th Mountain Division.

The first of many ski magazine mergers took place in 1948 when Bill Eldred in Hanover, New Hampshire, purchased Ski Illustrated, merging it with two other magazines, Western Skiing and Ski News, under the single title, SKI.

Eldred's first issue, November 1, 1948, could have been SKI Volume 1, No. 1, but seizing on the fact that Ski Illustrated had started as SKI Magazine, he labeled his first issue Volume 13, No. 1. In doing so he established SKI as older than a new magazine that was being launched at the same time by Merrill Hastings in Colorado.

Hastings saw in Western Skiing’s disappearance a void that needed filling, and he named his new magazine Rocky Mountain Skiing. In its news-oriented pages, Hastings revealed a sound, visceral sense of what skiers wanted to read, and over the next 15 years, he developed his publication nationally into what became National Skiing and then Skiing Magazine, a progression chronicled in a profile by Morten Lund on page 00.

During the 1950s, the competition for advertising and readers between Eldred’s SKI and Hastings' National Skiing was intense and brutal -- or to put it more accurately, often brutish. Aspersions were cast, allegations of chicanery common. Hastings made it known to his employees that fraternizing with anyone at SKI (“the enemy’) was possible cause for dismissal.

Each magazine wooed advertisers of imported equipment and new ski areas with promises of favorable editorial treatment. The wall between church and state was fragile, as it would continue to be in the years ahead. But the overall impact of the magazines was hugely beneficial, feeding information to a rapidly growing number of Americans ardently committed to the sport. Over the decade, the circulations of SKI and Skiing each rose from under 20,000 to almost 50,000.

In the winter of 1958-59, SKI and Skiing woke up to find they had a new competitor. Arnold E. Abramson in New York City had launched a new magazine Ski Life. He did it partly as a consequence of his success with a soft cover book Learn To Ski by Ernie McCulloch. Quick sales of 50,000 copies of McCulloch’s book convinced Abramson of two things. “One, there’s a big market of people out there who want to read about how to learn to ski,” he said. “And two, they aren’t being served by the existing ski magazines.”

Hence Abramson started Ski Life magazine. Like its sister publication Golf Magazine, it was full of instruction tips. Because skiing was a winter activity and golf was perceived primarily as a summer sport, Abramson reasoned that editors could switch seasonally between Golf and Ski Life, like farmers threshing wheat in August and hewing logs in January. The trouble was that the ski editors didn’t know golf, nor the golf editors skiing. Ski Life’s early issues were amateurishly executed.

But Abramson’s idea of creating useful work for his employees when there was no snow was logical, and his failure presaged a difficulty that ski publishers would face for the next 40 years: It’s hard to be profitable when you employ people for twelve months a year and they only bring in revenue for six months. While ski areas were able to develop summer tourism, and equipment companies sold backpacks and mountain bikes, the ski publishers have mostly proved unable to attract readers or advertisers out of season.

Abramson was successful, however, in another way.  He was among the early publishers, like Bill Ziff, who saw that the future lay in special- interest magazines, like those for skiers, no longer the mass circulation magazines such as Life, Look, the Saturday Evening Post and Collier’s.

FROM THE HINTERLAND TO MANHATTAN

By 1959, SKI Magazine’s circulation had reached 50,000. But the magazine was struggling financially, and owner Bill Eldred in New Hampshire was in failing health. Although he’d married into wealth, the conjugal arrangement apparently didn’t help Eldred subsidize his publishing business. In 1961, he decided to sell. His Associate Publisher David Rowan, who had worked hard and loyally for Eldred for ten years, wanted to buy SKI, and with ex-Olympian Tom Corcoran, the two sought funding. But they were unable to raise the necessary money as quickly as Eldred wanted. He sold the magazine to Ski Life’s owner Abramson, who had taken his company public and had access to Wall Street funds. Thus America’s oldest ski periodical merged with its youngest.

Abramson moved the newly titled SKI Incorporating Ski Life from Hanover to the corner of Second Avenue and 42nd Street in New York. In Manhattan, the magazine’s offices were now a cab ride’s distance from dozens of agencies that created ads for ski equipment and clothing firms, and that made media selections for automobile and liquor companies wanting to reach skiers.

David Rowan wasn’t invited to join the newly merged magazines, fortuitously perhaps. It enabled Rowan to start Ski Area Management, a successful trade magazine for operators of ski resorts. In the process, Rowan helped to launch the National Ski Areas Association in 1962.

Trade magazine publishing by now had become an increasingly important component of owning a consumer ski magazine. Both Eldred (Ski Shop Bible) and Hastings (Skiing Trade News) had started business magazines in the 1950s. Under Nick Hock, an experienced trade magazine veteran who had joined Ski Life in 1961, Ski Business was launched. With Abramson’s acquisition of SKI, the Ski Shop Bible and Ski Business  merged and appeared four times a year. Later in 1964 when David Rowan joined SKI, his Ski Area Management (for area operators) became a sister publication of SKI Magazine (for skiers) and of Ski Business (for retailers and wholesalers.) With several hundreds of pages of advertising, much of it clustered around the trade shows in early spring, the trade magazines for a while were a significant asset for any publishing company buying a consumer ski title.

MUTINY, AN EXODUS, FIRINGS

In 1964, the Ziff Davis Company bought Skiing Magazine and Skiing Trade News from Merrill Hastings in Colorado, reportedly for $300,000. Young Bill Ziff (who died in September 2006, a billionaire) especially liked to ski, so he didn’t need much encouragement to enter ski publishing. His Ziff Davis Company eventually came to publish 55 magazines, including Popular Photography, Hi Fi and Stereo Review, Popular Boating, and Car & Driver.

Ziff lacked qualified people to run Skiing Magazine, which he’d moved from Denver to New York. He quickly found them uptown in SKI’s offices. Here, Martin Luray, previously Ski Life’s Editor, had been named as the top editor of the merged magazines. At Abramson’s company, he found that invoices were slow in being paid. Costs were contained in a vise-like grip. Seeking an escape, Luray secretly got in touch with Ziff in late 1963, about the time I joined SKI Magazine’s staff.

Not long after the Olympic flame had been extinguished at Innsbruck in February, 1964, I arrived at the office on Second Avenue one morning and was surprised to find no one there. The cubicles were empty. Most of SKI’s editorial and advertising sales people, including Editor Luray, ad director Nick Hock, Harry Kaiser, managing editor Dinah Witchel, the art director and sales staff had made a mass downtown migration to Ziff’s Skiing Magazine on Park Avenue.

I had only joined SKI Magazine four months earlier, and saw no reason to join the exodus. Arnold Abramson quickly named me as editor-in-chief.

Editing SKI Magazine in 1964 was like arriving in the Klondike during the gold strike and finding a well-paid job editing an entertainment guide for miners. That year, retail sales of ski gear jumped ahead by 25 percent. Advertising pages increased. The magazine’s circulation almost doubled between 1965 and 1970, as hundreds of thousands of baby-boomers took up skiing.

At Skiing Magazine, Ziff’s newly installed Editor Luray attempted to imbue the magazine with the slickness of Ted Patrick’s award-winning Holiday at the time. But Bill Ziff wanted a publication that more closely fit Ziff Davis’ stable of hard-core car, boating and hi-fi magazines. Skiing should be a “magazine for serious skiers,” Doug Pfeiffer told Ziff. Luray was removed from the Editor’s chair. Pfeiffer, who confessed to Ziff that he was “not a professional editor, I’m a ski instructor,” was named the magazine’s editorial director. Ziff, meanwhile, gave authority over his magazines to publishers, whose principal background was in selling ad space.

The ferocity of competition between SKI and Skiing for advertisers and readers continued. But as a result of discovering the kinds of article that most attracted readers, the two magazines also became more homogenous and formulaic, mirroring each another’s content.

Editors came and went, their tenure often short-lived. John Jerome quit as Skiing’s editor, replaced by Al Greenberg. Bill Tanler served briefly as SKI’s executive editor. He left to start a newspaper in Jackson Hole, then launched Ski Racing, The Ski Industry Letter, Ski Tech, Bicycle Retailer News and WinterSports Business. Tanler was especially shrewd at selling the publications he started. Ski Racing was successively bought by Ziff Davis, by Ed Pickett and Gary Black. Ski Industry Letter was operated for a few years by I. William Berry.

At SKI, Tanler was succeeded by Jim Spring, who later started skiing’s leading market research firm. In 1971, from the Saturday Review came a bright, energetic executive editor, Dick Needham who would rise to be SKI’s Editor and who remained with the magazine for another 20 years.

New Magazines Launched

Assisted by youthful demographics driving the sport’s growth, the number of readers of SKI and Skiing grew steadily after Eldred and Hastings launched their magazines in 1948. By 1966, SKI had a total circulation of 200,000, and it would add another 75,000 in the next two years as the magazine increased its publishing frequency from six to eight issues per season. Skiing’s growth was even faster. Its stated circulation in 1970-71 was 420,000, compared with 350,000 for SKI. .

At SKI, some of the circulation growth came from the aggressive selling of subscriptions to marginally interested readers. The field agencies making the sales retained all of the money from the first year’s subscription, generating no net revenue to the publisher. It was the beginning of a long and costly decline in circulation net revenues for ski publishers, culminating in the arrival in the 21^st Century of free media with no circulation revenue at all.

In 1972, pressed by creditors and problems with Abramson’s book publishing unit, Universal Publishing and Distributing Company sold SKI and Ski Business (and Golf Magazine) to the Times Mirror Company, a New York Stock Exchange company headquartered in Los Angeles. The publishing merger reflected a broader trend of mergers in the ski industry, which was attracting the attention of corporate new-business strategists. Ling Temco Vought Corporation bought Steamboat, Ralston Purina owned Keystone, AMF had bought the Head Ski Company.

The ski industry’s apparently rosy prospects attracted smaller publishers, too. The year 1966 saw the creation of Skiers’ Gazette – a sort of skiing New York Review of Books, with stimulating essays and needling assaults on the sport’s commercialism.

The soaring popularity of nordic skiing in the early ‘70s encouraged Barbara Brewster in Brattleboro, Vermont, to launch the first cross-country ski magazine. And in the summer of 1974, in offices on Madison Avenue in Manhattan, I worked up the design for an annual newsstand publication, SKI Magazine’s Guide to Cross Country Skiing. By 1979, the Guide had swelled to 186 pages, including 65 pages of advertising for nordic resorts, apparel, skis, boots and poles.

Another alternative magazine, Powder, was launched as an annual in the winter of 1972-73 by the Moe brothers, Jake and David. The Moes thought the established ski magazines to be vapid. The contrast of Powder’s pages with the increasing density of information in the traditional ski magazines at first was striking. But economics inevitably trumped art, and Powder’s pages came to be visually encumbered with the very ads it deplored in the other ski magazines. At the same time, it was unable to achieve their larger circulation, and what circulation it had was not scrutinized by the Audit Bureau of Circulation. Powder went on to have a succession of owners, including a cement conglomerate, Surfer Publishing group, Petersen Publishing, and today Primedia, whose depressed shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange.

ABC did measure the paid subscription and single copy sales of SKI and Skiing. The semi-annual ABC audits revealed a wealth of information about magazine readers. But, by and large, the marketing folks at ski areas and ski equipment and apparel companies ignored the data and revelations about unpaid subscription arrears in the audits, preferring to buy their advertising in page lots while aggressively negotiating discounts from the magazines’ published rate cards.

A kind of two-tier marketing took over at the magazines. They were driven in two directions, in a manner that to this day affects their success. In order to attract advertisers of cars, liquor, cameras and mass consumer products, the ski magazines, starting in the 1970s, felt they needed to raise their circulations to 400,000 and higher. With each increase in circulation, the cost of an ad page increased. This was okay for General Motors or Seagram’s (known in ski publishing as “horizontal” advertisers), but ski equipment companies and ski areas (“vertical” or “indigenous” advertisers) resisted paying $8,000 for a page that only a few years earlier had cost them half as much.

In truth, they were really only prepared to pay to reach a couple of hundred thousand primary readers, not the 400,000 and more being trumpeted to agencies on Madison Avenue. And so a kind of clandestine ad pricing grew up. In return for receiving multiple page schedules, the publishers gave the indigenous ski companies steep discounts from prices listed in their rate cards. The resulting cost/price ratio decidedly did not help the publishers’ bottom lines.

A Switch to Lifestyle

The year 1985 began a period of magazine publishing turbulence. After 20 years of ownership, Ziff Davis sold Skiing and most of its other magazines to the diversifying broadcaster, CBS. Within two years, CBS decided that it liked broadcasting a lot better than magazine publishing, and it sold the magazines to Peter Diamandis, who quickly unloaded four of them – Skiing, Field & Stream, Home Mechanix and Yachting on the Times Mirror Company.

The transaction shocked many in the publishing industry, who wondered why Times Mirror would spend in excess of $150 million, including $25 million for Skiing, to buy magazines duplicating markets the company was already serving.

SKI and Skiing, which had competed fiercely against one another for 40 years, were now owned by the same company.  

If Times Mirror’s idea was to monopolize the ski publishing market, however, its strategy was questionable. In 1987, even as Times Mirror was plotting to buy Skiing, the New York Times Co. had already embarked on the launching of a new magazine aimed at skiers, Snow Country. The choice of the name, employing snow, not ski, proved prophetic.

At Snow Country, shortly after being retained as the magazine’s founding editor, I took a trip in the summer of 1988 to Colorado, where I was astounded by the amount of building in ski towns. Construction derricks were everywhere. New hotels, condominiums and second homes filled valleys. Even if the sport of skiing wasn’t growing, the place sure as hell was.

“Why not make Snow Country a magazine about a place?” I asked. Snow Country could be not so much a special interest magazine about a sport that wasn’t growing, but about a place that was. It would be about the mountainous region where people ski, take vacations and, increasingly, come to live. Moreover it would serve the New York Times Co. decision to publish not only in winter, but also in summer when people don’t ski. A magazine oriented to a place would be relevant in July in a way that a magazine strictly about skiing could not.

In a way, Snow Country’s publishing chief Jay FitzGerald was attempting to overcome the seasonal problem that Arnold Abramson had unsuccessfully attacked 30 years earlier. Perhaps, too, the year-round publishing schedule would reverse the comparatively weak subscription renewal rate experienced by traditional ski magazines, caused by readers not being exposed to the magazine for five months of the year.

The contents page of Snow Country’s premier issue listed articles about Lifestyle, Property, Travel, Buying and Instruction. The magazine photographed fashions suitable for wearing in the place, snow country. There was a chart of recent selling and asking prices for second homes and condos. And why not? Skiing was beginning to morph into one of several “lifestyle” amenities offered to guests at four-season mountain resorts, causing editors and publishers to re-think what a ski magazine should be.

The shift to lifestyle content led the publishers to reduce their coverage of the athletic core of the sport. In the early 1990s, a new editor at SKI eliminated “Ski Pointers” from the magazine’s pages. For 30 years the short instruction tips had been the most intensively read information in the magazine. The great racing events and their heroes appeared with less and less frequency in the magazines. It was as unimaginable as if Golf Digest and Tennis dropped their coverage of the Masters and the U.S. Open. But it happened in skiing.

While general advertisers were attracted to the new lifestyle content, readers didn’t necessarily follow suit. Snow Country failed to turn a profit, and shut down in the summer of 1999. The circulation of the remaining ski magazines has remained flat. Attempts by the established ski publishers to attract young snowboarders as readers failed. Snowboarding teenagers and twenty-somethings preferred their own raunchy, irreverent ‘zines, saturated with their own language and lifestyle.

The change in business dynamics, reflecting the arrival of  snowboarding, can be measured in another way. In March, 1997, the trade magazine TransWorld SNOWboarding Business produced a monstrous 330-page trade show issue. Almost 20 years earlier the 1979 trade show issue of Ski Business had been of almost equal size, 314 pages, but by the 21^st Century Ski Business and Skiing Trade News no longer existed in print.

Time 4 Media took over the ski magazines and snowboard publisher Transworld in 2000, purchasing them from the Chicago-based Tribune Co., which in turn had held the magazines for only nine months after it acquired them from their previous publisher, the Times Mirror Co. 

By the time Time4 Media arrived on the scene in 2000, it was becoming increasingly difficult to keep SKI’s and Skiing’s paid circulation above 400,000, even as the company, in an upheaval, changed the magazine’s management and introduced the best of its own legendary editing and design skills. The new kind of ski magazine, aimed at the new kind of magazine reader, was chock-a-block with short, tightly written items, colorful and attractive to read, demanding only a short attention span on the part of the reader. To no avail.

Unable to find the bottom line it wanted, Time Inc. surprised almost no one by its decision to abandon ski publishing. The magazines and Warren Miller Productions were purchased by the American subsidiary of Sweden’s Bonnier Corp. In 2012 Bonnier decided to exit, and the magazines were taken over by California-based Active Interest Media, whose management team had been in Boulder running the magazines between 1996 and 2003.

NO EASY SOLUTION

None of the ownership changes have made up for the massive volume of information about travel, resorts and equipment that began to become available to skiers at websites in the mid-1990s.  The number of ski-related websites grew from a mere half dozen to an estimated 50,000 in 2004. Skiers now pay nothing to gain access to information they previously paid for when they bought newspapers and magazines. Within a decade, a whole new medium transformed the way skiers received information. Ironically, the ski magazine publishers themselves facilitated the transformation by creating free-access websites of their own.

In 1966, people bought 68,000 copies of an issue of SKI at newsstands and other outlets; in 2004, they were buying only 14,777 copies. Paid subscriptions to SKI and Skiing in 2006 were lower than 30 years earlier, as the publishers resigned themselves to the reality that it was more cost effective to distribute the magazines free, exemplified in the Canada-headquartered giveaway publication Ski Press. 

The radical extent of the shift to sending copies free to people like ski area season passholders became known in 2006 when advertisers learned that more than half of SKI’s 450,000 circulation was made up of sponsored and partnership subscriptions -- the second highest for any American consumer magazine.

Against this background, an owner of SKI and Skiing magazines and of TransWorld  faces challenges historical challenges: How to satisfy the needs of both vertical and horizontal advertisers; how to structure a publishing operation with six months of revenue and 12 months of costs; whether the two long established magazines should be merged in one, or one of them sold to another publisher; and whether it is possible any longer to get skiers to pay for subscriptions or to buy significant numbers of copies on newsstands.

Between 1958 and 1998, the author worked as an editor of Ski Life Magazine, SKI Magazine and Snow Country.

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Much of the material for this article comes from my book, The Story of Modern Skiing (408 pages, University Press of New England, published October, 2006). Ski historian and former ISHA board member Kirby Gilbert furnished information about the early ski magazines between 1936 and 1948. Thanks to Dana Andrews and Dick Cutler for information about advertising prices and circulation in the early 1970s. Skiing Heritage Executive Editor Seth Masia supplied data about skiing’s early Internet presence.  

