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Category Archives: Snow Machines
Summer Skiing: Mount Hood
Is anyone headed to Mt. Hood in Oregon, the Southern Hemisphere or another destination for summer skiing?
Posted in Lifestyle, Ski, Ski Areas, Ski Racing, Snow Machines, Travel, Vintage Style
Tagged Mount Hood, Oregon, Summer Skiing, Timberline Lodge, Tucker Sno-Cat, Vintage Postcard
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Ski-Doo: Otis, 1975
Today is my birthday, forty-two! This photo was taken in the winter of 1975 and is one of my all-time favorites: Mom and Dad taking me out on our Ski-Doo sleds by our camp on Benton Pond in Otis, Massachusetts.
At three years old, I was pretty into zooming around out in the snow. And I remember really liking my snowmobile gear – the fun and excitement that this specific uniform enabled, picking out cool patches for my mother to stitch on the cozy one-piece suit, the movement of the fur around the snorkel hood and thanks to a friend of the family – a custom Tweety Bird paint job on my helmet!
Snowmobiling has always been a family activity for us and the first thing that taught my brother and me that wintertime is playtime. Thanks, Mom and Dad!
Posted in Outerwear, Snow Machines, Vintage Style
Tagged Massachusetts, Ski-Doo, Snowmobile, Vintage Photo
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Winter Ritual: Snow Tires
No need for chains with studded Hakkapeliittas – snow tires are on! My Subaru now drives like a little tank. Overkill perhaps, but it is habit and peace of mind for the thousands of miles logged up to and around Vermont all winter long.
My dad has always told me, “Good tires are cheap insurance.” I have taken that to heart and think I get as excited about a fresh pair of Nokian Tyres as a new pair of skis! Safe driving to everyone this winter. . .
Posted in Equipment, Lifestyle, Ski, Snow Machines, Snowboard, Vintage Style
Tagged Subaru, Vermont, Vintage Photo
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Ski New Hampshire: Spokesmodels
12/7/1960 Press Photo: Irehne Carter Hennessy of Wellesley Hills, Mass., here on popular Skimobile, North Conway. Hennessey has skied New England, California and Europe.
1/9/1961 Press Photo: CANNON MOUNTAIN, N.H.: The most time-consuming thing about skiing – getting back to the top of the slope you’ve just slid down – is no trouble for Lynn Cutler, of Hamilton, Mass., who zooms up Cannon Mountain, N.H., in the latest of uphill ski devices. The two-passenger, gasoline-powered “Ski Doo” can roar up the Mittersill ski area slopes at a speed of 20 miles an hour.
3/16/1962 Press Photo: GOOD SKIING IN ANY LANGUAGE – Former Olympic skier Betsy Snite stands by sign near ski lift at the Dartmouth Skiway, Lyme, N.H. Sign in Russian, French and German, as well as English, is concession to multi-lingual skiers who use the area. No matter what language you use, recent snowfalls have made skiing excellent throughout most of the ski country.
1/23/1954 Press Photo: WE WANT MORE SNOW says pretty Gwen Devenger of Newport, N.H., climbing out of a Sno-Cat at Mount Sunapee State Park, Mt. Sunapee, New Hampshire. Miss Devenger, a freshman at the Boston University School of Music who reigned last summer as “Miss Lake Sunapee”, is anxious to try out her skis at the popular New Hampshire ski development which needs another few inches of snow for good skiing.
Posted in Ski, Ski Areas, Snow Machines, Vintage Style
Tagged Betsy Snite, Cannon, Cranmore, Dartmouth Skiway, Mittersill, Mount Sunapee, New Hampshire, Ski-Doo, Skimobile, Tucker Sno-Cat, Vintage Photo
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Ascutney: Vermont 50
Today my husband and I are headed to Ascutney, Vermont for the 20th annual Vermont 50 Mountain Bike Race or Ultra-Run. So happy that the weather is looking really nice for a really long bike ride!
I found this vintage patch for the Little Ascutney Snowmobile Club at a flea market a few months ago. The patch is large (6”), features a flocked fisher cat mascot and shows wear of riding many miles stitched to a snowmobile suit – it’s fantastic!
Like the VAST trails snowmobilers travel in winter, the fifty-mile course of the VT50 is made possible only with generous access to private land. Thank you, landowners!
Posted in Art & Graphics, Bike, Other Mountain Sports, Ski Areas, Snow Machines, Treasure Hunting
Tagged Ascutney, VAST, Vermont, VT50
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Drive Like A Girl: Women, Cars, Skis
Chevrolet, Massachusetts 1941.
Plymouth, Vermont 1941.
Posted in Lifestyle, Ski, Snow Machines, Vintage Style
Tagged Chevrolet, Massachusetts, Plymouth, Vermont, Vintage Photo
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Tucker Sno-Cat: Passo Stelvio Glacier, Italy
This looks like great fun – summer skiing in Italy on the Stelvio Glacier thanks to Hotel Pirovano‘s Tucker Sno-Cat!
Posted in Ski, Ski Areas, Snow Machines
Tagged Italy, Passo Stelvio, Tucker Sno-Cat, Vintage Photo
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Ascutney Mountain, Vermont
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The “shocking pink or cerise” Tucker Sno-Cat. From Vermont Life magazine, Winter 1949-50
Tonight was registration for the Vermont 50, a mountain bike race and ultra run to benefit Vermont Adaptive Ski and Sports. The 700 spots for mountain bikers sold out in 23 minutes! I am thinking about all the miles I need to ride between now and the event at end of September.
I am also thinking about Ascutney Mountain – where the race begins and ends. Needless to say, it is tremendously sad that this ski resort is no longer in operation. With original trails cut by the CCC in 1935, it was a ski area with history and character, old school trails and varied terrain — and a penchant for fun as evidenced here by the polar bear on the chair lift!
Posted in Bike, Ski, Ski Areas, Snow Machines, Vintage Style
Tagged Ascutney, Tucker Sno-Cat, Vermont, Vermont 50
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Thiokol Spryte Snowcat
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Waiting for snow at Ski Butternut in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.
Click here to see another vintage Thiokol cat.