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From Winter Park Manifest “‘When I first came to Fraser from Sweden it was 1916. The ninth of February. It was very cold. If I had enough money I’d have gone right back home,’ Ivor Florquist told the crowd of about 85 people who attended the Grand County Historical Association’s annual meeting and dinner at the [...] From Winter Park Manifest, October 17, 1980 “‘I see the Fraser Valley Women’s Resource Center at a crossroads. I think it will be exciting, whichever way we go. The biggest need we have now is new blood. A membership meeting has been planned for November so we can get some new people involved…’” Click Here to [...] From Alpenglow Magazine “In the late 70’s, the Winter Park Ski Area, which had alway depended on its Denver day-skier market, got its first big plug by the national ski magazines. Said one ski writer, ‘‘If Winter Park were a restaurant, it’d be called ‘Joe’s Eats,’” and when the article went on to describe friendly downhome [...] From Powder Magazine “Skiers on Winter Park’s slopes stop to watch a miniature train scene below. Soot-caked black engines roar out of a hole in the Continental Divide and then rail past the ski area. All except for an unusual chain of yellow coaches. Barely outside the tunnel, it heaves a sigh of cinder and smoke, [...] From Alpenglow Magazine “Colorado women have climbed a long way since the pioneer days of the 19th and the early 20th centuries. Take early-day female mountain climbers. They certainly had the right stuff although you wouldn’t have known it from the conventions of the day. They were not supposed to climb without me, who they were [...] |
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