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From 1968 to 1970 the number of skiers in the US tripled?!?
And they had ski bikes back in 1971? Never realized they were that old. And the way they talked about GLM was interesting. And wow... old Park City. Wish there'd been more of Taos! And Snowmass... And old ski racing!! That was great. I got this gondola car last year at Snowbasin:
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I know, incredibly lame esp since there’s a lot of nonsense they left in. They had to go there and film. Maybe something happened and they lost most of the footage. I was hoping they’d have Jean Mayer skiing.
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Highland Bowl has a long tortured history. There’s a reason they bootpack it, which is insane to think about if you’ve been there. For awhile I think skiing it was banned after three patrollers were killed in an avy. There was heli skiing there at that time.
1984 Highlands Bowl Avalanche
Forgive me if this was posted previously, but I'm new here. This is a link to an article about the 1984 Highlands Bowl avalanche that killed three patrolmen. The article is long, but very well written and accurate. I know, because I was there and saw it happen. That's me on the far right in...
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Lou Dawson of WildSnow, was buried in an avalanche there in 1982. He was lucky a guy who’d heliskied there the day before was looking at his tracks in a telescope and saw it, calling rescue.
Lou's Avalanche Story - The Backcountry Ski Touring Blog
Story of Lou Dawson avalanche in Highland Bowl, 1982 while backcountry skiing and mountaineering.
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One from Abasin, 1960’s. Sound goes out for a bunch if it. Interesting to see the cabin in the trees near Falcon.
I thought the part about Maroon Bowl was interesting though, as it's out of bounds now (might have been then too) with no obvious way back to the resort from the valley, unless they used to run shuttles or something. And of course, and unfortunately, there was someone killed skiing it last March.
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Jim Ryan (dude in yellow) was killing it. Never heard of him before.
Another old one... this is basically an extended commercial for A-Basin, with a silly ski movie mixed in. Interesting shots early of the resort (and crowds on Molly Hogan area!!) and some powder stuff late in the video...
Yeah, that was entertaining... and she also seemed to go from a beginner class to skiing moguls like a pro in the course of a day. Those are some instructors!!This was entertaining. She was so surprised by the size of it...
Yep, there was a Poma, and about a THOUSAND skiers! Did you notice how crowded that looked? It was absolutely crazy the number of bodies on that little slope. And then they had the gall to talk about the "small class size"... it was huge!
I like the term "lame duck" for someone who can't ski well too.
And seeing Max Dercum in it made me go read a bit more about him... A-Basin and Keystone co-founder, and one of the founders of the PSIA. And the main mountain at Keystone was renamed after him.
And seeing Max Dercum in it made me go read a bit more about him... A-Basin and Keystone co-founder, and one of the founders of the PSIA. And the main mountain at Keystone was renamed after him.
This one isn't as old or as good, but I thought worth posting for the Copper Mountain song in the first couple of minutes, which is kind of cheesy spectacular... I wouldn't bother watching past the song.
Lucky me, I was skiing A-Basin back in those days as a kid. Later, but still not vey old and working in a ski shop, I got to meet some of the people named in the film. The ski chase in the film was similar to a movie made in the 1930's in Austria with Hannes Schneider as one of the featured skiers. Can't remember the title.