Newspaper Clippings
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The following newspaper articles provide a historical overview of the development of the post-WWII Colorado Ski Industry and the impact that the members of the 10th Mtn. Division played in the process.
Ski Industry
- Camp Hale To Be Permanent Army Post - September 20, 1944 (
284 KB) - Colorandans Protest Abandonment - May 21, 1944 ( 448 KB)
- Forest Service Puts Ski Tow to Public Use - June 21, 1945 ( 152 KB)
- Forest Service Buys Army's Ski Tow -August 20, 1945 ( 215 KB)
- Famed Army Ski Tow Opened For Civilians - June 29, 1945 ( 165 KB)
- Cooped Hill ski course to handle 1000 in future - February 22, 1946 ( 182 KB)
- Leadville Skiing Perfect - Even if You Fall Through - March 22, 1946 ( 323 KB)
- Money Fever is Running in Aspen Again - March 14, 1946 ( 1,018 KB)
- Aspen proves Claim As Top Sports Center - January 14, 1947 ( 241 KB)
- The longest Ski lift in the World - 1947 ( 846 KB)
- Aspen Winter Center was Formerly Dedicated Sunday- January 13,1947 ( 1,417 KB)
- Pfeifer Named Coach Of Women's Ski Team - September 20, 1949 ( 182 KB)
- Ski Boom Reported In Aspen - March 6, 1957 ( 184 KB)
- Friedl Pfeifer Man Behind Aspens's Rise - December 18, 1960 ( 455 KB)
- 3-Area Aspen Complex showed 40 percent increase - October 31, 1965 ( 308 KB)
- Businessmen see $-Signs on Slopes - October 31, 1965 ( 349 KB)
- Past Decades Has Seen Aspen Ski Center Grow Tenfold - December7, ? ( 1,011 KB)
- Ski Cooper Plans Entangled (n/a) ( 364 KB)
- The Colorado Ski Industry - An overview - 1980 ( 1,028 KB)
- Skiing Business Third-Biggest For Colorado - December 10, 1982 ( 377 KB)
- Study shows It's $1 Billion Bonus - December 10, 1982 ( 220 KB)
- Colorado Future Ski 200s - 1991-1992 ( 198 KB)
- Sports and Adventure - January 22, 1993 ( 239 KB)
- '96-'97 Season Sets Ski Record - May 29, 1997 (282 KB)
- Vail Ski area No. 1 on Continent - September 13, 2000 ( 244 KB)
- State ski industry a peak producer - April 1, 2004 ( 361 KB)
Hut-to-Hut Trail System
- 10th Mountain Division Trail in Colorado - 2nd Quarter, 1982 ( 936 KB)
- 10th Mountain Trail Open - 1st Quarter, 1983 ( 653 KB)
- Old Soldiers Ski The 10th Trail - May 28, 1984 ( 962 KB)
- Hut System To Circle Wilderness - February 1989 ( 754 KB)
- Fowler Hilliard Hut (n/a) ( 607 KB)Fowler Hilliard Hut (n/a) ( 607 KB)
- Fowler Hilliard Hut (n/a) ( 607 KB)
