Washington ski history talk in Twisp, Jan 7, 7 pm

[Lowell_Skoog]

I'll give my talk on Washington ski mountaineering history in the Methow Valley on Tuesday, January 7, 2003, at 7pm at the Merc Theatre in Twisp. The talk will be hosted by the The Methow Conservancy and North Cascade Mountain Guides. Admission is free.

 

The presentation describes nearly 100 years of ski mountaineering in Washington, from 1909 to the present. It covers skiing on Mount Rainier before World War I, pioneering ascents of all the major peaks, the Silver Skis races of the 1930s, the World War II mountain troops, the post-war boom in downhill skiing and wilderness preservation, the telemark revival, and the modern development of high ski traverses and steep skiing. The program is illustrated with B&W and color slides plus a movie filmed in 1939.

 

Here's a link to my website presentations page:

 

http://www.alpenglow.org/ski-history/project/presentations.html

 

I'm scheduled to do one more presentation this winter, on February 11 in Bellingham. I'll post another announcement when the date gets closer. (See the above website in the meantime.)