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Blizzard

Summer 1989 Vol 1 #1
Report of the TransArctic Expedition
Tribute to Toni Matt

Fall 1989 Vol 1 #2
California Miner Racing
Tribute to Fridtjof Nansen

Snow News

Winter 1990 Vol 2 #1
Henry Perkins bio
The 10th Mountain Spirit
The Sport of Jack Jumping

Spring 1990 Vol 2 #2
Hot Dog Legends Compete at Sunday River

Summer 1990 Vol 2 #3
Hjalmar Hvam bio

Fall 1990 Vol 2 #4
Mathias Zdarsky bio
A History of Wax

Snow News, Journal of I.S.H.A.

Winter 1991 Vol 3 #1
A History of Snow Grooming
A History of Pro Racing
Walter Stadig bio

Spring 1991 Vol 3 #2
Perry Merrill bio
A History of Slalom

Summer 1991 Vol 3 #3
Mick Hul bio
A History of jumping

Fall 1991 Vol 3 #4
Jackrabbit Johannsen bio
A History of Lifts: mine buckets; Truckee; Sun Valley chair;
Whitney’s shovel handle lift; ropeways; Magic Mt. Idaho;
boat lift; Silver King mine trains; Gilbert’s Hill, Woodstock;
Roland Peabody rope tow at Cannon Mountain; Belknap
rope tow; Dopplemeyer; Brevent; tribute to Sel Hannah

Winter 1992 Vol 4 #1
A History of Holmenkollen Competitions
A History of Sugarloaf Ski Resort

March 1992 Vol 4 #2
I.S.H.A. First Annual Gathering at Whistler, British Columbia
Report on I.S.H.A. directors meeting

August 1992 Vol 4 #3
Report on Circle of Knowledge
Olaus Jeldness bio
Sketch of Freestyle competition history
The First American Lift at Truckee

November 1992 Vol 4 #4
10th Mountain Division
Ivor Halversen bio
Acid Based Paper

Skiing Heritage

Spring 1993 Vol 5 #1
The Films of Hannes Schneider
(Arnold Fanck, Leni Riefenstahl)
I.S.H.A. Lifetime Achievement Awards: John Auran in Ski Journalism; Arnold Lunn in Ski History
Two New Ski Museums: Vermont Ski Museum and The Ropeway Studies Information Center at the Colorado School of Mines
I.S.H.A. First Eastern Gathering at Sugarbush, Vermont
I.S.H.A. Second Annual Gathering at Sun Valley, Idaho

Fall 1993 Vol 5 #2
Cover story: Lieni Fopp, Ernest Constam, box on Paul and Paula (Kann) Valar, who supplied the pictures and research
Ed Scott: NY ski train, working at Alex Taylor, Scott poles
Salute to the Royal Ruel Christie
Book Review: From Skisport to Skiing by John Allen

Winter 1994 Vol 6 #1
Cover story: First U.S. Ski Book,The Winter Sport of Skeeing
Book Review: Ski Pioneers by Rick Richards—a bio of Ernie Blake, Taos, New Mexico
I.S.H.A. Second Eastern Gathering at Sugarbush, Vermont
Announcement of Third Annual Gathering at Park City, Utah

Fall 1994 Vol 6 #2
Cover story: Gretchen Fraser
The Coming of Charlie Lord, Stowe, Vermont; Mt. Mansfield, CCC
Friedl Pfeifer bio Nice Goin’
Editorial: Making a World Class Journal:
Letters: Ted Borch (posed shots in Skeeing), Charles Dwyer (Constam T-bar), Ben Rinaldo (meeting of Blake Mittleberger, Bill Keil ( Stevens Pass T-bar), Ed Scott (aluminum poles)
Tips and Tales: Lillehammer 1939 University Games, Roby Albouy; Boat Tow; Sunday River Ski Train
Celebrations: AT&T Awards, Richard Steadman; 1994 Crested Butte Film Festival Jerry Award to Otto Lang; Legends of Freestyle: Salerno, Wong, Theobold, Brooksbank; Hall of Fame: O’Leary, Branch, Earl Miller; Aspen Historic Downhill
Lifetime Achievement Awards: Peter Miller, William Banks Berry, James Laughlin—all in Ski Journalism
Ullr Awards: Dave Goodman, Backcountry Skiing; John Allen, From Skisport to Skiing; and Rick Richards, Ski Pioneers
Skiers Bookshelf: Universal Ski Techniques, George Twardokens; The Athletic Skier, Warren Witherell; Green Cognac, William Putnam, A Bird of Passage, Otto Lang; Leni Riefenstahl, by Leni Riefenstahl; Don’t Look Back, Patrick O’Connor; Peak Ski Guide, Peak Productions;Lost Sierra, Bill Berry
Finish Line: Jakob Vaage: Norway’s ski historian

Winter 1995 Vol 7 #1
Cover story: Dick Durrance
Legend of Ullr: John Allen
Passion for the Past: Mason Beekley bio
Otto Lang bio A Bird of Passage
Last Run: Obit of Otto Steiner by Wolfang Lert
Finish Line: Obit of Katy Rodolph by Nick Howe
Editorial: Mounting Operation Rescue, saving ski history
Reponse: Tom Kelly (praise for Heritage); Duane Vanderbusche (praise for Fraser); Leif Torgerson (correction on Fraser); Mrs. David Emerson (praise for Fraser); Arthur Weyhe (praise for Charlie Lord)
Celebrations: 1994 SIA 40th anniversary show: Des Roches, Durrance, Fraser, Hagemeister, Heron, Hvam, Jay, Knowlton, Lange, Leonasrd, Lert, Nordhaus, Roffe, Rowan, Simon;
1995 Jerry Award to Dick Durrance; USSA Blegen Award: DesRoches. Slattery. Goetzman. Thomson,. Anderson, Raaum, Chadwick, Boyum,.West, Sosman, Johnstone;
U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame reunion: Maurin, Jay, Knudesen, Branch, Dercum, Chadwick, Burr, O”Leary, Perrault, DesRoches, Miller, Anderson, Johnstone, Boyum, Raaum, Hill, Maki, Bietila
Veteran Ski Instuctors: Founding of PSIA—Lash, Valar, Johnston
Tips and Tales: Ansel Adams’ photo of Tom Suvulewski, Badger Pass Yosemite; poem by John Armstrong; Cliff Banta, Flying Mile, Carson Peak Sierra; robot ski tuner; Jackrabbits pants; snowflake drawings; old time skis; Allen Adler bio

Fall 1995 Vol 7 #2
Cover story: Salute to the 10th Mountain
Response: John Benson, Edward Murray, Jay Samoff, Bob Woody, John Turnbull, Jon Lund, Bradley Benedict,
I.S.H.A Fourth Annual Gathering at Aspen, Colorado
I.S.H.A. Lifetime Achievement Awards: Bil Dunaway in Ski Journalism and Jakob Vaage in Ski History
I.S.H.A. Ullr Awards: Martie Sterling, Days of Stein and Roses; James Sloan Allen, The Romance of Culture and Commerce; Dolores LaChapelle, Deep Powder Snow; Friedl Pfeifer, Nice Goin‘
Finish Line: Wayne Poulsen
Tips and Tales: Horace Quick, Saturday Evening Post, 10th Mountain cover painting, John Fry, Hall of Fame; Pepi Teichner, Sun Valley, Otto Lang, Pfeiffer, Sinclair Lang, Willie Wyler, Shearer, Hauser, Virginia Hill, Colbert; Wilmot, Helmut Teichner, Eddie the Eagle; Bradley bunch, David Bradley, Steve Bradley, Charles Bradley; Ethelred the Unsteady
Editorial: 10th Mountain Miracle

Winter 1996 Vol 8 #1
Cover Story: A Short History of Alpine Skiing
Column: Half Century as An Instructor
Feature: Hollywood Ski Movies by Gary Schwartz
Editorial: Dole Patrol; the National Patrol, started by Minot Dole
Column: First Slalom Under FIS rules: Baumrucker
Tips and Tales: Ski Dek, Lebanon chair, Andre Roch, A.J. Kitt, Roch Cup, Norheim binding, AT&T Skiing Award to Phil Mahre
Bookshelf: First Tracks by Glenn Parkinson (references to Frederick Jorgensen and Theodore Johnsen); Skiing Literature by Gary Schwartz;Birth of a Division by George Earle, Winter Sports by Norman Dibelius, Hill Echoes by Erling Omland, Ski Fever by Warren Miller
Videos: Tales of the Mountain by Walter Schoenknecht, Winter Wonderland, Michigan skiing, Fire on the Mountain, George and Beth Gage
Finish Line: Christian Pravda by Nick Howe:

Spring/Summer 1996 Vol 8 #2
Cover Story: John Jay
Feature: Broken Ski: the Howard Head story
Response: Ted Heck, Jimmy Johnston, Michael Berry, Robert Rock, David Rothman, Roger Brown, Helmut Teichner, Sewall Williams, Edwin Lang on Stowe history, Dick Kohnsamm on Timberline on Mt. Hood, reprise of earliest U.S. chairlifts
Editorial: History to the Rescue—the small rope tow ski areas breed skiers
Franzl – biography- Franz Gabl biogaphy, story file 118, 1948 Olympics
I.S.H.A. Fifth Annual Gathering at Stowe, Vermont; Sandy Heath, Vintage Visions Fashion Show; screening of Fire on the Mountain
I.S.H.A. Ullr Awards: Ullrs to Allen Adler for New England and Thereabouts; Otto Lang for Bird of Passage; Glenn Parkinson for First Tracks; Dick Durrance for Man on the Medal; Ullr Award to George and Beth Gage for the documentary Fire on the Mountain
I.S.H.A. Lifetime Achievement Awards: Roland Palmedo and John Fry in Ski Journalism
Tips and Tales: Snowboarding takes over; Claudette Colbert obit; Less Otten and Conglomeration; Humiliating Dilbert; Pulling Wires in the Ski Troops; Helping Stem the lawsuit tide; Heavenly Trail map; Wnite Pine Ski Area; Cross Country in the Park; Salute to Steve Knowlton; famous Ski Dek

Fall 1996 Vol 8 #3
Cover Story: Otto Schniebs
Schneibs [common misspellng], instructor, Dartmouth, Lake Placid
Barney McLean bio: The Nice Guy Who Finished First, Hot Sulphur Springs, 1948 Olympics
Response: Erling Omland, Don Traynor,Wolfgang Lert, Martha Head John Hitchcock, Minot Dole, Sewall Williams, Ben Rinaldo, Debbie Bankhart, Dave Rowan
Editorial: To Rescue History: Errors in ski history published in ski magazine
Tips and Tales: Ski Trooper Mermorial and Don Traynor, U.S. Hall of Fame: Junior Boundous, Jimmy Johnson, Dave Rowan; the Broken Bone Club, Gretchen Besser
Bookshelf: The Aspen Story by Mary Hayes, Gretchen’s Gold by Luanne Pfeifer, The Games of ’36 by Stan Cohen, See Naples and Die by Robert Ellis
Finish Line: Hans Hagemeister by Wolfgang Lert

First Issue 1997 Vol 9 # 1
Cover Story: Anderl Molterer the Blitz from Kitz part I by Nick Howe
I.S.H.A. History: An I.S.H.A. timeline
Haug, Haugen, first Olympic medal by John Auran; the myth that Anders Haugen was officially given Thorleif Haug’s bronze medal in the Special Jumpin the 1924 Olympics
The Meister Cup: Mt. Cranmore, New England Ski Museum, Hannes Schneider, Andy Mead, Bogner Vintage Visions: Fashion Show by Sandy Heath
Humor: The Beginner’s Guide to Skiing
I.S.H.A. Sixth Annual Gathering at Aspen, Colorado
I.S.H.A. Ullr Awards: Gretchen Besser for National Ski Patrol, Samaritans of the Snow; Luanne Pfeifer, Gretchen’s Gold; Mary Eschbaugh Hayes, The Story of Aspen
I.S.H.A. Lifetime Achievement Award: John Jay in Ski Journalism
Response: Gretchen Fraser, first medalist, Luanne Pfeifer; Franz Gabl, Gary Schwartz. Paul McMorris on small areas; Don Traynor on his 10th Mountain scout; Phil Clark on Lnton Ski, George Lyons on old techniques, Ekkehart Ulmrich on Perry Oliver Smith; Rigomar Thurmer on fact finding; Sewall Willaims on Dured Townsend; Dick Movitz on Barney McLean; Nathan Turfs on Yale ski team in the 1947-48 championship; Betty Wbitney on Schniebs and Sise; Rom Rogers; Jim Ellertson on 1950s racing; Reimar Frank on Florian Haemmerle; Erling Omland on 1947 preOlympic racing, Been There, Done That
Editorial: Building a ski history record
Tips and Tales: Howelsen lift in Ski Area Management; Betty Woolsey in the 1936 Olympics; Dick Barrymore gets the Jerry; Arnold Schwartzenegger ; Susie Wirth, the Little Skier’s Big Day; new publishing schedule; 1997 list of subscribers, I.S.H.A. memebers

Second Issue 1997 Volume 9 #2
Cover Story: Skiing Comes to Aspen: Visonaries and Teachers—by Mary Hayes; Friedl Pfeifer; Jerome Hotel, Aspen Crud, Andre Roch., Percy Rideout, John Litchfield, Georgette Thioliere, first Aspen single chair in 1947, Herbert Bayer, Leonards Woods, Chick Webb, Diock Wright, Andy Ransom, Marshall Fitzgerald, Lib Fitzgerald, Walter Haug, Curt Chase, Fred Iselin, Bill Janns
Response: John Auran on Molterer’s Revenge’ Erling Omland on a visit to the Holmenkollen Ski Museum; Wolfgang Lert on a racer’s point of view; Allen Adler on Susie Wirth and Little Skier’s Big Day; Judy Gray, praise; Gus Raaum on Birger Ruud; Margaret McLean on Barney McLean, Karl Molitor
1997 Annual Giving: Ullr and Skade illustration
Licia Beekley, in memoriam
Editorial: Why Ski History?
Walter Amstutz by Mason Beekley; Amstutz Spring
Tips and Tales: Burt Bidwell and 10th Mountain statue; 10th folk at Aspen’s 50th: Bob Parker, Whip Jones; In the Gripe of the Olympics, environmental objections; New York funk and ski fashion; Aspen Hall of Fame adds Knowlton; Glenn Parkinson becomes president of New England Ski Museum; Conglomeration with George Gillett, holdings of Vail, Booth Creek, Intrawest, Boyne, American Skiing Company and Powder Corp; 1997 Ski Hall of Fame roster: Obermeyer, Golden, Judson, Lund; Pioneer ski teachers at Hanover; 10th Veterans Erling Omland, Sewall Williams, William Wright
The Blitz From Kitz—Anderl Molterer: Part II by Nick Howe
Obit of Alf Engen: One of a Kind by Allen Adler; jumping record, first pro circuit, Iron Mountain, Alta deep powder, 1948 Olympic team coach
The World of American Ski Museums: a column by Glenn Parkinson; New England Ski Museum, Colorado Ski Museum; Western Skisport Museum; U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame and Museum; Alf Engen Ski Museum; Utah Ski Archives; Vermont Ski Museum; Grand Country Historical Society; Sun Valley Ski Museum; Beekley International Collection of Ski Art and Literature; Schwartz Historical Collection of Sking; Parkinsion’s Ski Museum

Third Issue 1997 Vol 9 #3
Cover Story: Tamara McKinney by Nick Howe Part I; the McKinney family; Bill Marolt, Bob Beattie
Response: Amstutz Springs, Doug Pfeiffer; praise, Beck; John Paul schuss, Frank Brown; Iron, Nick Howe; Wolfgang Lert; praise Tom Rogers; Rudi Mattesich, Sewall Williams; American films; Peter Picard; sidecuts, Rod Aller; nostalgia, Yosemite, Foeger, Prager, Libby Fitzgerald; small ski areas, Charles Skinner; small ski areas, big ski corps, conglomerates, Jerry Groswold; Aspen’s first year, Elmar Baxter; early Aspen, Charles Peet; ski films, Frederick Martinson, Alf Engen, John Auran; Linton skis, Phil Clark, Joern Gerdts; praise, Rigo Thurmer; Meister Cup, Cal Coniff
Editorial: The Shrine of Skiing
Been There Done That by Erling Omland on Skiing with Stein
Tips and Tales: Big Tupper, Tupper Lake, prisons; Leadville, Colorado; Snowboard brakes; the ski train to Hunter; Fickle Olympic snows, Nagano; down the tubes, tubing;
The Time Machine: 1887 Fridtjof Nansen; Mathias Zdarsky; 1947 American ski annual , Lennie Woods; Invitation to Skiing, Fred Iselin and A.C. Spectorsky; 1972; Peter Miller, 30,000 Mile Ski Race, Palmer; How the Racers Ski, Warren Witherell; Wilderness Skiing, Lito Tejada-flores; Japanese Olympics at Sapporo, Yurko Kasaya, Morten Lund, Pleasures of Cross Country Skiing
Mountain Dreaming in California by Wolfgang Lert; Mountain Dreamers by Robert Frohlich, Jo Marillac, Babette Haueisen, Hannes Schroll, Charley Proctor, Don and Mary Tressider, Yosemite, Silver Belt,.Stan Tomlinson, Otto Steiner, Orland Bartholomew
A Most Dangerous Journey by Gene Rose; Orland Bartholomew, the Sierra, Mt. Whitney, Muir Trail
A History of the U.S. Ski Hall of Fame in Ishpeming by Allen Adler; Bill Berry, Red Carruthers, etc.
The Hall of Fame is Where It Should Be by Morten Lund, acceptance address, Class of 1997: Dave Judson, (Hooker Judson), Klaus Obermeyer, Diana Golden, 1996: Junior Bounous
The First Dual Slalom Duel by Chris Lizza, June Lake, California; Slim Maberry
I.S.H.A. Bulletin: executive committee meeting, Wolfgang Lert on editorial board
1998 I.S.H.A. Gathering Annoucement: Plump Jacks, Squaw Valley

First Issue 1998 Vol 10 #1
Cover Story: Roots of an Olympic Sport: Freestyle by Morten Lund and Peter Miller
Response: Down Ski Memory Lane, William Harris; New Is Not All Bad, Ted Lund; A Mountain Culture, Dolores LaChappelle; More Story Ideas, Albert Pierce; Dissent From Olympus, Bill Berry; An Olympic Memoir, John Jay; A Unique, Forgotten “Ski School” of the 1930′s, Bob Parker; Intimate Revelations, Barbara Wrenn; Support Skiing, Not Jailing, John Auran; Getting History Straight, Nick Howe; Filling in the California Ski History Record, Gene Rose; Errors in “Dreamers,” Chris Lizza; Reaction on the Haug-Haugen Medal Confusion, Alan Baker; Corrections on Colorado, Bill Mason; Another Tale of Amstutz, Steve Knowlton
Editorial: A Question of Calculation: Lethal Accidents
Tips and Tales: The President meets ski business; Steve Knowlton meets Arnold Schwarzenegger; the giant dwarf Mammoth earthquake; deer hunting on skis
Tamara McKinney Part II: by Nick Howe
Stein Eriksen’s Birthday Party by Morten Lund; Deer Valley, Park City, Utah
The US Ski Team 1981-1984: Four Incredible Years: Phil and Steve Mahre, Tamara McKinney, Debby Armstrong, Bill Johnson, Christin Cooper

