May 2021 – Page 3 – History of Skiing & Snowsports

May 11, 2021May 7, 2022

An Overview of Green Policies Adopted by the Zermatt Ski Resort

An image of the Matterhorn (the primary reason that Zermatt instituted a car ban). Who would want to obscure their view of this?

(Image creator is user “chil” on camptocamp.org. Original image at
https://www.camptocamp.org/images/290956/fr/matterhorn-depuis-domhutte)

Zermatt, in Switzerland, is home …

May 10, 2021May 5, 2022

How Drug Testing Changed Skiing: Cheating, 1960-2021

Women’s downhill skiing in the 2014 Sochi Olympics. Medal awards as follows: gold medal Tina Maze, silver medal Dominique Gisin, bronze medal Lara Gut. Image reproduced from Wikimedia Commons by M. Smelter.

Drugs changed skiing. And drug testing changed skiing …

May 10, 2021May 11, 2021

The World’s Best Ski OUTting: Aspen Gay Ski Week 1977-2021

Gay Ski Week originated in Aspen, Colorado, and is a week-long ski event for members of the LGBTQ+ community. At the root of Gay Ski Week, lies greater issues of civil rights and political injustice. In 1977, a group of …

May 10, 2021May 18, 2021

When Snow Slides: Skiing, World War II, and Avalanche Control (Part I) – Jesse Weiner

Washington State Dept of Transportation. Blasting for Avalanche Control. 11 May 2010. Flickr, https://www.flickr.com/photos/wsdot/4604220326/.

In World War II, the 10^th Mountain Division was the first American military division to specialize in mountainous arctic conditions. While their work was revolutionary …