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Red Mountain Ski Club Members

Left to right: Jack Mitchell, unknown, unknown, Ira Page, unknown, Bob Van, unknown, unknown, Jim Douglas. Mitchell, Page, and Douglas were a part of RMSC’s first executive committee

Grey Mountain Grind Map

Route of the Grey Mountain Grind, drawn February 10, 1946. The RMDC acknowledges that the names “Indian Flats” (the area between Red Mountain and Granite Mountain) and “Squaw […]

“Wonderful Leaping”

Newspaper article transcribed below. WONDERFUL LEAPING TORGAL NOREN LEAPED OVER 73 FEET ON SKIS ON SUNDAY. FINE EXHIBITION BY YOUNG EXPERT – BOYS’ JUMP CONCLUDED. Torgal Noren is […]

Rossland Ski Club Jump Hill

Rossland Ski Club Jump Hill, circa February 1937. Jumping continued to be a major spectacle for locals until the 1950s. On December 6, 1934, the Rossland Ski Club (RSC) […]

Trail-Rossland Ski Club

Trail-Rossland Ski Meet, circa 1932.

Rossland Ski Club

Rossland Ski Club. Back row left to right: Dan McNaughton, Islay Terhune, Daris Jerzick, Hinslin Churchill, Bob Hammy, Gordon Lynn, Lester Brown, Harry O’Reilley, Stewart Jameson. Front row […]

Ski Jump on Monte Cristo Mountain

Ski Jump on Monte Cristo Mountain, circa 1904.

Jeldness Cup

Jeldness Cup for the Rossland Winter Carnival Ski Jumping Championships Canada, 1908 As per the Winter Carnival ski-jumping rules, if a person won the competition for three consecutive […]

Olaus Jeldness

Born on October 1, 1856, in Stangvik, Norway, Olaus Nilsen Jeldness came to Rossland in 1894. He made his fortune by selling three mine claims to investors at […]