Second Issue 1998 Vol 10 #2
Cover Story: Winston Pote Pioneer Photographer by Tom Eastman
Response: A Fall Guy’s Correction, Steve Knowlton; Is That John or Fergie? Eric Stiegemeier; Not John, It’s Fergie, Airborne Eddie; Wong Weighs In, Wayne Wong; A Medal Mix-Up, Allen Adler; A Lifetime in the Sport, LaVern O. Trepp; A Picture Mix-Up, Suzy Harris Rytting; A King’s Mountain Kid, Alan Baker; Kudos for the Hall Story, Burton H. Boyum; Creative Contribution, Laura Mulcrevy; All About Ancient Skiers, Irv Pratt; Reporting on an Error and an Early Lift, Kirby Gilbert; Back in the Saddle at Obergurgl, Bill Stark
Editorial: OK, What Are We Doing Here?
Sayonara, Sapporo by John Henry Auran
Tamara: Reel Three by Morten Lund
Tamara Part III: 1985 A Fall From Grace by Nick Howe
The Big Bear Sling Lift by Doug Pfeiffer
Seventh and Best Annual I.S.H.A. Gathering: Plump Jacks, Squaw Valley
The 1998 I.S.H.A. Lifetime Achievement Awards: Bill Tanler in Ski Journalism and Roger Brown in Ski Film-making
The 1998 I.S.H.A. Ullr Awards: Robert Frohlich for Mountain Dreamers, Louis Dawson for Wild Snow
The 1998 Skade Awards: Joy Lucas for It Started in the Mountains, Franz Gabl for Franzl, Jean Arthur for Hell Roaring

Third Issue 1998 Vol 10 #3
Cover Story: Forgotten Photographer Helene Fischer
Response: What Did It Say? Carol Price; Snowboard-Ski Accidents, Will Lund; Brookie Heard From, Brooks Dodge; A Franconia Ski Family, Mrs. L.C. Ahlgren; On Films, Museums and McKinneys, Alan Mundt; Remembering Goon Skis, Peter Miller; Searching for Peppi, Helmut Teichner; Let’s Hear It for Clif, Marty Keller; Nice Sign, Needs Work, Sewall Williams; Missing Diversity, Jim Ellertson; A Dartmouth Racer, Bill Chapin; Norse History Specialist Corrects Heritage, Roger Olson; Early Skier at Sky Tavern, Anna Schmidt Parker; Haug and Haugen: Explaining it Again- Evelyn J. Valente- Heikkila, Henry J. Pflieger, William Banks Berry; 10th Mountain Historian Needs Information, W. Michel Myers; Skiing in the Golden Age, John C. Calhoun; A Sun Valley Idol Ages, Libby Fitzgerald; A Swiss Ambassador to American Skiing, Rich Nelson; New Addition Added to the Beekley Collection, Allen Adler; Hail and Farewell to Good Old Schimmerldorf! David Binger; A Wiard Party, Barbara Wiard; Clif Taylor Speaks, Clif Taylor; What About Ludic? David Rowan; The Adventures of Wolfie, Wolfgang Lert; Correction on Sapporo, Gus Raaum; Looking for 10th Mtn. Tapes, Roger Dickensen
Editorial: Errare Humanum Est
Roots of an Olympic Sport: Freestyle- Part II Freestyle Comes of Age by Morten Lund and Peter Miller
Tips and Tales: The Old Headwall, The 1960 Jay Olympics Video, An Apple for the Teachers (Pfeiffer, Charette, Wheeler, McConkey), Laila Schou-Nilsen, Four Worthy Skiers Enter Hall of Fame in 1998 (John Woodward, Anna McIntyre, William Tanler, Warren Witherell), Golden Fliers, An Aspen-Beekley Collection Connection
The Seer of Skiing- Lloyd Lambert by Cheryl Thomas
[70+ ski club, seventy plus]
First of All: Otto Lang and His Pioneer Steel Pole

Fourth Issue 1998 Vol 10 #4
Cover Story: The Snow Train’s A-Comin’ Snow Trains and the Growing World of Ski Posters by W. Mason Beekley, The Train Only Stops Here Once by Barbara Wrenn [ski trains],
A Gallery of Snow Train Art
Response: Pote the Friend, Sewall Williams; Pote the Film Maker, Rick Moulton; More on Peppi, Helmut Teichner; Wrong Wall Cited, Nick Howe; A Tale of Traveling Gloves, Barbara Wrenn; Ski Championships, David Rowan; California’s First Overhead Cable Lift, 1936, Chris Lizza; Revised Closing Date, Paul B. McMorris; John Glenn, Astronaut, Meets Jules Eberhard, Jules Eberhard; John Fry: Clif Taylor, Karl Pfeiffer and the True Story of GLM, John Fry; About Barry Corbet, Roger Brown; Wrong Blatt, Boots Blatt; Wrong Declension, Frederick K. Martinson; The Scooter Writes, Scooter Lacouter; The Goon Ski Lives! Vintage Skiing Thrives! Cal Conniff; Skiers Identified, Curt Chase; Old Friends Found, Dick Wilson; Old Films Archived, Burton Boyum; Senior Skiing Honored, Dick Lambert; Babette’s Feast, Babette Haueisen; Hall of Fame Class, Allen Adler
Editorial: The Ski Cartoons of Charles Addams
The Strange and Wonderful Postage Stamps of Skiing by Morten Lund
Long thongs and short snorts: Tales from mid-century by H. Seawall Williams

First Issue 1999 Vol 11 #1
Cover Story: Mont Tremblant: The Enduring Legacy by Dorothy Crossley and Morten Lund
Response: The First Ski Club, Paul McMorris; More On Snow Valley, Nicholas Hock; A New Reader, Edith Luray; Likes the Journal, Chuck Quinn; Otto’s Steel Pole, Bob Weaver; The Clif Taylor Version: The True History of GLM, Clif Taylor; Luanne Pfeifer: A Ski Stamp for Gretchen, Luanne Pfeifer; Stamps and Shorties, Elizabeth Hussie; James Riddell Writes, James Riddell; First Day Covers, John Allen; History in Stamps, John Auran; Posters and Menus, Wolfgang Lert; Pine Boards, Yo Ho? Jon Lund; New Boot Concept Breakthrough by Ski Sage, Cal Conniff; The Ski Pentathlon? Nick Howe; On the Rocks at Pico, Peter Seibert; Lew Witcher, Karl, El and Songs After Skiing, Erling Omland; Slalom Anyone? Tom Jacobs; Safer Silver Skis, Kirby Gilbert; Fellow Sufferer, Jack Moe; Boston Still a Ski Hive, Dave Arnold; Wool, Not Rails, David Rowan;
Editorial: Big Step Forward for the Hall of Fame
Long thongs and short tales: The day the timing clocks went crazy by Matt Broze

Second Issue 1999 Vol 11 #2
Cover Story: Bill Klein in Donner Pass by Wolfgang Lert and Morten Lund
Response: Joe Ryan’s Daughter, Lillie R. DeBevoise; Growing Up GLM, Will Lund; Skiing, a Gift for Life, Karen Fulco; Sig and Otto and Benno, Nicholas Howe; Joanne Hewson: Skiing with Franzl and Ernie; Lucile Wheeler on Gray Rocks, Lucile Wheeler; Frankie O’Rear Writes Again, Frankie O’Rear; How GLM Went Abroad, Helmut Teichner; Good Old GLM, George Riordan; The Oldest Continuous Ski Club, Murren, and Other Matters, Allen Adler; Skiing’s Ten Commandments, Gene Rose; Correction Noted, John Fry; The One and Only Ulla Lodge, Sewall Williams; The Good Old Dumbsprung, Lou Lockwood; The Good Old Toadstabber, Joe Powers; Of Pine Skis and Double Poles, Roger Olson, Ski Trains and Snowflake Bentley, Duncan C. Blanchard; How Wolfie Beat Jack Rabbit, Wolfgang Lert; Cooking with Wolfie, Luanne Pfeifer; Gratitude in the Right Way, Reimar F. Frank; Fellow Publisher Weighs in With Praise, Jack Moe; The Good Life, Lex H. Kunau; One More Member, John Jay
My Life with the Continuously Circulating Wire Rope by Max Dercum
An Editorial Postscript by Morten Lund- Early Lifts
The Compleat Skier – Excerpt from NY Times
The 1999 I.S.H.A. Eighth Annual Gathering: Mont Tremblant
International Skiing History Association Awards Honor Roll 1993-1999
Mont Tremblant Revisited by Allen Adler
The 1999 I.S.H.A. Lifetime Achievement Awards: Doug Pfeiffer and David Rowan in Ski Journalism
The 1999 I.S.H.A. Ullr Awards: Frankie O’Rear for The Aspen Story, The Mont Tremblant Story, Chateau Bon Vivant; Wendolyn Holland for Sun Valley, An Extraordinary History
The 1999 I.S.H.A. Skade Awards: Louise Arbique and Marc Blais for Mont Tremblant: Following the Dream, and Danielle Soucy for La Valle de la Diable
Long thongs and short tales: The North Creek Mountain Horror

Third Issue 1999 Vol 11 #3
Cover Story: How Fast Can You Go? by Peter Miller, Speed Skiing
Response: Peter Picard on Early Donner Days (and Georg Gartner), Peter Picard; Joe Ryan Jr. Writes; Reproducing Ernie’s Picture, Tricia Finley; McCulloch on Water, Ernest Bosselman; McCulluch at Aspen, Jim Ellertson; Catskill Pioneer Praises Tremblant, Blanche H. Davenport; A Different Slant on Jack Rabbit, John Allen; Letter From Benno, 1950; Last Tango on the Sundeck, Ruth Whyte; A History of One Pole Versus Two, John Allen; Harry Leonard and the First-Ever Ski Shows; John Hitchcock Records the First-Ever Man-made Snow
Steve McKinney 1953-1990 by Dick Dorworth
Foster Place by Peter Miller
Ned Gillette 1945-1990 by Peter Miller
The Mansfield Patrol by Brian Lindner and Morten Lund
Moriarty and His Mother’s Hat by Peter Miller
Long thongs and short tales: The Virtual Run of the Resolute Reporter by Morten Lund

Fourth Issue 1999 Vol 11 #4
Cover Story: Skiing History in Ski Cartooning by Morten Lund
Response: Rodegard, praise; Bernard, Max and the CCWR; Picard, bio; Omland, Interservice races of 1944; Robert Rock, It Was 1942 in Stowe; Fred Pearce, sketches of Aspen, poem; Whitney, the Whitney lift; Lert, the first (Zdarsky) slalom; Gilbert, transition to two poles; Lambert, footnote on Polar skiing; Olson, Carl Howelson; Stark, Hans Falkner in Obergurgl; Shawn Emery, Utah ski film; editor’s critique of bindngs, brakes, powder, technique, avalanche science; Gilbert, Utah ski film; glamor in spor; Chase, PSIA founders
Preview of Ninth Annual Gathering at Banff Springs Hotel
Long thongs and short tales: Notes from Tuckerman Ravine by Kim Massie

First Issue 2000 Vol 12 #1
Cover Story: An American Skier for All Seasons: Charley Proctor
Response: Rowan, cartoon cover; Steve Lathrop, kids safety devices; Paul Hauk, Verald Easterly, Monty Atwater at Squaw; Jimmie Nunn, Squaw Patrol, 1960; Wolfgang lert, Cartoonist Mumelter; readers’ selection of ski cartoons; Sewall Williams Camp Hale cartoons, stealing in ski shop; Sanford, western ski history group; Hirvonen, Finnish celebration; Chessman, help for book Mt. Bachelor— Bill Healy’s Dream;Paul McMorris, first snow train, eastern ski clubs and early patrol; John Allen, glamor, Zdarsky slalom; Rowan poem on manmade snow; Cutler, ski poems; Dave Braun, pine skis; Frankie O’Rear, Mt. Tremblant sketches by Steig; Alan Crane, Gorilla Turn
Skiers’ Bookshelf: Sun Valley, An Extraordinary History by Wendolyn Holland, reviewed by Morten Lund; Yosemite: Magic Winters by Gene Rose and Sugar Bowl 60 Years by Robert Frohlich, reviewed by Morten Lund and Chris Lizza; For the Love of Skiing by Alan Engen, reviwed by Gretchen Besser; A Short History of Skiing in Turckerman Ravine by Jeff Leich, reviewed by John Auran
Long thongs and short tales: Decline and Fall of the Wild T-bar by Morten Lund

Second Issue 2000 Vol 12 #2
Cover Story: The French Connection: to the First Winter Olympics 1924 by John Allen
Response: David Welz, young and eager; Elisabeth Hussey, news of Sir Arnold; John Connell, kudos to short skis; Jeff Leich, overlooked books; Franz Gabl, Franzl II; Jan Holland, cartoons; Kirby Gilbert, response to Sun Valley book review; Sewall Williams, poem for Minnie Dole; Cal Conniff, video history of thunderbolt; Will Lund, Sugarloaf; Dolores La Chapelle, Utah ski film; Bill Lash, first ski lift
The I.S.H.A. Ninth Annual Gathering: Banff in Canada’s Rockies
The 2000 I.S.H.A. Lifetime Achievement Awards: Morten Lund in ski journalism and William Oscar Johnson in ski journalism
The 2000 I.S.H.A. Ullr Awards: Gene Rose, Yosemite: Magic Winters; Stan Cohen, The Games of ’36 and Downhill Skiing; Alan Engen,For the Love of Skiing: A Visual History
The 2000 I.S.H.A. Skade Award: Rodney Touche, Brown Cows, Sacred Cows
Banff Memoir: Long Ago But Not Far Away- Part 1 by Doug Pfeiifer Banff in the Candaian Rockies
Long thongs and short tales: Back When Boots Lasted Awhile- by Morten Lund

Third Issue 2000 Vol 12 #3
Cover Story: The Mahre Miracle by Morten Lund – Phil and Steve Mahre
Response: Mary Proctor, from the late M.P.; Peggy Dean, a daughter remembers; John C.Proctor, a brother appplauds; John Allen, thinking of Charley; Peggy Lucas, history writer comments; Peggy Austin, error in Proctor story; Pete Seibert, father knew Charley; John Hitchcock, thinking of Wendy; Chuck Roberts, thinking of writing; George Twardokens, in praise of Universal Ski Technique book; Doug Pfeiffer, cartoons; Bob Soden, Foeger book; Nelson Bennett, Hall of Fame deserves support; William Levin, Mayor of Alta, Utah, renewing subscription; Jimmie Nunn, Squaw stamp; Alan Crane, praise; Sewall Williams, red and white pants; Kim Massie, fiendish threat to I.S.H.A.; Glenn Parkinson, thrills and spills; Sears Winslow, newspaper clip “old man winter”; Bill Stark, Midwest ski lift
Charley Proctor-The Young Renaissance Man by Morten Lund and Eddy Ancinas
Banff Memoir: Part II by Doug Pfeiffer Banff in the Canadian Rockies
Humor Classic: Intro. to A Winter Sport Book, with illustrations
Preview of Tenth Annual I.S.H.A. Gathering at Sun Valley: information and reservations
Long thongs and short tales: Back When Men Were Men…by Morten Lund

Fourth Issue 2000 Vol 12 #4
Cover Story: The Humor Boom of the 1960′s by Mort Lund
Response: MM Jay, on the late John Jay; AllenAdler, remembering Steve and Phil Mahre; Charles Davis, praise from Maine; Rigomar Thurmer, on the French connection; Ben Rinaldo, B.R. calls it a day; Allen Adler, pioneer kinships and passion; Helmut Teichner, praise from Chicago; Franz Gabl, pictures of Arlberg Kandahar’s past; Paul McMorris, first chairs/snowmaking; Joanne Hewson Rees, back and ready to ski; Pat Crosby, way out in Aspen; Jim Schaefer, New York ski pioneer family
Die Tiefdecke Technick by Rink Earle- absurdity of emphasizing technique and fashion
Borscht, Bagels and Bindings by Michael Strauss- skiing in Catskills
Freeze Now, Play Later by Burt Sims- emergencies
The Conquest of Thrombosis Slope by Philip Rankin- skiing in Scotland
Tea for Du by George Cochran- bachelor’s guide to tea dance
Everybody Out of the Car Pool by Burt Sims- characters
An Aye for an Aye by Burt Sims- ski clubs
Then Was Then by Rink Earle- the good old days of skiing
My Room was a Bath by Don Page- tight housing
Long thongs and short tales: The Remembrance of Suits Past by Barbara Wrenn

First Issue 2001 Vol 13 #1
Cover Story: The Passion of Florian Haemmerle
Response: John Jay Tribute, Mason Beekley, Otto Lang, Roger Brown, Warren Miller, Erling Omland, David Barrell, John Hitchcock (Williamstown Advocate obit), Elaine Woo (Los Angeles Times obit)
Alan Baker, Sandy Heath, maintaining a sense of hunor; Terry Palmerl, sustaining a sense of history; John Hitchcock, cool coment; Wayne Frerichs,quersprung question; Cal Conniff, worthy hall offame candidate; Pres Smith, new hall of famer; Paul McMorris, first ski patrol inquiry; Bob Bogner, recalling pink snow; Gina Sheldrake, wedel or wedeln; Rich Nelson, teaching years of Martin Fopp; Sewall Williams, Vermont Ski Museum trustee; Vi White, career of Carson White; Walter Kangas, oldest continuous club name
The Rise and Fall of an Icon,the Lodge at Smuggler’s Notch by Abby Rand; Stowe, Neil Starr, Sepp Ruschp, Roland Palmedo
A Humor Class: O! Pioneer! by Abby Rand
Skiers’ Bookshelf: Vail, Triumph of a Dream by Peter Seibert and The Inventors of Vail by Dick Hauserman, review by Allen Best; Skiing Legends, The Laurentian Lodge Club by Neil and Catharine McKenty, review by Doug Pfeiffer; Around the World In Ninety Years by Otto Lang, review by Wolfgang Lert
1950 Was a Very Good Year by Bill Lash: equipment, instruction, resorts
Longthongs and short tales: Skiing and the Single Girl by Morten Lund

Second Issue 2001, Vol 13 #2
Tenth Anniversary of this magazine: a review including detailed history of founding

Third Issue 2001, September, Vol 13 #3

Cover: Bob Lange with the 1972 Lange trophy: the Lange trophy was a premier professional ski racing event back in the days when former U.S. Ski Coach revived the dormant circuit in 1970. The $50.000 Lange Trophy, which was held for the first three years in Vail, was by far its most prestigious trophy, and the largest purse as a typically magnificent gesture by Bob Lange

A Mason Beekley Tribute: Mason Beekley, ISHA’s Founding President and constant benefactor during its first decade of existence died on August 20, occasioning an outpouring of letters to the journal from Associates, family and friends. The letters are gathered here in tribute, including letters from his sister Frannie, his four daughters, Liza-Lee, Sayre, Lauri and Francie, and from John Fry, the acting president of ISHA, and members of the ISGHA board of directors, and the Heritage editorial board.

