Old School Skiing

[Peter Minde]

I love stories like this. The Bruce trail at Mt Mansfield is now part of their nordic trail system BTW.

The Trailblazers

Whose woods are these? Long before lifts were in place, New England has trailblazers glading the backcountry.

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[Ripitz]

A north country friend sent this old photo of an aid station for the 50k race at the 1932 Olympics. Anybody need some gruel? How about a smoke?

 

[Peter Minde]

A north country friend sent this old photo of an aid station for the 50k race at the 1932 Olympics. Anybody need some gruel? How about a smoke?

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To think that that was originally planned as one big, honkin' 50 km loop. Trails are overgrown in the woods by River Rd, and also, if I read correctly, crossed some private property. Started and finished at the Olympic stadium in town. Although I've done a fair amount of searching, I couldn't find any trail maps.

 

[tirolski]

A north country friend sent this old photo of an aid station for the 50k race at the 1932 Olympics. Anybody need some gruel? How about a smoke?

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Whatabout the fur coats & the dude in the back rockin a white shirt, tie, overcoat and fedora just staring straight at the camera? He gotta be in charge of something somewhere.

 

[Peter Minde]

Whatabout the fur coats & the dude in the back rockin a white shirt, tie, overcoat and fedora just staring straight at the camera? He gotta be in charge of something somewhere.

Fur coats. I'm guessing you prolly had to have the time - i.e. money - to just hang out in the woods all day to dish out steak and raw eggs to starving skiers. Instead of cutting wood, working your garden or whatever. I seem to recall my grandfather saying that horses were still common in Warrensburgh in the 1930s.

Incidentally, the winning time in the 18 km race was 1h 23m. Diggins's last win, in a 20 km skate race, was under 46m 26s. How times have changed.

 

[tirolski]

Fur coats. I'm guessing you prolly had to have the time - i.e. money - to just hang out in the woods all day to dish out steak and raw eggs to starving skiers.

In the ’26 Milano Olympics folks may be stylin in the streets me thinks.

Folks’ll feed em good too.

 

[Peter Minde]

In the ’26 Milano Olympics folks may be stylin in the streets me thinks.

If my life had gone a little differently, I might have been a clothes horse. Thank the gods I'm not.

 

[Ripitz]

To think that that was originally planned as one big, honkin' 50 km loop. Trails are overgrown in the woods by River Rd, and also, if I read correctly, crossed some private property. Started and finished at the Olympic stadium in town. Although I've done a fair amount of searching, I couldn't find any trail maps.

Yes, my understanding was that it was one big, honkin’ loop through the Sentinel Range Wilderness.

 

[Ripitz]

In the ’26 Milano Olympics folks may be stylin in the streets me thinks.

Folks’ll feed em good too.

Bro, this is the old school skiing thread not one about urban fashion. Get real.

 

[Peter Minde]

Yes, my understanding was that it was one big, honkin’ loop through the Sentinel Range Wilderness.

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Giardia? We don't care about no stinking giardia!