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While the art of skiing has now been developed to fantastic levels of early Indians in northern Idaho facilitate sent in ice fishing and made sure the snow shoes and winter hunting trips. Our area was settled much of German and Scandinavian stock, as well as the early French trappers, priests and settlers. So it was natural that the descendants of these settlers came with skiing area.
Alpine and Nordic, like our ancestors: snow from two geographical groups emerged. Cross-country skiing is the oldest and category includes sport, developed from skiing as done in Scandinavia. Nordic style ski bindings attach at the toes of the skier's boots, but not in hot pursuit. Alpine skiing includes sports that developed made from skiing in the Alps. Alpine bindings put on both the toe and the heel of ski boots. These two categories overlap with some sports potentially fitting into both. However, binding style and history indicate that each skiing sport is more than the others. Some sports such as skiing Telemark skiing have elements of both categories, but its history in Telemark, Norway and free-heel binding style place Telemark Nordic firmly in the category.
Now our region has to offer much more than offer only the traditional skiing. It is driving cross-country skiing, ice skating, hunting, sledding, snowboarding, snowmobile, and a host of other winter sports. Nevertheless, Schweitzer Mountain has become one of the nation's top ski resorts, and that is the primary winter activity. However, Schweitzer Mountain was not the first ski resort in Idaho. The first was in Ketchum, Idaho in 1936, and Sun Valley has the further distinction of the first on the chairlift.
Alpine and Nordic, like our ancestors: snow from two geographical groups emerged. Cross-country skiing is the oldest and category includes sport, developed from skiing as done in Scandinavia. Nordic style ski bindings attach at the toes of the skier's boots, but not in hot pursuit. Alpine skiing includes sports that developed made from skiing in the Alps. Alpine bindings put on both the toe and the heel of ski boots. These two categories overlap with some sports potentially fitting into both. However, binding style and history indicate that each skiing sport is more than the others. Some sports such as skiing Telemark skiing have elements of both categories, but its history in Telemark, Norway and free-heel binding style place Telemark Nordic firmly in the category.
Now our region has to offer much more than offer only the traditional skiing. It is driving cross-country skiing, ice skating, hunting, sledding, snowboarding, snowmobile, and a host of other winter sports. Nevertheless, Schweitzer Mountain has become one of the nation's top ski resorts, and that is the primary winter activity. However, Schweitzer Mountain was not the first ski resort in Idaho. The first was in Ketchum, Idaho in 1936, and Sun Valley has the further distinction of the first on the chairlift.
