WA’s Badger Mountain Ski Area boasts cheapest lift ticket in the West
The setting: 1938, winter, Central Washington farm country. The snow-covered wheat fields are fallow. A group of locals has picked up the skiing craze — ski jumpers have been launching into the air in ...
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This Man Invented Electric Skis Because He Was Tired of Waiting in Lift Lines
Gurnoor Sooch decided to do something about the pain of waiting in a long lift line. He invented electric skis that can be ...
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Alabama Skiers Rejoice— State's Lone Ski Hill Reopening
Earlier this season, Alabama's only ski area fully opened for the first time in five years. Skiers in the southern US ...
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UM club frees Teton Pass Ski Resort for a day of telemark-only skiing Feb. 24
Why offer free skiing to any telemark skier who goes? "We wanted to give back to every tele skier that has given back to us," ...
The Seattle Ski Park of 1934 (at Snoqualmie Pass) was ‘close to heaven’
Amid the Depression, Seattle Mayor John F. Dore led efforts to open the first municipally owned ski facility in the country, at Snoqualmie Pass, in 1934.