EVER WONDER WHERE DR. SEUSS GOT THE INSPIRATION FOR THE GRINCH'S WILD WINTERY RIDE FROM HIS MOUNTAINTOP LAIR TO THE VALLEY BELOW?

MAYBE IT CAME FROM HIS IMAGINATION, BUT MORE LIKELY IT WAS BASED ON A PLACE.

ANOTHER FAMOUS DOCTOR, THIS ONE IN THE FIELD OF MEDICINE,HAD THE SAME SNOWY INFLUENCE DURING HIS COLLEGE YEARS.

C. EVERETT KOOP, THE 13TH SURGEON GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES, SHARED SOMETHING WITH ANOTHER IMPRESSIVE CROWD 100 WINTER OLYMPIANS THEY ALL HAVE A PASSION FOR SNOW!

DR. SEUSS, DR. KOOP AND AN EXTRAORDINARY NUMBER OF WINTER OLYMPIANS WERE AMONGST GENERATIONS OF SKIERS WHO WERE NOT NECESSARILY TOP COMPETITORS, BUT WHO CREATED THE MOUNTAIN RESORTS, THE GEAR, THE LESSONS, THE WRITTEN WORDS, THE IMAGES, THE RETAIL SHOPS, THE MEDICAL FACILITIES AND MOST OTHER ASPECTS OF MODERN SNOWSPORTS, HAD ONE THING IN COMMON.

THEY ALL SPENT TIME IN THE SMALL TOWN OF HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE.

THE DRAW - DARTMOUTH COLLEGE.

MORE MEMBERS OF THE UNITED STATES SKI HALL OF FAME HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH DARTMOUTH THAN ANY OTHER LOCATION OR INSTITUTION.

DR. SEUSS WAS A DARTMOUTH STUDENT IN THE 1920'S WHOSE REAL NAME WAS THEODOR GEISEL.

THOUGH GEISEL WAS NOT A SKI RACER, HE SPENT HIS COLLEGE WINTERS SURROUNDED BY AN EARLY SKIING TRADITION, AND LOTS OF SNOW.

DR. KOOP CAME TO HANOVER AS A FOOTBALL PLAYER BUT BECAME A SKIER.

THERE'S NOT MUCH SKIING DONE IN BROOKLYN.

WHEN I CAME HERE THE WHOLE SKI PICTURE WAS DIFFERENT THAN I IMAGINED IT...

I CERTAINLY KNEW I WAS NOT ANY TRAINEE FOR A SKI TEAM POSITION.

SO MY FRATERNITY BROTHER SUGGESTED TO OTTO SCHNEIBS, THE COACH, HE LET ME PRACTICE WITH THE DARTMOUTH SKI TEAM, KNOWING THAT I WAS JUST THERE FOR THE RIDE... THAT LED TO MY BEING THE ONLY PERSON IN MY FRATERNITY THAT DID ANY SKI JUMPING.

WHEN WE HAD AN INTERFRATERNITY SKI DERBY, I GOT OUT THERE LATE IN THE DAY.

THE TAKE OFF FROM THE LIP OF THE JUMP WAS FROZEN.

'DID EVERYTHING I COULD TO TAKE A HIGH JUMP OFF THE EDGE OF THE LIP.

HERE I WAS, UP HIGHER IN THE TREES THAN I EVER HAD BEEN BEFORE.

I KNEW I WAS GOING TO OVER JUMP THE JUMP AND SO I TRIED TO DO A SOMERSAULT.

INSTEAD OF THAT, I BROKE MY NECK.

I WAS PARALYZED.

I WAS NOT ABLE TO MOVE MY HANDS OR MY FEET.

SO THE FIRST NIGHT I SPENT IN DICK'S HOUSE, THE COLLEGE INFIRMARY, I WAS NOT ABLE TO MOVE MY ARMS OR MY LEGS, BUT NOBODY TOLD ME IT WOULD PROBABLY BE TEMPORARY.

TWO DAYS LATER, I BEGAN TO GET MOTION BACK IN THINGS.

I DECIDED RIGHT THEN I WOULD NEVER HAVE A PATIENT THAT I PUT IN THAT POSITION.

HE WOULD ALWAYS KNOW AS MUCH AS I DID.

DR. KOOP IS ONE OF THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS OVER THE LAST CENTURY WHO LEARNED TO SKI WHILE AT DARTMOUTH.

THE COLLEGE WAS THE FIRST IN THE UNITED STATES TO HAVE A SKI TEAM AND SKI FACILITIES WHERE STUDENTS AND OTHERS AFFILIATED WITH THE COLLEGE AND THE SURROUNDING COMMUNITIES COULD SKI.

MANY LIKE DR. KOOP WERE GREATLY IMPACTED BY THEIR SKI EXPERIENCES.

SOME OF THOSE SKIERS STAYED IN THE SPORT AS THEIR LIVELIHOOD AND THEIR LIFESTYLE.

HOW IS IT THAT A COLLEGE OF 4,100 UNDERGRADUATES AND 1,700 POST-GRADUATES COULD SPAWN A SPORT THAT IS NOW A $25 BILLION- DOLLAR INDUSTRY IN NORTH AMERICA, A SPORT CENTERED AROUND GLIDING DOWN SNOW- COVERED MOUNTAINS OFTEN AT GREAT SPEED?

TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION, YOU FIRST NEED TO UNDERSTAND DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, THE SMALLEST AND MOST REMOTELY LOCATED COLLEGE IN THE IVY LEAGUE.

DARTMOUTH WAS FOUNDED IN 1769 BY A MINISTER NAMED ELEAZAR WHEELOCK UNDER ROYAL CHARTER GRANTED BY KING GEORGE III.

IT IS THE NINTH OLDEST COLLEGE IN THE UNITED STATES.

WHEN DARTMOUTH WAS FOUNDED, IT WAS ON THE EDGE OF THE COLONIAL FRONTIER.

WINTERS WERE LONG AND SNOWY.

WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU PUT AMBITIOUS, ADVENTUROUS YOUNG MEN IN AN ISOLATED WINTER OUTPOST?

IN DARTMOUTH'S CASE, YOU GET A CURIOSITY AND WILLINGNESS TO TRY NEW THINGS OUTDOORS.

WHEN THE EARLIEST SKIS SHOWED UP IN HANOVER IN THE LATE 1880'S, IT WAS NO SURPRISE THAT A FEW INTREPID STUDENTS EMBRACED THE 10-FOOT LONG BOARDS THAT GLIDED ACROSS THE SNOW WITH THE AID OF A SINGLE POLE FOR BALANCE, BREAKING AND TURNING.

HANOVER, NEW HAMPSHIRE IS NOT EVEN LOCATED IN A MOUNTAIN RANGE.

IT IS IN THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY, AN HOUR FROM THE NEAREST HIGH PEAKS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE'S WHITE MOUNTAINS AND VERMONT'S GREEN MOUNTAINS, ON TODAY'S ROADS IN MODERN AUTOMOBILES BUT THERE'S SNOW.

IN NOVEMBER OF 1909, A STUDENT NAMED FRED HARRIS ENVISIONED A CLUB THAT WOULD GET STUDENTS OUTDOORS ONTO THE SNOW.

HIS EFFORTS RESULTED IN THE FOUNDING OF THE DARTMOUTH OUTING CLUB, ONE OF THE LEADING FORCES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF MODERN SKIING.

SO, HERE WE ARE IN DARTMOUTH, IN THE GRANITE STATE, WHERE WINTER IS TOUGH.

AND SO HARRIS IN 1919 WROTE AN ARTICLE FOR NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC WHICH WAS ALL ABOUT DARTMOUTH AND SKIING AND BEING IN THE OUTDOORS AND THROUGH NATURE'S WONDROUS WOODLANDS AND ALL THAT SORT OF QUASI- RELIGIOUSNESS.

AND IT APPEALED TO AN INCREDIBLE NUMBER OF PEOPLE.

THESE PEOPLE ARE KIND OF LEFT OVER MUSCULAR CHRISTIANS IN MANY, MANY WAYS.

THEY'VE GOT TO PROVE THEMSELVES.

THEY CAN'T JUST HAVE EVERYTHING ON A PLATE.

WITH THE FOUNDING OF THE DARTMOUTH OUTING CLUB, HARRIS CREATED THE FIRST COLLEGIATE WINTER CARNIVAL.

THIS LED TO THE FIRST INTERCOLLEGIATE SKI COMPETITION IN THE UNITED STATES, THE CREATION OF ALPINE DISCIPLINES SUCH AS DOWNHILL, SLALOM AND GIANT SLALOM.

I SEE FRED HARRIS AS AN AGENT OF MODERNIZATION.

MEANING THAT HE TOOK SKIING WHICH HAD BEEN BASICALLY SOME SORT OF FOLK CULTURE TYPE OF THING INTO A MODERN SPORT.