Readers’ Response: The lead letter from a perplexed reader asks if this the future of the sport, referring to two pictures submitted with the letter taken from Vanity Fair, one of extreme skier Glenn Plake with his two-foot high hairdo, and another of two snowboard pioneers— Sherman Poppen, inventor of the Snurfer, and Jake Burton Carpenter, designer of the breakthrough Burton Board. On the grounds that Vanity Fair celebrates the falling of Aspen into the arms of snowboarding forwarding the notion that snowboarders and extreme skiers are now ruling the roost.

Other letters: John Fry, Internationalism vs. Americanism on the lack of success ISHA has had abroad; John Clendenin: Ski Dek is Alive and Well, on the use of the Ski Dek as a learning aid for the Aspen Ski School; Allen Adler: A Ski Patrol is A Ski Patrol Is a Ski Patrol, on the very different modes in which pioneer ski patrols took on their first duties; Wolfie Lert, The So-So Patrol, on an early hairy ride down the mountain as tail gunner on a patrol toboggan carrying an injured skier.
Further letters—Barry ZeVann: A Man Named Zdarsky, on his trip to Lilienfeld, home of the stem turn and its inventor, Mathias Zdarsky; J. Vernon Lamb: an aluminum ski pole inventor in early Lake Placid days; Wolfgang Lert: A Girl Named Katy, submitting an early picture of Bogner stretch pants in action, displayed by U.S. Team Member Katy Rudolph; Kirby Gilbert: A Coach Named Wolfie, submitting a clipping of Wolfgang Lert’s early career as a UCLA ski coach;
Other letters—Luanne Pfeifer corrects the sequence of her book, Gretchen’s Gold and Dick Durrance’s Man on a Medal; an Illusionary Cup, showing two graphics, one photo with a chairlift rider waving, the other a coffee ad with a cup inserted in the rider’s hand;
On the final page: a series of letters praising the ISHA website, and Joyce Harringtton’s memento of her father’s career in organized skiing.

Cover Story: The Empire That Exploded: Bob Lange and the Plastic Boot—original research by the Editor who authored the piece, about his discovery that Bob Lange more or less faked his way through four years when he was first designing the plastic boot. His engineering was inspired but the manufacturing did not get underway until five years after he had first had reps scouring the field for orders. The name of the boot got out alright, but not the boots.
In 1965, Success came in a rush, propelled by skiers riding to victory on Lange boots, and Bob made up for lost time, building a ski, ski boot and skate empire that expanded at an astounding rate. Then came the fatal technical flow in Lange-flo, the liner that made the boot bearable. It broke through the lining and over 100,000 boots had to be replaced. This sent Lange Co. into a financial tailspin from which it never recovered, and the empire disintegrated, and the future evaporated.

Movers and Shakers: Where They Are Now: A new feature, in this case rounding up the “Lange Alumni,” fellow workers with Bob Lange in his ascent to the top, namely Morrie Shepard, Nick Hock, Peter Kennedy, Dave Jacobs and Ian Ferguson.

The Skiers’ Bookshelf: the lead review by ISHA president John Fry gives top marks to The Trail Breakers, a story of the pioneer Red Birds of Montreal, a ski club of the alumni of McGill University ski teams. The Red Birds were, by a year, the first downhill ski club in North America. They were the first on the continent to hold an official Kandahar. As a lifetime Red Bird himself, Fry notes that old Red Birds penetrated the sport in Canada and the U.S. in their day.
The Story of Aspen, reviewed by the Editor, is a re-issue somewhat enlarged of Mary Hayes’ earlier boo, of the same name, who has added a touching thumbnail history of the social underpinnings of the town.
Ski and Snow Country, the Editor says, is a book of stunning black and white photographs of the late great mountain photographer Ray Atkeson, annotated by pioneer ski cinematographer Warren Miller.

The Big Jump at Dartmouth: a memoir by early Dartmouth ski team member Dave Bradley, a noted American author. He writes of the life and times of the big jump at Dartmouth—once the biggest in the East&Mac226;making the case for college jumping though it was dropped long ago now. Bradley takes the reader on the psychological thriller that is a jump on a big hill. He leaves every reader, even one who have never jumped, an understanding why men hurl themselves into the void in an ultimate test of nerve.

The American Museums—The First U.S. Ski Congress: the backstory of the coming of a great history writers’ gathering in the United States by Academic ski historian John Allen, chairman of the academic committee of the congress and Skiing Heritage’s columnist. The initiative for the event was taken by the Editor. John Allen took charge from there with much help from skisport promoter Bernie Weichsel, who had the ear of the proper parties at Park City, where the Congress will be held right before the Utah Olympics in February 2002.
Three outstanding European historians are scheduled to present papers: Max Triet, Director of the Swiss Sports Museum at Basl, Dr. Bernard Morgen, Professor of American Studies at George Washington University, author of the recent Snow in America, and Dr. Matti Goksøyr, professor at the Norwegian Sports University in Oslo. Some forty papers will be given—and be bound in a book that will be published by ISHA.

Remembering—a new feature, looking back at the lives of notable skiers who, as of recent date, are no longer with us: Skeeter Werner, onetime U.S. team member in the 1950s (along with her famous brother Buddy Werner). Sverre Engen, of the celebrated Engen brothers, jumpers all—two of them, Sverre and Alf, took up residence in the Utah mountains outside Salt Lake City to make this area (the next Olympic venue) the U.S. hotbed of jumping, powder skiing and avalanche control. Hal Codding, a superb racer and instructor who drifted west from Woodstock, Vermont, to settle at Reno, Nevada, and open a notable ski shop, became, as writer Dick Dorworth records, his mentor and hero, the man around whom the Reno ski world centered. Kay Reed, wife and indispensable partner of Carroll Reed, who founded the first official Arlberg Ski School in the East and the first elite ski shop in the country, a branch of Saks Fifth Avenue at North Conway, New Hampshire. Later, the couple’s Carroll Reed Shops became an outstanding chain for skiwear and outerwear, and the name Carroll Reed an emblem of quality and distinction.

Longthongs and Short Tales: What Men Are Good For: another Abby Rand classic humor column, this one on the battle of the sexes on near the slopes circa 1960.

Fourth Issue 2001 (December) Vol 13 #4

Cover: AGerman poster for the 1936 Olympic Games at Garmisch-Partenkirschen; The artist cleverly served his masters and avoided controversy over the athlete’s salute on the poster. The Olympic salute was with the arm stretched to the side, palm down, while German salute, mandated after the Nazi Party came to power, was with the arm high and in front and palm facing forward The artist split the difference in arm position and kept the hand out of the picture, impossible to determine whether it was facing front or facing down.

The President’s Letter: John Fry, the new ISHA president, announces the joining of two efforts: Skiing Heritage is to become the official publication of the U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame and Museum, of Ishpeming,, Michigan as well as the official publication of ISHA. The letter also announces ISHA’s participation in the International Ski History Congress at Park City, Utah three weeks before the 2002 Olympic Games are held there.

Readers’ Response: Skiing Heritage’s letters column is headed by a portrait of the founding president, the late Mason Beekley, taken from the cover of a memorial service program given out at the event, held October 14 at his home in New Hartford. There are three pages of letters recalling memories of Mason; the first is by John Moore of the Aspen Historical Society. The others were signed by Alan Engen, of the Alf Engen Ski Museum; Bob Fisher, an old acquaintance, and Sandra Heath of the New England Ski Museum. The next few pages are devoted to those responding to the article on the late Bob Lange, inventor of the plastic ski boot, in the Third Issue 2001. There are letters from Lange’s wife Vidie, from David Luennsman, who was his first employee in the boot business; Peter Kennedy who was an ally in marketing Lange boots; Dave Jacobs, a board member at Lange boots; by John Auran, onetime editor at Skiing, who disputed some of the statements in the article; Nick Hock, onetime sales manager for Lange boots, Will Lund, who wore Lange’s first boot with the inner flo material that broke down, Allen Adler, USSA Historian and Hall of Fame board member, who writes he was unable to wear Langes when they came out; Bunny Bass, a pioneer U. S. bootmaker Other letters on a variety of subjects came from Cindy Murin, daughter of Hall Codding whose obituary ran in the previous issue; Michael Brady, ISHA’s man in Oslo, on the various spellings of akvavitt, Norway’s national drink; Paul McMorris notes that New Hampshire is claiming Black Mountain as the oldest ski area in the state in spite of the fact that two other New Hampshire resorts had lifts before Black Mountain and two had lifts at the same time.

Feature: The Historic First Four Games, 1924-36 The introduction notes that the early Olympics were nothing like the modern spectacles and that before a Winter Olympics could be held, there had to be facilities for ski racing and ski jumping as a start. And the resistance of the Scandinavian countries to international ski events held at resorts had to be overcome.

The first section, Birth Pangs of the Olympics tells how France became the first nation with resort facilities for jumping and touring, that the first Olympics was held in Chamonix only after Chamonix had hosted a series of national and international ski events. The second section describes the First Winter Olympics at Chamonix, and the fact that it was not at the time considered an official winter Olympics. The Norwegians took eleven of the twelve medals offered, all in jumping and cross country, having gotten a hundred-year head start in the sport, having invented jumping competitions and cross country racing during the 1800s. There is a discussion of the later movement to transfer the bronze medal in the special jump to U.S. jumper Anders Haugen, who had been victim of a mathematical error in the scoring that gave the bronze to the Norwegian, Thorleif Haug. The third section describes the Second Winter Games, held at St. Moritz in 1928 after the Norwegians narrowly voted to join after feeling betrayed because the 1924 meet had been declared by the International Olympic Committee as the first official Winter Olympics after the meet was over. The American team was woefully unprepared with slapdash arrangements for transportation and uniforms. But they nevertheless Rolf Monson came in sixth in the jump and Charley Proctor 14th, as the sole native born American in the Olympics. The newly-founded sport of alpine skiing was excluded, but in the same year, the first popular international alpine combined meet was held at St. Anton, foretelling the end of the dominance at the Games of cross country and jumping. The fourth section is on the first-ever U.S. Winter Olympics, held at Lake Placid, New York, run essentially by the Lake Placid Club, which had been holding winter sports events for nearly a generation, notably the annual college circuit championships it had held since 1921. But it was still essentially a private club and only the modest number of contests were being held a series of contests well within the club’s capacity to hold. The fifth section details the events of the Fourth Winter Olympics, held at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany, in 1936. This was the first Winter Games in which international and national politics had a strong hand. Germany aimed to use the Games as a platform to advertise its progress under the banner of the Nazi Party and Adolph Hitler. The English speaking countries resisted to some extent. It was the first Games to have a huge opening ceremony. For the first time, the Americans had an outside chance of winning a medal in skiing. Our top contender, Dick Durrance , who had been raised in Garmisch, did not better than 10th in the combined, after a questionable official penalty. The combined medals were the only medals awarded in alpine skiing. The U.S. women’s alpine team was the brainchild of Alice Kiaer, who raised the funds, picked the team, hired a coach and supervised the training. The best women’s result was Betsy Woolsey’s 19th. Norway’s Birger Ruud was the hero of the Games, coming in first in the jumping and first in the downhill, the only Olympian ever to score in both Olympic nordic and alpine events.

Mover and Shaker: Gretl Uhl, famous in Aspen for her gourmet deli-on-the-mountain for a dozen years. Gretl was born in Garmisch, and emigrated to the U.S. with the help of Dick Durrance.

Classic Skis: Skis have a Soul Rigo Thurmer writes of his first skis, which he bought in 1924 from Sporthaus Schuster in Munich. He goes on to tell of the succession of skis that he owned, including the Splitkeins that he had to give to the German war effort in World War II, and a counterfeit pair of Dynamics he bought on the black market after the war that turned out to be pine rather than hickory.

Man on a White Charger: Ed Scott by Dick Dorworth. A longtime resident of Sun Valley, Dick Dorworth profiles the man who brought the modern aluminum ski pole into the world, a cantankerous, scrupulously honest citizen of Sun Valley whose contribution to the sport arose from his uncompromising search for the best in materials and construction.. Scott was also a leading activist in community affairs, among other things the most frequent and acerbic appearances in the local Ketchum newspaper letters columns.

Condo Mania by Paul Hochman. a brief and humorous description of the coming of the condominiums to the sport, triggered by visionary Sun Valley and Snowmass developer Bill Janns. A government appraiser is quoted as summing the condo up, “T-111 plywood, board and batten siding, electric heat, multi-colored shag carpeting and avocado trim.”

Skiers’ Bookshelf: First Tracks, a Century of Skiing in Utah by Alan Engen and Gregory Thompson, reviewed by Mike Korologos; a coffee table book with running text of the state whose early fascination with ski jumping and heavy support from Salt Lake citizens resulted in a ring of resorts in the Wasatch mountains including Alta and Park City, where the 2002 Olympics were held. Co-author Alan Engen is the son of Alf Engen, who as director of skiing came to personify the Alta ski school, the deep powder university for the nation’s skiers. Midwest Skiing, A Glance Back by John Pontti and Kenneth Luostari. A pictorial history of the heartland where skiing was born, had its first national headquarters and hall of fame reviewed by John Allen, the most well-known ski historian in the U.S., who faults some of the book’s priorities but enjoys the nostalgia. Snow In America by Bernard Mergen This is a different kind of ski history dealing with the social history of snow, the changing attitudes toward winter, and winter recreation and the part played by skiing n the changes. The author is a professor of American studies at George Washington University in D.C. Reviewed by the editor. The U.S. National Ski Hall of Fame and Museum by John Allen One of a series about the ski museums of this country by John Allen. The best-looking ski museum in the U.S. is also the oldest, thanks to a new building erected in 1992 in Ishpeming, Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, replacing the former building erected in 1956. The library hold the records of the meetings to the National Ski Association, founded in the first years of the century as well as photographs of the more than four hundred members of the U.S. Ski Hall of Fame.

The Ski Hall of Fame, Class of 2001 Biographies of the most recently elected Honorable Members of the U.S. Ski Hall of Fame: Michael Strauss, ski journalist; Bill Kirschner, founder of K2 ski company; Pepi Stiegler, triple Olympic medalist, longtime director of skiing at Jackson Hole, Wyoming; Jim Curran, inventor of the chairlift; Dodie Post, U.S. Ski Team Member; Charles Gibson, one of skiing’s top organization men

Remembering: Obits of Diana Golden, medallist in the Paraolympics; Paula Kann Valar, U.S. Ski Team member, and ski school director;Douglas Firth, founder of Canada’s Ski Patrol.

Annual Gathering at Vail, April 1-7: Rundown of the coming 11th Annual get together of ISHA members

Longthongs and Short Tales: Amusing memoir by Abby Rand, on the differences between advertising in the magazines and reality at the resort.

First Issue 2002, March, Vol. 14 #1

The first issue with new graphics, designed by Fionn Reilly, Heritage’s graphic designer.

Cover: Clif Taylor in the photograph used on the cover of his 1964 book Ski In a Day, written by Morten Lund, the editor of Skiing Heritage then a contributing editor of Ski and photographed by Kim Massie, an outstanding ski photographer at the time. This was the first book in which the concept of graduating from short short skis to longer and longer skis was proposed, in side by side sequence photos showing a similar turn on three-foot, four-foot and five-foot skis.

Letter From The President: History, A Way to Revive the Sport: President John Fry suggests that the ski industry use the history of the sport as a marketing tool. He also listed the ways in which ISHA supports the spread and preservation of ski history and referred to the support of the International Ski History Congress held in Park City in February by ISHA’s undertaking to publish the papers delivered at the Congress.

Readers Respond: Kandahar Kapers on the origin of Kandahar as the name of the British Kandahar Challenge Cup; Remembering Greta Uhl: “the strudle lady” ran a mid-mountain Aspen restaurant for years; A letter about Alain Stump, the cover figure speed racer for the Third Issue 1999, saying he has a grandfather named Jacques who started the first independent Swiss ski school, The not so ancient Olympic flame turns out to be a concoction by Leni Riefestahl expressly acted out for her Olympiad film made at Hiltler’s behest, contributed by Luanne Pfeifer; Norwegian memories by Erling Omland about childhood memories of the 1924 Olympic heroes, Thorleif Haug and Tullen Thams who won four golds and one bronze between them. From Iran to Utah, an Iranian alpine skier makes it to the 2002 Olympics, contributed by Kim Massie, Gluck in ungluck, by Peter Picard, about escaping by boat from the Germans via the trans-Siberian railroad and embarking at Vladivostock. “Are you still racing while other are racing?” was a Henke slogan referred to by Jimmy Davidson, in his thoughts on the vintage Henke ad for its buckle boots. Buchmayr’s Querstprung, Heritage finds the famous picture of Siggi Buchmayr in a pole jump on the Tuckerman headwall. Ian Ferguson comments on the Lange story in his letter Wild Man Lange. Another memoir by 10th Mountain veteran Bob Carson on his life in skiing; triggered by the recollection that his kids went to school with Bob’s in Boulder; A criticism of Lange boots by Robie Albouy recalled by Allen Mundt; Another letter on Lange by Bob Parker says that in the before-Lange era, there was lots of good skiing done on leather boots. The First North American Rope Tow, a letter from Peggy Johnson on the claims made on behalf of Moose Parquet to having built the first rope tow in North America, and countering claims by Betty Whitney to having seen a rope two in the Laurentians in 1928.

The Strange Long History of the Short Ski by Morten Lund. The lead story goes from his first assignment to cover Taylor back to the research he has done on the pre-Taylor history of the short ski, beginning with the five foot Zdarsky ski in Austria at the turn of the 1900s, and the first short short ski, which was the firngleiter, or spring snow ski of the mountaineering skiers, including one patented by Emo Henrich, the head of the Stratton Mountain ski school. Then the text covers the kurzki of the Kitzbuhel ski school in a program that began in the 1950s under Karl Kolller, after it had been explored by older Kitzbuhelers. The next short ski of note was the goon ski, invented by an Olympic figure skater Jimmy Madden, who designed it and used it around Mt. Cranmore in North Conway. Then enters the last and most influential short ski teacher, Clif Taykir if Brattleboro Vermont who with the aid of Ski Magazine started a movement that brought short ski director parallel teaching, known now as GLM or Graduated Length Method, to a dozen American resorts before it faded away, but its influence is still felt in the adoption of short “ski blades” for learning at a number of American ski school currently.

Technique and Teaching: Surviving Schrittbogen A memoir by Stu Campbell, longtime head of the Stowe Ski School and Ski Magazine technical editor on his days as a college racer in the turmoil of the “reverse revolution” of which schrittbogen was a part., a step turn that put racers in a reverse position.. The story goes on to say that the Kruckenhauser books exaggerated the racers’ reverse position, and his description of wedel in the 1957 Austrian Ski Teaching Plan, translated into English in 1958, influential in rethinking American technique and teaching.

