Dartmouth’s Passion for Snow, a documentary to be released in the fall of 2012, explores the incredible contributions Dartmouth skiers have made to the sport and the snow sports industry at large. Clearly, if a life in skiing is your goal, tucking a diploma from Big Green will open some doors.
Watch the full trailer, it’s full of interesting Dartmouth skiing data. For those stretched for time…
Skip to 2:56 / 3:18 to hear Newc Eldredge 55′ 10th Mountain Division Stud talk about skiing with a 90 lb rucksack and the possibility of “gutting the enemy with the cold steel of a bayonet”
Skip to 4:17 to view a real skiers slalom course
Skip to 6:47 to see perhaps the first slow motion front into Corbetts caught on film
Ski areas founded / managed by Dartmouth Grads:
Sun Valley, Aspen, Vail, Keystone, Telluride, Copper Mountain, Sunday River, Wildcat, Shawnee Peak, The Loaf, Killington, Waterville Valley, Alta and Alyeska
The Loaf
Dartmouth skiers routinely crush their competition having racked up over 250 individual collegiate, national and international champions. Influential Dartmouth skiers include:
Dick Durrance 17 time national champion. Instrumental in bringing the 1950 World Championships to Aspen which put Aspen on the map as a destination for skiers from across the globe.
Dick Durrance laying it down
Brooks Dodge An early pioneer in the free skiing movement, Brooks convinced CMS founder Hans Gmoser that flying skiers to untracked powder was a good idea. Next time you get dropped off at the top of a peak in a heli (hopefully soon), give Brooks a nod!
1960's Heli Drop
Ralph Miller First to ski over 100 miles per hour. Ralph accomplished this feat in 1955, I repeat 1955!!! Imagine the gear he was on when this went down.
Ralph Miller staring at 100 MPH
Andrew Weibrecht Vancouver Olympic Super G Broze medalist, currently enrolled at Dartmouth.
Next gate please!
Hannah Kierney 15′ Got her start at the Dartmouth Ski Way, Big Green’s home hill, and went on to win gold in moguls at the 2010 Olympics.
green and GOLD
Charlotte Moats Dartmouth Grad, Globetrotting Freeskier who can claim numerous AK first descents and first rate movie appearances. Now a Wharton B school attendee who is still way better than you!
Charlotte Moats, way better than you!
Dartmouth and the 10th Mountain Division
Over 120 students and faculty from Dartmouth enlisted as part of 10th Mountain Division in the run up to World War II. Activated in 1943, the 10th Mountain Division fought in the mountains of Italy in some of the roughest terrain in the country. These guys were bad ass…
10th Mountain Statue at Stowe Mountain Resort
Looking forward to the full release of this documentary. Amazing what passionate skiers from an Ivy League school can accomplish!!
Sugarloafer for Life! why is it up side down.
Learned to ski at the Loaf back in ’76. Still have great memories of the Bunny Hill…
I think the up side down sticker had something to do with the practice of illicit activities on the old yellow gondola. Any Loafers out there know the rest of the story?
RIght.. the east coast is the best place to become a professional ski bum…. Just do us a favor and stay out there eh?
“Clearly, if a life in skiing is your goal, tucking a diploma from Big Green will open some doors.” sounds like an expensive east coast fraternized private college for spoiled rich kids. not ski bums. eff that shit
Stan, your comment makes you sound stupid. I wasn’t rich but I went to Dartmouth and I’m way better than you.
April fools day is still a few days away though. Haha. If you have a VT sticker on yer car on the west coast, please go back.
HAHAHA Fartmouth, its a good place to get bro raped at a frat, and then ski the shwags that is new hampshire
Wo there bozo. Dartmouth is for queas. Agreed. New Hampshire on the other hand is bad ass and so are the White Mountains. Tuckermans? Cannon, Wildcat, Loon, and Waterville. Not to mention Ragged, Tenney…..Gunstock? Ha ha enjoy Deer Valley chump
Had some good hetero last night – you’re Mom’s ass. Just sayin’
that pic of dick durrance..whoever the*that guy is…is pretty awesome.
Bill Briggs went to D in 1951
Andrew Whiteford: UVM
Do a story on Middlebury. Then we’ll talk. Midd’s snowbowl kicks Dartmouth Ski Way’s ass.
spelled dartmouth wrong like ten times. SMOOTH
you’re an idiot.
NERDS!!!
we had a good hill at unh
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvgeHqqzqJ4
BIG GREEN!!!!!
A. They’ve got an Unofficial mascot.
B. It’s an anthropomorphic keg: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keggy_the_Keg
http://secure.skimuseum.org/catalog/images/gs1937.jpg
this article only touches on the influence that Dartmouth People have had on skiing…
they also held some of the first collegiate races on Tuckerman’s ravine in the 1930s. see above link to the famous photo of this races, held in pretty rugged conditions.
recently dartmouth students have started to recreate a race on tuckerman’s each spring, which is a pretty rad event.
also, in 2010 8 dartmouth students or alumni represented the US or Canada at the olympics in vancouver (although some of those either were nordic skiers)..
And Tommy Ford, current Dartmouth student, just won his 7th National Championship! Gooooooo Tommy!