AND WHEN YOU DO THAT IT REQUIRES THAT YOU HAVE A CERTAIN DEGREE OF FAIRNESS IN BOTH WHO'S COMPETING, AND ALSO IN THE CONDITIONS OF COMPETITION.

YOU'VE GOT TO HAVE A BUREAUCRACY IN ORDER TO MANAGE ALL THOSE THINGS AND THAT'S TIED UP WITH RECORD KEEPING AND INDEED RECORDS THEMSELVES.

ANY FOOL CAN MAKE A RECORD, BUT TO BREAK THE RECORD YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW WHAT THE RECORD WAS BEFOREHAND.

THEREFORE YOU REQUIRE ALL SORTS OF RULES AND REGULATIONS...

THE DARTMOUTH OUTING CLUB DID DO ALL THOSE THINGS.

THE DARTMOUTH OUTING CLUB WAS THE NOT THE FIRST OUTING CLUB EITHER, BUT WHAT HAPPENED WITH HARRIS AND WHAT HAPPENED WITH DARTMOUTH WAS THAT DARTMOUTH BECAME THE FULCRUM AROUND WHICH AN INCREASING NUMBER OF CIRCLES OF SKIING OCCURRED.

AN IMPORTANT PART OF FRED HARRIS' VISION WAS A WINTER FESTIVAL, CALLED SIMPLY "WINTER CARNIVAL", BUT ITS INFLUENCE ON THE GROWTH OF SKIING, BOTH SOCIALLY AND COMPETITIVELY, WAS FAR-REACHING.

THERE WAS REVELRY, OF COURSE, AS WELL AS ICE SCULPTURES,DANCING AND GLUHWEIN, BARREL JUMPING AND OTHER CHANCES TO ENJOY THE SNOW.

WINTER BECAME FUN, AND FUN CREATES PASSION.

IT ALSO CREATES MEDIA COVERAGE.

AS DARTMOUTH ALUMNI SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES, THEY HELPED CREATE OTHER "MARDI GRAS'S OF WINTER" MODELLED AFTER DARTMOUTH'S FAMOUS, OR PERHAPS INFAMOUS, WINTER WEEKEND.

DARTMOUTH WAS AN ALL BOYS SCHOOL WHEN I WAS HERE, SO WINTER CARNIVAL WAS REALLY A GREAT TIME BECAUSE GUESS WHAT HAPPENED, WOMEN CAME TO TOWN.

HARRIS WAS RIGHT WHEN HE SAID IT'S GOING TO BE BIGGER THAN THE SUMMER PROM.

IT WAS THE WINTER HAPPENING LARGELY BECAUSE THE DARTMOUTH MEN HAD WOMEN TO COME FROM HOLYOKE, FROM SMITH, FROM WELLESLEY, FROM VASSAR AND SO ON...

THE GREATEST PART OF THE CARNIVAL WAS THE JUMP.

NOT MANY PEOPLE WERE GOOD AT JUMPING, BUT THE BOYS AT DARTMOUTH WERE GOOD AT JUMPING.

IN THOSE DAYS YOU DID EVERYTHING, BUT THE JUMP WAS THE MAJOR ATTRACTION.

IT REALLY PROVIDED A SHOW.

ONE EARLY JOHNNY APPLESEED OF SKIING WAS A GERMAN NAMED OTTO SCHNIEBS.

SCHNIEBS WAS HIRED TO COACH THE DARTMOUTH SKI TEAM IN 1931.

A PROMINENT EUROPEAN SKIER OF THAT ERA, DARTMOUTH GAVE HIS SELECTION MORE THOUGHT AND CARE THAN IT DID TO MANY MEMBERS OF THE COLLEGE'S FACULTY AT THE TIME.

THE LEGENDARY WALTER PRAGER, TWO-TIME WINNER OF THE RESTIGIOUS ARLBERG-KANDAHAR RACE AND ONE OF THE SKIING'S FIRST WORLD CHAMPIONS, WAS ANOTHER.

AS EARLY APOSTLES OF THE SPORT, SCHNIEBS AND PRAGER LED THEIR ATHLETES TO SUCCESS BOTH OLLEGIATELY AND AT THE OLYMPIC LEVEL.

THEY ALSO WANTED TO MAKE THE GREATER POPULATION WHAT SCHNIEBS CALLED, "SKI CONSCIOUS".

SCHKIING ISS NOT A SCHPORT.

IT ISS A VAY OF LIFE!

WHEN I WOKE UP AND HEARD THAT SOFTNESS OUTSIDE THAT LET YOU KNOW THERE'S SNOW ON THE GROUND, I WAS HAPPY.

I HAD A PASSION FOR SNOW, AND I HAD A PASSION FOR SKIING.

AND I MIGHT SAY THE COLLEGE HAD MUCH MORE OF A PASSION FOR SKIING.

MY MENTAL IMAGE OF DARTMOUTH ON A WINTER AFTERNOON IS SCADS OF KIDS COMING OUT OF DORMITORIES, FRATERNITIES WITH THEIR SKIS OVER THEIR SHOULDER, HEADING OUT FOR THE GOLF COURSE.

IT LOOKED LIKE MUCH MORE OF A SKI TOWN THEN THAN IT DOES NOW INSPITE OF THE FACT THAT SKIING WAS REALLY NOT A POPULAR SPORT AND WAS JUST IN THE BEGINNING OF ITS NEW ENGLAND BIRTH.

WHILE MANY WINTER TRADITIONS QUICKLY FORMED AT THE COLLEGE, INTERCOLLEGIATE SKIING COMPETITION REMAINED THE HEART OF IT, FIRST AT DARTMOUTH, AND SOON AT OTHER UNIVERSITIES WHERE WHERE WINTERS WERE WHITE.

AT FIRST, INCOLLEGIATE SKIING ONLY INCLUDED JUMPING AND CROSS-COUNTRY.

IT WAS AT DARTMOUTH WINTER CARNIVAL THAT SKI RACERS TRIED SLALOM FOR THE FIRST TIME IN NORTH AMERCA.

WHEN ONE TALKS ABOUT ALPINE SKIING I THINK ONE OF THE THINGS TO REALIZE IS THAT IT COMES OUT OF A SKI MOUNTAINEERING BACKGROUND, WHERE A SKIER WOULD WALK UP THROUGH THE WOODS, GET TO TREE LINE, AND THEN WALK UP TO THE TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN.

AND OF COURSE, ABOVE TREE LINE, IT IS BARE, AND THAT AFFORDED THE POSSIBILITY OF THE DOWN-MOUNTAIN RUSH.

THE MOMENT THAT YOU GOT TO THE TREES, THEN YOU HAD TO WATCH OUT.

JOHN CARLETON SKIED FOR DARTMOUTH IN THE EARLY 1920S THEN WENT TO OXFORD UNIVERSITY IN ENGLAND AS A RHODES SCHOLAR, WHERE HE CONTINUED TO COMPETE IN SKIING.

IT WAS THERE THAT HE MET ARNOLD LUNN.

CARLETON, WHO COMPETED IN THE FIRST-EVER WINTER OLYMPICS IN CHAMONIX, FRANCE, INTRODUCED LUNN TO CHARLES PROCTOR, A DARTMOUTH PROFESSOR WHO WOULD LATER BE REFERRED TO BY SOME AS THE "FATHER OF AMERICAN ALPINE SKIING."

PROFESSOR PROCTOR INTRODUCED DARTMOUTH SKIERS TO THE IDEA OF MAKING TURNS AROUND PINE BOUGHS SIMILAR TO THE SLALOM RACES LUNN HAD DEVELOPED IN THE ALPS.

PROCTOR WAS KEENLY INTERESTED IN ALPINE SKIING AS A COMPETITIVE DISCIPLINE.THE SLALOM WAS ACTUALLY A SIMULATION OF WHAT LUNN USED TO CALL TREE RUNNING.

THIS ALL OCCURRED IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR PERIOD, BEGINNING PARTS OF THE 1920S, AND IT GOT ORGANIZED BY ARNOLD LUNN.

AND JUST AT THIS TIME, PEOPLE LIKE PROCTOR STARTED READING THE BRITISH SKI ANNUAL UNDER ARNOLD LUNN'S EDITORSHIP.

THAT GAVE HIM A VEHICLE TO SHOW AND TO CAJOLE AND TO ENTHUSE PEOPLE FOR ALPINE SKIING.

AT THE SAME TIME THERE BEGAN TO COME A FEW PEOPLE WHO WERE DOING THIS SORT OF SKIING FROM PARTICULARLY AUSTRIA, THEN YOU BEGIN TO GET PEOPLE INTERESTED IN ALPINE SKIING.

ORIGINALLY THE MARK OF A GOOD ALPINE SKIER WAS TO GO STRAIGHT DOWN A HILL, NO TURNING.

TURNING WAS SISSY.

