I’m back for another season of skiing memories, history, nostalgia and trivia. One thing’s for certain, there may not be a lot of “nostalgia” associated with last year’s ski season! Other than about a 10 day span around the first… Continue Reading →
I know it’s not ski season yet, but I had to come out of my summer hibernation to share some happenings that should be of interest to RetroSki-ers. When did the Vermont Ski Museum move to Stowe? The museum opened… Continue Reading →
She was a promising young U.S. ski racer. In 1954 at the age of 18 she won the United States Junior and Senior Slalom titles. She was a bright hope for the U.S. looking forward to the 1956 Olympics. She… Continue Reading →
Who is the ski racer whose story was captured in the movie “The Other Side of the Mountain”?
Earlier this season Stowe ski instructor Josey Furrer loaned me a copy of an article from the 1935 issue of the American Ski Annual. The article was simply titled An F.I.S. Story and was written by Roland Palmedo. Roland Palmedo… Continue Reading →
Who was President of Mount Mansfield Lift Inc. that built the original Stowe single chairlift?
Skiing started in Europe long before the United States got into the act. The early U.S. ski industry including ski areas relied heavily on transplanted Europeans. There are still more than twice as many skiers in Europe than here in… Continue Reading →
In what year were the first overall World Cups awarded in Alpine Skiing? And as a bonus who were the men’s and women’s winners?
Will RFID technology mean the extinction of the “Ticket Turkey”? You know, the Ticket Turkey is that guy with every lift ticket he ever bought still attached to his parka. And when the rest of us see him we say… Continue Reading →
What ski area was the first to use ticket wickets? And a more difficult bonus, what was the name of the inventor of the ticket wicket?
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