New York Times article on backcountry skiing and it's roots to the New Deal

[Nick]

Pretty cool article in the NY Times -- http://travel.nytimes.com/2013/02/1...ails-of-the-new-deal.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Those weekend adventurers, riding a surge of interest in backcountry skiing, may not realize it, but they have the Great Depression to thank for those fresh tracks. The Thunderbolt is one of more than a dozen semi-hidden gems tucked throughout the hills of New England, the legacy of a trail-cutting frenzy conducted in the 1930s by the Civilian Conservation Corps, a signature program of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal.

I'm learning more about ski history and I'm sure many of you guys know a lot about this already but I didn't realize much of this trail cutting was done as part of the New Deal and other similar programs. Article is definitely worth a read and it's centered around primarily New England.