PROBLEM HERE IS THAT YOU CAN'T REALLY DO DOWNHILL SKIING UNLESS YOU CUT A WAY THROUGH THE WOODS.

AND IT'S A HARD SELL ALSO FROM A TECHNIQUE POINT OF VIEW.

IF YOU LOOK AT SLALOM COURSES IN THE 1920S, YOU'LL FIND THAT THEY MEANDER ALMOST.

IT'S LARGELY BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T TURN SHARPLY.

YOU CAN ONLY TURN SHARPLY WHEN YOU'VE GOT THE EQUIPMENT TO DO THAT.

THAT IS, YOU'VE GOT A CERTAIN TYPE OF SKI WHICH WILL HOLD ON EDGE, AND YOU'VE ALSO GOT A VERY LIGHT POLE.

SO THE WHOLE CHANGE IN THE MANUFACTURE OF EQUIPMENT ALSO PLAYS A ROLE INTO IT AS THE 1920S AND ‘30S COMES INTO VIEW.

DARTMOUTH HOSTED THE FIRST SLALOM RACE IN THE UNITED STATES DURING THE 1925 WINTER CARNIVAL.

IT WAS WON BY PROFESSOR PROCTOR'S SON, CHARLIE, A STUDENT AT THE COLLEGE.

THE YOUNGER PROCTOR WOULD BECOME A MEMBER OF THE 1928 OLYMPIC SKI TEAM IN SAINT MORITZ, SWITZERLAND, THOUGH HE COMPETED IN ONLY THE NORDIC EVENTS.

ALPINE SKIING WAS STILL 8 YEARS AWAY FROM BECOMING PART OF THE OLYMPICS.

TWO YEARS AFTER THAT INAUGURAL SLALOM, PROFESSOR PROCTOR AND DARTMOUTH SKI COACH, ANTON DIETRICH, ENVISIONED A "DOWN THE MOUNTAIN RACE" IN WHICH COMPETITORS DESCENDED AS FAST AS THEY COULD.

DARTMOUTH OWNED THE PERFECT PLACE TO HOLD SUCH A RACE, MOUNT MOOSILAUKE, ELEVATION 4,802 FEET, ON THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE WHITE MOUNTAINS.

THE FASTEST SKIERS TOOK 21 MINUTES TO COMPLETE THE 4-MILE COURSE WITH A VERTICAL DROP OF ABOUT 3,000 FEET.

THE MOOSILAUKE DOWNHILL BECAME POPULAR VERY QUICKLY.

IN 1931, A DARTMOUTH ALUMNUS NAMED JACK MCCRILLIS FILMED THE EVENT.

MCCRILLIS AND PROFESSOR PROCTOR PRESENTED THIS FILM TO THE NATIONAL SKI ASSOCIATION, WHICH ULTIMATELY PERSUADED THE NORDIC-MINDED ORGANIZATION TO SANCTION THE THE FIRST NATIONAL DOWNHILL CHAMPIONSHIPS ON MT.

MOOSILAUKE IN 1933.

A FRESHMAN, BEM WOODS, WON THE RACE, BECOMING THE FIRST OF LITERALLY HUNDREDS OF NATIONAL CHAMPIONS TO COME OUT OF DARTMOUTH'S SKIING PROGRAM.

FOUR YEARS LATER, COACH WALTER PRAGER AND DICK DURRANCE, THE TOP RACER ON THE DARTMOUTH SKI TEAM AND IN THE UNITED STATES AT THE TIME, SET THE FIRST GIANT SLALOM COURSE IN THE U.S., IN TUCKERMAN RAVINE.

CROSS COUNTRY REQUIRES TIME, EFFORT AND SWEAT.

ONCE YOU'RE AT THE TOP OF A HILL, DOWNHILL REQUIRES COURAGE, SPEED AND TECHNIQUE.

IN EARLY PART OF THE 20TH CENTURY, THIS IS THE TIME WHEN MOTOR RACING BEGINS.

THIS IS A TIME WHEN THE AIRPLANE IS INVENTED, AND YOU BEGIN TO HAVE SPEED TRIALS.

THIS IS THE TIME WHEN THE BARNSTORMERS ARE DOING THEIR CRAZY THINGS SPEED WAS THE CRY OF THE MOMENT.

ALPINE SKIING ABSOLUTELY HIT THE SPEED NERVE.

PERHAPS DARTMOUTH SKIERS HAD AN EARLY EDGE IN THOSE FIRST ALPINE EVENTS, AS IT WAS DARTMOUTH SKIERS THAT INTRODUCED THEM.

BUT OVER THE LAST CENTURY, GENERATIONS OF DARTMOUTH SKIERS HAVE CONTINUED TO BE AMONG THE VERY BEST IN THE COUNTRY, WINNING NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS AND COMPETING IN EVERY WINTER OLYMPICS FOR THE UNITED STATES AND OTHER COUNTRIES.

MOST RECENTLY, TWO DARTMOUTH STUDENTS EARNED OLYMPIC MEDALS IN VANCOUVER IN 2010.

MY PLAN WAS TO CONTINUE WITH THE U S SKI TEAM AND GO TO SCHOOL AT DARTMOUTH AT THE SAME TIME.

I REALLY CREDIT DARTMOUTH FOR BEING THE REASON THAT I'VE BEEN ABLE TO STAY ON THE U S SKI TEAM.

STARTING AT THE END OF MY SKI SEASON, I COME TO DARTMOUTH FOR THE SPRING TERM THEN BEGINNING OF JUNE, I USUALLY START TRAINING AGAIN.

I'M PRETTY MUCH SKIING AND TRAINING FOR SKIING RIGHT UP UNTIL THE DAY THAT SPRING TERM STARTS.

HANNAH KEARNEY, THE 2010 OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST IN MOGULS AND THE 2011 AND 2012 WORLD CUP MOGUL AND OVERALL FREESTYLE CHAMPION, GREW UP IN NORWICH, VERMONT, DIRECTLY ACROSS THE CONNECTICUT RIVER FROM DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, WHERE SHE EVENTUALLY BECAME A STUDENT.

KEARNEY IS THE LATEST EXAMPLE OF HOW DARTMOUTH PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES TO LOCAL KIDS TO BECOME SKIING CHAMPIONS, AS WELL AS HOW DARTMOUTH'S SKIING HERITAGE CONTINUES TO ATTRACT THE TOP COMPETITORS ON THE SLOPES.

THE DARTMOUTH SKIWAY WAS THE REASON I BEGAN FREESTYLE SKIING.

THE FORD SAYER SKIING PROGRAM THAT'S OFFERED AFTER-SCHOOL SKIING ON WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONS.

IT TOOK JUST A FEW WEEKS OF TRAINING THERE AND I WAS HOOKED.

AND I'VE BEEN DOING THE SPORT EVER SINCE.

THE HEAD TECHNICAL COACH OF THE UNITED STATES SKI TEAM WHEN I QUALIFIED FOR THE FREESTYLE TEAM WAS LIZ MCINTYRE WHO HAPPENS TO BE A DARTMOUTH GRADUATE.

I REMEMBER MARCHING IN A PARADE FOR HER IN 1994 WHEN SHE CAME BACK WITH HER MEDAL FROM THE OLYMPICS.

THAT TRANSITION FROM FAN OF LIZ MCINTYRE TO ONE OF HER ATHLETES, THERE'S A STRONG DARTMOUTH CONNECTION.

THE EARLIEST SKIERS PIONEERED ROUTES ON THE HIGHEST NEW ENGLAND PEAKS.

THEY OPTED FOR SKIS RATHER THAN SNOWSHOES AND WERE MORE SKI EXPLORERS THAN SKIERS IN THE WAY WE THINK OF POPULAR SKIING TODAY.

WHILE THESE EARLY FEATS OF EXTREME SKIING WERE CERTAINLY NOTABLE, PARTICULARLY ON THE EQUIPMENT OF THE DAY, MOST PEOPLE SKIED AT LOWER ELEVATIONS ON OPEN PASTURELAND.

ONE SUCH LOCATION, WOODSTOCK, VERMONT, ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF HANOVER, WAS AN EARLY DESTINATION.

THE SLOPING DAIRY FARMS OFFERED 400 TO 600 FEET OF VERTICAL DROP, WHICH THE 1932 BRITISH SKI YEARBOOK DESCRIBED AS QUOTE, "POSSIBLY THE BEST SKIING COUNTRY EAST OF THE ROCKIES, MARRED ONLY BY THAT DIABOLICAL AMERICAN INVENTION, THE BARBED WIRE FENCE".

IN 1934, A DARTMOUTH GRADUATE NAMED WALLACE "BUNNY" BERTRAM USED A MODEL A ENGINE TO DRIVE A ROPE THAT HAULED SKIERS UP A SLOPE KNOWN AS GILBERT'S HILL NEAR WOODSTOCK, VERMONT.

