Word: skying
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...because of man-made snow, which is drifting down on mountain slopes far south of the Mason-Dixon line-in Tennessee and New Mexico, in North Carolina and most lately in Missouri. Deep in the Ozarks, a resort called (with some fanfare) TanTarA has a ski lodge, complete with a 1,700-ft. T-bar and four rope tows, only 175 miles from St. Louis and 160 miles from Kansas City...
...Strapped Skis. Skiing, in short, is getting to be a southern sport. From balmy Los Angeles it is only 90 miles to Big Bear Lake, where Snow Summit will have more than 20,000 people schussing and slaloming next weekend. Some citizens of Phoenix, Albuquerque, and points in between will strap skis on top of their station wagons, in apparent defiance of the dry, hot desert air, and head for Ski Cloud Croft or Sierra Blanca in the Sacramento mountains north of Alamogordo...
Residents of Atlanta can set out for Cataloochee's five ski slopes at Waynesville, N.C., only four hours away. Ski-minded residents of Alabama and Mississippi no longer have to read about the glamorous life and peculiar excitement of skiing. Just a few miles across their northern border is the Gatlinburg Ski Resort in Tennessee, where snow machines produce a reliable twelve inches for two months of the winter season...
Citizens of Washington, D.C., who have long insisted that their summer climate is the world's hottest and their ter rain the flattest, are turning into skiers-three new ski shops have opened in downtown Washington this year. Within 80 miles of the city are: Shawneeland near Winchester, Va., which had 78 skiing days even in a winter when the natural snowfall was only half an inch; Skyline Ski Area at Washington, Va., which has three slopes, a T-bar lift and two rope tows; Oregon Ridge at Cockeysville, Md., with four tows and a 1,900-ft. double...
...make a giant atomizer. When the resultant droplets hit the air (provided the temperature is below 30°), they freeze into tiny granules that make a dense powder snow. With enough piping, twelve nozzles and suitable terrain, the snowmaker can produce an 8-in.-deep ski slope 250 ft. by 1,000 ft. overnight. If greater acreage is needed, just add more pipes and more nozzles. Biggest so far is a total of 85 acres, turned out to cover slopes and trails at the Telemark Ski Area in Cable...