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First Issue 2009, March, Vol 21 #1 Wengen poster

Cover: Mother Bundling Her Son for Skiing. Oil, c. 1942 by Perry Petersen (American). Available from the Mammoth Ski Museum (760) 934-6592.

The Big Surge by Morten Lund
How a wave of Norwegian immigrants in the last half of the 1800s founded the modern era and helped to build the sport of skiing in America. Featuring the Mikkel and Torjus Hemmestvedt, Carl Tellefsen, Marthinius Strand, Axel Anderson, Herman Smith-Johannsen, Erling Strom, Hjalmar Hvam, Alf, Sverre and Corey Engen, and Carl Howelsen.

Mittersill Memories by Baron Hubert von Pantz as told to Eva C. Hubos
The Baron brought a dash of European nobility to his alpine resort in New Hampshire.

Women's Ski Jumping Takes Aim ath the Winter Olympics by Byron Rempel
Almost 150 years after Ingrid Olavdottir Vestby soared 20 feet in a ski jumping event, female ski jumpers are still fighting for international recognition. With Paula Lamberg, Olga Balsted Eggen, Hilda Braskerud, Johanne Kolstad, Isabel Coursier, Beatrice Kirby, Dorothy Graves, Anita Wold, Tiina Lethola, Eva Ganster, Michaela Schmidt, Karla Keck, Daniela Iraschko, Jessica Jerome, Annette Sagen, Lindsey Van, Jenna Mohr, Ulrike Grassler, Monika Planinc, Marie-Pierre Morin, and Zoya Lynch.

Kids on Skis by Morten Lund
ISHA founder Mason Beekley collected more ski art than anyone in America, including some marvelous images for and about children. Art by Perry Petersen, Elsa Belskow, Gig, Ludwig Bemelmans, Laurent de Brunhof, Nadezhda Isakovna Kovtunova, Gussett, Nils S.L. Hansteen, Herbert Leupin, and Jim Davis.

Boom! by John Fry
An editor's recollecions of a golden skiing era: the magazine mutiny, early enviro concerns, Ski Bird poster girls, Playmates and more.

Where are they now: Tom Jacobs by Paul Post
A nordic combined Olympian, Tommy Jacobs became the first full-time ski coach at the University of Colorado and executive director of NSAA. He founded a ski school and a racing league at West Mountain in Glens Falls, N.Y., and that led to the launch of his company, Reliable Racing Supply. Among his inventions is the hinged Break-A-Way plastic slalom pole, which revolutionized World Cup and Olympic racing beginning in 1980.

Snowboarding: It's Older Than You Think by Paul J. MacArthur
In the Kackar Mountains of Turkey, villagers may have been riding the lazboard for 400 years. Austrian Toni Lenhardt rode a monogleider in 1900, and Vern Wicklund began riding a stand-up sled around 1917, in Minnesota (it got a patent in 1939). Then came Tom Sims (1963), Sherman Poppen (1965), Dimitrije Milovich (1970), Bob Weber (1975), and, in 1977. Chuck Barfoot and Jake Burton Carpenter.

Farewell, Las Vegas! by Bob Woodward
In January, 2010, the annual SIA trade show will move to Denver. Its run in Las Vegas, begun in 1972, featured fun, frolic and maybe a little business.

Colorado's Rails to the Trails by Seth Masia
Denver's Winter Park ski train has been running continually for 73 years. Here's the story of the train that taught generations to ski. Read an expanded version here.

Skier's Bookshelf by Morten Lund
Norwegian Ski Legends, a film by Steinar Hubertsen A three-disc DVD follows the history of the sport from Telemark to the longboard era and onward in the U.S. $39 includes shipping and handling; email shybert777 @ gmail.com.

Remembering: Otto Werlin, Stu Campbell, Bill Avison.

Chairman's Letter: Meet Our Board of Directors by Barry Stone

Long Thongs: The Decadence of Ski-ing
by Field Marshall Sir Bernard Law Montgomery
Sir Bernard remembers the good old days, when men were men and racers raced on natural snow.

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