HE DIDN'T INVENT THE ROPE TOW, BUT THE ONE HE OPERATED IN WOODSTOCK WAS THE FIRST SKI TOW IN THE UNITED STATES.

THE ARRIVAL OF SKI LIFTS ENABLED THOUSANDS TO EXPERIENCE SKIING AND OPENED UP THE OPPORTUNITY FOR SKI COMMUNITIES TO DEVELOP.

AFTER A COUPLE OF YEARS, BERTRAM MOVED HIS ROPE TOW TO A NEARBY HILL, KNOWN AS HILL NO.

6.

BECAUSE OF ITS STEEPNESS, BERTRAM JOKED THAT TO SKI HILL NO.

6 WOULD BE SUICIDE.

AS A RESULT, BERTRAM'S SKI AREA BECAME KNOWN AS SUICIDE SIX.

LIFT INNOVATIONS CAME QUICKLY, LED BY TWO OTHER DARTMOUTH SKIERS.

THE WINTER AFTER BUNNY BERTRAM INSTALLED HIS ROPE TOW, DAN HATCH BUILT ONE OF THE FIRST OVERHEAD CABLE LIFTS IN NORTH AMERICA, A J-BAR, ON OAK HILL IN HANOVER, MODELED AFTER A PICTURE HE HAD SEEN OF A SIMILAR LIFT IN DAVOS, SWITZERLAND.

MEANWHILE, CHARLIE PROCTOR HAD BECOME AN ADVISOR TO AVERELL HARRIMAN, THE RAILROAD MAGNATE WHO WAS DEVELOPING SUN VALLEY.

PROCTOR SAW THE J-BAR IN HANOVER AND RECOMMENDED THE OVERHEAD CABLE DESIGN, BUT WITH A TWIST: A SKIER COULD SIT ON IT UP IN THE AIR!

SUN VALLEY CLAIMED THE FIRST CHAIRLIFT IN THE WORLD A YEAR LATER, IN 1936.

THE YOUNGER PROCTOR HELPED LAY OUT MANY SKI TRAILS IN NEW ENGLAND THAT WERE CUT BY THE CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS.

SEVERAL OF THESE BECAME THE FOUNDATIONS FOR WELL-KNOWN SKI AREAS, SUCH AS THE TAFT TRAIL WHICH GREW INTO CANNON MOUNTAIN; THE WILDCAT TRAIL WHICH BECAME THE WILDCAT SKI AREA; AND THE TECUMSEH TRAIL, WHICH BECAME WATERVILLE VALLEY.

IN THE 1930'S, ONE OF DARTMOUTH'S EARLY SKI EXPLORERS, CARL SHUMWAY, HELPED PERSUADE THE BOSTON & MAINE RAILROAD TO OPERATE "SNOW TRAINS" FROM BOSTON'S NORTH STATION TO VARIOUS SKI HILLS, GIVING SKIERS A LESS STRESSFUL, MORE SOCIAL WAY TO TRAVEL TO THE MOUNTAINS.

A CONSUMMATE MARKETER, HE PROMOTED THE SPORT AT THE WINTERS SPORTS EXPO AT THE BOSTON GARDEN, ONE OF THE FIRST INDOOR SKI SHOWS IN THE COUNTRY.

SHUMWAY'S EFFORTS COMBINED WITH THE INVENTION OF SKI LIFTS, THE CUTTING OF THE CCC TRAILS AND THE MEDIA ATTENTION PAID TO THE 1932 WINTER OLYMPICS AT LAKE PLACID, AT WHICH FRED HARRIS AND PROFESSOR PROCTOR OFFICIATED, ALL HELPED CREATE THE FIRST SKIING BOOM EVEN THOUGH THE COUNTRY WALLOWED UNDER THE WEIGHT OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION.

EIGHT DARTMOUTH SKIERS QUALIFIED FOR THE 1940 WINTER OLYMPICS: DICK DURRANCE, HAROLD HILLMAN, AND ED WELLS IN ALPINE SKIING; DAVID BRADLEY, SEL HANNAH AND THE CHIVERS BROTHERS, HOWARD AND WARREN, IN CROSS- COUNTRY AND NORDIC COMBINED; AND JOHN LITCHFIELD IN SKI JUMPING.

HAROLD HILLMAN WAS CREDITED WITH THE FIRST SKIING DESCENT OF "HILLMAN'S HIGHWAY", IN THE FAMOUS, DAUNTING CIRQUE, TUCKERMAN RAVINE ON MOUNT WASHINGTON.

SEL HANNAH AND JOHN LITCHFIELD WENT ON TO HELP CREATE SOME OF THE MOST WELL- KNOWN SKI AREAS IN THE COUNTRY.

HANNAH AT CANNON MOUNTAIN AND MANY OTHER RESORTS; LITCHFIELD AT SUN VALLEY AND ASPEN.

I WAS BORN AND GREW UP IN THE STATE OF MAINE.

MOST OF THE YOUNG MEN IN MAINE AT THAT TIME, AND THROUGHOUT NEW ENGLAND, IN THE EAST, WERE INTERESTED IN JUMPING.

WE WERE INFORMED BY THE NATIONAL SKI ASSOCIATION THAT THE EXTENT OF THEIR FUNDING COULD ONLY BE $250 PER PERSON.

THE REST HAD TO BE FUNDED BY US INDIVIDUALLY IF WE WISHED TO GO.

QUITE A DIFFERENCE FROM WHAT THE SITUATION IS TODAY.

THOUGH THE 1940 OLYMPIC TEAM WAS ARGUABLY THE GREATEST ASSEMBLY OF SKIING TALENT FROM DARTMOUTH TO BE NAMED TO AN OLYMPIC TEAM, THEY DID NOT COMPETE.

THE OLYMPICS WERE CANCELLED WITH THE ADVENT OF WORLD WAR II.

RATHER THAN OLYMPIC MEDALS, THESE TALENTED, COURAGEOUS MEN EARNED MEDALS OF ANOTHER SORT, MEDALS OF HONOR.

IT WAS A KEY MEMBER OF THE 1940 OLYMPIC TEAM, DAVID BRADLEY, WHO PLAYED A CRUCIAL ROLE IN THE FORMATION OF THE ARMY'S FAMED 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION.

IN FEBRUARY OF 1940, BRADLEY ABANDONED HIS POST-GRADUATE STUDIES AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY TO WORK AS A REPORTER COVERING THE RUSSO-FINNISH WAR.

THE RED ARMY WANTED CONTROL OF THE KARELIAN ISTHMUS, WHICH HAD GREAT STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE, AND HAD LAUNCHED A MASSIVE ATTACK THREE MONTHS EARLIER.

THE WINTER OF 1939 AND '40 WAS ABSOLUTELY ONE OF THE WORST POSSIBLE WINTERS EVER.

MECHANIZED TROOPS DON'T DO WELL IN WINTER.

GENERAL WINTER WAS REALLY ONE OF THE GREAT REASONS THAT THE FINNS DID AS WELL AS THEY DID.

THE SECOND REASON IS THAT THE FINNS WERE BASICALLY DIVVIED UP INTO WHAT WE WOULD NOW PROBABLY CALL SMALL COMMANDO UNITS.

YOU CAN MOVE MUCH MORE SWIFTLY.

THE CHAIN OF COMMAND IS VERY, VERY SIMPLE.

THOSE TWO THINGS IMPRESSED DAVID BRADLEY VERY MUCH.

MEANWHILE MANY KEY FIGURES IN AMERICAN SKIING, INCLUDING MINNIE DOLE, FOUNDER OF THE NATIONAL SKI PATROL, AND ROGER LANGLEY, PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL SKI ASSOCIATION, FEARED THAT IF ENGLAND FELL TO THE NAZI'S, NEW ENGLAND WOULD BE THEIR NEXT TARGET.

NEITHER DOLE NOR LANGLEY WENT TO DARTMOUTH, BUT A NUMBER OF DARTMOUTH SKIERS HAD HELPED DOLE LAY THE FOUNDATION FOR THE NATIONAL SKI PATROL.

AND THE MOST PROMINENT SKI RACERS IN THE UNITED STATES WERE FROM THE DARTMOUTH SKI TEAM, THUS THE CLOSE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE COLLEGE, BRADLEY AND THESE TWO NATIONAL SKI ORGANIZATIONS.

DOLE AND LANGLEY WORRIED, RIGHTFULLY, THAT THE UNITED STATES WOULD BE GROSSLY UNDER-PREPARED AGAINST THE AXIS ARMY'S HIGHLY TRAINED MOUNTAIN INFANTRY.

LANGLEY WROTE TO HENRY STIMSON, U.S. SECRETARY OF WAR, OFFERING THE NATIONAL SKI ASSOCIATION'S SERVICES.

