Skiing History Sources

U.S.National Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame - The United States Ski & Snowboard Hall of Fame and Museum. Dedicated to supporting the skiing heritage in our nation.

The MSIA Virtual Hall of Fame. The Michigan Ski Industries Association has recognized some of the state’s pioneers in a virtual hall of fame on their goskimichigan website.

skilifts.org Annual Lift Construction Survey for North America. Statistics for new lifts, state by state from 1963 through 2009.

Defunct Ropeways lists abandoned lifts. This is the English version of this German site which lists abandoned aerial and surface lifts in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Italy, France, and America. The webmaster says there is more content in the German version.

History of the Ishpeming Ski Club from the club’s official site.

Michigan’s Long History of Ski Jumping, by Vivian M. Baulch, Detroit News, Feb. 1, 2002. Compiled from clips and photos in the DN archive.

Ski Jumping Hill Archive - Michigan (skisprungschanzen.com): a German site listing current and historic sites, campetitions, records, etc. from all over the world. The link is to their Michigan data, but you can easily navigate around to all their other data.

Watch here for links to sites providing historical information.

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