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Skiing at Lake Tahoe

By Mark McLaughlin

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing Inc.
Year
2012
ISBN
9781439642559, 9780738589060, 2011933819
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
23 MB (24484214 bytes)
Series
Images of America
Pages
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Time added
2023-03-14 06:41:26
History; Nonfiction; HIS000000

Description

Organized ski racing in America started near Lake Tahoe in the 1860s when gold miners rode 15-foot boards that reached speeds near 100 miles per hour. By 1895, residents of Truckee had started the nation s first winter carnival west of the Rocky Mountains and soon built the largest ski jump in California. Today s Lake Tahoe, with significant annual snowfall, has become home to the largest concentration of ski resorts on the continent. Places like Mount Rose, Squaw Valley (home of the 1960 Winter Olympics), Sugar Bowl, Heavenly Valley, Homewood, Sierra-at-Tahoe, Alpine Meadows, Kirkwood, Diamond Peak, Donner Ski Ranch, Granlibakken, and Northstar-at-Tahoe have seen skiing styles, sports, and fashions churn through the decades, while now gone resorts, such as Edelweiss and White Hills Ski Resort, echo the memories of yesterday s skiers through the pines.

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