IN A LETTER TO MINNIE DOLE DATED FEBRUARY 18, 1941 , BRADLEY DESCRIBED IN GREAT DETAIL THE TACTICS, EQUIPMENT AND TRAINING TECHNIQUES USED BY THE FINNS.

DOLE MET WITH COMMANDING GENERAL GEORGE MARSHALL, OFFERING TO ORGANIZE A MOUNTAIN DIVISION WITH THE HELP OF THE NATIONAL SKI PATROL.

THE ARMY FINALLY CONSENTED, RECRUITING DICK DURRANCE TO TEACH 200 ELITE PARATROOPERS TO SKI.

THE PARATROOPERS HAD BEEN TAUGHT TO ROLL FORWARD WHEN THEY HIT THE GROUND, BUT WHEN THEY TRIED TO DO THAT ON SNOW, THEY BROKE THEIR LEGS.

THEY BROUGHT A BUNCH OF SOLDIERS OUT TO ALTA TO SEE IF HE COULD TRAIN THEM TO SKI.

AND AT THE END OF THE WINTER THEY DECIDED THEY WERE GOING TO GO LOOKING FOR SKIERS AND TRAIN ‘EM TO SHOOT.

‘CAUSE IT, IT JUST TAKES TOO LONG TO LEARN TO SKI.

ABOUT 120 DARTMOUTH STUDENTS AND FACULTY WERE RECRUITED FOR THE 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION.

DARTMOUTH WAS THE SINGLE LARGEST CONTRIBUTOR OF MANPOWER TO THE U.S.

SKIING TROOPS, AND FILLED MANY OF THE LEADERSHIP POSITIONS.

LIFE MAGAZINE PUBISHED A COVER STORY ON THE 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION, FEATURING DARTMOUTH COACH WALTER PRAGER AMONG THE MOUNTAIN LUMINARIES IN THE SPECIAL UNIT.

WE LEARNED MILITARY SKIING, WHICH IS BASICALLY THE SNOWPLOW, THE STEM TURN, BECAUSE YOU'RE CARRYING 90 LBS OF RUCKSACK.

THE 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION RECRUITS TRAINED AT 9,000 FEET ABOVE SEA LEVEL NEAR PANDO, COLORADO, ABOUT HALFWAY BETWEEN ASPEN AND VAIL, AT A PLACE DUBBED CAMP HALE.

SKI PATROL FILM NARRATOR DESCRIBES TYPES OF SKIERS RECRUITED FOR THE 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION.

DARTMOUTH MEN WERE VERY PROMINENT IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE SKI TROOPS EQUIPMENT WAS BEING TESTED.

OPERATIONS MANUALS WERE BEING WRITTEN.

TRANSPORTATION WAS UNIQUE.

MOTORIZED TOBOGGANS WERE BEING EXPERIMENTED WITH, ALL FORMS OF COMMUNICATION.

DOG TEAMS WERE BEING EXPERIMENTED WITH.

THE 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION SAW NO ACTION FOR MOST OF THE WAR UNTIL CHRISTMAS OF 1944, WHEN THEY WERE RUSHED INTO POSITION IN ITALY'S APPENINE MOUNTAINS.

IF THE 10TH MOUNTAIN TROOPS COULD GAIN CONTROL OF NAZI-HELD MOUNT BELVIDERE, THE U.S. COULD SEAL OFF THE ALPS.

THE PROBLEM WITH CONQUERING BELVIDERE WAS THAT THE NAZI'S HAD AN UNOBSTRUCTED VIEW FROM A HIGH SHOULDER OF THE MOUNTAIN, CODE NAMED "RIVA RIDGE".

IT DOESN'T BECOME REAL UNTIL YOU GO TO THE FRONT.

FEAR BEGINS TO SET IN.

YOU FEEL IT IN YOUR STOMACH.

RIVA RIDGE WAS INCREDIBLE.

‘CAUSE THIS IS A 2200 VERTICAL FEET, AN ESCARPMENT THE GERMANS THOUGHT THAT WE WOULD NEVER TAKE RIVA RIDGE.

GENERAL HAYS KNEW WE WERE GREEN TROOPS.

HE SAID AS GREEN TROOPS, YOUR REACTION IS TO SHOOT AT ANYTHING...

HE KNEW WE SHOULD NOT HAVE AMMUNITION IN OUR RIFLES.

WE WERE LOADED WITH GRENADES.

WE HAD FIXED BAYONETS AND THAT'S COLD STEEL, BABY.

THAT MEANS YOU MAY GET CLOSE TO THE ENEMY.

YOU MAY HAVE TO GUT ‘EM.

SO YOU'RE NOT FEELING TOO HAPPY ABOUT THIS...

SNOW LENT QUIET STEALTH TO THE AMERICANS WHO COURAGEOUSLY CLIMBED THE 2,000-FOOT CLIFF IN ONE OF THE MOST AUDACIOUS FEATS IN THE HISTORY OF MOUNTAIN WARFARE.

A GROUP OF ELITE ALPINISTS INCLUDING DARTMOUTH'S PERCY RIDEOUT MADE IT TO THE TOP OF RIVA RIDGE AT DAWN, OVERCOMING A SERIES OF DEADLY GERMAN ATTACKS.

THE NEXT NIGHT, THE REST OF THE DIVISION QUIETLY CROSSED THE VALLEY AND CLIMBED MOUNT BELVIDERE.

THE FIGHTING WAS FIERCE, HAND-TO-HAND IN THE DARK, BUT BY DAWN, THE AMERICANS CONTROLLED THE MOUNTAIN.

THE MOUNTAIN TROOPS SUFFERED NEARLY 2,000 CASUALTIES BUT SUCCEEDED IN KEEPING THE GERMAN ARMY CONTAINED.

THE SURVIVING MEMBERS OF THE 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION, AS WELL AS DARTMOUTH SKIERS WHO JOINED OTHER PARTS OF THE ARMED FORCES, RETURNED HOME.

SOME TOOK UP THEIR STUDIES AGAIN, BUT A LARGE NUMBER WENT ON TO WORK IN THE DEVELOPING SKI INDUSTRY.

DESPITE THE TRAGEDIES OF WAR, IT WAS THE SKIERS OF THE 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION WHO SET THE STAGE FOR POSTWAR GROWTH AND EXPANSION.

DARTMOUTH ALUMNI WERE OFTEN PRESENT IN POSITIONS OF GREAT INFLUENCE.

FOR EXAMPLE, FRIEDL PFEIFFER FOLLOWED HIS EARLY CAREER IN SUN VALLEY BY BUILDING UP ASPEN HAND IN HAND WITH DARTMOUTH SKIERS LIKE DICK DURRANCE, JOHN LITCHFIELD AND PERCY RIDEOUT.

$250,000 IS WHAT WE FIGURED WE COULD BUILD THE LIFT FOR AND CUT SOME MORE TRAILS AND SO FORTH... STOCK WAS ISSUED.

FRIEDL TOOK HALF BECAUSE HE HAD DONE THE MAJOR PART OF THE WORK AND THAT WAS FINE WITH US.

FRIEDL AND I DID MOST OF THE MANAGING.

I REMEMBER SIGNING PAYROLL CHECKS AND SEEING THAT ALL THE WORKERS ON THE LIFT GOT PAID FRIDAY NIGHT.

AS TIME WENT ON, WE USED OUR SUN VALLEY EXPERIENCE TO GET PEOPLE LIKE GARY COOPER.

HE CAME AND EVENTUALLY BUILT A HOUSE THERE.

GUESTS KNEW EACH OTHER.

THEY KNEW THE SKI INSTRUCTOR.

THEY'D OFTEN COME BACK YEAR AFTER YEAR AND ASK FOR THE SAME SKI INSTRUCTOR.

IT WAS ONE BIG FAMILY.

THERE WAS NOTHING QUITE LIKE THEN IN THE SPORTING FIELD.

PETE SEIBERT WORKED IN ASPEN UNDER DARTMOUTH SKIER DICK DURRANCE, THEN, AFTER SEEKING DICK'S ADVICE, FOUNDED VAIL.

SEIBERT'S LONG-TIME MOUNTAIN MANAGER, SARGE BROWN, WENT TO VAIL AFTER WORKING AS RESERVE OFFICER TRAINING CORP INSTRUCTOR AT DARTMOUTH.

DARTMOUTH SKIER TOM CORCORAN WAS ASSISTANT TO DARCY BROWN, PRESIDENT OF THE ASPEN SKIING CORPORATION, BEFORE FOUNDING WATERVILLE VALLEY AND SERVING ON VAIL'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS.

AND SO IT GOES, AN INTRICATE NETWORK OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD OF SNOW WITH COMMON LINKS TO DARTMOUTH SKIERS.

PETE SEIBERT WAS ON THE SKI PATROL AT ASPEN IN 1954 WHEN I WENT OUT FOR THE NATIONALS AND THE ROCH CUP.