Ski Industry: Decline and Fall by Seth Masia. A story on the U.S. ski manufacturing industry showing how the early American ski factories making hickory skis were replaced in the U.S. by Howard Head and his successors making aluminum skis, and then by the fiberglass skis. And although there were a dozen American ski makers who had come on the scene since the beginning, by the 1980s, all the existing ski makers were in trouble partly from overproduction and partly from the effects of globalization which sent the factories to third world countries both in the U.S and in Europe. The last attempt at U.S. ski making was set in motion by the Volant company, launched by Bucky Kashiwa. But eventually, Volant folded too under the pressure of third world competition. Currently there are no skis mass-produced in the U.S., and the few manufacturers are all boutique operations, like Steve Denker’s Evolution Skis in Salt Lake and former Head Ski chief designer John Howe’s Claw ski made in Maine.

Classic Gear: Binding Revolution by Wolfgang Lert. An appreciation by veteran skier Wolfgang Lert of the revolutionary Huitfeldt binding invented in Norway in 1894, including the first-ever toe irons screwed to the ski itself, which set the concept later extended to a toe iron mortised directly through the ski. The binding was so sturdy that Amundsen chose it as the binding with which he became the first to ski to the North Pole. Combined with the Hoyer-Ellefsen lever heel strap buckle, its popularity lasted well through the 1920s and the principles of the toe iron fixed directly to the ski and lever tension for the heel strap was adapted by the most popular and universal binding in history, the Kandahar type binding in which the toe iron became a toe plate screwed directly to the top of the ski and the Ellefsen buckle became the front throw heel cable tensioning device.

Where Are They Now? by Seth Masia. Sketches of seven Vail pioneers. Earl Eaton, initial discoverer or the Vail terrain; Dick Hauserman, first permanent resident and first ski shop owner; Pete Seibert, the organizer of the first board and first Vail president; Bill Brown, the longtime mountain manager of Vail during its formative years; Dale and Renee Gorsuch, the owners of the second ski shop owners and currently the longest continuously operating merchant management in Vail;’ Pepo Gramshammer, first innkeeper and restaurant owner, founder of Gasthof Grammshammer; Bob Parker, Vail’s first publicity director and longtime marketing vice president.

Second Feature: An Avalanche of Ski History by Morten Lund. An account of the first International Ski History Congress in the U.S. held in February 2002 at Park City, Utah under academic organizer John Allen, retired professor of history at Plymouth College in New Hampshire and hosted by Ski Utah, the Mariot Library Ski Archives, and the Alf Engen Ski Museum.. It was declared an unqualified success after forty-two papers were delivered in four days of double-sessions. Papers were presented by thirty-two U.S. journalists, veteran skiers and historians, and ten presented by historians from abroad.

Looking Back: 30 years ago: Karl Schranz expelled by IOC head Avery Brundage 40 years ago: an anecdote of Webb Moffet, owner of Snoqualmie; the 1962 FIS World Championsbip men’s slalom at Chamonix won by Charles Bozon with Guy Perillat second 50 years ago: Andy Mead Lawrence’s double gold at the 1952 Olympics in Oslo; an anecdote by Doug Pfeiffer concerning a 1952 trip on Athabaska Glacier with Dick Holden and ISHA president John Fry.

Historic Lodges :Colorado’s Ski Tip Lodge by Seth Masia. The founding by Max and Edna Dercum of Ski Tip Ranch in Dillon, the first classic ski lodge between Denver and Aspen, founded in 1949. The Dercums were foremost promoters of the sport in eastern Colorado for fifty years, helping to found both Arapahoe Basin and Keystone within a few miles east and west, respectively, of Ski Tip Ranch.

Skier’s Bookshelf: How the English Made the Alps by John Ring. The story of the English on skis and on foot making the Western Alp Europe’s prime mid-continent summer and winter recreation region. Winter Tales and Trails by Ron Watters. Stories from the early ski history of Idaho, Wyoming and Montana. Alta, Utah, A People’s Story by Duane Shrontz. The personalities behind the first Wasatch resort, the seed ski area for the current ski complex in the Salt Lake City region of Utah. Last Breath by Peter Stark. True tales of the extreme perils of exploration including two cautionary narratives pertinent to snowsport- surviving avalanche on a snowboarding expedition and recovering from hypothermia after a backcountry skiing accident.

At The Museums: The Park City International Ski History Congress by John Allen. The meeting of the heads of the leading U.S. ski museums to discuss ways of cooperating for the greater goal of preserving ski history.

Remembering: Paulie Hannah-Wife of trail designer Sel Hannah, Paulie was an early standout women racer; the two of them ran the ski Hearth Inn at Franconia, New Hamoshire until Sel Hannah founded Snow Engineering, the earliest U.S. ski resort development consultants in Franconia.. Helmut Teichner-the ski school director at Wilmot, Wisconsin during the fifty years that followed his founding of the school in 1939, a major force in establishing skiing in the Midwest and the Midwest ski instructor organizations. Otto Frei and Hans “Rudi” Kuersteiner - Frei was director of the Snow Ridge ski school in the Catskills, Whiteface Mt. Race coach; Kuersteiner was an outstandkng instructor in organized ski school training in New York state. Warren Lowry-a dedicated stalwart of FIS officialdom who worked out the finer points of the international racer ranking system, former president of the U.S. Eastern Amateur Ski Association

Longthongs and Short Tales: Mighty Strange MacTaggart by Morten Lund. The incredible tale of a ski resort developer of Bear Mountain and Aspen Wildcat who fled with embezzled funds and then became the leading international hero of the environmental movement as head of Greenpeace for many years

Second Issue, June 2002: Walter Foeger & Natur Teknik
Also: Jimmie Heuga; American Ski Boots history; Carl Tellefsen; ISHA Gathering 2002; Gasthof Gramshammer; Colorado Ski Museum; Nordica Grand Prix

Third Issue, September 2002: Jerry Nunn & The Avalauncher
Also: Avalement; Release bindings; Maria Bogner; Vermont Ski Museum; Pete Seibert

Fourth Issue, December 2002: Andrea Mead Lawrence
Also: Wedeln, 10th Mountain Division hikes to Aspen; Beekley Collection goes to Mammoth; Kastle Slalom; Alex Cushing and Tom Corcoran; History of warmth; Peckett’s Inn

First Issue, March 2003: Stein Eriksen
Also: Indoor winter sports shows, the Trade Show, Rossignol Ski Museum, The Ahwahnee, Portillo, New Mexico Ski Hall of Fame, Flatland Ski News, Alf Engen Museum in Park City, Plate Bindings, Hanson brothers, Darcy Brown

Second Issue, June 2003: Dartmouth Outing Club
Also: Franz Gabl’s boyhood in St. Anton, Knee-High Boots, Stowe’s Ranch Camp lodge; 18th Century Russian Skiers in Alaska; History of Ski Injuries; Deer Valley Gathering; 2002 Award Winners; Everett Kircher; New Directors, New Projects, and Ski Museum Collaboration.

Third Issue, September 2003: Emile Allais
Also: American ski lifts, How the Brits Invented Skiing, Taos’ Hotel St. Bernard, Birth of the Waxless Ski, the Great ISHA Raffle.

Fourth Issue, December 2003: First Olympic medals for US men
Also: Splitkein patent; Nordic Bows to Alpine; US National Ski Hall of Fame; Don Thomas; Leni Riefenstahl; Ski house design evolution; Ski industry needs a history lesson.

First Issue, March 2004: Warren Miller
Also: Milestones in ski design; Dave McCoy; Ma Russell; Musee Dauphinois; Collectible posters; donor list; president’s annual report.

Second Issue, June 2004: Buddy Werner
Also: Fred Pabst, history of the carved turn, America’s first World Championships, Collectible skis, Betty Whitney’s Legendary Inn, new directors, annual awards.

Third Issue, September 2004: Dick Buek, Harvey Gibson, Silver Skis on Mt. Rainier, Pioneer women, Ketchum/Sun Valley Museum, Rigo Thurmer’s gift. First color cover.

Fourth Issue, December 2004: Walt Schoenknecht, Tony Wise, Moosilauke downhill, Trapp Family Lodge, history of ski edges, Wow!: a history of extreme moves.

First Issue, March 2005: Stephan Kruckenhauser, Sepp Ruschp, Bob Cram & Bob Bugg, Harriman Cup, marketing disasters.

Second Issue, June 2005: Bode Miller, Art Furrer, Sixties Skiwear, Tuckerman Inferno, Gathering, Heatherbed, celebrating Schneider.

Third Issue, September 2005: Brooks Dodge, Schneider’s disciples, How many skiers?, WACs of Camp Hale, Hall of Fame, Greylock’s Thunderbolt, ski shape evolution.

Fourth Issue, December 2005: 75th Anniversary of Alpine Racing: The Legacy of Arnold Lunn, the Trail Map Artists, Ernst Constam and the T-bar, Sun Valley Lodge.

First Issue, March 2006: Toni Sailer, Freestyle joins the Olympics, US Ski Jumping, Resort Ads, Highland-Bavarian Lodge, Vintage Ski World.

Second Issue, June 2006: Billy Kidd, Okemo & Killington, Alice Kiaer, Moriarity Hats, ISHA’s 2006 Award winners, Osborn & Ulland, Timberline Lodge.

Third Issue, September 2006: Hans Gmoser, Penny Pitou, Wayne Wong, Spider Sabich, Downhill in Dixie, Sun Valley Memories, Hotel Jerome, Ski Films, Liftlines.

Fourth Issue, December 2006: Ernie Blake, the Ski Magazines, Mad River Glen, Marc Hodler, History of Ski Bums, Merrill Hastings, Joan Hannah, Pete Lane’s, Ski-Binding systems.

First Issue, March 2007: Nancy Greene, Skiing’s Inner Game, Pioneering Shops, Apres Ski Through the Ages, Gray Rocks, Othmar Schneider, a Bob Parker tale.

Second Issue, June 2007: Nicholas Morant’s photos, Less Otten, Stone-Age skis, Nelson Bennett, The Silver Belt race, ISHA’s Chamonix adventure, Jackson Hole’s Alpenhof Lodge, Campgaw Mountain, Rear Entry Boots, Martinis for Lunch.

Third Issue, September 2007: Last Reunion of the 10th, Norway: How It All Started, Chick Igaya, Aspen’s Roch Cup, Sandia Peak, John Allen’s latest book, humor from Burt Sims.

Fourth Issue, December 2007: Growing Up Cochran, Sun Valley ’64, Holmenkollen history, Rossignol turns 100, Stein turns 80,North Conway’s Eastern Slope Inn, New England Ski Museum.

First Issue, March 2008: Mathias Zdarsky, Aspen, Bill Hazelett, XC Should Return to its Roots, Where Seniors Ski Free, Christie Hill, Andy Mill, Hall of Fame Selection Process.

Second Issue, June 2008: Jean-Claude Killy, Arlberg Ski Club, Ruth Altmann, History of the rope tow, Sherman Poppen, Tap Tapley, Squaw’s Chinese downhill, 2008 ISHA Awards.

Third Issue, September 2008: World Cup origins, John Woodward, Dave Jacobs, Ray Atkeson, History of the Rope Tow, Gasoline Shortages, Private Ski Areas, Ski Testing, Ski Racing on TV.

Fourth Issue, December 2008: Lowell Thomas, The Boom of the ’50s and ’60s, California’s Longboard Ladies, Leaving Las Vegas, Colorado Ski Train, Adrien Duvillard, Aspen’s Limelite Lodge, Where Seniors Ski Free.

First Issue, March 2009: Norwegians Invade America, Women’s Ski Jumping, Kids in Ski Art, Snowboarding is Older Than You Think, Boom of the ’60s part II, New Hampshire’s Mittersill Resort, Tom Jacobs.

Second Issue, June 2009: Ralph Miller, Dick Barrymore, Dartmouth’s Legacy, Plumas Ski Club Revives Longboard Racing, Skiing the Ancient Way in the Altai, Russia’s Long Dominance of Biathlon, How Ski Racers Have Changed.

Third Issue, September 2009: Roland Palmedo, 1935 Olympic Trials, Ernest Hemingway, By Train to North Conway, First Overhead Cable Lift, Harry Vallin, Ingemar Stenmark, Don Lemos, Stowe’s Foster Place.

Fourth Issue, December 2009: Hannes Schroll, Yuichiro Miura, Jim and Shane McConkey, Hans Kraus, Emile Cochand, Chuck Ferries

First Issue, March 2010: Chalet Cochand, Rustler Lodge, Ian Fleming, Cross-country skating, Jim Gaddis, Hans Kraus, Resort architecture

Second Issue, June 2010: The Marolts of Aspen, Vancouver Miracle, Canadian Ski Instructors Alliance, Corky Fowler, Sky Tavern, Kingsbury Pitcher, history of ski wax, books about Canucks

Third Issue, September 2010: McGill vs. Dartmouth, Hunter Thompson, Daron Rahlves, Hart Skis, Fred Iselin, Erich Sailer, Alta images, Bradley Packer.

Fourth Issue, December 2010: Crested Butte and PSIA at 50, Pitcher Inn, Vintage Ski Races, Trail Names, Cindy Nelson memoir, photo feature on Stars at Sun Valley, history of season passes, Ann Heggtveit, Downhill Racer, Denny Hanson, the Stivot, Biathlon Boom.

First Issue, January/February 2011: Birger Ruud, Georges Joubert, Ski Pins, Dartmouth Carnival Posters, Waterville Valley, Stowehof, Carl Ettlinger, Dick Goetzman. New frequency: Six issues per year.

Second Issue, March/April 2011: Ski Flying, Charley Proctor, Johnny Fripp, Playboy Club, Caberfae, Gstaad Palace, Sun Valley Stars, Ski posters

Third Issue, May/June 2011: Sun Valley 75th Anniversary Reunions, Pro Freestyle Reunion, World Cup Final Controversy, Parsenn Derby, Aspen Meadows Resort, Norquay, Tyler Palmer, Hans Georg, Eriksen Skis, World Ski Summit, Pete Heuga, Cecile Johnson

Fourth Issue, July/August 2011: Crazy Canucks, Ski Clubs, Alpine Nippon, Ann Bonfey Taylor, Buzz Bainbridge, Lodge at Vail, Garland, John Litchfield, Lloyd Severud

Fifth Issue, September/October 2011: Made in Switzerland, Special Section on the Alps, Snow King, Matti Nykanen, Leduc Library, Pole Plant, Louis Cochand, Kathy Harriman Mortimer, Jack Fisher

Sixth Issue, November/December 2011: Swiss Gear II, Speed Skiing, Stratton at 50, Arlberg Hospiz, Alan Schonberger, Konrad Staudinger, Yvan Tache

First Issue, January/February 2012: Emile Allais at 100, Ray Atkeson photos, Ski areas in national parks, Sugarloaf, Phil and Steve Mahre, John Lovett, FIS changes rules on GS

Second Issue, March/April 2012: Glamorous skibirds, history of helmets, turning on the inside ski, Ski Heil, Pirmin Zurbriggen, Breckenridge at 50, Waitsfield Inn, Hans Geier

Third Issue, May/June 2012: World Pro Ski Tour reunion, After the 10th: U.S. Army Cold Weather Training, Stowe’s The Shed, Angry Politics of Ski Racing, Karl Schranz, Bert Fischer, Lindsey Vonn’s season, Magic Mountain goes co-op.

Fourth Issue, July/August 2012: Kitzbuehel Museum, Snow Domes, An English Lady in Norway (1891), Invention of GS, Eva Twardokens, Bernhard Russi, Revelstoke.

Fifth Issue, September/October 2012: Color-coded Trails, Ski Women’s Way, Learning From the (Northland) Book, Arapahoe Basin, Salter’s Ski Shop, Franz Klammer, Splitkein at War.

Sixth Issue, November/December 2012: Marc Girardelli, Poster Stamps, Canada’s Governors General on Snow, Hall of Fame Spat, Ligety Wins on GS Skis He Hates, Magic Mountain, Tori Pillinger Robinson, Postwar Gear.

Vol 25 No 1, January/February 2013: Toni Seelos, Kjetil Andre Aamodt, NSAJA at 50, Aspen’s Red Onion, Utah Interconnect, WWII Telemark Raid, Hickory & Tweed.

Vol 25 No 2, March/April 2013: Anne Marie Moser-Proell, Vail’s Racing History, National Ski Patrol at 75, Rocker Skis, U.S. Alpine Team Rules at FIS Championships, Canadian Ski Posters

Vol 25 No 3, May/June 2013: Title change issue. Story of Pro Racing, Cochran Clan, Bob Cram Cartoons, Climate Change, Canadian Ski Museum Moves to Tremblant, Sheik from Up North, Wilmot

Vol 25 No 4, July/August 2013: Carlo Pellegrini, Women’s Pro Tour, Jonny Mosely, Tony Wise and the Worldloppet, Barney Berlenbach, Skiing on Vancouver Island

Vol 25 No 5, September/October 2013: Fred Lindholm photos, Dr. Richard Steadman, Maria Walliser, Heavenly, Canadian-built skis, 1928 skiing on Colorado's Corona Pass, Snow Valley (Vt)

Vol 25 No 6, November/December 2013: Andreas and Hanni Wenzel, Mineral King, Mt. Hood Museum, Greg Stump's Legend of Aahh's, XC ski collector Laurent Donze

Vol 26 No 1, January/February 2014: Rick Sylvester, Mont Tremblant at 75, Patrick Lang's Olympic memories, Bill Beck vs Toni Matt, Bernie Weichsel, 50-year resort anniversaries 

Vol 26 No 2, March/April 2014: After the Games: the future of Winter Olympics, Otto Tschudi, Font Rameu, ski poster market, Ontario's Bee Hive pro race, Park City at 50, Geldhof, Myles Rademan

Vol 26 No 3, May/June 2014: Lasse Kjus, Royal Gorge, Buddy Werner, Sven Coomer, three decades of men's skiwear, Vermont's Alpine Shop

Vol 26 No 4, July/August 2014: Bill Johnson, Herman Gollner, Oslo skiing, Jay Peak, XC vs the Snowmobile, Ingrid Wicken's library

Vol 26 No 5, September/October 2014: Tommy Moe, Mount Baker, John Caldwell, Bill Briggs meets Sir Arnold Lunn, Utah Ski Archives, alpine art, terrain-based learning 

Vol 26 No 6, November/December 2014: White Wolf: Between Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows; Europe's skiing postmen, Rib Mountain, Ski History Haus at Crested Butte, where seniors ski free, schussing the Empire State Building

Vol 27 No 1, January/February 2015:

Commentary, p. 5: The Ski Industry’s Quandary by John Fry.  Opposition to a minimum wage increase says a lot about the ability of small ski areas to survive.

Short Turns, p. 6: The History of 1-2-3 by Seth Masia.  American women dominated at Lake Louise in the first-ever U.S. podium sweep in World Cup alpine racing.

