Ski the Great Potato: Idaho Ski Areas, Past and Present - Softcover

Margaret Fuller; Doug Fuller; And Jerry Painter

9780991156108: Ski the Great Potato: Idaho Ski Areas, Past and Present

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0991156102 ISBN 13: 9780991156108

Publisher: Trail Guide Books, 2013

Winner of the Skade Award from the International Skiing History Association, April 3, 2014. Read the histories of the 21 current Idaho ski areas and 72 historical or lost areas. The book gives the basic facts about each area and how it started, and includes stories of people who skied at each one. There are stories of stolen snow plows, an exploding stove, a moose who took a nap on a ski run, a ski jump from the U.S. to Canada, and the fate of a young woman who froze to the seat of a porta-pottie, and more.

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About the Author:

Margaret Fuller is the author or co-author of five Idaho hiking guidebooks and three books of natural history. She served two years on the board of Bogus Basin Ski Racing Alliance. She lives in Weiser. Doug Fuller, Margaret's son, is a former junior, college, and Pro-B ski racer and head coach at Wyoming and Colorado ski areas. He lives in Salt Lake City. Jerry Painter is the author or co-author of four Idaho/Wyoming guidebooks. He works on the copy desk and writes an outdoor column for the Post Register in Idaho Falls.

Review:

This book is unique, and a work to treasure for anyone interested in the heritage of Idaho ski resorts- Picabo Street, Olympic gold and silver medalist. --the foreword to the book

Ski the Great Potato provides the histories of all 21 areas that are still operating in Idaho, as well as stories on 72 areas that no longer exist. It opens with a fascinating account of the Eastport-Kingsgate ski jump that was located right on the Idaho-British Columbia border. The jump opened in 1928 and had an in-run in the United States, with the jumpers landing in Canada. --Tom West in Skiing History: theJournal of the International Skiing History Association, March-April 2014

The book is fascinating because it delves into fun facts on the large number of ski hills that were spread across the state, and all the innovative ways local residents tried to maintain them. Sun Valley had the first chairlift, but it wasn't the first ski area in Idaho. Actually, Lookout Pass had a rope tow on Jan. 1, 1936, and Quigley Gulch near Hailey had horse-drawn toboggans a couple of weeks later. --Pete Zimowsky in The Idaho Statesman, November 28, 2013

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