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[WBSKI]

I thought we should compile a list of hard to find ski area history books.

1. Mountain Memories, the story of Burke
This book is about the history of Burke Mountain which is near Port Coquitlam (Vancouver)

I have a couple books and will post them sometime but this book i havent got yet.

[SkiBachelor]

Sun Valley Ski Guide ($75 and up on Amazon.com)

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0007FKD1...5Fencoding=UTF8

Don't forget about these popular coffee table books:

Steamboat
Jackson Hole
Deer Valley
Vail
Treasure Mountain (Park City Mountain Resort)
Mammoth Mountain
Stowe
Taos
Beaver Creek
Mt. Bachelor

[Peter]

Here is a list of ski history books that I have collected:

1. A Bird of Passage
2. Alta, Utah: A People’s Story
3. Big Sky: From Indian Trails to the Tram
4. Cold Smoke: Skiers remember Bear Canyon and Bridger Bowl
5. Deer Valley: The Quest for Excellence
6. Downhill Slide
7. Everett Kircher: Michigan’s Resort Pioneer
8. First Tracks, A Century of Skiing in Utah
9. For the Love of Skiing, A Visual History
10. Hellroaring: Fifty Years on the Big Mountain
11. Jackson Hole: On a Grand Scale
12. Mammoth: The Sierra Legend
13. Mountain Dreamers: Visionaries of Sierra Nevada Skiing
14. New England Skiing
15. New Hampshire on Skis
16. Okemo: All Come Home
17. Park City: Mountain of Treasure
18. Powder Burn
19. Pray for Snow: The History of Skiing in California
20. Ski and Snow Country
21. Ski Pioneers: Earnie Blake, his Friends, and the founding of Taos
22. Skiing in Utah
23. Skiing with Style: Sugar Bowl 60 Years
24. Snoqualmie Pass
25. Snow Waste
26. Steamboat: Ski Town USA
27. Stowe: Classic New England
28. The History of Skiing in Colorado
29. The Inventors of Vail
30. The Pictoral History of Downhill Skiing
31. The Snowbird Tram
32. The Story of Skiing in Ellicottville
33. Timberline and a Century of Skiing on Mount Hood
34. Vail: Triumph of a Dream
35. Warren’s World
36. Whistler: Against all Odds

SkiBachelor, where did you find the Beaver Creek and Mount Bachelor books?

[SkiBachelor]

My mom bought me the Mt. Bachelor book when it first came out in 1999 at a local book store in Bend, Oregon, but it's available on Amazon.com

Mt. Bachelor - Bill Healy's Dream:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/089288277...glance&n=283155

Mountain Vision - The Making of Beaver Creek:
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0006QQG0...glance&n=283155

[hyak.net]

Skier, on May 23 2006, 09:12 PM, said:

Here is a list of ski history books that I have collected:

24. Snoqualmie Pass

What book is this? Is this the "Indian trail to Interstate" book?
For WA ski history there is a very good book called "It Started
In the Mountains" by Joy Lucas that came out in the early 90s
I believe.

[Peter]

It's the Indian Trails to Interstate one

[KZ]

Dang skier, that is quite a list of books.

I only have three such books:
Squaw Valley: The First 50 Years 1949-1999 (published 1999)
The Story of Squaw Valley (published 1953)
Ski California (a guide of all the resorts in the state, published 1980)

I want to get the Mammoth and Vail and Bachelor books

How is Mountain Dreamers: Visionaries of Sierra Nevada Skiing? I wanted to get that a few years back but wasn't sure if it was worth it.

[liftmech]

There's one about Baker; it's hard to find and probably out of print but still interesting. I believe it was published in '81 so it doesn't talk about the White Salmon expansion. Many cool pictures including the old ski toboggan that pulled people up Austin Pass.

[coskibum]

there are a lot of error but here is another one:

A History of Skiing in Colorado

http://www.bestprice...90437344BT.html

[Peter]

I actually just bought "Mt. Baker, a Pictoral History" a few days ago from Biblio.com It came from a guy in Bellingham, but was brand new. It is a great book.

http://www.biblio.co...s/78203363.html

It is only $15!

I also have Squaw Valley the first 50 years, and ordered the Mt Bachelor and Beaver Creek books that SkiBachelor suggested. I also ordered this: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/096540541...de=xm2&n=283155

This post has been edited by Skier: 29 May 2006 - 08:40 AM

[Bill]

hyak.net, on May 24 2006, 01:49 AM, said:

What book is this? Is this the "Indian trail to Interstate" book?
For WA ski history there is a very good book called "It Started
In the Mountains" by Joy Lucas that came out in the early 90s
I believe.

If this is the Joy Lucas that was involved in the Ski Patrol and Ski Lessons up on Snoqualmie, then she is related to me, in a round about fashion. My aunt was married to her son, Mike.

[WBSKI]

The list is amazing! That Baker book would be intresting to look at, they might have a copy to look at a library in Bellingham.

I like the Pray for Snow name! Too common these days!

This post has been edited by WBSKI: 30 May 2006 - 05:38 PM

[Peter]

It has a bunch of pictures of the old Riblets being installed

[mcjones55]

the only one in my collection right now is "Skiing off the Roof" About early skiing Australia at Charlotte Pass. First lift lift best described as a "j" bar built in 1936. it also had night skiing in 1936, both the lift and the lights were built with left overs from the sydney harbor bridge.

[truckintr]

I'm surprised the guys from DV haven't spoken up and mentioned
DV's book
Deer Valley
The Quest For Excellence.
Very informative, pictures galore. Nicely written.
It tells some histroy of Park City, Ut, and how 'fast Eddie' came to the area with a dream, and has seen it come true.
For those at DV you should know who Fast Eddie is. If not your gonna lose the triva contest in the Ear of the Deer.

This post has been edited by truckintr: 31 May 2006 - 07:37 PM

[hyak.net]

Bill, on May 29 2006, 08:17 PM, said:

If this is the Joy Lucas that was involved in the Ski Patrol and Ski Lessons up on Snoqualmie, then she is related to me, in a round about fashion. My aunt was married to her son, Mike.

Cool, then you have close contacts with some ski legends in the PNW!

liftmech, on May 29 2006, 05:50 AM, said:

There's one about Baker; it's hard to find and probably out of print but still interesting. I believe it was published in '81 so it doesn't talk about the White Salmon expansion. Many cool pictures including the old ski toboggan that pulled people up Austin Pass.

Baker book? Ski toboggan up Austin Pass? I read there was a lift called the Ski Escalator (1935) that hauled people up Pan Dome at Baker?? Where is Austin Pass?

[liftmech]

We're thinking of the same lift. Austin Pass is the saddle on the west side of Pan Dome, where the cat track switches back towards Heather Meadows. In the summer you can see the footings for the old rope tows that were out there; I never did find anything related to the toboggan/escalator but it ran from Terminal Lake (the flat area at the bottom of the Austin run) to the pass.

[WBSKI]

So thats what that was, i got a picture of the footings I think.