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We’re in the final days of the ski season here in Stowe and conditions couldn’t be much better. When the area closes on April 19th there probably will be plenty of snow left on the trails. I’m sure there will… Continue Reading →

Jean Claude Killy’s retirement after the 1967-68 season meant there was no favorite to win the overall World Cup the following season. Would some of the young French racers rise to the occasion? Or maybe some of the young Austrians?… Continue Reading →

As you may have read in last week’s Reporter, Vermonter Hannah Kearney won the 2015 overall World Cup for mogul skiing. She accomplished that by skiing moguls fast with as few form breaks as possible. Form breaks cost you points,… Continue Reading →

It was sometime in March 1967 and I was skiing at Mount Whittier in New Hampshire. I had reached the “learn-to-ski-moguls-or-die” stage in my quest to be an expert skier. I was on a mogul run and found myself going… Continue Reading →

This past weekend I revisited Cranmore, the first lift-served ski area I ever skied. I skied there in the mid-1950s as part of the local school’s afternoon ski program. On the drive to North Conway, I was trying to recall… Continue Reading →

Richard Spademan grew up in Michigan and learned to ski at Boyne Mountain. He chose to pursue a medical career and graduated from the University of Michigan medical school. As an intern he designed and patented a better vascular catheter… Continue Reading →

First some additional input on Gordon Lipe and his Release Check. Bill Kornrumpf is a Stowe Host and a member of the Schenectady Wintersports Club (SWC). He recalls that when he joined in 1967 the club had a Lipe Release… Continue Reading →

Toni Matt was a victim of the most common skiing injury during the early days of organized skiing. Granted Matt’s was a severe case, but broken legs were a common occurrence. Before World War II, it is estimated that the… Continue Reading →

Last week I wrote about how an injury motivated Carroll Reed to establish a ski school. But most people associate the Carroll Reed name with ski shops and clothing. It turns out that during his recovery from the broken back,… Continue Reading →

In the early 1930s the Eastern Slope region of New Hampshire was seeing the same growing interest in skiing as Stowe. And also similar to Stowe, skiing accidents would inspire organizations that would stand the test of time. Carroll Reed… Continue Reading →