Where Are They Now? p. 11: Vreni Schneider by Edith Thys Morgan.  The star of the 1989 World Alpine Championships at Vail is back home in Switzerland, with a family and a ski school.

13 With Skis Above His Ears

More than 40 years ago, Miroslaw Graf, an 11-yearold Polish junior champion, discovered the aerodynamic secret to jumping longer—the V-style jump. By E. John B. Allen

15 Night and Day
Since 1937, the slopes around Snoqualmie have been a day-trip destination for Seattle-area skiers. By Jeff Leich

18 An Eye for Speed
Thrilling images of World Cup superstars by photographer John Kelly. By Kathleen James and John fry

26 The Trails of Tamarack
Olympic champion Bode Miller learned to ski on the rural New Hampshire slopes that his grandfather cleared in the late 1940s. By Nathaniel Vinton

Where Are They Now? p. 30: Ted Farwell by Seth Masia.  U.S. national nordic combined champion and longtime resort consultant looks back on his life in skiing.

Vol 27 No 2, March/April  2015: 

Short Turns, p. 6: Altai’s Ancient Ski Roots by Nils Larsen.  Researchers from around the world gather in northwest China for international ski-history conference.

Resorts Then and Now, p. 11: Back to the Future by Ted Beeler.  Can small ski areas be saved? Nonprofit and community solutions are on the rise nationwide.

13 A Century of Skiing

Steamboat’s Howelsen Hill celebrates its 100th anniversary. By Tom West & Kathleen James

Collectibles, p. 17: Rare Poster Sells for $30,000 by Everett Potter.  Led by a 1934 poster from Gstaad by artist Alex Diggelman, prices at the annual Swann Galleries auction are on the rise.

20 Breaking the World Cup Record
After a stunning comeback this past winter, Lindsey Vonn surpassed Austrian racer Annemarie Moser-Proell’s record number of alpine World Cup wins. Who’s the greatest? The new record ignites a debate that won’t be resolved soon. By Edith Thys Morgan

PLUS : Skiing History’s Top Ten Women Alpine Racers

28 Fifty Years of Lange
Lange first sold ski boots to the public in 1965. Three employees from the early years recall how it happened. As told to Seth Masia

Vol 27 No 3, May/June 2015:

Short Turns, p. 5: NASTAR Joins the U.S. Ski Team by Seth Masia.  USSA will assume control of the national program for recreational skiers, in hopes of drawing more young skiers into racing.

18 The King of Klosters

The son of American novelist Irwin Shaw recalls his childhood in a Swiss ski resort studded with movie stars and celebrities. By Adam Shaw

21 Rise and Fall
How the top alpine racing nations have performed in international competition since World War II. By Alain Lazard

23 Taking Air
The evolution of jumping technique, from standing upright to the sleek V-style of today.By E. John B. Allen and Aleš Guček

26 How New York Lost its Marble
Marble Mountain near Lake Placid is the largest ski area in the Eastern U.S. ever to be abandoned. By Phil Johnson with Jeremy Davis

Where Are They Now? p. 30: Greg Jones by Seth Masia.  A bronze medal and a World Cup victory led to 35 years as a passionate ski coach.

Vol 27 No 4, July/August 2015:

Short Turns, p. 5: Globe-Trotting by Peggy Shinn.  Two 40-year-old World Cup Globes have recently surfaced.  Are they the real deal?  Skiing History investigates.

Where Are They Now? p. 13: Nancy Greene Raine by Edith Thys Morgan.  The two-time world champion serves in the Canadian Senate and is director of skiing at Sun Peaks in B.C.

Ski Memories, p. 17: A Minor Cold War Victory by Bob Woodward.  In 1979, the author slipped behind the Soviet curtain of silence for an interview with fearsome Russian cross-country racer Yvgeny Belyayev.

19 All American

Bob Beattie speaks out on the “alarming” state of collegiate ski racing in the United States—and how it can be fixed. By Edith Thys Morgan

22 The Double Life of Dave McCoy
Fifty years ago, the builder of California’s Mammoth Mountain was also mentor to the country’s best racing talent. By Burton Hersh

27 The Extraordinary Ski Life of J Laughlin
A giant of American book publishing had another career…on snow. By Ian Macniven

Ski Memories, p. 30: The Man Who Taught College Students to Ski by Karen D. Lorentz.  On 32 vertical feet in Vermont, the late Bill Jenkins built the largest college ski-school program in America.

Vol 27 No 5, September/October 2015

14 Avanti!

Italian skiing has its roots in the military and the passion of a Swiss-born civilian named Adolfo Kind. By E. John B. Allen 

18 Mountains of Controversy
For five decades, ski areas have been wrangling with environmentalists over terrain expansion, real-estate development, wildlife protection, water rights and more. Is the era of opposition finally coming to an end? By Ken Castle

28 Up Above Albuquerque
 Inspired by the Alps, a scenic tram has carried skiers to New Mexico’s Sandia Peak for almost 50 years. By Jeff Leich

Vol 27 No 6, November/December 2015:

Short Turns, p. 5: New Life for Historic Mittersill by Seth Masia.  Upgrades at Cannon Mountain clear the way for world-class race-training site.

Where Are They Now? p. 9: Gunde Svan by M. Michael Brady.  The star of Swedish cross-country racing in the 1980s is now a popular TV talk-show host. 

12 Wartime Allies

75 years ago, the Anchorage Ski Club and the U.S. Army teamed up to build the Arctic Valley ski area in Alaska. BY KIRBY GILBERT

15 The Life and Times of Beconta
A sporting goods company founded in Berlin found a second life in postwar America—as the most influential importer of its era. BY SETH MASIA

19 Lost and Found
Hundreds of rare and valuable ski posters, long forgotten in a Scottish attic, are now restored and for sale. BY EVERETT POTTER

23 The New Reality 
Climate change, water use, summer recreation expansion, terrain limits and interconnects: Past disputes between ski areas and environmentalists give way to future ones. Plus: How resorts are going green. BY KEN CASTLE

Where Are They Now? p. 30: CB Vaughan, Jr. by Peggy Shinn.  Fifty years after setting the world speed-skiing record and 44 years after found CB Sports, CB Vaughan, Jr., is still in business.

Vol 28 No 1, January/February 2016

Short Turns, p. 7: Eddie the Eagle, Take 2 by Aleš Guček.  New movie is inspired by England’s underdog Olympic jumper.

Short Turns, p. 10: Mount Ascutney Revival by Jeremy Davis.  Starting with a rope tow, Vermont community rallies to bring skiing back to New England’s largest lost ski resort.

13 Juha Mieto
Memories of nordic racing’s big man—and the closest individual race in competitive cross-country history. BY BOB WOODWARD

15 Jim McConkey
The pioneer powderhound and cliff jumper, one of the most visible skiers of the 1960s, is still skiing at age 89. BY SETH MASIA

18 Whistler’s Big Birthday
Five locals tell the story of five decades of progress at Whistler Mountain in British Columbia. Plus: Whistler pioneers. BY MICHEL BEAUDRY

Classic Ski Shops, p. 24: Singular Focus by Phil Johnson.  The Alpine Sport Shop in Saratoga Springs has been selling skis for 75 years.

27 The One and Only Stein
Born into a famous Norwegian ski family, Olympic gold medalist Stein Eriksen became the celebrated icon of skiing 60 years ago. BY MORTEN LUND

Vol 28 No 2, March/April 2016 

Short Turns, p. 9: Hannes Schneider Slept Here by Everett Potter.  The Childhood home of the Austrian ski pioneer and Arlberg technique founder is now available to rent as a vacation chalet. 

Collectibles, p. 13: Fits and Starts by Everett Potter.  While a few blue-chip posters fetched high prices, others failed to raise interest from the audience at Swann’s annual auction.

15 Alta Lodge
As it celebrates 75 years, this low-key Utah lodge has stayed true to its family roots. BY EVERETT POTTER

18 The Lost Trails of Paul d’Allmen
Almost killed in World War I, an unsung Swiss came to map the ski trails of the Laurentian Mountains in Quebec. Recently restored, his detailed, hand-drawn maps are a visual and historic treasure. BY JOSEPH GRAHAM

23 Debbie Armstrong
After a storybook alpine racing career, the 1984 Olympic giant slalom champion finds a new calling in coaching young skiers in Steamboat Springs— and liberation and acceptance through a recent Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) diagnosis. BY EDITH THYS MORGAN

Ski Memories, p. 27: Ski Levi’s by Seth Masia.  The spectacular arc if skiwear’s denim cowboy look.

Media Reviews, p. 29: Freedom Found by John Fry.  Warren Miller’s new autobiography offers a penetrating look inside the filmmaker’s fascinating life.

Remembering, p. 31: Stein Memorial by John Fry.  Hundreds gathered in February at Deer Valley to honor the memory of the late Stein Eriksen. 

VOLUME 28, NO. 3 MAY-JUNE 2016

Commentary, p. 6: Stop the Music! By John Fry.  Five thousand people at a ski area share a common interest.  It just doesn’t happen to be music.

Short Turns, p. 8: Shiffrin’s Big Wins by Seth Masia.  American racer’s sustained two-second victory margins are unprecedented in the World Cup era.

13 Hansi Hinterseer
The former World Cup and pro slalom ace from Austria is a pop superstar in Europe. Plus: Mike Hundert looks back on Hansi’s arrival as the glamorous “Joe Namath” of World Pro Skiing. BY PATRICK LANG

16 Jean Vuarnet
His Olympic gold was only the beginning. The triumphant, sometimes tumultuous personal and professional life of the 1960 downhill champion, technique analyst, resort developer, and entrepreneur of sunglass fame. BY ALAIN LAZARD  

22 Endless Winter
Led by top racers like Pepi Stiegler, Stein Eriksen and Erich Sailer, summer ski camps were once a booming business at resorts across western North America. From as many as 18, the number of ski areas hosting them has dwindled to a few. BY EDITH THYS MORGAN

28 Living History
During Skiing History Week in Aspen in April 2016, ISHA honored ski historians from around the world and the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame inducted its Class of 2015. BY KATHLEEN JAMES  

Museum News, p. 32: Winter Comes by Tim Gibbons.  New exhibit in Bend celebrates Oregon’s nordic ski history. 

VOLUME 28, NO. 4 JULY-AUGUST 2016

Short Turns, p. 5: 1,000 Feet and Below by Kathleen James.  New documentary film is a testament to the history and community spirit of Maine’s small ski hills.

Where Are They Now? p. 10: Pepi Stiegler by Wade McKoy.  Longtime Jackson Hole ski-school director and Olympic champ Pepi Stiegler is upbeat and on the mend after a life-threatening fall last October.

Resorts Then and Now, p. 13: Craftsbury Outdoor Center by Peggy Shinn.  In northern Vermont, a “crazy idea” has become a world-class, award-winning cross-country and outdoor center.

16 Magnificent Monochrome
In iconic black-and-white images, ski photographer Hans Truöl (1920–1981) captured the world’s top alpine racers and dramatic mountain landscapes. BY KATHLEEN JAMES

22 Aspen’s Wild Ride
For a dozen years, Denver billionaire and Hollywood heavyweight Marvin Davis owned the Aspen Skiing Company. BY JAY COWAN

25 The Dating Game
From May to March to late January, the long-running argument over the optimal date for the SnowSports Industries America annual trade show is a reflection of an ever-changing market. BY JACKSON HOGEN

Commentary, p. 30: The Great French Ski Controversy by John Fry.  More than 40 years after six top racers were kicked off the French national team, bitter feelings still linger.

VOLUME 28, NO. 5 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2016

Short Turns, p. 5: Tomorrow the World by Seth Masia.  Vail’s purchase of Whistler/Blackcomb is historic: it makes the company twice as large, financially, as the number two ski resort operator.  Vail is now poised to leap oceans.

Where Are They Now? p. 15: Toril Forland by Edith Thys Morgan.  The five-time World Pro Tour champion has made a life in skiing. 

18 A Short, Colorful History of Ski Boots
Early boot design was dictated by binding design. The modern era introduced new materials, fit and height that led to a revolution in alpine technique. By Seth Masia 

22 North America’s Ski City
Archival images document the early ski culture of Montreal, where residents have jumped, raced and skied on the slopes of Mont Royal for more than a century. By Bob Soden

28 How to Fund the Future?
While athletes on the U.S. alpine A Team are fully funded, critics question why an up-and-comer on the B, C, or Development teams must raise as much as $25,000 a year to cover expenses. It wasn’t always this way. Plus: How U.S. development compares with six other nations. By John Meyer

News from ISHA, p. 33: ISHA Marks 25th Anniversary by Seth Masia.  Mason Beekley’s lifelong passion led to the founding of ISHA during the winter of 1990-1991.  Skiing History week 2017 will mark the 25th annual awards banquet.

VOLUME 28, NO. 6 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2016

Short Turns, p. 5: DU Hosts Reception at Center for Ski History.  University’s new collection features 1,600 books on skiing, plus personal papers, publications, photos and memorabilia. 

Museum News, p. 11: U.S. Hall of Fame Announces Class of 2016.  10 people will be inducted at Stowe Mountain Resort on April 8, 2017.

Equipment, p. 14: Whatever Happened to Heierling? By Luzi Hitz.  After four generations, the family revives its boot brand.

Classics, p. 15: Pack Attack by an unknown author.  An 1890 adventure: Caught near the summit after dark, a Steamboat Springs skier is pursued by ravenous wolves. Fact, fiction, or a bit of both?

17 An Interview with Penny Pitou
America’s 1960 Olympic alpine double medalist reflects on her racing career and the women who inspired her success. BY IAN SCULLY

22 The Great Sun Valley Avalanche
A tragic 1952 incident at America’s  first destination resort stunned the skiing community and contributed to better management and safety practices. Based on firsthand accounts from people who were there. BY DAVID BUTTERFIELD

26 The Man Who Came to Dinner and Stayed a Year
The peripatetic ski life of Marquis Nicolò degli Albizzi, a minor Russian aristocrat whose adventures—and misadventures—led him from the Rockies to Lake Placid and the Laurentian Mountains of Quebec. BY E. JOHN B. ALLEN

VOLUME 29, NO. 1 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2017

Commentary, p. 6: Making it Great Again! By John Fry.  In November 2016, 16,000 fans attended a World Cup alpine ski race in New England, where love of the sport has never waned.

Short Turns, p. 8: Long Live Longboards! 25th annual competition celebrates the first organized ski races in the USA.

Resorts Then and Now, p. 14: Sunlight Mountain Resort by Steve Rice.  As it celebrates 50 years, a family ski area in Colorado is making its mark in an era of modern mega-resorts.

Where Are They Now? p. 16: The Firth Twins by Bob Woodward.  Resilient sisters Sharon and Shirley Firth came from the Arctic to dominate the Canadian cross-country scene.

18 Killy’s Winter, Unequaled (Part 1)

World Cup turns 50: In Part 1 of an exclusive interview, Jean-Claude Killy recalls his 1967 World Cup triumph—a record-setting season that’s never been surpassed. BY YVES PERRET

24 Art of the Dual

The history and future of head-to-head racing, which will debut as a medal event at the 2018 Winter Olympics. BY EDITH THYS MORGAN

Media Reviews, p. 31: How Wood Met Metal by Seth Masia.  A transatlantic history of aluminum skis and the companies that created them.

VOLUME 29, NO. 2 MARCH-APRIL 2017

Short Turns, p. 6: Eight Decades of Racing Rules. Special Report: A six-year effort, led by FIS Alpine Rules Chief Michael Huber, has yielded the first comprehensive digital collection of the changing rules that have governed ski racing over 80 years.

Collectibles, p. 14: Up and Down by Everett Potter.  The annual ski-poster auction at Swann Galleries has become the global benchmark for the market.

16 Killy’s Winter, Never Equaled (Part 2)
In an exclusive interview, Jean-Claude Killy recalls the first season of the World Cup, 50 years ago, when he won 12 of the 17 races, all of the downhills, and finished on the podium in 86% of the races he entered, a record that’s never been surpassed. BY YVES PERRET 

22 All or Nothing
Nancy Greene of Canada came from behind to win the 1967 inaugural World Cup overall women’s title by the slimmest of margins in a thrilling final slalom race at Jackson Hole. BY MICHEL BEAUDRY

26 Get a Grip! 
For three decades, rope-tow grippers were a ski-equipment staple. BY KIRBY GILBERT AND JOHN HANSEN

28 Stowe’s First Ski Trail
Bruce Trail was cut on Vermont’s Mount Manfield in December 1933. Today it’s a popular backcountry run. BY DAVID GOODMAN

Media Reviews, p. 30: Has Skiing Lost its Soul? By John Fry.  New book deplores conglomeration, commercialization, and the dawn of Alpine modernism.

ISHA Honor Roll, p. 33: Another Record Year by Seth Masia.  Donations by individual ISHA members rose by 25 percent in 2016, raising critical funds to support the preservation of skiing history.

VOLUME 29, NO. 3 MAY-JUNE 2017

Commentary, p. 7: For Many, Cost of Going Uphill is Going Down by John Fry.  Multi-area season passes have brought back 1950s prices.

Short Turns, p. 10: Origin Story by Nils Larsen.  Did skiing originate in the Altai mountains of China? A recent New York Times article reignited the ongoing debate.

18 Winter Sporting With the Cookies 

Though he never skied, British businessman Thomas Cook was one of the earliest and most influential ski-vacation promoters. BY E. JOHN B. ALLEN

22 Reboot!

The revolution in boot design and construction has changed the way we ski. BY RON LEMASTER

26 Loads of Fun on Ski & Snow

During a raucous “ski” weekend in the Laurentian Mountains 89 years ago, the travelers glow happily inside the cars of a snow train and the walls of a once-famous club. BY COREY FORD

Where Are They Now? p. 29: Where Stars Went to Ski by Phil Johnson.  Karl Plattner still lives near Hunter Mountain, where his ski school attracted a glittering circle of New York City celebrities.

Equipment, p. 31: Personal Music is Nothing New by Jeff Blumenfeld.  The Astraltune Stereopack predated the iPhone by 40 years. 

VOLUME 29, NO. 4 JULY-AUGUST 2017

Short Turns, p. 6: Dutch Hill Revival by Jeremy Davis.  Long-shuttered Vermont ski area to return as a backcountry area.

Resorts Then and Now, p. 12: Quebec’s All-Time Ski-Area Inventory by Jeremy Davis.  Pierre Dumas has undertaken a project to identify every ski area and ski jump in the history of his home province.

Equipment, p. 14: Sticky Wicket by Karen D. Lorentz.  How a young Killington employee in 1963 found a new and better way to attach lift tickets to people.