I'D NEVER BEEN ON A DOWNHILL COURSE THAT BIG BEFORE, AND I WASN'T THAT GOOD ANYWAY.

I WAS FLYING OFF THE MINE DUMPS THAT WERE PART OF THE DOWNHILL THEN, FALLING ON THE FLATS.

PETE CAME UP TO ME AT ONE POINT AND SAID, "SON, IF YOU DON'T LEARN HOW TO PRE-JUMP YOU'RE GOING TO KILL YOURSELF".

THAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF A LIFE LONG FRIENDSHIP.

EVEN THOUGH TOM CORCORAN HAD BEEN AN ELITE SKI RACER, HE REALIZED THAT THE GROWTH OF THE SPORT DEPENDED UPON RECRUITING BEGINNERS AND THAT THE BULK OF SKIERS WERE REALLY INTERMEDIATES.

HE WANTED TO MAKE SKIING FUN FOR THEM, NOT SCARY, SO THEY WOULD LIKE THE SPORT AND KEEP COMING BACK.

SEL HANNAH, A MEMBER OF THE CANCELLED 1940 OLYMPIC TEAM AND A POTATO FARMER IN FRANCONIA, NEW HAMPSHIRE, FIGURED PROMINENTLY IN POST-WAR SKI AREA DEVELOPMENT.

HANNAH LAID OUT CANNON MOUNTAIN FOR THE STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE BEFORE THE WAR.

AFTERWARD, HE FOUNDED THE FIRST SKI AREA DESIGN FIRM, SNO-ENGINEERING.

HE WAS AN EARLY CONSERVATIONIST AND INNOVATOR, INTRODUCING EROSION CONTROL ON SKI SLOPES WITH WATERBARS AND OTHER TECHNIQUES WHICH ARE STILL USED TODAY.

HE PERSONALLY WORKED ON THE LAYOUT OF OVER 200 SKI AREAS.

MY PERSONAL MEMORIES OF MY GRANDFATHER IS THIS BIG BURLY GUY WITH A SANTA CLAUS BEARD WHO LOVED TO BE OUTDOORS... "HEY, FRED.

COME ON!"

HE LOVED SKI RACING, LOVED DARTMOUTH AND NEVER WANTED GIRLS TO BE THERE UNTIL HE REALIZED THAT I MIGHT GO THERE.

(LAUGHS) I ALWAYS FOUND IT FUN THAT CANNON MOUNTAIN, WHERE I DID A LOT OF MY SKIING, WAS HIS FIRST SKI AREA HE DESIGNED.

AND WATERVILLE VALLEY, WHERE I GREW UP RACING, ONE OF THE PRIMARY RACING TRAILS WAS CALLED SELS CHOICE BECAUSE THAT WAS REALLY WHERE HE WANTED THE PRIMARY PART OF THE MOUNTAIN TO BE.

HE TOOK ME UP ONCE TO WALK A HILL AND TALK TO ME ABOUT THE DRAINAGE, THE WIND, THE SNOW FLOW.

I REMEMBER HIM LAUGHING AT SOME MOUNTAINS.

HE'S LIKE, "WHY DID THEY CUT DOWN ALL THOSE TREES?

THE WIND'S GOING TO BLOW OFF ALL THE SNOW, AND THE LIFTS AREN'T GOING TO BE ABLE TO RUN."

YOU JUST GET A REAL SENSE WHEN YOU'RE LIVING IN IT, IN ALL ASPECTS OF IT, OF HOW THINGS WORK OUT THERE.

I KNEW THAT I WANTED TO BUILD A SKI RESORT, AND I KNEW THAT IT HAD TO BE IN THE EAST BECAUSE IT WOULD BE LESS EXPENSIVE TO BUILD IN THE EAST, AND I DIDN'T HAVE THAT MUCH MONEY.

I KNEW NEW HAMPSHIRE WELL.

I LOOKED ACROSS NEW HAMPSHIRE AND STUMBLED ACROSS WATERVILLE VALLEY.

IT WAS EXACTLY WHAT I WASLOOKING FOR.

I COULD SEE WHERE THE INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS WERE GOING TO GO IN THE FUTURE, AND I'D HAVE PROXIMITY TO THESE POPULATIONS JUST SOUTH OF US ON THE EAST COAST, AND THAT MADE SENSE.

TOM CORCORAN ATTENDED DARTMOUTH DURING WHAT IS OFTEN CALLED THE SKI TEAM'S "GOLDEN YEARS".

DURING THIS TIME THE TEAM GARNERED NUMEROUS GOLD MEDALS IN COLLEGIATE, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION.

GOING INTO THE '56 OLYMPICS, THERE WERE EIGHT GUYS ON THE MEN'S OLYMPIC ALPINE TEAM, AND FOUR OF ‘EM WERE DARTMOUTH GUYS.

THE GUYS WHO WERE ON THE OLYMPIC ALPINE TEAM WITH ME WERE BILL BECK, WHO WAS THE BEST DOWNHILLER OF OUR GENERATION AND WHO HAD A FIFTH IN THE OLYMPIC DOWNHILL AND THE ARLBERG-KANDAHAR; RALPH MILLER, WHO WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO GO 100 MILES PER HOUR ON SKIS; BROOKIE DODGE WHO WAS 4TH IN THE '56 OLYMPIC SLALOM; AND CHICK IGAYA WHO WAS REALLY THE BEST SKIER OF OUR GENERATION TO GO TO DARTMOUTH.

CHICK SKIED FOR JAPAN.

CORCORAN WAS BUT ONE EXAMPLE OF HOW A DARTMOUTH EDUCATION COMBINED WITH EXCEPTIONAL TALENT AS A SKIER LED TO AN INFLUENTIAL CAREER IN THE SKI INDUSTRY.

NOT EVERY SKI RESORT FOCUSES ON ALPINE SKIING.

THE TRAPP FAMILY LODGE, IN STOWE, VERMONT, WAS THE FIRST DESTINATION NORDIC SKIING RESORT IN THE UNITED STATES.

THE VON TRAPP FAMILY IS MOST FAMOUS FOR THEIR ESCAPE FROM AUSTRIA DURING WORLD WAR II AS DRAMATIZED IN THE BROADWAY MUSICAL AND FEATURE FILM, THE SOUND OF MUSIC.

JOHANNES VON TRAPP GRADUATED FROM DARTMOUTH IN 1963.

HE TOOK OVER RUNNING THE HOTEL AND ADDED THE CROSS-COUNTRY TOURING CENTER WITH THE HELP OF OTHER DARTMOUTH ALUMNI.

MY FATHER, GEORG, ENVISIONED THE FAMILY EARNING A LIVING FARMING HERE, BUT THERE WERE 10 OF US KIDS AND A ROCKY, SLOW GROWING, COLD HILLSIDE FARM IN NORTHERN VERMONT.

THERE WAS NO WAY IT WAS GOING TO SUPPORT US.

WHEN THE SKI INDUSTRY BEGAN TO GROW ON MT.

MANSFIELD, WE STARTED TAKING GUESTS.

WHILE WE WERE AWAY PERFORMING, THE GUESTS STAYED IN OUR ROOMS.

IN THE ‘60S, PEOPLE WERE NOT SO INTERESTED IN THE LODGE EXPERIENCE.

OUR OCCUPANCY BEGAN TO SUFFER HERE.

AT DARTMOUTH I HAD A NORWEGIAN ROOMMATE.

WE'D COME BACK HERE, PUT OUR CROSS-COUNTRY SKIS ON, AND GO ON THE MILES OF LOGGING ROADS AND HAVE A GREAT TIME.

I THOUGHT THAT THERE MIGHT BE A MARKET FOR THIS IF IT WERE PRESENTED PROPERLY.

AND THE PROGRAM HAS GROWN TO WHAT IT IS NOW, WHICH IS A MAJOR CROSS- COUNTRY DESTINATION.

I ALWAYS KNEW WHEN I GREW UP THAT I WOULD COME BACK TO THE FAMILY BUSINESS YOU HAVEN'T GROWN UP YET, SON AND I'LL COME FULLY INTO THE BUSINESS ONE OF THESE DAYS, BUT IN THE MEANTIME, MY DAD REALLY ENCOURAGED ME AFTER DARTMOUTH TO HAVE MY OWN EXPERIENCES.

SO I TAUGHT SKIING IN ASPEN AND SOUTH AMERICA.

'HAD A LOT OF GREAT ADVENTURES.

MY DAD STARTED TO CALL ME UP AND SAY, "WHEN ARE YOU GOING TO COME BACK AND HELP OUT?"

IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, I SAID, "SAM, IF YOU DON'T COME HOME SOON, I'M GOING TO SELL THE PLACE."

(LAUGH.)

SKIING IS A LIFESTYLE, A CULTURE, THAT COMBINES A LOVE OF THE OUTDOORS WITH THE SENSATION OF GLIDING ON SNOW.

