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Skiing has been around since, literally, the •stone ages. Evidence of skiing in the cold climates of Northern Russia and Scandi-navia has been found that shows the in-genuity of people for transportation and hunting.So, if you are won-•dering which came first,AlpineorNor-dic skiing? It would have to be Nordic. Foryouflatlanders,Nordic is cross-country skiing, much like walking except your shoes are skis; Alpineis when you are heading downhill on a mountain! Skis were developed to helppeoplemoveacrossthesnowonflatsurfaces.Later,the“Alpinemode”wasin-troduced for sliding down mountain sides.ThefirstwinterOlympics,heldin1924in•Chamonix, France, included ski jumping, cross-country skiing and Nordic combined skiing. American Anders Haugen, origi-nally fromNorway,was theoldestOlym-pianthereatage35.Hecompetedinskijumping, but was not awarded his bronze medaluntil50yearslater!Ascoringerrorwas found by a Norwegian sports historian in1974.Skiing for sport came about in the early •1700sinNorway.TheTelemarkandChris-tiana (the Christie) turns were started in the Telemark area of Norway as methods for controlling speed on downhill descents. Norwegian Sondre Norheim is considered •the father of Telemark skiing. In the late 1800swhenskiingwasbecomingaformof recreation, he popularized the style of turn where one ski is in front of the other and the heel is raised on the rear ski, with a bent knee position. There was resur-gence in popularity of Telemark skiing in the1960swhenmorepeoplerecognizedtheexercisebenefitsofthesport.

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program.Jackrabbit became wealthy from his sales •ability but lost it all during the “Great De-pression.”He said, “Itwasa fineexperi-encetomakealotofmoney,”but“thenIlost italland thatwasafineexperience,too!” He started hunting and fishing forfood for his family and had more time to enjoy the abilities he had learned as a childinNorway.Heskieduntilhewas106yearsold!HewasinductedintoCanada’sSportsHall of Fame and returned to hisnative Norway before passing away at age 111.

DOWNHILL! (continued)Telemarking is an old snow sport but have •you ever seen a “Snurfer?” It was thepredecessor to the snowboard. Sherman Poppen of Muskegon, Michigan came up with the fun invention for his daughters in 1965.HereceivedaTrannyAwardin1995for lifetime achievement in the snowboard-ing industry. Inthelate1970sandearly80s,JakeBur-•ton Carpenter and Dimitrije Milovich are credited with catapulting snowboarding to the extremely popular sport that it is to-day. Fewer than 10%ofU.S. ski resortsallowedsnowboarding in1983.By1997,few resorts excluded it. Now accepted worldwide, it is the fastest growing winter sportintheU.S.andCanada.

Youmayknowthattheworld’sfirstchair-•lift for downhill skiing was operated in Sun Valley, Idaho, but did you know that it was invented by a railroad company? This railroad company invention happened in Omaha,Nebraska,notinthemountainsoftheU.S.,CanadaorEurope.Now, why would a railroad company invent •askilift?UnionPacificRailroadChairmanW.A.Harrimanwasavisionarycapitalist.Duringthe1930shesawagrowinginter-est in winter sports and wanted a ski area thattheUPrailroadcouldserve.HarrimanhiredCountFelixSchaffgotsch,•anAustrianskier,tofindtheideallocationfor skiing.TheCount foundanarea100milesnortheastofBoise,Idahointhewin-terof1935 thathesaid “combinesmoredelightful features than any place I have seenintheUnitedStates,SwitzerlandorAustria, for a winter sports resort.” Thisarea became Sun Valley.ThetestingoftheskiliftinOmahainvolved•attaching the lift to the side of a truck with engineers wearing roller skates! They de-

termined that a comfortable speed to pick upanddropoffskierswasfourtofivemilesperhour(6.44-8.05km/hr).Harrimanwasnotonlyresponsibleforde-•veloping the alpine skiing destination at Sun Valley, but also a premium Nordic ski-ingareaineasternIdahoknownasHarri-man State Park. The park is a former rail-road ranch that has great trails for cross country skiing in winter and biking, hiking and horseback riding in warmer months. Today, detachable chairlifts are made that •go faster while in the air but slow down when skiers are getting either on or off the lift.Wouldn’tthoserollerskatingengineersbe amazed! Chairlifts exist now that can carrysixpeopleinonechair.Also,gondo-las and trams have come on the scene, basically rooms suspended from cables hoisting skiers to mountain summits. The goal, of course, is to get people to the tops of mountains faster so they can slide down and do it again!AlotofearlyskienthusiastsintheU.S.and•CanadahadNorwegianroots.“Snowshoe”Thompson was a mailman in the high Si-erra Mountains of California and Nevada who delivered the mail from 1856-1876.Hedidn’twearsnowshoes;ratherheworeself-made cross country skis that were nearly ten feet (3 m) long. Quite the hero in skiing history, he delivered the mail with-out compensation!Now, another man credited with bring-•ingthesportofskiingtoNorthAmericaisHerman “Jackrabbit” Smith-Johannsen.He started skiing in Norway at age two.Afterobtaininganengineeringdegreehebecame a heavy machinery salesman in Cleveland,Ohio in1899.HemadesalescallsinCanadaandwasthrilledtofindlotsofsnowlikehisnativeNorway!Hemovedhis family to the Laurentian Mountain area ofQuebec.Heiscreditedwithdevelopingcross country ski trails in Canada and is thenamesakeforthe“Jackrabbit”League,Canada’snationalyouthcross-countryski

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Thosewho’vebeenoutinthejobworldfora number of years already know certain things: what to wear for different types of job interviews, how to handle ethics prob-lems on the job, how to craft a resume that gets responses, and how to handle boss-es. Those who are aiming for their firstbusiness job, especially those right out of college,don’tknowthosethingsyet.“BusinessSuccess inYour20sand30s”isoneofthe“CompleteIdiot’sGuide”se-ries. Despite the unfortunate title, the book isworthalook,asit’sloadedwithvaluableadvice.Jobseekers in their20sembark-ing on their careers are likely to appreciate the book’s attitude and attention to how-to detail. Thirty-somethings who haven’tbeen as successful as they’d hoped willget something out of it, too.“Business Success” starts off with thepluses and minuses of being young in the businessworld.Itdoesn’tpullanypunch-es on the negatives, but outlines the steps requiredtoworkaroundthem.Getting the job is only part of the battle. Doing it well is ... work. The book walks first-time managers through dealing withdifficultsubordinates,gettingrespectfromsuperiors, acting like a manager, becoming confident,dressingforthepartandmore.AppendixA is loadedwith resourceWebsites that pertain to each chapter. The one dealing with resumes is valuable, as it in-cludes the biggest Web sites as well as toolsforcreatingaresume.Onelistedsite,www.razume.com, offers a resume build-eraswellasaway forothers tocritiqueresumes before they get sent out into the world.Appendix B is devoted to the 100best business books of all time. Brokendown into business categories, that list is worththepriceofthebookitself.AppendixC is full of sample resumes.“BusinessSuccess”usesthestandardex-trascommoninthe“Idiot’sGuide”series:graphics and boxes pointing to important information,inthiscasecalledBestPrac-ticeandHeadsUp.Haveacollegestudentabouttograduatein the spring? No matter what the major, heorsheisgoingtoneedajob.And“Busi-nessSuccess”canhelp.David Uffington regrets that he cannot per-sonally answer reader questions, but will incorporate them into his column whenever possible. Write to him in care of King Fea-tures Weekly Service, P.O. Box 536475, Orlando, FL 32853-6475, or send e-mail to [email protected].

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