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Are you a Retro-Skier?  In other words, are you a skier who has shared some of the memories included in this column?  Here’s a pop quiz to see how you rate as a Retro-Skier. Yes, I know, once a teacher… Continue Reading →

RetroSki is back for its fourth ski season!  This is going to be an exciting year with more trivia and memories from skiing’s past.  Also this year will include the release of Retro-Ski, the book!  That’s right, I’m publishing a… Continue Reading →

Spring skiing triggers memories from springs past.  This week I’d like to share one that has no particular historical value, but provides a personal example.  Hopefully it will trigger some spring memories for you as well. The first ski season… Continue Reading →

It sounds like a familiar story: a former WWI Austrian military officer who fled the Nazis and came to live in Stowe. Frank Springer-Miller arrived in New York City in the 1920s and got a job as a graphics artist… Continue Reading →

Last week I shared some of my memories of the 1960 Squaw Valley Olympics.  This week I’ll cover some of the aspects of those Olympics that made them significant beyond just my memories. Squaw Valley was a long shot at… Continue Reading →

Squaw Valley opened in 1949 making it the oldest major ski area in the Lake Tahoe region.  But this won’t be an article about the history of Squaw Valley.  In my memory Squaw Valley will be forever linked to the… Continue Reading →

My wife and I spent last week visiting friends Bob and Laurie Walker who live in Minden, Nevada. From their house it’s about a twelve mile drive to the Heavenly Valley ski area.  Of course you climb some 3000 feet… Continue Reading →

A RetroSki tip-of-the-hat to the “Waterbury Moms” who had an 80’s retro-skiwear day last Friday at Stowe.  There was a lot of neon and there were a lot of one-piece ski suits.  Most of the moms looked too young to… Continue Reading →

Over President’s weekend I observed quite a few members of the Crooked Stick tribe on the slopes.  The Crooked Stick tribe is that subset of skiers whose ski poles are anything but straight.  I’m not talking about the poles used… Continue Reading →

How did a Middlebury College football player become the most important figure in promoting alpine ski racing in the United States?  That football player would go on to be the coach of the U.S. Ski Team, founder of the World… Continue Reading →