16 A Time of Transition
Erika Schinegger of Austria, who won the women’s 1966 downhill world championship, later discovered through genetic testing that she was male. The remarkable journey from Erika to Erik was a hard-won triumph.  BY EDITH THYS MORGAN

20 For Sale by Owner
Since 1968, Swiss skier Eric Kellenberger has been amassing what may be the world’s largest vintage-poster collection. Now he’s looking for a buyer. BY EVERETT POTTER

24 Foreign Relations
In collegiate skiing, Americans compete for scarce roster spots with athletes from abroad, a trend that started after World War II. While international athletes raise the level of competition, do they also diminish U.S. ability to develop world-class racers? BY EDITH THYS MORGAN

VOLUME 29, NO. 5 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2017

Short Turns, p. 6: Making Races Run More Smoothly by John Fry.  30 years ago, new U.S. Hall of Famer Herman Gollner found the way to keep gate poles from dislodging and delaying a race.

Nordic History, p. 11: Home of the King by Einar Sunde.  Volunteers are restoring the childhood house of Norwegian ski legend Thorleif Haug.

14 Bygone Gizmos

From Jet Stix to Tinkle Tabs, these crazy ski products faded, fizzled or failed to stand the test of time. BY JEFF BLUMENFELD

18 What They Laughed At

50 years ago, America’s two best-known cartoonists exchanged amusing letters—words and art—about the foibles of their beloved sport. BY BOB CRAM AND BOB BUGG

22 Sunny Days, Cold Nights

Before he found fame as a filmmaker, Warren Miller spent the winter of 1947 living the ski-bum life in a parking lot in Sun Valley. An excerpt from his autobiography, Freedom Found.

Media Reviews, p. 26: 50 Years of Flight by E. John B. Allen.  New book covers the history of jumping in California from 1900 to 1950.

VOLUME 29, NO. 6 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2017

Short Turns, p. 6: Feast and Famine by Seth Masia.  Private ski areas in the era of 1 percenters.

Collectibles, p. 11: The Art of the Unexpected by Lori Knowles.  In a career that stretched three decades, Murray Hay became one of North America’s most prolific trail-map illustrators.

Technique, p. 13: The 10th Mountain Division Ski Technique of WWII by Charles C. Roberts, Jr. and Seth Masia.  A skier bearing a heavy pack needs a quiet upper body for stability.  In teaching ski troopers how to do it, instructors anticipated fundamental post-war technique changes.

16 Where Are They Now?

After surviving a horrific crash on the notorious Streif, Crazy Canuck downhill champion Todd Brooker went on to a successful career as a TV commentator. BY EDITH THYS MORGAN

20 Skiing to the Poles (Part 1)

From Fridtjof Nansen to Robert E. Peary and Roald Amundsen, skis played a critical role in early Arctic and polar exploration. BY JEFF BLUMENFELD

24 Snowmass: The Beginning

How America’s first real-estate-focused resortwas founded 50 years ago. BY JAY COWAN

Classic Ski Shops, p. 33: Service, Service, Service by Mike Dederer.  Sturtevant’s starts a new chapter as it celebrates its 40th anniversary in the Seattle metro area. 

VOLUME 30, NO. 1 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2018

Short Turns, p. 5: Where Flatlanders Learn How to Fly by Seth Masia.  Four of America’s top five male ski jumpers hail from an historic ski club in the Chicago suburbs. 

Where Are They Now? p. 11: Lost and Found by Michel Beaudry.  At the Nagano Olympics, he was stripped of snowboarding’s first gold medal.  The next day, he had the medal back.  Today, Ross Rebagliati is a successful marijuana entrepreneur in British Columbia.

13 Skiing to the Poles (Part 2) 

The critical role of skis in modern-day polar expeditions by explorers like Paul Schurke, Will Steger and Richard Weber. BY JEFF BLUMENFELD

16 Olympic Preview: The Golden Men and Women of the Sport

Who’s the greatest? For alpine skiers able to win under pressure, look to their single-Olympics record. BY JOHN FRY

19 Giants of GS

Who’s the greatest men’s giant slalom racer of all time? With each passing decade, racing fans renew the ongoing debate. BY PETER OLIVER

21 How He Saw It

Over three decades, John G. Zimmerman’s stunning photography defined the sport for millions, from the Olympics to heli-skiing.

30 Setting a New Standard

NASTAR, the world’s largest recreational racing program, began 50 years ago as a quest to introduce the equivalent of golf’s par to the sport of skiing. BY JOHN FRY

Remembering, p. 35: Warren Miller by John Fry.  Iconic filmmaker, author and cartoonist who captured the soul of skiing.

VOLUME 30, NO. 2 MARCH-APRIL 2018

Ski News, p. 6: #MeToo Hits Ski Sport by John Fry.  Charges of sexual abuse come to light in Austria, Canada.

Short Turns, p. 9: Queen of the 2018 Olympics by Seth Masia.  Ester Ledecka broke a training barrier and crossed a cultural divide.

15  Skiing’s Central Asian Origins

At a recent conference in China, historians explored the ancient birth of skiing and how it spread across the continents. By Seth Masia  

Collectibles, p. 18: Best Ski Poster Sales in 10 Years by Everett Potter.  Record prices and active bidding at annual Swann auction.

20 Snail Mail & Split Stretch Pants 

NASTAR’s mid-1970s national coordinator fondly remembers the low-tech camaraderie of the racing program’s early days. By Kathe Dillmann

24 Squaw Valley Olympics Scrapbook

A behind-the-scenes look at the preparation and staging—things practical, ingenious, silly, memorable and forgotten—that contributed to the success and new traditions of the 1960 Winter Games at Squaw Valley. By David Butterfield

VOLUME 30, NO. 3 MAY-JUNE 2018

Short Turns, p. 5: Made in Ukraine by Seth Masia.  The rise of Eastern Europe as a ski-manufacturing center.

Ski Travel, p. 9: Exploring Riva Ridge by Paul Duncan.  Tracing the trail of the 10th Mountain Division in Italy.

Commentary, p. 10: The Power of Team by Edith Thys Morgan.  U.S. Skiing could learn a lot from the success formula within its own women’s cross-country team. 

Ski Memories, p. 13: Can’t We All Just Get Along? By Roger Lohr.  The man who wrote the manual recalls early efforts to bridge the cultural divide between skiers and snowboarders.

15 If the Boot Fits, Wear It

From poisonous foam to sophisticated liners, the custom-fitting of plastic boots has progressed spectacularly over 50 years. BY SETH MASIA
 

18 Penguin Power!
One of North America’s first and most successful ski clubs was created in Quebec entirely by, and for, women. BY CARA ARMSTRONG AND LORI KNOWLES

22 The Incomparable Bob Beattie

Bold, dynamic, and charismatic, the late Bob Beattie fueled much of what happened in competitive alpine skiing between 1960 and the end of the 20th century. An appraisal of when, where and how he succeeded, by a journalist who knew and interviewed him for more than 50 years. BY JOHN FRY

Ski Memories, p. 30: Mr. Big Vanilla by Jeff Blumenfeld.  Broadway lensman Werner J. Kuhn ran the patrol, taught first aid and shot PR photos at a popular Catskills ski area.

Museum News, p. 35: Branching Out by E. John B. Allen.  New England Ski Museum opens new satellite in North Conway.

VOLUME 30 NO. 4 JULY-AUGUST 2018

• When Head Went Modern The late John Howe, chief designer at Head from 1967 to 1984, recalls the transition from metal to fiberglass skis. BY SETH MASIA
• Joie de Vivre Michel Rudigoz of Sun Valley is the man behind the most successful U.S. women’s alpine team of all time. BY EDITH THYS MORGAN
• A Sport Once White Not as much any more. Starting 45 years ago, the National Brotherhood of Skiers has brought black skiers—and racers—onto the slopes. BY JAY COWAN
• What’s in a Name? When it comes to trail monikers, no lions and tigers, but plenty of bears—not to mention resort founders, historic events and the occasional death threat. BY JEFF BLUMENFELD
• Readers Respond The final word(s) on Bob Beattie; when it comes to NASTAR, freedom plus discipline equals skiing success.
• Short Turns Berkshire East purchases the historic Catamount Ski Area; slow progress on preserving Camp Hale. Plus:Snapshots in Time, the ski art of Gustav Jahn.
• Escape from Death Seven decades ago, Jim McConkey fell deep into a crevasse on a Canadian glacier. Toni Matt saved his life.
• Museum News Salt Lake City snowboard shop does double duty as the Utah Snowboard Museum; Colorado Snowsports Museum reopens after major renovation; three new inductees at Intermountain Hall of Fame.
• News from ISHA Save the date for ISHA events this coming ski season! Plus: Auto-renew your ISHA membership and an updated worldwide ski museum guide.
• Media Reviews New and notable ski-history books and films.
• Remembering Farewell to ski pioneers John Howe, Don Henderson and Peg Kurlander.

VOLUME 30 NO. 5 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2018

• Powering the Turn Part I: Tracing the history of turn technique, from the early evolution of upper body rotation through the 1950s emergence of counter rotation. By Ron LeMaster 
• Must-Ski TV How has skiing been depicted on weekly TV series over the years? We dove deep into the video archives to find out. Hint: Injuries and mishaps abound. By Jeff Blumenfeld
• Seesaw’s Returns Historic roadhouse-turned-ski lodge is rebuilt, renovated and open for business in southern Vermont. By Peggy Shinn
• Readers Respond American women who excelled before the World Cup era; Big Vanilla nostalgia.
• Commentary How many people ski and snowboard in the USA?  That’s a controversial question. By John fry
• Short Turns Eskimo Ski Club folds; revivals at historic Hollyburn Lodge (BC) and Tenney Mountain (NH); vintage ski-equipment collection finds a new home. Plus: Snapshots in Time, the ski art of Frederick Coburn.
• Where Are They Now? Erika Hess Switzerland’s hard-working World Cup golden girl shows junior racers the ropes. By Edith Thys Morgan
• Equipment Father-son team in Steamboat Springs revives the All-American Northland brand. By Edith Thys Morgan
• Ski Memories After 70 years, remembering the annual college ritual of skiing the steep and deep of Tuckerman Ravine. By John Fry
• Museum News The U.S. and Canadian Halls of Fame announce their new honored members.
• News from ISHA ISHA and the U.S. Hall of Fame join forces to celebrate ski history and legends in Utah in April 2019.
• Remembering Farewell to ski pioneers Jimmie Spencer, Dick Bohr, Russell Spring, Karl Erb and Charles Elliott.

VOLUME 30 NO. 5 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2018

• Powering the Turn Part 2: The rise of “national” turn techniques and the subsequent development of split rotation, leg rotation, “anticipation” and pure carving. BY RON LEMASTER
• Where Are They Now? Jeff Hastings, America’s best Olympic ski jumper, is a champion for the sport. BY EDITH THYS MORGAN
• The Slim Look Before Bogner’s stretch pants, streamlined ski- wear was already in vogue. In the vanguard was skiing tailor Irving Margolese. BY JOHN FRY
• The Man on the White Charger In January 1968, Skiing Magazine ran this classic profile of Ed Scott, founder of Scott USA. BY JOHN JEROME
• Readers Respond National Ski Patrol historian corrects the mysteries of history; three-ring showdown over the greatest snow on Earth; deep dive into the Northland archives.
• Commentary The impact of soaring season pass sales on ski and snowboard participation rates in the United States. BY JOHN FRY
• Short Turns In Calgary, an Olympic rejection redux; Tomm Murstad and the world’s first ski school for kids. Plus: Snapshots in Time, the ski art of Achille Beltrame.
• What’s in a Name? The history of Suicide Six in Vermont is intimately linked to the origin of lift-served skiing in the United States. BY BOB SODEN
• Museum News Elan opens a new museum near its factory in Slovenia.
• Remembering Farewell to ski pioneers Joachim Rønneberg, Gérard Rubaud, Karl Plattner, Steve Crisafulli, Chummy Broomhall and George Maynard.
• News from ISHA Tickets now on sale for the ISHA Awards banquet in Park City in April 2019.

VOLUME 31 NO. 1 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2019

• Ski Genius Marks 100th Birthday Kitzbühel’s Karl Koller systematized short-ski instruction for beginners, revolutionized children’s learning, fostered terrain-based teaching, and was a dominant force in Interski. BY JOHN FRY WITH BARBARA THALER
• Skiing & Surfing: Separated at Birth Two of the world’s most popular adventure sports have inspired and influenced each other for more than half a century. BY JAY COWAN
• (Non) Conversations with the President There I was with 8-foot skis to present to President Ford, and I’d forgotten my speech. BY MORTEN LUND
• Los Alamos Ski Club Celebrates 75 Years In 1943, Manhattan Project scientists took to the snow. They’ve never quit. BY SETH MASIA
• Readers Respond In letters and online, ISHA members take a hard look at how steep day-ticket prices—and mega-passes like Ikon and Epic—are impacting the sport.
• Short Turns Ski celebs gather in Aspen to celebrate the late Bob Beattie, James Niehues raises $600,000 for trail-map book, Wurteles win Order of Canada, first laceless ski boots. Plus: Vonn or Stenmark—who was the best?
• Snapshots in Time Fatal avalanche in Klosters for Prince Charles’ royal equerry (1988), Scottish-French Canadian is world’s best racer (1953), ski patrol heroes of the Sierra (1943).
• Why Is It Called That? Logging lingo is reflected in the trail names at Sugarloaf, Maine.
• News from ISHA Connie Nelson, director of the Alf Engen Ski Museum, wins ISHA Lifetime Achievement Award. Plus: The best ski-history books of 2018; ISHA member Heino Nowak has been collecting vintage gear since the 1970s.
• Remembering Farewell to ski pioneers Morten Lund, Fred Smith, Kim Massie and Robert Launey.

VOLUME 31 NO. 2 MARCH-APRIL 2019

• Sold! To the Highest Bidder Annual vintage ski-poster auction at Swann Galleries showcases classic images and a few oddities. BY EVERETT POTTER
• The End of the Single Pole The sport underwent a transformation more than a century ago, when skiers gradually shifted from a single shaft to holding a pair of poles. BY LUZI HITZ WITH SETH MASIA
• Skijoring’s Wild History Getting dragged across the snow by plane, horse, reindeer and dog is a unique sport that’s at least 1,000 years old. BY JAY COWAN
• The Hellions A tribute to those all-time nonconformists of the ski world whose maverick antics are the material of legend. BY MORTEN LUND
• Readers Respond Memories of Morten Lund; more debate on season pass sales and the future of the sport.
• Short Turns Austria’s first urban snow dome, the Schneepalast, opened in 1927; blood doping is a persistent problem in FIS cross country competition; glaciers yield ancient skis.
• Snapshots in Time The Arctic’s shy cross country superstars (1967), snowboarding turns SIA into Bourbon Street (1991), Hodler exposes Olympic vote-buying (1998).
• Classic Ski Towns U.S. Ski and Snowboard builds a legacy in Park City, Utah. BY TOM KELLY
• Nordic Skiing Today’s Great Nordeen race commemorates Oregon’s first cross-country event, founded in 1927. BY TIM GIBBONS
• Media Reviews 2018 ISHA Award winners: Histories of ski bindings and Aspen Highlands.
• ISHA Honor Roll Our annual financial report and donor listing.
• Remembering Farewell to Matti Nykänen, Michael Horn, Ayiken Jiashan, Dollie Armstrong, Werner Kuster, John Lindstrom and Dan Jenkins.

VOLUME 31 NO. 3 MAY-JUNE 2019

• Populism in the Backcountry Volunteers, ski areas and landowners team up nationwide to restore historic ski trails. BY JEREMY DAVIS
• Where Are They Now? Skiing with Junior Bounous, Utah’s legendary powder guru and ski-school director. BY EDITH THYS MORGAN
• Movers and Shakers During the 1980s, these high- profile folks—from resort owners to politicos and CEOs—shone a special light on skiing. BY JOHN FRY
• Classics Johnny Carson and the most famous ski lesson of all time. BY JOHN FRY
• Readers Respond Schaeffler’s vision for a national ski-team training center.
• Short Turns U.S. Ski Team steps up to pay more athletes’ expenses; traditional ski and snowboard print magazines in free- fall; U.S. nordic Olympic women reunite.
• Snapshots in Time Scores hurt on ski lift (1985), oil embargo impacts ski weekends (1974), ski-school instructors at risk (1959).
• Ski Racing Vonn vs. Stenmark vote results: Who was the best?
• Ski Business Ski-company stocks pose a minefield of moguls for investors. BY SETH MASIA
• Historic Dining The Ram restaurant in Sun Valley preserves a slice of ski history with a revamped historic menu. BY JENNA BLUMENFELD
• News from ISHA Skiing History Week: In Park City, the 27th annual ISHA Awards honored 10 authors from around the world.
• Media Reviews Leisure cultures and the making of modern ski resorts.
• Remembering Farewell to ski pioneers Charlie Paterson, Gjermund Eggen, Nick Howe, John Hitchcock, Harry Leonard, Dietrich Oberreit and Frank Vener.
• Ads from the Past When Spiderman on skis sold back-to-school clothes.

VOLUME 31 NO. 4 JULY-AUGUST 2019

• The Instructor In 1966, cartoonist Bob Cram took a humorous look at ski instructors: how we see them, and how they see themselves. Hint: It’s not the same.
• Landmark Books Alpine skiing is a difficult sport to learn. These four pioneering books made it less so. BY RON LEMASTER
• Pro-Am The dual life of Erik Schlopy, the World Cup alpine champ who turned pro and then went amateur again. BY EDITH THYS MORGAN
• Readers Respond Stenmark versus Vonn: The debate rages on.
• Commentary How skiers have become older and wealthier: a 50-year comparison. BY JOHN FRY
• Short Turns The first-high speed quad was a flop; long odds for U.S. Hall of Fame; when Mercury 7 astronauts landed in Breckenridge, Colorado.
• Snapshots in Time The double life of Jake Burton (2001), Eisenhower Tunnel opens gateway to the high country (1973), Toni Sailer cashes in on Olympic success (1956)
• Classics The He and She Stick: Making love connections on the ski lifts. BY JOHN FRY
• The Abridged History of Snowless Skiing Who needs powder? Minnesota resort goes to the mat for its future. BY GREG DITRINCO
• Resorts Then and Now In the historic Swiss resort town of St. Moritz, visitors are immersed in the wellspring of winter sports. BY EVERETT POTTER
• News from ISHA ISHA’s updated 2019 World Guide to Ski Museums, Libraries and Collections is funded by the Marc Hodler Foundation.
• Media Reviews How one tiny Vermont town finds happiness (and Olympic excellence).
• Remembering Farewell to ski pioneers Hans Standteiner, Peter Andrews, Sandy Shellworth Hildner, Fred Merchant and John Gianotti.

