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Viewer’s Guide to Ski Racing

From TV Sports, January 1989

“If you are new to the glamour and passionate competition of international ski racing, this is the year, and this is the event to discover it. For the first time in four decades the U.S. will host the World Alpine Championships…”

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Skier Stars In TV Documentary

From Regional Mobility

“The first week of this new year Winter Park’s Martha Hill, a member of the US. Handicap Ski Team and one of the best female handicapped athletes in the county, was concerned about something she never had to care about before. Taking off her goggles on the chairlift and holding her face up [...]

Racer Chaser

From Winter Park Manifest, February 13, 1981

“Roger Neiley has this recurring nightmare. He is stretched out on a beach, basking in the sun on the warm sand, relaxed and falling into a deep sleep. In the haze of the sun, he makes out a speck. The speck gets closer and closer and is followed by [...]

Tyrol Takes Over Aspen Earwaves

From Winter Park Manifest, March 13, 1981

“The Subaru World Cup race in Aspen last weekend was for many people a rare chance to see our American ski heroes in person, and in action. Phil Mahre’s fast, agressive second run in the giant slalom Saturday flipped the crowd’s collective wig after he picked up enough in [...]

Colorado Arlberg Club Lives on At Ski Area

From Alpenglow Magazine

“Nestled into a comforter of snow, five little ginger bread houses sleep peacefully in the lap of the booming metropolitan ski area of Winter Park. These five Swiss-style chalets, built over the last 50 years around the first orginal Alpine ski clubhouse in Colorado, are the home of the Colorado Arlberg Club.

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O’Leary Established Program for Handicapped in Chile

O’Leary Established Program for Handicapped in Chile
Winter Park Manifest

“On August 26, 1979, in the South American country of Chile, the Satiago city newspapers read, “A Miracle Happened At the Farallenos.” Hal O’Leary of Fraser, CO, believes it happened to him.”

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Winter Park’s Blueprint for the Future

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 [...]

Weber Karma

From Powder Magazine

“The difference between the two top speed skiers in the world is one of style. While Steve McKinney “falls” into the course, Franz Weber takes two powerful skating strides and lunges for the bottom. Weber explains how he uses his physical strength to advantage, while demonstrating that mental preparation is as much a [...]

The Foghorn Sounds Again

From Alpenglow Magazine

“‘I don’t care what your mother told you–spread your legs!’

Dave Bertoni, one of Winter Parks Ski School’s ski instructors, recalls fecetiously that you might be in Loveland and hear this demand echo across the mountains from Winter Park where Maury “Foghorn” Flannagan would be practicing his unique style of teaching skiing…”

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