Re: skis and skies

"lal truckee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> David Dermott wrote:
>
> >   Oh, also there's "Snowshoe Thompson" which really should be "Ski
> > Thompson" (he carried mail across the Sierra Nevada, 1870s)
> > (real name Jon Torsteinson Rue, born 1825 in Tinn, Telemark)
>
> The ski racers in the 1860s California mining camps called their ski
> "snowshoes" so "Snowshoe Thompson" was appropriately named. First
> big-money ski racing - $1000s exchanged hands (in the form of gold dust,
> often.)

Those miner snowshoers kicked Thompson's ass but good, too.

At the top of Carson Pass on Hwy 88 is a stone obelisk dedicated to Snowshoe
Thompson. Carson Pass is at the foot of Red Lake Peak. This was the first
documented mountain "climbed by a white man" in the Sierra Nevada, by John
Fremont and his map maker Pruess. Also the first sighting of Lake Bigler
(later to be renamed Tahoe).

I routinely ski Red Lake Peak a few times a year. Pretty easy to get in two
or more runs on this mountain. In doing so I am following in some HUGE snow
prints! It pleases me to think of such things as I skin up to the summit for
the 2000' ride back down.

John Fremont was a question on Jeopardy last night. The answer? He was the
first person to run for president as a Republican. I knew the answer and my
wife just sort of looked at me, like, how in the Hell does a Tennessee boy
know something like that.

It's all in the skis. And the love I have for this mountain range.

Huh?

Sorry!

I digress.

I'll stick with "skis" thanks. Reminds me of the rocket scientist who
insisted the correct pronunciation of Tuolumne is "Two Ah Loom Nay." He may
be right... but he's still an moron for using it! Everyone knows its "Two
Awl O Me"

Rambling on...

DMT