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The Kalvträsk ski was found in the autumn of 1924, [2] as a group of men digging a ditch through a mire near the village of Kalvträsk close to Skellefteå, Sweden encountered some wooden objects at a depth of 1.5 metres. They carefully extracted the objects that turned out to be two skis measuring 204 cm by 15.5 cm and a shovel shaped ski ...
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The new Lodge was constructed between September 2016 and October 2017. It maintains many elements from the old lodge and a similar floor plan, including a downstairs library, lounge, mud room and restrooms; on the second floor a large main room for dining and events, a large kitchen, and three bunk rooms.
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.
Alpine Meadows is a ski resort in the western United States, located in Alpine Meadows, California.Near the northwest shore of Lake Tahoe, it offers 2,400 acres (9.7 km 2) of skiable terrain, 13 different lifts, and a vertical drop of 1,802 feet (549 m).
Solitude Mountain Resort is a ski resort located in the Big Cottonwood Canyon of the Wasatch Mountains, thirty miles southeast of Salt Lake City, Utah.With 66 trails, [1] 1,200 acres (4.9 km 2) and 2,047 feet (624 m) vertical, Solitude is one of the smaller ski resorts near Salt Lake City, along with its neighbor Brighton.
Mad River Glen is a ski area in Fayston, Vermont.Located within the Green Mountain range, it sits in the Mad River Valley. Though not considered a large ski area, it has a vertical drop of 2,000 feet (610 m), which ranks 14th in New England, [2] and its terrain was ranked by Ski magazine as the most challenging on the east coast of the United States.
Telemark added a large facility, the Colosseum, in December 1980, that provided indoor tennis and new facilities for the ski hill and the cross country ski area, [2] which was "partially dismantled" by 1998. [3] The lodge was a cross country ski destination through the 1980s, but declined along with U.S. cross country skiing.