What's Your Favorite Ski Memorabilia?

[billski]

What is your most prized ski memorabilia?
Here's mine. Started at Lake Placid in 1978, 39 resort pins (only where I've skied is allowed) and a few strange ones to spice it up. This is an authentic Tyrolean felt hat made in the former West Germany. The older the better. I'm so nervous about losing it, it won't even go with me in the car... Yours?

 

[Plowboy]

Billski,
I have a bunch of old Glen Ellen pins. Red or blue. PM me if you want one, free.

Plowboy

 

[alpinemorg]

Cool question. In addition to adding stickers to our box (same rule: only skiid places apply--received a free SR sticker when we moved out here and I refused to stick it until actually sampled the goods), though not very vintage mine is my first alpine boards, that were then converted to my first tele skis, that will always adorn some place of prominence.

Also (probably be a tie), and also not very vintage, a framed photo of myself and my then to be wife on the chair at A-Basin. That's where she intoduced me to skiing, I introduced her to climbing, and we've chased the dream ever since.

 

[SkiDork]

what about patches? Remember back in the 60s and 70s when patches on you jacket were the hottest fashion item?

I think my parents still have my old ski jacket with all those patches sewn onto it. Gotta dig that thing out and ski in it one of these days...

 

[NYDrew]

My car is my memorabilia. I have a bumper sticker for every resort Ive been too. (still need montage, tanglewood, mt snow and killington to cover them all, lost my kmart sticker and never had the others)

Even put a message on the car comemorating its 100th ski trip, (not mine, the cars)

"12/1/05 100 ski trips - Mt. Snow Vt."

 

[highpeaksdrifter]

I have a Hunter Mt. Ski Instructor pin from the 60's that my father gave to me as a keepsake. I'll never loose it.

 

[billski]

My car is my memorabilia. I have a bumper sticker for every resort Ive been too. (still need montage, tanglewood, mt snow and killington to cover them all, lost my kmart sticker and never had the others)

Even put a message on the car comemorating its 100th ski trip, (not mine, the cars)

"12/1/05 100 ski trips - Mt. Snow Vt."

Take a pic. Let's see it. Cmon!

 

[taul]

My DENVER '76 Olympics Poster, signed by the artist.

 

[ski_resort_observer]

old ski poster

I found this ski poster for Black Mt Ski area in 1972 in West Dummerston, Vt. It was in an old garage that was about to fall over. There is a mystery in that there was never a ski area in Vt named Black Mountain but it looks like it was going to be the new name of the Big Prospect Ski area but closed before the change happened.

Even tho I have reduced the size of the photo to 4kb the attachment message says it is too big. Says it will allow 300 kb. Oh well.

You can see the poster here...I hope...lol
http://www.snowjournal.com/page.php?cid=topic8836

I still have my 207 1970 Rossi Stratos. Why, don't really know. Are those considered ski memorabilia?

 

[LVNLARG]

I have a Hunter Mt. Ski Instructor pin from the 60's that my father gave to me as a keepsake. I'll never loose it.

I just found one of mine the other day...didn't even remember getting it...kinda hunting for others now too. I used to have a Rossi cap as a kid with a bunch of resort pics on it...need to find that now as well....

 

[smootharc]

It's Ski Pins....

for me and my boys. No rule applies that we need to have skied at the place (though we have all of those). I think we're at about 400, from all over the world, from 1908 until present, with pre-1965 pins our focus. Especially love old pins from the "lost" areas.

They are like little slices of skiing's history, and it's fun to think about, with the older pins, who might have wore them, and what stories the pin could tell.....

 

[Tyrolean_skier]

What is your most prized ski memorabilia?
Here's mine. Started at Lake Placid in 1978, 39 resort pins (only where I've skied is allowed) and a few strange ones to spice it up. This is an authentic Tyrolean felt hat made in the former West Germany. The older the better. I'm so nervous about losing it, it won't even go with me in the car... Yours?

My son has two of those hats in a smaller version. They are currently collecting dust. Adding pins to them seems like a good idea.

 

[JimG.]

My mom's first pair of skis...hand carved hickory Mustangs, 220 cm (my mom is 5'2"), metal edges nailed into the wood, with original cable bindings. They are in the same condition as the last time my mom skied on them 65 years ago.

They are probably the most valuable antiques I own and I will never sell them.

 

[billski]

My mom's first pair of skis...hand carved hickory Mustangs, 220 cm (my mom is 5'2"), metal edges nailed into the wood, with original cable bindings. They are in the same condition as the last time my mom skied on them 65 years ago.

They are probably the most valuable antiques I own and I will never sell them.

Cool. What was she able to DO with skis that long? You have to wonder if anyone that light can make them carve, without tremendous strength.

 

[2knees]

When i was in middle school and high school i collected trail maps. Somewhere in my parents basement are 2 boxes filled with trail maps of eastern ski areas from the 80's. Next time i visit i gotta see if i can find them.

 

[JimG.]

Cool. What was she able to DO with skis that long? You have to wonder if anyone that light can make them carve, without tremendous strength.

I'm still trying to figure out what I would do with skis that long and I'm 6'2".

My mom is tough and had to keep up with 2 older brothers. Apparently she figured it out because in her time my mom could rip.

 

[billski]

When i was in middle school and high school i collected trail maps. Somewhere in my parents basement are 2 boxes filled with trail maps of eastern ski areas from the 80's. Next time i visit i gotta see if i can find them.

Neat. I kept them too, until one day I decided I didn't need all this old stuff. A few years later, web sites blossomed, storage costs came down and all sorts of reminiscing sites starting to popup.

Some day, you should scan the ones that are missing from www.nelsap.org and send them a copy.

 

[NHpowderhound]

My most prized piece of ski nostalgia is definately the poster of Tuckerman Ravine that I am in. I have no way to prove it except when seeing the poster in full size I can show you my backpack on the rock we had just jeft and the clothing that matches my friends. There are three of us and I am the one in the middle. My buddy who was the guy in front in the picture saw a thumbnail sized photo in a magazine and thought, "hey that looks alot like the day we were there!" And then upon further inspection noticed us hiking up to Left Gully! All of us had noticed a woman with a tripod and some nice camera equipment parked on the big rock that becomes exposed at the bottom of the ravine as we were hiking in.

The other piece of ski history I prize is my 1987 poster of the Cog Railway Ski Train To Tuckerman's. Many of you may remember back in the mid-late 80's the Cog was trying to shuttle people all the way to the summit of Mount Washington so they could ski blindly down to the Ravine. It was hugely unpopular and never really got off the ground thankfully. The State of NH had rangers on the summit waiting for the trains and would turn back anyone who got off the train. Imagine 30 people at a time trying to come down Sluice in the springtime to find themselves skiing smack dab into a field of cravasses and falling ice because they couldnt see it from above!

((*
*))NHPH

 

[NHpowderhound]

Woops wrong pic of the Ski Train. Try this.

((*
*))NHPH

 

[awf170]

holy crap I have a picture of NHPH in my room... sweet.