Users can also find information not included by some other ski-travel sites, like skicentral's directories of skiing organizations for the disabled in the Aspen area.
Overviews and comparative information can be found on the national ski area marketing organizations' sites, like Ski France (www.skifrance.fr), which has links to member resorts.
Dole decided that there ought to be a national organization of ski-wise volunteers to patrol ski slopes and be ready to offer advice and first aid.
There was also a small downhill skiing area with a rope tow, where the organization taught children to ski.
The organization works with six ski resorts in California and Nevada, and they have engaged a volunteer base of 50+ youth, by working with Girl Scout and Brownie troops, as well as high school ski teams throughout the region.
Several members had already held positions in the older organization Association for the Promotion of Skiing, founded three weeks before Ull, in 1883.
Back when Mr. Bauer lost a leg in Vietnam, the organization had one chapter teaching one sport (skiing); today it has more than 100 chapters and offers 30 sports.
When skeptics tell them "black people don't ski," Ms. Cooper notes that the National Brotherhood of Skiers, a black organization that formed in 1973, has 3,000 members.
The ski hill, moderately expanded in subsequent decades, continues to this day as a nonprofit organization and revered civic resource, a tribute to Mickey Cochran's humble 1960 dream.
The organization also sponsors competitions in snowboarding and in Alpine, freestyle and cross-country skiing.
