Word: skying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year, 23 ski areas added snow machines, and in the Catskills in New York State, where the snowfall has been light, operators admit they would have gone broke without them...
...dough at Stowe lies mostly in the snow," crooned a banjo-toting minnesinger before the inevitable open fireplace of that famed ski retreat in Vermont last week. And the same truth was self-evident in thousands of other resorts around the world from Aspen to Zermatt, where the ski slopes resembled a lavishly and gaily costumed flea circus...
This week, as skiers head snowward for the Washington's Birthday weekend, traditionally the busiest of the year, resort operators are celebrating the biggest year skiing has known since man first set out on barrel staves. Deep valleys and isolated mountainsides that only a few years ago had been as quiet as Coney Island on Ground Hog Day are now echoing with cries of "Track!" ''Attention!'' "Pista!" and "Achtung!" (In many U.S. spots, "track" has been supplanted by golfdom's "fore.'') Spanking new lodges in a variety of architectural forms range from...
Swissair offers 20 different tours, ranging in price from $552.60 for 17 days at Sestriere and Grindelwald, including all transportation, hotels and meals, to $76.60 for 17 days at St. Moritz and Davos. The line maintains special ski desks at offices and terminals where prospective skiers can check on snowfall, temperature, and the hotel situation at every ski resort in Europe, reports sales up 34% over last year. Virtually every other transatlantic airline has some charter flights for skiers...
Most conspicuous monument to Europe's ski madness is Courchevel, a new resort built high (6,070 ft.) in the French Alps and already rivaling Chamonix...