The Colorado Snowsports Museum’s off-site storage facility in Wheat Ridge is home to many resources for researchers, scholars, and educators. We strive for the public to have greater access to our artifacts, library, archive, and photos. Below you will find a variety of digital resources. If you have questions or comments, please contact us at: dana@snowsportsmuseum.org.
Follow these documents to learn more about Camp Hale, including information on women's role at Camp Hale as well as photos showing the area then and now. On page 5 of this document, you will find the Elementary Classroom Primary Source Set for The Women of Camp Hale.
This timeline highlights important historical events from 1872-2020. The events speak to selected events during World War II and the 10th Mountain Division. Events featured are on the international, national, and local levels.
This task is designed so that you can work directly with the primary sources shared here. The document provides several excerpts, poses questions, and asks participants or students to answer various questions about the 10th Mountain Division.
Explore images from our 10th Mountain Division photo archive, including photos taken by women at Camp Hale. See what 10th gear looked like, where they trained, and more.
Through our online collection, you can read letter communications from World War II. Browse Graydon Fuller’s many letters home and learn about the 10th through their own words.
Tales of the 10th continue at the Colorado Snowsports Museum with a virtual presentation by Flint Whitlock. Join us in our 10th Mountain Division exhibit “Climb to Glory”.
Dive deep into our online collection featuring a portion of our artifacts, photos, library and archival items. The collection is updated weekly.
Explore our video archive through our YouTube channel. Watch vintage footage as well as our Hall of Fame inductee videos.
Join us with Trent Bush as he walks us through the first part of our "Out There" exhibition. Trent points out significant artifacts and dives deeper into Colorado's snowboard history.
Watch our snowboard Hall of Fame inductee tribute videos via this YouTube playlist. Be inspired by their stories. Videos showcase: Gretchen Bleiler, Jake Burton Carpenter, Shannon Dunn, & Kevin Delaney.
Browse the recent donations from both Louise and Wendy Poppen. Donations include significant Snurfers, prototypes, a trophy, and newspaper clipping. These items were donated to the CSM in 2020.
Interested in learning more about ski clothing and equipment? Follow 100 years of ski fashion from 1915 to 2015 in this short video.
Our current rotating exhibition space is dedicated to Ann Bonfoey Taylor. This extension of our “100 Years of Ski Fashion & Function” exhibit dives deep into Ann’s extraordinary life and her connection to ski fashion. Click below to learn more about her life, fashion, and her important connection to Vail.
The below document chronicles the history of ski fashion through a timeline as well as provides information about technology. fabrics, and innovation.
Click the link below to enjoy a printable 10th Mountain Division themed word search. Climb to Glory!
Using the link below, enjoy a printable word search of current or active Colorado ski areas.
Are you familiar with Colorado’s lost ski areas? Click the link below to play a printable word search featuring some of Colorado’s lost ski areas.
“From a very young age, we are taught that patience is a virtue and that good things come to those who wait. However, one could easily argue that waiting 50 years for something you have earned constitutes a bit more than simply virtue. Such is the story of transplanted Norwegian ski jumper Anders Haugen. Born in Telemark, Norway, Haugen and his brother Lars immigrated to the United States in 1909. Carrying on the tradition of their homeland, one of the first things the brothers did was to build a ski jump with the Milwaukee Ski Club west of the city in Wisconsin in an effort to introduce the public to the sport. The Haugen brothers would later relocate to northwestern Wisconsin before heading west to Frisco.…”
“One of the more interesting items that have recently been reassessed by the Colorado Snowsports Museum is legendary filmmaker Warren Miller’s 16 millimeter, three-lens turret Bell & Howell camera. A skier, ski and snowboard filmmaker, artist and, more recently, newspaper columnist and book author, Miller has established himself as a unique American icon, as well as a constant source of inspiration to everyone who meets him, young or old Miller’s film career started while working as a ski instructor in Sun Valley in the late 1940s. One day, he met two ski students, Chuck Percy, who was then president of Bell & Howell Camera Co., and Hal Geneen, comptroller of the company…”
Click the link below to learn more about this camera and an early Snurfer…
“During the 1930s, the use of motorized ski lifts began to spread across the United States. These first tows were powered by running a rope around the tire rim of a Model-T car, set up on blocks. Needless to say, the rope tow became very popular, not only because it provided much more time for skiing than having to walk back up the hill, but they also served as an attraction, in and of themselves, as spectators would also turn out just to watch the skiers being hauled up the hill…”
Click the button below to print a coloring sheet of the 10th Mountain Division logo.
How will you make it your own?
Missing those powder days? Click the link below to open a printable coloring sheet of the skier shown above. Pow!
Do you ride in bright colors or toned down shades? Click the button below to print the above coloring sheet, adding a hint of your own style.
Explore the Colorado snow sports and mountain experience (a contemporary slice of history) in a collection of more than twenty entertaining music videos curated by Dean Ericson, CSM Board of Directors member and long-time supporter of the Museum.
Did you know that the 10th Mountain Division had several war time songs they sang? Click the link below to listen to “90 Pounds of Rucksack” and “Oola”.
Lyrics to 10th Mountain Division songs provided by 10th Mountain Division LHDG, Midwest Chapter. Read and reflect on the various meanings behind the songs the 10th sang.