IT'S AN INDUSTRY BECAUSE PEOPLE MAKE MONEY AT IT, YET THE BUSINESS OF SKIING IS VERY MUCH GROUNDED IN A PASSION FOR SNOW.

REAL ESTATE DEVELOPMENT, I THINK, HAS CONTRIBUTED TO THAT GROWTH BECAUSE IT'S ENABLED THE RESORTS TO HAVE A GREAT DEAL MORE ASSETS IN TERMS OF THE ABILITY TO BUILD, NOT JUST LIFTS, BUT TO BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE WHICH PERMITTED THEM TO EXPAND.

WHAT I THINK REAL ESTATE DID, IS, IT MADE A LOT OF SKI AREAS IN SKI RESORTS.

IT WAS IMPORTANT TO THE SKIERS TO BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE IN REAL ESTATE BECAUSE IT ENABLED THEM TO BECOME PART OF THE EQUITY SPIRAL, IF YOU MAY, AND THEY HAD A PIECE OF THE PIE.

THEY BECAME A PART OF THE RESORT ITSELF BY OWNING REAL ESTATE.

DIANE BOYER IS YET ANOTHER DARTMOUTH ALUM WHO HAS HELPED SHAPED SKIING AS WE KNOW IT.

BOYER MATRICULATED SHORTLY AFTER THE COLLEGE BECAME CO-ED IN 1972.

A MOGUL SKIER, SHE NEVER COMPETED FOR THE COLLEGE, BUT SKIING IS IN HER BLOOD.

TODAY, SHE IS THE PRESIDENT OF SKEA, A FASHIONABLE BRAND OF HIGH-END WOMEN'S SKIWEAR.

IN 2005, SHE BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN TO SERVE AS CHAIR OF SNOWSPORTS INDUSTRIES AMERICA, OR S-I-A, THE NATIONAL TRADE ASSOCIATION FOR SKIING'S GEAR, APPAREL AND ACCESSORIES.

WHEN I WENT ONTO THE BOARD OF SIA, THERE WERE FIVE DARTMOUTH GRADUATES ON THE BOARD.

IT BECAME SORT OF A JOKE FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE ORGANIZATION WHEN WE WERE MAKING DECISIONS.

HE'D SAY, "WHAT DOES THE DARTMOUTH BRAIN TRUST THINK?"

OTHER DARTMOUTH GRADUATES HAVE INFLUENCED WHAT WE WEAR ON THE SLOPES.

IN 1914, JOHN PIANE ORGANIZED THE FIRST SKI SHOP CALLED THE DARTMOUTH COOP, WHICH EXISTS TODAY THOUGH IT NO LONGER SELLS SKI GEAR.

HAROLD HIRSCH FOUNDED THE FIRST SIGNIFICANT SKI CLOTHING BRAND, WHITE STAG.

LANE DWINELL, THE FORMER GOVERNOR OF NEW HAMPSHIRE, OWNED PROFILE SKIWEAR; STEVE CRISAFULLI DEVELOPED SLALOM SPORTSWEAR, AND LATER, BOGNER'S SKI AND SPORTSWEAR BUSINESS IN NORTH AMERICA; HOWARD HEAD DID NOT ATTEND DARTMOUTH, BUT HE SOUGHT THE INPUT OF THE MANY PROMINENT SKIERS AT THE COLLEGE WHILE DEVELOPING THE FIRST METAL SKI.

LATER, A NUMBER OF HEAD'S KEY EMPLOYEES, CONSULTANTS AND SALES PEOPLE WERE DARTMOUTH GRADUATES.IT WAS DARTMOUTH ALUMNUS RICK ISAACSON, ONE OF THE FIRST EMPLOYEES OF THE INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT GROUP, WHO MATCHED SKI HERO JEAN CLAUDE KILLY WITH HEAD, WHICH RESULTED IN THE HEAD-KILLY SKI, ONE OF THE TOP SELLING SKIS OF THE 1970S.

IN ADDITION TO CREATING THE SKI RESORTS AND OTHER SKI-RELATED BUSINESSES, DARTMOUTH SKIERS HAVE AVIDLY PROMOTED THEIR ENTHUSIASM FOR THEIR CHOSEN SPORT.

ROB WALSH, A 4X PARALYMPIAN IN NORDIC AND BIATHLON, WAS DIAGNOSED AT AN EARLY AGE WITH HEREDITARY MACULAR DEGENERATION, LEGALLY BLIND, HE HAD NEVER COMPETED IN SKIING BEFORE HE CAME TO DARTMOUTH.

THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY SKI CAREER WAS THE 1988 PARA- OLYMPICS.

I REMEMBER GOING TO JOHN MORTON, BEING AN OLYMPIAN HIMSELF, AND ASKING HIM FOR ADVICE ABOUT HOW TO ADJUST TO TIME ZONES AND HOW TO DEAL WITH THE CULTURE.

AS I WALKED OUT OF THE LOCKER THAT AFTERNOON, HE SAID, "BY THE WAY, BRING HOME SOME HARDWARE."

I FELT PRETTY PROUD OF THE FACT THAT I COULD CALL HIM UP FROM AUSTRIA AND SAY, "HEY.

WE'RE COMING HOME WITH SOME GOLD".

IT WAS PRETTY SPECIAL.

AT DARTMOUTH THEY TRY NOT TO TRAIN SKIERS JUST TO BE SUCCESSFUL AT NEXT WEEK'S CARNIVAL OR THIS YEAR'S NCAAS.

THEIR FOCUS IS TO TRY TO TRAIN ATHLETES TO BE SUCCESSFUL ON THE BIGGER STAGE.

IN THE 1950S, ANOTHER DARTMOUTH GRADUATE, LARRY JUMP, THE FOUNDER OF ARAPAHOE BASIN, WAS AMONG THE EARLY LEADERS IN ADAPTIVE SKIING.

IN THE 1970'S, METHODS OF TEACHING ADAPTIVE SKIING BASED ON SPECIFIC DISABILITIES WERE PERFECTED AT WINTER PARK BY DARTMOUTH SKIER, STEVE BRADLEY, AND HIS TEAM.

ONE OF THE REASONS WHY IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT WE SUPPORT THIS ELITE LEVEL OF SKIER IS BECAUSE THEY BECOME A ROLE MODEL FOR ALL ADAPTIVE PEOPLE WHO LOOK AND SAY, WOW, CAN THEY DO THAT?

THE PARALYMPIC GAMES ALWAYS TAKE PLACE RIGHT AFTER THE OLYMPIC GAMES.

SAME DOWNHILL AS BODIE, DARREN RALVES, THE HERMANATOR SKIED.

THEY SKIED 90% OF THE COURSE.

SIXTY-FIVE MILES AN HOUR.

ONE LEG... OR THEY DID IT IN THEIR SITTING POSITION IN THEIR SLED.

THAT KIND OF ATHLETICISM, THAT KIND OF COURAGE IS REALLY INSPIRATIONAL TO THE BROADER BASE OF DISABLED PEOPLE.

DIANA GOLDEN, WHO LOST HER LOWER LEG TO CANCER AS A CHILD, WAS ARGUABLY THE GREATEST ADAPTIVE SKIER OF ALL TIME.

AN OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST WHO BECAME A MOTIVATIONAL SPEAKER, HER WORDS AND ACTIONS OPENED THE DOOR FOR HUNDREDS OF OTHER DISABLED SKIERS TO COMPETE ON THE WORLD STAGE, AND ENCOURAGED THOUSANDS OF OTHER PEOPLE, DISABLED IN MILITARY COMBAT, AT BIRTH, IN CAR ACCIDENTS, FROM SPORT-RELATED INJURIES, AND A HOST OF OTHER TRAUMATIC EVENTS, TO FIND FREEDOM ON THE SLOPES.

DIANA HAD ONLY ONE LEG, BUT SHE WAS STRONG OF BODY, AND SHE WAS STRONG OF MIND, AND SHE WAS STRONG OF SPIRIT.

SHE WAS A REMARKABLE PERSON, AND SHE WAS A LEADER.

THERE WAS TIME WHEN SHE SKIED WITH THE PEOPLE ON THE ABLE- BODIED U S TEAM, AND COACHES SAID THAT SHE HELD THE BEST LINE THROUGH A GS OF ANYBODY ON THE HILL.

THAT WAS WITH ONE LEG.

WE HAD A WHAT THEY CALLED THE SKI TEAM OLYMPICS, FIRST WORKOUT IN THE FALL DOWN AT THE STADIUM INTENTIONALLY TO TRY TO WEED OUT PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT THEY MIGHT LIKE TO BE ON THE SKI TEAM BUT REALLY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS ALL ABOUT.

THREE OR FOUR OF US COACHES WERE STANDING AROUND.

