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On the ski patrol, he served as the Snow and Avalanche Analyst and president of the Eastern Sierra Avalanche Center, which he helped to establish. He was known for his first ascents in Yosemite Valley and first ski descents in the High Sierra. He began working at Mammoth Mountain in 1972–73 and joined the ski patrol in the 1981–82 season ...
A ski patroller caught in a Valentine's Day avalanche at Mammoth Mountain has died from the injuries she sustained, resort officials said Saturday. Claire Murphy was one of two patrollers ...
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In 1953, the Forest Service gave McCoy the permit on the condition that he develop the mountain as a ski resort. A ski lodge followed in 1953, and the Mammoth Mountain Ski Area incorporated in 1955. [1] McCoy struggled to develop Mammoth. The "lodge" was actually only 12' by 24', had a dirt floor with an outside toilet, and served snacks.
“When I started my career, there was no such thing as a snowboard,” one ski patroller said. ‘Part of who I am’: These ski patrollers have spent 50 years volunteering at Bogus Basin Skip to ...
Two ski patrol members were trying to mitigate the threat of an avalanche after a storm had dumped about 6 feet of snow on ... Skiers ride chair 6 on a blustery day at Mammoth Mountain on March 14 ...
Harris Duesenbery, Ski the High Trail: World War II Ski Troopers in the High Colorado Rockies (Portland:Binford & Mort, 1991) Frank Harper, Night Climb (New York: Longmans, Green, & Co, 1946) Maurice Isserman, The Winter Army: The World War II Odyssey of the 10th Mountain Division, America's Elite Alpine Warriors (New York: HarperCollins, 2019)
Minnie Dole formed the National Ski Patrol in 1938 and was director of the organization until 1950. During World War II, Dole convinced the War Department to form the 10th Mountain Division, a mountaineering unit. Dole appeared as himself on the January 10, 1966 episode of the CBS game show To Tell the Truth. He received three of four possible ...