Echo of the Peaks: An Early History of Skiing in Northern Arizona

Skiing in Arizona? Cactus, desert views and the Grand Canyon, but snow covered mountains and skiing?

Echoes of the Peaks is a story of Arizona's ski pioneers as told by several of Flagstaff's early skiers. Enjoy the anecdotes of skiers who helped develop one of the longest continually run ski resorts in the United States, Arizona Snowbowl. Through their stories you'll feel the camaraderie of the ski community and nostalgia for those past days when skiing was new and fresh and everyday was an adventure.

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[MrEthos7]

I think they left out about a million people. The story seems to echo the Snowbowl and USFS rhetoric used in court to compare a "ski culture" with Indigenous cultures that are thousands of years old.

[karenfurr]

Add to that, investigating the taxpayers funding infrastructure so that a few business people can have a source of reclaimed sewer water for a new golf course at the base of the mountain.

[karenfurr]

Whatever the history of skiing in Flagstaff, the issues facing skiing today are complex. What had begun as a sport that attracted a few has been promoted into a business that attracts very many today. I would like to see some investigative reporting on the origins of the current degradation of the peaks through clear cutting of old growth forest to covering hundreds of acres with contaminated sewer water.