THE ATHLETES WERE DOING MULTIPLE SPRINTS UP THE WEST STADIUM, AND THIS GAL CAME HOPPING ACROSS THE FIELD ON CRUTCHES, AND SHE SAID, "IS THIS THE SKI TEAM PRACTICE?

AND, I'M GONNA GET CHOKED UP.

WE SAID, ""YEAH."

AND SHE SAID, "I WANT TO GO OUT FOR SKIING."

SO WE SAID, "WELL, OKAY."

TOOK HER CRUTCHES OFF AND WENT UP WITH EVERYBODY ELSE, HOPPING ON ONE LEG.

IT WAS DIANA GOLDEN.

SHE WAS THE FIRST DARTMOUTH SKIER TO WIN A GOLD MEDAL IN THE OLYMPICS.

IN CALGARY.

IT WAS A PROFOUND MOMENT.

BOY, IF IT STAYS LIKE THIS, IT'S JUST LIKE PLAYING IN HEAVEN.

YOU CAN'T BEAT IT!

DARTMOUTH SKIERS HAVE BEEN AMONG THE MOST INFLUENTIAL WHEN IT COMES TO BRINGING THE BEST POWDER, THE MOST SPECTACULAR SCENERY AND THE MOST DRAMATIC LINES TO THE REST OF THE SKIING WORLD, BEGINNING WITH THE LEGENDARY DICK DURRANCE.

DURRANCE MAY HAVE SKIED FAST, HELPED TRAIN THE MOUNTAIN TROOPS AND BUILT SKI AREAS, BUT HIS SKI FILMS BECAME AS MUCH A PASSION FOR HIM AS THE ACT OF SKIING ITSELF.

IN 1940, DICK DURRANCE CREATED "SUN VALLEY SKI CHASE", IN WHICH HE PARODIED THE LANDMARK GERMAN MOUNTAIN FILM OF THE EARLY 1930'S, "DER WEISS RAUSCH", "WHITE ECSTACY", BY ARNOLD FANCK.SUN VALLEY SKI CHASE FEATURED MANY DARTMOUTH SKIERS WHO WERE IN SUN VALLEY AT THE TIME DUE TO THE CANCELATION OF THE OLYMPICS THAT YEAR.

THREE DECADES LATER, ROGER BROWN AND BARRY CORBET WERE AMONG THE MANY GENERATIONS OF DARTMOUTH SKIERS TO CONTRIBUTE IN SIGNIFICANT WAYS TO THE VISUAL PORTRAYAL OF SKIING WITH FILMS SUCH AS "MOEBIUS FLIP" AND "SKI THE OUTER LIMITS".

SOUNDTRACK FROM "MOEBIUS FLIP" MIXES INTO OPENING SOUNDTRACK FROM "SKI THE OUTER LIMITS".

YOU WANT THE SLOW MOTION STORY.

OH, THAT'S A GREAT STORY FILM SOUNDTRACK AS SKIER DOES A FLIP INTO CORBETT'S COULOIR.

AS WE GOT INTO SHOOTING STUFF WITH THE FREESTYLE GUYS, PARTICULARLY AERIAL ACROBATICS, THEN IT WAS PERFECT 'CAUSE WE COULD HANG 'EM UP IN THE AIR FOREVER, 16 SECONDS OF SCREEN TIME FOR 1 SECOND OF ACTION.

SO WE INTRODUCED THAT.

NARRATION FROM MOEBIUS FLIP, "THE FORMS ARE MANY AND VARIED " WITHOUT THE IMAGERY TO INTRIGUE OTHERS WITH THE MAJESTY OF THE MOUNTAINS AND THE ZEN OF GLIDING DOWN UNTRACKED SNOW, PERHAPS SKIING WOULD NOT HAVE STRUCK THE CORD WITH THE PUBLIC THAT IT HAS.

MANY DARTMOUTH SKIERS HAVE HELPED POPULARIZE THE SPORT WITH THEIR WRITTEN WORDS, PHOTOGRAPHS AND FILMS.

PHOTOGRAPHERS SUCH AS JOHN RUSSELL DEFINED SKI PHOTOGRAPHY IN THE 1970S AND 80S.

ANYONE WHO PICKED UP A COPY OF SKI MAGAZINE, SKI RACING, OR AN AD FOR A MAJOR SKI BRAND SAW THE ACTION THROUGH RUSSELL'S IMAGES.

DOZENS OF DARTMOUTH SKIERS HAVE ALSO APPEARED ON THE PAGES OF VARIOUS SKIING PUBLICATIONS AND IN BOOKS TEACHING PEOPLE HOW TO SKI BETTER, BOTH IN ALPINE AND CROSS-COUNTRY.

FOR EXAMPLE JOHN CALDWELL, A MEMBER OF THE DARTMOUTH SKI TEAM AND THE 1952 OLYMPIC TEAM, WROTE A BOOK, CALLED SIMPLY, "THE CROSS- COUNTRY SKI BOOK".

IT SOLD OVER A HALF-MILLION COPIES AND IS CREDITED WITH FUELING THE EXPLOSIVE GROWTH OF NORDIC SKIING IN THE 1970'S.

SOME DARTMOUTH SKIERS OBTAINED A CELEBRITY STATUS FOR AN AMAZING FEAT ON SKIS, SUCH AS BILL BRIGGS WHO MADE THE FIRST SKIING DESCENT DOWN THE GRAND TETON, LAUNCHING THE MODERN ERA OF EXTREME SKIING.

LISA DENSMORE SKI TIP.

TELEVISION PRODUCERS AND HOSTS SUCH AS LISA DENSMORE AND PAUL HOCHMAN, ; JAMIE MEISELMAN, FOUNDING EDITOR OF TRANSWORLD SNOWBOARDING MAGAZINE; RICK KAHL, EDITOR IN CHIEF OF SKIING MAGAZINE; AND JOHN DOSTAL, SENIOR EDITOR OF BACKCOUNTRY MAGAZINE AND A LONG-TIME CONTRIBUTOR TO A NUMBER OF OTHER SKIING PUBLICATIONS, ARE AMONG A NUMBER OF DARTMOUTH ALUMNI WHO HAVE PLAYED PROMINENTLY IN THE SKI AND SNOWBOARDING MEDIA, NOT TO MENTION CHARLOTTE MOATS, ONE OF THE STARS OF BIG MOUNTAIN SKIING IN FILMS BY TETON GRAVITY RESEARCH AND WARREN MILLER.

THEIR WORDS AND EYE CANDY HAVE CONTINUED TO NUTURE A PASSION FOR SNOW AMONG THE GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE 1980S, 90S AND INTO THE 21ST CENTURY.

ROBERT FROST, ONE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST POETS, WAS A MEMBER OF THE DARTMOUTH CLASS OF 1896, ABOUT THE TIME THE FIRST SKIS SHOWED UP AT THE COLLEGE.

FROST INCLUDED THE WORD "SNOW" IN MANY OF HIS POEMS, INCLUDING ONE CALLED, "SNOW DUST": THE WAY A CROW SHOOK DOWN ON ME THE DUST OF SNOW FROM A HEMLOCK TREE HAS GIVEN MY HEART A CHANGE OF MOOD AND SAVED SOME PART OF A DAY I HAD RUED.

MOST STUDENTS SPEND A MERE FOUR YEARS IN COLLEGE, YET THOSE FOUR YEARS OFTEN LEAD TO A LIFETIME PURSUIT.

IN THE CASE OF DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, STUDENTS HAVE MANY CHOICES OF CAREER PATH.

LUCKILY MANY HAVE TAKEN ONE COVERED WITH SNOW.

THE THOUGHT OF DOING A BACK FLIP IS STILL SLIGHTLY TERRIFYING.

THERE'S LIKE THIS WEIGHTLESSNESS IN THE AIR, AND THEN YOU LAND AGAIN, AND IT'S BACK TO THE TURNS.

SKIING'S A KIND OF HIGH FORM OF DANCE.

JUST STANDING IN THE START KNOWING THAT YOU'LL BE GOING 80 MILES AN HOUR, THAT'S WHAT PUSHES THE ADRENALIN.

YOU KEEP GOING FASTER AND FASTER AND FASTER, AND AFTER A WHILE, YOU WONDER, "HOW IN THE HELL AM I GOING TO STOP?"

THE PASSION IS WHAT YOU FEEL IN YOUR HEART WHEN YOU SKI.

IT SETS YOU FREE.

I JUST ABSOLUTELY LOVE MOUNTAINS.

I LOVE SNOW.

I LOVE TO SKI.

DARTMOUTH AIRES HUMMING.

CONTINUE MUSIC TO END.

IT SEEMS THAT SKIERS AT DARTMOUTH FEEL PART OF A BIGGER FAMILY PROPELLED BY A FORCE, OR MAYBE THEY ARE ALL JUST A LITTLE BIT CRAZY.

AFTERALL, SNOW WILL DO THAT TO YOU AFTER A WHILE.