2/13/2011
While we were in the area we decided to ski a great CCC Trail with some history too. Took about an hour to skin up the adjacent trail. Wish I had full length skins for this climb instead of kickers skins. We were rewarded with a nice ride down a powdery trail with about 800 Ft vertical drop. Afterward I thought a BBC Steel Rail Ale was in order!!
From SkiMuseum.org
March 8, 1936 “On the day of the meet, under a cloudless sky, Frank Edson set off down the Ghost Trail, a run he had never seen or skied before. An eyewitness, Dorothy Maynard, recalled forty years afterward: “Edson gathered speed, lost control, failed to negotiate a curve and smacked into a tree with a sickening crash. My husband George, who headed a ski patrol covering the race, was at his side in a jiffy with a toboggan. The impact broke Edson’s right arm in two places and fractured four ribs. The jagged bone ends were piercing his lungs with every breath” By the following evening, Frank Edson was dead.
Out of this tragic accident, the National Ski Patrol System was born.
http://www.skimuseum.org/Ski_Patrol_Timeline.pdf
While we were in the area we decided to ski a great CCC Trail with some history too. Took about an hour to skin up the adjacent trail. Wish I had full length skins for this climb instead of kickers skins. We were rewarded with a nice ride down a powdery trail with about 800 Ft vertical drop. Afterward I thought a BBC Steel Rail Ale was in order!!
From SkiMuseum.org
March 8, 1936 “On the day of the meet, under a cloudless sky, Frank Edson set off down the Ghost Trail, a run he had never seen or skied before. An eyewitness, Dorothy Maynard, recalled forty years afterward: “Edson gathered speed, lost control, failed to negotiate a curve and smacked into a tree with a sickening crash. My husband George, who headed a ski patrol covering the race, was at his side in a jiffy with a toboggan. The impact broke Edson’s right arm in two places and fractured four ribs. The jagged bone ends were piercing his lungs with every breath” By the following evening, Frank Edson was dead.
Out of this tragic accident, the National Ski Patrol System was born.
http://www.skimuseum.org/Ski_Patrol_Timeline.pdf
