If you are doing a deep dive into Sun Valley here’s a not-suitable-for-publication rumor linking Sun Valley to New England skiing. A long deceased colleague of mine, a lifelong Mt Washington Valley skier, frequently talked about a Mt Cranmore ski instructor who was run out of town unceremoniously because of his romantic indiscretions and ended up at newly founded Sun Valley. I’ve long since forgotten his name and sadly, my friend is now in skiers heaven…
Might have been Otto Lang…
Ketchum, ID, Sun Valley on the smaller mountain the name of which I cannot remember, the first chairlift in America (or the world??) and designed by one of his (Union Pacific?) engineers; the photos I have seen showed low to the ground, wooden arch towers emulated ten or fifteen years later, seen in even more photos as Thorn Mountain? and in your Eastern Slopes NH environment.
Never skied there and during that time I only had the opportunity to go to Cranmore Intervale and Black however I am sure you did.
Another not-entirely-certain trivia factoid just emerged from a fading memory-the possibility of Thorn Mountain personnel later having a Vermont connection?
I was going to say Sun Valley, but others beat me to it. It is interesting that the development of skiing was as much dictated by transportation as the mountains we ski on. And engineering played an integral role in the early development of lift access. The initial chairlift companies were Iron and Steel firms that likely built many more bridges and buildings than chair lifts……..
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March 6, 2026 at 4:15 pm
Sun Valley by Averill Harriman to encourage rail travel to the NW
March 6, 2026 at 5:40 pm
If you are doing a deep dive into Sun Valley here’s a not-suitable-for-publication rumor linking Sun Valley to New England skiing. A long deceased colleague of mine, a lifelong Mt Washington Valley skier, frequently talked about a Mt Cranmore ski instructor who was run out of town unceremoniously because of his romantic indiscretions and ended up at newly founded Sun Valley. I’ve long since forgotten his name and sadly, my friend is now in skiers heaven…
Might have been Otto Lang…
March 7, 2026 at 1:15 pm
Ketchum, ID, Sun Valley on the smaller mountain the name of which I cannot remember, the first chairlift in America (or the world??) and designed by one of his (Union Pacific?) engineers; the photos I have seen showed low to the ground, wooden arch towers emulated ten or fifteen years later, seen in even more photos as Thorn Mountain? and in your Eastern Slopes NH environment.
Never skied there and during that time I only had the opportunity to go to Cranmore Intervale and Black however I am sure you did.
Another not-entirely-certain trivia factoid just emerged from a fading memory-the possibility of Thorn Mountain personnel later having a Vermont connection?
March 8, 2026 at 2:49 am
I was going to say Sun Valley, but others beat me to it. It is interesting that the development of skiing was as much dictated by transportation as the mountains we ski on. And engineering played an integral role in the early development of lift access. The initial chairlift companies were Iron and Steel firms that likely built many more bridges and buildings than chair lifts……..
March 24, 2026 at 7:15 am
Эта статья предлагает захватывающий и полезный контент, который привлечет внимание широкого круга читателей. Мы постараемся представить тебе идеи, которые вдохновят вас на изменения в жизни и предоставят практические решения для повседневных вопросов. Читайте и вдохновляйтесь!
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