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Skiing has a history of almost five millennia. Although modern skiing has evolved from beginnings in Scandinavia, it may have been practiced as early as 600 BC in what is now China. The word ski is one of a handful of words Norway has exported to the international community.
After the war, those veterans built alpine ski areas from New England to Wisconsin to Colorado, the Sierras and the Pacific Northwest. I had the good fortune to have met many of those U.S. skiing pioneers early in my career. They are all long-since gone, but the memory of them is not.