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The museum was designed to preserve the history of commercial and recreational skiing, both alpine and cross-country, in the northeastern United States. It is one of four ski museums in the United States that are recognized by the United States Ski and Snowboard Association .
This list of museums in New Hampshire is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The site has grown over the years to list 605 closed New England ski areas and 82 outside the region (as of 2022). [1] [2] The project's data is collected from a variety of sources, including old brochures, ski area guides, personal stories, and recent visits. NELSAP has an alliance with the New England Ski Museum.
The ravine is named after botanist Edward Tuckerman who studied alpine plants and lichens in the area in the 1830s and 1840s. According to the New England Ski Museum, the first recorded use of skis on Mount Washington was by a Dr. Wiskott of Breslau, Germany, who skied on the mountain in 1899, while the first skier in Tuckerman Ravine was John S. Apperson of Schenectady, New York, in April 1914.
Theo A. Johnsen (1857–1911) was a pioneer U.S. manufacturer of ski equipment and related gear. Johnsen is especially notable for writing the first book on skiing published in America. He was posthumously inducted into the Maine Ski Hall of Fame, a division of the Ski Museum of Maine.
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Download as PDF; Printable version; ... List of New England ski areas by vertical drop; N. New England Ski Museum
No major winter storms are on the horizon for the Northeast or New England into the first week of February, but with a solid snowpack already in place across interior New England, ski resorts will ...