Word: roch
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Swiss Skier Andre Roch proposed to lay out such a course for the U. S. He chose Aspen, Colo., in the heart of the Rockies 200 miles west of Denver, in the 1880s the "world's richest mining camp," now a shrunken village of 800 miners. Roch laid out the course on the precipitous north slope of Mt. Aspen before he returned home. Aspenites completed it according to his plan. From a height of 10,350 ft. above sea level, Roch Run has a vertical drop of 2,500 ft. in one and three-quarters miles. It begins...
...pitch of the "Dipsy Doodle" into the Big Corkscrew to finish first in 2 min. 22.6 sec.-an average of better than 44 m.p.h. Second place in the slalom next day made him U. S. combined champion. Said National Ski Association President Roger Langley, after this first trial of Roch Run: "There never has been a race course anywhere in the country like this one for thrills...