Vintage Photographs of the Skiway Sky Bus Lift Used on Mt. Hood, Oregon From the 1950s
Using a modified city bus, a twin-engine design powered the wheels to turn cables in a pulley system that moved the tram back and forth above the slope. Continue reading »
Huge Bikini Snow Show As Russians Mark The End Of The Skiing Season
Siberian Times
Participants in the Grelka Fest at the Sheregesh resort in Tashtagolsky District of Kemerovo Oblast, Russia on April 22, 2017. Russian girls marked the end of the ski season with a record-breaking bikini ski festival at Siberia’s top winter resort, Sheregesh. Some 1,498 skiers and snowboarders undressed to impress in the annual event as they took to the pistes under blues skies and sunshine in a bracing temperature of just 5°C (41°F). More people took part last year, some 1,800, but it was not an official record attempt, unlike this year’s undress to impress spectacle. Continue reading »
Project DOCUMERICA: 1970’s Skiing Resort Photos of Aspen, Colorado
American photographer Ron Hoffman captured images of skiing and other recreational activity in the Aspen, Colorado, area, in January and February of 1974.
Looking North on Galena Street to the Ajax Mountain Ski Area 02/1974 Continue reading »
