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The Midway Cabin. The original lodge at Laurel Mountain built in 1940 is located approximately halfway down the Broadway slope. Starting in 1954 the Pittsburgh Ski Club used the cabin as their mountain headquarters. The lodge had a dormitory that was available to members for an affordable $1.65/night.
Skidding (circa 1900). In mining, quarrying, and forestry, skidding mainly concerned the usual transport of felled or cut material (wood, logs, stone) or extracted material (ores), sometimes cut to size (squared ashlar), to the road, track, river or top of the slope which, from the loader or loading point, enabled it to be transported onwards.
A slip tongue log skidder used in the 19th and early 20th centuries Elements of a skidding harness. A skidder is any type of heavy vehicle used in a logging operation for pulling cut trees out of a forest in a process called "skidding", in which the logs are transported from the cutting site to a landing.
Sugarloaf (formerly Sugarloaf/USA) is a ski area and resort located on Sugarloaf Mountain in Carrabassett Valley, western Maine.It is the second largest ski resort east of the Mississippi in terms of skiable area (1,240 acres or 500 ha after Killington's 1,509 acres or 611 ha) [1] [2] and snowmaking percentage (95%); its continuous vertical drop of 2,820 feet (860 m) is the second longest in ...
Slope Mountain is located in the Chigmit Mountains of the Aleutian Range. [2] It is set along the west shore of Cook Inlet and within Lake Clark National Park and Preserve . The mountain is situated 115 miles (185 km) southwest of Anchorage , 58 miles (93 km) southwest of Kenai , and 15 miles (24 km) east of Mount Iliamna volcano.
YouTube video - 1981 race live - 18-Jan-1981. YouTube video - 1981 race - crashes only; YouTube video - Franz Klammer, age 30, wins his 4th Hahnenkamm on full course - 21-Jan-1984
The premier viewpoint within the wilderness, affording a vista of the entire Red Creek drainage, is at a set of rocky crags known as Lion's Head Rock. It is reached by an almost three-mile climb from the nearest road. The last quarter mile is an eight-foot-wide bench (an old railroad grade) in the side of an otherwise steep slope.
The first slope at the ski village opened in October 1988. The ski village proved popular and by the end of 1990 the ski village had 8 slopes. During 1991 to 1994 the ski village underwent a significant re-design - adding a ski lodge, bar and shops. The slopes were also re-designed during this period to add a half pipe and moguls.