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SKIING
AS IT USED
TO BE!
by
Jimmy Petterson

M

y mother loved skiing more than
almost anything on this Earth. She learned
and grew up with the sport in the 1920s and
1930s, when the slopes were empty and skiers
were few and far between. I believe that she
enjoyed the solitude and the serenity of being
at one with the mountains as much as she
cherished the sport, and as time passed and
skiing became ever more popular, she skied
off-piste as much as she could - partly for the
powder and partly for the tranquility.
After I was born, she naturally wanted
to pass her skiing skills, as well as her passion
for the sport, on to her offspring. She put me
on my first pair of boards when I was two
and she sacrificed long hours of her own skiing time to teach me the skills necessary to
glide happily down the mountains in California, where I grew up.
My early skiing experiences in the 1950s
and 1960s were at the likes of local mountains
in Southern California like Blue Ridge, Holiday Hill, Mt. Baldy, and Snow Summit, as well
as, the larger resorts of Mammoth Mountain,
Squaw Valley and the powder Mecca of Alta
in Utah. Mind you, larger American ski resorts
in the fifties and early sixties were not really
very big. Mammoth Mountain, today number
three in the country in skier visits, had two
chairlifts and two T-bars the first time I skied
there in 1957. Squaw Valley, the host of the
1960 Winter Olympics had about five. Alta
had three.
Hence, when I was 20 and excited to
widen my horizons and see more of the world,
my mom very much wanted to share with me
a skiing trip to her native Europe. She explained to her wide-eyed son that skiing in the
Alps was a completely different kind of experience than that I had come to know in the U.S.
Instead of a small, short ski hill or two with a
base lodge at the bottom, Alpine skiing consisted of a much more expansive lift system
than I had ever seen, with long winding runs
where skiers could glide among various old established mountain villages. Sometimes one
finished a run so far away from one's starting
point that one had to take a train back to the
resort where one began the day. It sounded
fascinating, and I was eager to immerse myself
into Alpine skiing.
In her enthusiasm to show me the epitome of what she considered to be classic Alpine skiing, mom took me to Davos. The year
was 1970. There were also chairlifts here, like
in the U.S., but in addition to that, Davos was
home to the famous cog-wheeled train up the

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