The oldest known
version of a ski is a short wide ski found in Sweden that has been shown to be
over 4,500 years old.
The people from the
Telemark area of Norway have been largely credited with developing skiing into a
sport, somewhere in the early 1700's
The first
artificially-made snow was made in New York in 1952.
"The true
skier does not follow where others lead. He is not confined to a piste.
He is an artist who creates a pattern of lovely lines from virgin and
uncorrupted snow."
- Sir Arnold
Lunn
Panorama Mountain
Village Resort can comfortably handle 7,000 day-skiers
"There is a privacy
about it which no other season gives you.... In spring, summer and fall people
sort of have an open season on each other; only in the winter, in the country,
can you have longer, quiet stretches when you can savor belonging to yourself".
-Ruth Stout
"I do not
participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill. "
-Erma Bombeck
By project completion, over $300 million will be invested in Kicking Horse
Mountain Resort.
Artists in the Snow!
They
burst onto the European ski scene in the seventies, flying down the most
challenging hills with a kamikaze flair. Within a year of competing on the World
Cup circuit these
fearless Canadian boys were beating the Europeans at a game
they'd never lost.
Dave Irwin, Ken Read, Dave Murray and Steve Podborski were
the Crazy Canucks
young, wild, and skiing as fast
as they could."
