Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows

2019-10-07

Author : Eddy Starr Ancinas
Release : 2019-10-07
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Book Synopsis Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows by : Eddy Starr Ancinas

Download or read book Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows written by Eddy Starr Ancinas. This book was released on 2019-10-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nestled amid California�s High Sierra Peaks, two valleys have captured the imaginations of skiers and mountain explorers year after year. Squaw Valley made a name for itself on the world stage as the host of the 1960 Winter Olympics. Meanwhile, just over a high ridge, Alpine Meadows was developed by devoted local skiers and Bay Area families. Discover the stories of Wayne Poulsen, John Reily and Alex Cushing as they battle avalanches, fires, floods, public opinion and the whims of mountain weather. This revised edition celebrates these two North Lake Tahoe locales, now united and looking to the future. Local award-winning author and ski historian Eddy Ancinas shares the history of these two valleys as no one has done before.

Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows: Tales from Two Valleys 70th Anniversary Edition

2019-10-07 History

Author : Eddy Starr Ancinas
Release : 2019-10-07
Genre : History
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Download or read book Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows: Tales from Two Valleys 70th Anniversary Edition written by Eddy Starr Ancinas . This book was released on 2019-10-07. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nestled amidst California's High Sierra peaks, two valleys have captured the imaginations of skiers and mountain explorers year after year. In this account, local author and longtime skier Eddy Starr Ancinas shares the histories of Squaw Valley and Alpine Meadows as they've never been told before, including the stories of John Reily, Wayne Poulsen and Alex Cushing, the visionaries whose dreams and determination forever transformed North Lake Tahoe. Squaw made a name for itself on the world stage thanks to its surprise nomination as host of the 1960 Winter Olympics. Meanwhile, just one mountain apart, Alpine was built with the support of local skiers and Bay Area families. Today, a new chapter unfolds as the distinct philosophies behind Squaw and Alpine unite under common ownership.

Disneyland on the Mountain

2023-09-13 Social Science

Author : Greg Glasgow
Release : 2023-09-13
Genre : Social Science
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Download or read book Disneyland on the Mountain written by Greg Glasgow. This book was released on 2023-09-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fascinating look at Walt Disney’s last, unfinished project and the controversy that surrounded it. It was going to be Disneyland at the top of a mountain. A vacation destination where guests could ski, go ice skating, or be entertained by a Disney Imagineer-created band of Audio-Animatronic bears. In the summer, visitors could fish, camp, hike, or take a scenic chairlift ride to the top of a mountain. It was the Mineral King resort in Southern California, and it was Walt Disney’s final passion project. But there was one major obstacle to Walt’s dream: the growing environmentalist movement of the 1960s. In Disneyland on the Mountain: Walt, the Environmentalists, and the Ski Resort That Never Was, Greg Glasgow and Kathryn Mayer provide an unprecedented look inside the Mineral King saga, from its origins at the 1960 Winter Olympics to the years-long environmental fight that eventually shut the development down. The fight, which went all the way to the Supreme Court, reshaped the environmental movement and helped to put in place long-reaching laws to protect nature. Although the court battle, coupled with Walt’s death in 1966, meant the end for the Mineral King resort, the ideas and planning behind it have permeated throughout the Walt Disney company and the ski tourism industry in ways that are still seen today. With firsthand interviews and behind-the-scenes details, Disneyland on the Mountain offers incredible access to a part of Disney history that hasn’t been thoroughly explored before, including Walt’s love of nature, how the company changed after Walt’s death, and of course, the story of Mineral King. It’s a tale of man versus nature, ambition versus mortality, and how a gang of scrappy environmentalists took on one of America’s most beloved companies.

Snowball's Chance

2012-03-28 Olympic Winter Games

Author : David C. Antonucci
Release : 2012-03-28
Genre : Olympic Winter Games
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Book Rating : 047/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Snowball's Chance written by David C. Antonucci. This book was released on 2012-03-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The only book devoted solely to chronicling the historic VIII Olympic Winter Games at Squaw Valley and Lake Tahoe.

In the Pines

2021-10-21 Fiction

Author : Paul Scraton
Release : 2021-10-21
Genre : Fiction
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Download or read book In the Pines written by Paul Scraton. This book was released on 2021-10-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'The fragmented stories and haunted photographs in Paul Scraton and Eymelt Sehmer's In the Pines feel like field recordings from the shadow forest of their imaginations, transcribed into the pages of an old Explorer's Journal. I felt like I had gone into the forest, rucksack packed with Binoculars, Compass, Penknife, Whistle, Magnifying glass, Notebook, Pencil... and this haunting, collodion-eerie book..' – Jeff Youngl, author of Ghost Town In the Pines is author Paul Scraton's story of an unnamed narrator's lifelong relationship with the forest and the mysteries it contains, told through fragmented stories that capture the blurred details and sharp focus of memory.. Accompanied by eerie images created using a 170-year-old technique of collodion wet plate photography by Eymelt Sehmer, In the Pines is a powerfully evocative collaboration between image and text

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