VOLUME 31 NO. 5 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2019

• Ski Heil! The evolution of skiing jargon reflects nationalism and cultural change. BY E. JOHN B. ALLEN
• Downhill Racer Fifty years ago, Robert Redford was embroiled in making the movie that changed the way Americans viewed ski racing. How it happened. BY MORTEN LUND
• Skiing High From the moment people figured out they could go downhill on skis and survive, they’ve been trying to be the first to ski from the tops of ever-higher mountains. BY JAY COWAN
• Excellence on the Escarpment Small vertical, big results: A 750-foot-high ridge in Ontario has spawned many of Canada’s Olympic and World Cup champions. BY LORI KNOWLES
• Readers Respond First quad fact-finding; skiing on chicken feathers in California; do we need a nordic hall of fame?
• Short Turns Alta’s “wild” ski club celebrates 55 years; Ski Racing is on the block.
• Snapshots in Time Ski games and stunts (1909), abolish the U.S. Ski Team (1970), skiing is safer than wading (1976)
• Resorts Then and Now The world’s weirdest ski lift is at a former NATO installation in Norway. BY JIMMY PETTERSON
• Equipment You could be racing while others are lacing! The mod- est boot buckle was one of the sport’s most enduring innovations. BY JOHN FRY
• Museum News U.S. Hall of Fame announces its Class of 2019.
• Timeless tip: Point your belly button down the hill.
• Media Reviews Poignant documentary looks back at Colorado’s lost ski resorts.
• News from ISHA New partnerships extend ISHA’s reach.
• Remembering Farewell to pioneers Egon N. Zimmermann, Sherman Poppen, Pepi Gramshammer and Bill Williams.

VOLUME 31 NO. 6 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2019

•  Is He the Greatest? With his recent retirement, record-breaking eight-time overall World Cup champion Marcel Hirscher of Austria is arguably alpine ski racing’s Greatest of All Time ... or is he? BY PATRICK LANG
• Vermont Revival Once again, the Edson Hill Manor is a top-ranked luxury retreat in Stowe. BY PEGGY SHINN
• Skiing High, Part 2 Like an irresistible drug, racking up new descents keeps ski mountaineers looking for the highest high. Welcome to the brave new world of 8,000 meters—and beyond. BY JAY COWANs:
• Readers Respond The tale of Redford’s Roffe; Pepi Stiegler shows ‘em how it’s done.
• Short Turns Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau is a bona-fide rider and former snowboard instructor at Blackcomb in B.C. Plus: Early ski photo, where seniors ski free.
• Snapshots in Time The thrill of the forward flip (1920), pop psychology ski technique (1968), the higher power of powder (1993)
• Equipment In the early days of skiing, the wax on the bottom of your skis could make or break your day on the slopes. BY JOHN FRY
• News from ISHA See you in Sun Valley for Skiing History Week; meet ISHA Vice President John McMurtry.
• Ski History Calendar Watching the World Cup; the Wonders of Winter Art.
• Media Reviews In Ski Inc. 2020, Chris Diamond discusses the people and ideas that have shaped the modern ski experience. BY JOHN FRY
• Remembering Farewell to ski pioneers Joe Pete Wilson, Gert Boyle, Peter Lahdenpera, Havard Hanevold, Karl Koller, Davo Karnicar and Blanca Fernandez Ochoa.

VOLUME 32 NO. 1 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2020

• Jeremy Bloom: The high-flying journey of freeskiing's busiest athlete. BY EDITH THYS
• A Funny Time for Skiing: When MAD Magazine put skiing on its cover, millions bought it. Ski magazine editors were influenced too. BY JOHN FRY
• When Print Was King: Long before the Internet, influential newspaper columnists gave us up-to-date dispatches on where to ski, where to stay, and where the snow was best. BY JEFF BLUMENFELD
• The Braked Rescue Sled: Seven decades ago, Roger Sylvand and Emile Allais invented a safer new way to get injured skiers off the mountainside. BY THOMAS SYLVAND, with a brief history of rescue sleds by Seth Masia
• Readers Respond: Fond memories of jumping champ Roy Sherwood and custom-made Roffe ski pants.
• Short Turns: FIS president Kasper ends his long run; a Sun Valley vintage sweater collector; Buck Hill celebrates 50 years with racing coach Erich Sailer.
• Snapshots in Time: Skiing by ear (1959), World Cup debuts to accolades (1967), Stratton aims to be a vacation destination (1978)
• Resorts: The history of skiing in Zermatt is inextricably linked to the mighty Matterhorn. BY EVERETT POTTER
• Timeless Tips: Javelin Turn -- the tip-crossing trick that improves your technique. BY ART FURRER AND RON LEMASTER
• News from ISHA: 2019 ISHA Award winners announced; 100th birthday bash for Klaus Obermeyer
• Museum News: Intermountain Hall inducts three new members.
• Media Reviews: Jim Niehues, the man behind the maps.
• Ski History Calendar: History-oriented events from the Alps to the Rockies.
• Remembering: Farewell to ski pioneers Jake Burton Carpenter, Jacques Parker, Luzi Hitz and Ruth Lieder.

VOLUME 32 NO. 2 MARCH-APRIL 2020

• Off the Wall: At the annual Swann Galleries auction, eager collectors snapped up vintage ski posters of both classic and unique design. BY EVERETT POTTER
• The Soul of Sun Valley: Since 1977, the Holding family has transformed this historic Idaho resort while honoring its fabled past. BY DAVID BUTTERFIELD
• Marie Marvingt, Superhero: She achieved fame as an aviator, but was also a pioneering skier and the inventor of an early aluminum ski. BY SETH MASIA
• Ski Like the Champions: In 1956, two young Americans crisscrossed Scandinavia to film the world's fastest nordic racers and make the first-ever cross-country ski technique film. BY RICK ELIOT WITH JOHN CALDWELL
• Readers Respond: Pioneering American ski journalists before World War II; who's that in the K2 ad?
• The Home of the Gods: Go to the high places to gain vision and restore your soul. BY JOHN FRY
• Short Turns: Alf Engen's Sun Valley roots, FIS bans fluoro wax. Plus: Snapshots in Time, Ski Art and Ski History Calendar
• Where Are They Now: Since the 1960s, Dixi Nohl has been an influential voice in ski instruction and mountain management . .  and for the past few decades, a hard-working innkeeper in Vermont. BY EDITH THYS MORGAN
• ISHA Donor Roll, Annual Report: Our annual tribute to ISHA members who gave above and beyond their annual dues.
• Media Reviews: ISHA Award winners: Skis in the Art of War, celebrating high-alpine cuisine.
• Remembering: Farewell to skin pioneers John Fry, Dave McCoy, Rhona Wurtele Gillis and David Goode.
• Ads from the Past: Point your Mercury uphill and head to Sun Valley!

VOLUME 32 NUMBER 3 MAY-JUNE 2020

• Aspen Confidential Skiing put Aspen on the map. But bad behavior kept Aspen in the news. By Jay Cowan

• Evolution of a Rebel At 55, US Hall of Famer Glen Plake remains an enduring and iconic ambassador for the sport of skiing, its downhome roots and honoring its past. By Edith Thys Morgan

• The Two Worlds of Arnold Lunn "If it were not for the mountains, my religion would be much too arid," confessed the celebrated convert, apologist and controversialist. By John Fry

• The Sour Cream Sierras Thousands learned to ski at the famed Borscht Belt hotels in the Catskill Mountains of New York. By Jeff Blumenfeld

• Readers Respond The wax before Swix, first tracks in Zermatt in 1898, Alf Engen's earliest Sun Valley days

• Short Turns World Pro Ski Tour draws stars but suffers short season, Jake Burton honored around the world and in Vermont's statehouse, Oslo's antiquarian ski-book hotspot. Snapshots in Time, Ski Art.

• Commentary Finally perfected, the carving didn't prevail in North America. Instead we got fat skis that have made resort slopes less safe. By Jackson Hogen

• News from ISHA Skiing History Week reset for December 2020; ISHA creates a Covid-19 archive to document skiing's response to the global pandemic.

• Remembering Farewell to Herman Dupre, Bob Lazier, Bob Tucker, Corky Fowler, Gary Speckmann and Howard Peterson

• Ads from the Past In 1925 a Hudson Super Six -- the first affordable muscle car -- cruised past skiers on a snow-covered track

VOLUME 32 NO. 4 JULY-AUGUST 2020

• When History Halted Skiing, A Short history of Catastrophes: When it snows, skiers ski, even amid calamity. That could change with Covid-19 by Andy Bigford

• Big Air Alpine ski jumpers—sticking Geländesprungs, cliff hucks and gap-jumps—have been sending it for more than a hundred years. By Jay Cowan

• Peter Dodge and the Rebirth of NCAA Racing By Edith Thys Morgan

• Up on the Rooftop Built by architect Ralph Erskine, the Borgafjäll Hotel in Swedish Lapland is an enduring outpost of ski culture and solitude. By Jimmy Petterson

• Ski Life with Bob Cram

• Readers Respond  More on Alf Engen in Sun Valley

• Commentary: Pandemic and Diversity Is the Covid19 crisis is an opportunity to hire from nearby cities? By Seth Masia

• Short Turns (July-August 2020) Maple Valley revival, Squaw Valley name change, Fernie Wall of Fame, Utah trivia, Viking skis, Snapshots in Time

• Timeless Tips: New Way to Measure Pole Length By Ron LeMaster

• News From ISHA (July-August 2020) Pandemic cancels Skiing History Week 2020

• Remembering (July-August 2020) Farewell to Ski Pioneers Laurent Boix-Vives, Carl Ettlinger, William McCollom, Richard and Carol Fallon

• Ads from the Past Pontiac

VOLUME 32 NO. 5 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2020

• The Cross Country Caldwells From Olympic racing to elite coaching, this once-and-future family has had a powerful impact on the sport. By Peter Oliver
• Canada's Forgotten Ski Center When it opened in 1930, the Seigniory Club was the largest ski resort in Canada...and possibly in North America. By Joseph Graham and Pierre Dumas
• A Decisive Moment in Time After a career covering skiing, photographer Paul Ryan has seen it all. By Greg DiTrinco; Photos by Paul Ryan
• Animators Go Looney Over Skiing When cartoons take a run at skiing, mayhem ensues. By Jeff Blumenfeld
• Readers Respond: Letters to the Editor
• Short Turns (Sept-Oct 2020) Sverre Engen, Explorers Club honor Blumenfeld, artist Ewald Thiel, Why the different names for snow?, Lunn and Heath
• Classics: The Natural Toni Sailer raced to seven World Championship medals in an improbable 24 months—helping him become skiing’s first leading man. By John Fry
• ISHA Kicks Off 2020 Fundraising Campaign
• Remembering Joe Fischer, Jean-Pierre Chatellard, Pierre Dumas, Maxine Bounous and Mack Miller.
• Ads from the Past: Sohler Skis

VOLUME 32 NO. 6 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2020

• Pernilla Wiberg From her home base in Monaco, the Swedish superstar is a TV commentator, advocate for World Cup racer safety, entrepreneur, and homeschooling mom. By Edith Thys Morgan
• A Decivise Moment in Time Part 2 Photographer Paul Ryan offers some of his favorite images. By Greg Ditrinco
• Pontresina A few miles from glitzy St. Moritz, the cultural heart of the Engadine beats quietly in Pontresina. By Everett Potter
• Short Turns (Nov-Dec 2020) Racing at West Mountain, New York, Ingrid Wicken's library, Lost ski areas of Japan, Sarah Lewis out at FIS, royal avalanche, artist Edwin Holgate.
• Media Reviews Award-winning works on Dave and Roma McCoy, Warren Miller, Lost Berkshire ski areas, dry slopes, Lahout's ski shop in New Hampshire.
• Bota Bag: How's Your Aim? By Jeff Blumenfeld
• Museum News Eight Elected to US Hall of Fame; Oslo Olympians honored in Australia
• ISHA News Award winners honored online, Joe Jay Jalbert joins the board.
• Remembering Jean Mayer, Izzy Ture, Jay Price, Phil Gravink, Bob Maynard
• Ads From the Past Head skis, 1958

VOLUME 33 NO. 1 JANUARY-FEBRUARY 2021

• Quantum Leap From 1929 to 1932, steel edges and Kandahar bindings transformed alpine racing, and recreational, forever. By Seth Masia
• History of the Winter X Games The initial event in 1997 featured shovel racing and snow biking. Then it grew up and exploded. By Jay Cowan
• Gordi and Karen Eaton Olympians lived all aspects of the ski life. By Edith Thys Morgan
• Crazy Ski Promotions For ski marketers, no stunt is too silly, and no news is bad news. By Jeff Blumenfeld
• Walter Mosauer Father of Southern California skiiing. By Ingrid Wicken
• Short Turns (Jan-Feb 2021) Redford sells Sundance, artist Edwin Henel
• ISHA News ISHA Awards 2021, record donations, changing of the guard
• Remembering Bill Spencer, Pat Doran and Elfriede Shane
• Sponsor page Polartec
• Ads from the Past Hot dogs, 1961

VOLUME 33 NO. 2 MARCH-APRIL 2021

• Resorts: What Might Have Been. Before Aspen, Ashcroft and Mt. Hayden promised a cable car, immense schusses, and a village for 2,000. Then World War II intervened. By E. John B. Allen
• Alison Owen Bradley. The first American to win a World Cup cross-country race, this pioneer has remained an advocate for women for five decades. By Peggy Shinn
• The Tempo Turn. Toni Seelos and Dick Durrance helped build the bridge to the modern carved turn by letting skis "do their magic." By Ron Lemaster
• Click Art. For the first time, Swann's annual vintge ski poster auction featured only remote bidding. Prices and spirits were high. By Everett Potter
• Skiers Will Ski on Anything -- Especially Sand. Lack of snow deters not the true believer. By Jeff Blumenfeld
• Ski Business: Better Than Wool. In the early '80s, skiers finally learned to stay warm and dry.
• News from ISHA: Donors Stepped Up in Covid Year. Fundraising set a new record.
• Media: Two ISHA Award Winners: The Winter Army, Les Peuples du Ski, Marcel Hirscher
• Remembering Doris De Agostini, Cal Conniff, Pat Doran, Peter Florancic
• Short Turns: Vermont's High-Country Wilderness. Bolton Valley skiers head off piste. By Peggy Shinn
• Ski Art: Paul Starrett Sample (1896-1974) By E. John B. Allen
• On the Cover: Canadian Rockies, by Peter Ewart.

VOLUME 33 NO. 3 MAY-JUNE 2021

• The Skiing Cochrans The Vermont dynasty still scores on the World Cup circuit. By Edie Thys Morgan
• Resorts: Back in the Saddle Maine's Saddleback Mountain reopens with a new attitude. By Peggy Shinn
• Indoor Skiing When snow isn't available, skiers have headed indoors for nearly a century. By Patrick Thorne
• History of Track Setting Making XC tracks. By Rick Eliot with John Caldwell
• Comma Position Remember this Austrian teaching invention? By Ron Lemaster
• Equipment: Treasure the boots that win. By Peter Oliver
• Classics: Timberline Lodge. By John Fry
• ISHA News Three new directors, a treasurer and a board chairman
• Media Reviews Three ISHA Award winners. By E. John Allen
• Short Turns: Billie Holiday in Aspen, Siberians in bikinis
• Ski Art: William Russell Flint (1880-1960). By E. John Allen
• Remembering David Stapleton, Jimmie Ray Nunn
• On the Cover: Winter in Switzerland, by Erich Hermes

VOLUME 33 NO. 4 JULY-AUGUST 2021

• Kiki Cutter Densmore The first American to win a World Cup race starts a new life. By Edie Thys Morgan
• European Origin of Skiing Archaeology and DNA evidence suggest that skiing arose east of the Baltic, at the end of the last Ice Age. By Maurice Woehrlé
• Going Deep in North America Major storms and massive snow years are the stuff of every skier's dreams. And access-road nightmares. By Jay Cowan
• Le Trappeur Elite: Killy's Winning Boot 1961 boot paved the way for avalement. By Seth Masia
• Technique: Avalement "Swallowing" remains relevant today. Early photos made it look like back-seat driving. By Ron LeMaster
• Seven Decades at Belleayre From CCC-cut trails to a new gondola, the state-owned ski area has become a public-works success story. By Phil Johnson
• Reviewed: Skiing Sun Valley Must-Read for Sun Valley Fans. By Dick Dorworth
• Short Turns: Stowe-Smuggs Interconnect: 65 Years Later By Jeff Blumenfeld
• Head CEO Eliasch Elected FIS President, Halston on Netflix
• Canadian Ski Hall of Fame Inducts Class of 2019 (delayed)
• Letters: Billy Fiske, Action Hero; Inside the Snow Domes
• Skiing History Week slated for Sun Valley, March 23-27, 2022
• Classics: 1975: The Skier Within By John Fry
• Remembering Dave Gorsuch, Bob Salerno, George Hovland, Julie Pomagalski, Inger Bjornbakken
• Ads from the Past: Wayne Wong's Dodge

VOLUME 33 NO. 5 SEPTEMBER-OCTOBER 2021

• Sunshine on My Shoulders: Three-part history of skiing music, with links to the songs. By Charlie Sanders

• Kari Traa: The Norwegian mogul champ is back home in Voss, raising kids and running a company. But she still flies through the air. By Aimee Berg

• Northland Skis: Fire and Feud in St. Paul. How Christian Lund mopped up rivals while building world-class hickory skis. By Greg Fangel and Paul Hooge
• Whatever Happened to Up-Unweighting? Remember when instructors drilled us on down-UP? By Ron LeMaster
• Bonne Bell Ski Team: Jess Bell's lipstick racers. By Jeff Blumenfeld
• Bash for Cash: Aspen Highlands' bruising no-rules race. By Jay Cowan
• Ski Art: Sir John William Ashton. By E. John B. Allen. Plus Alpine or alpine? A capital conundrum. By Seth Masia
• Classics 2004: Shape Up. By Warren Miller
• Museums: The Laurentian Ski Museum finds a new home. By Bob Soden
• Media Review: Andreas Wyller, Norway's Alpine pioneer and war hero. By Einar Sunde
• Remembering Gian Franco Kasper, Mike Wiegele, Kip Pitou, Monika Tilley
• Ads From the Past: Stowe's new double chair, 1960

VOLUME 33 NO. 6 NOVEMBER-DECEMBER 2021

• Heavy Lifting: Aspen Under Construction Meet the folks who built Aspen's first chairlifts, 75 years ago. By Cindy Hirschfeld

• Boiling Springs, Icy Wind, Deepest Snow: 150 Years of Skiing Yellowstone By Jay Cowan

• Marco Sullivan Keeps the Speed Lamp Lit By Edith Thys Morgan

• Ski Technique: Whatever Happened to Ruade? By Ron LeMaster

• Baroness Mimi and Mont d'Arbois Megève celebrates 100 years as the first purpose-built ski resort in France. By Bob Soden

• Walter Kofler Invents the Polyethylene Ski Base By Seth Masia

• Letters: Creation of Polarfleece, Jim Dandy Ski Club

• Short Turns: 1300 Year-Old Ski, Artist Tycho Odberg

• U.S. Hall of Fame to Induct Eight in Class of 2021

• Tickets on Sale for ISHA Awards, March 24 in Sun Valley

• Remembering Rupert Huber, Anne and Joe Jones Hal O'Leary, Peter Alder, Martha Coughlin Corrock and Paul Carson.

• Ads From the Past: Stein Eriksen Skis in Jantzen

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