Word: ski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Correspondent Karsten Prager, the trip to the Colorado Rockies in search of Peter Seibert, creator of the Vail skiing complex, reached new heights in participatory journalism. Like other TIME correspondents round the globe, Prager had gone to the mountain to gather material for this week's cover story. Unexpectedly, he found himself an active participant-at 11,250 ft.-in one of the world's fastest-growing sports. Though first put on skis at the age of three, Prager had not set boot to binding for 26 years. His talks with Seibert provided all the inspiration he needed...
...fellow reporters were scrutinizing other terrain. Los Angeles Correspondent Sandra Burton, a skier since her Middlebury College days in Vermont a decade ago, visited mountain resorts in New Mexico, Utah, Wyoming and Idaho. In the Northeast, New York Correspondent Marcia Gauger returned to visit some of her own favorite skiing haunts. Gauger, who has had lessons in four languages at ski schools round the world, is a veteran of pulled ligaments, frozen feet and broken bones (foot and leg). When her reporting in Stratton, Vt., was interrupted by 14 in. of new powder, however, she strapped boards to her feet...
Another alumnus of international ski schooling is Contributing Editor Donald Morrison, who wrote the cover story. Though raised in the flatlands of Illinois, Morrison took up skiing in Austria four years ago while on vacation from the London School of Economics. Contributing Editor Peter Stoler, who compiled a box on the world's best ski areas, is himself a former ski patrolman who still keeps in shape for the slopes by jogging two miles every morning. And Reporter-Researcher Jean Vallely, who filed on new equipment and instructional techniques and also checked the story for accuracy, got her start...
...near Saginaw, Mich., Bintz had been searching for ways to use all the dirt left over from bulldozing a pond next to his orchards. Why not build a mountain? So with an earth leveler, he pushed the soil into a 60-ft. mound and named it the Apple Mountain Ski Resort. That was a dozen years ago. Today Apple Mountain has grown to 200 ft., and it bristles with eight ski lifts, an eight-nozzle snowmaking machine, an equipment shop, a ski school and a lodge. On winter weekends, as many as 2,400 people turn out to ski down...
...night before Christmas, all through the William Richardson house in Ross, Calif., there will be quite a stir. Besides trimming the tree and wrapping presents, the Richardsons will be waxing their skis, dusting off their boots and packing the Volkswagen camper. Richardson, 36, business manager of a private school near San Francisco, has taken his wife and four children to the Sierras, five hours away, every winter for the past six years. As usual, the preparations began in October, when the Richardsons attended a "ski swap" and exchanged with others the gear that the children had outgrown. The Richardsons...