How the Olympics came to a sleepy Adirondack village
By Morten Lund
The fact that in 1932 an Olympics came to America at all is a story with a bit of a strangeness about it, not least of all, the...
An outraged IOC czar, an impenitent ski racer. Their loathing was mutual.
BY JOHN FRY
Prize money in a single World Cup race is now in six figures. Competitors openly negotiate contracts to promote...
Who are the greatest racers? Look to the Olympics for the skiers able to
conquer pressure.
By John Fry
With 48 homers and 130 runs batted in, New York Yankees third
baseman Alex Rodriguez...
BODE: LOOKING BACK TO THE 2006 OLYMPICS
By John Fry
Even before they turned off the gas to the Olympic Winter Games flame at Turin, the celebration of the world’s most famous skier had become a roast...
By John Fry
The recent horrifying injury suffered by Formula One racing champion Michael Schumacher -- not in a speeding race car, but when he was skiing between pistes on ungroomed snow in the...
After 60 years in the Valley, the founding family moves on.
The Blake family has sold Taos Ski Valley to hedge fund billionaire Louis Moore Bacon. Bacon has already acquired the three acres of land...
A new ski film by Greg Stump attempts to tell the history of the ski film.
Seldom has a new ski movie been awaited as impatiently
as Greg Stump’s Legend of Aahhh’s…at least not since skiers stood...
Former World Cup superstars and siblings Andreas and Hanni Wenzel have found post-racing success in the business world.
By Edith Thys Morgan
Weg vom Computer raus in den Schnee.” That motto, which...
More skiing is on TV than ever before, so why do most people think there’s less? Look to history for the answer.
By John Fry (September 2008 issue of Skiing Heritage)
While television viewing and the...
By John Fry
The overall World Cup championship was to have been determined by a single giant slalom race, to be held on Saturday, March 19th, 2011 in the 4,921-foot high Swiss ski resort of...
2011 an historic year for ski jumping.
By Seth Masia
Ski Flying Record
On Feb. 11, 2011 Johan Remen Evensen took advantage of the newly-enlarged Vikersund 225-meter ski-flying hill in Norway, to...
in 2011 the Australian post office issued three skiing and snowboarding stamps honoring the 150th anniversary of skiing in the Snowy Mountains.
The 1859 Australian gold rush drew thousands of miners...
BY JANICE KURBJUN
Trygve Berg recalls
SUMMIT DAILY NEWS, Skiing pioneer Trygve Berge noticed quite a few changes. As he skied the fresh corduroy he’s come to enjoy, he pointed out that the soft,...
The 2011-12 ski season marked a half century for Sun Peaks Resort (formerly Tod Mountain), offering some of British Columbia’s most challenging inbounds skiing. The 3,678-acre ski area is 30 miles...
Didier Cuche, 37, who retired in 2012 after 17 years on the World Cup circuit, made a farewell run in 1930s-era gear, including leather boots and wooden skis with pre-Kandahar bindings.
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Bob Cram: Lifetime Achievement Award for Illustrated Ski Humor
Bob Cram’s genius in portraying the comical side of the American ski experience started when, at age 8, he was smitten by an...
Giant slalom was invented in Italy in 1935 — the result of an accident of weather, according to a recent article in the magazineSciare. It happened when a downhill race, scheduled to take place on...
They spent almost an hour in line, yet more and more skiers came, bonding as they waited . . . and waited.
Beginning after World War II and for the next 40 years, weekend skiers waited in lift...
FOUNDER CALLS IT A DISSERVICE TO GUESTS
The National Standard Race, NASTAR –designed in 1968 – brought the equivalent of golf’s par to skiing. Now, one of the eight original NASTAR ski areas, Vail,...
Wherever there’s a sports hall of fame, controversy inevitably arises about who is elected and how. The U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall ofFame (USSHoF) is no exception. The first criticism of the...