Vintage Leather Bindings for Wooden Snow Skiing
by Bonnie Colgan
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Vintage Leather Bindings for Wooden Snow Skiing
Artist
Bonnie Colgan
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Photograph - Photography Prints
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Longboarding started in the Sierra in the early 1850s, 25 years before skiing took off in the European Alps. The California gold rush was in full swing then. Thousands of prospectors and support staff from all over the globe picked their way along tributaries and drainages into the farthest reaches of the range, looking for yellow dirt. Longboarding started in the Lost Sierra in the early 1850s, 25 years before skiing took off in the European Alps. The California gold rush was in full swing then. Thousands of prospectors and support staff from all over the globe picked their way along tributaries and drainages into the farthest reaches of the range, looking for yellow dirt. On Rabbit Creek, near a place called Spanish Diggings, a fellow by the name of Henry Harrison Mason erected the first house, a respectable four-room log cabin that would serve as shelter throughout the winter of 1851-52. By New Year’s, snow was piled “15 feet deep on the level” and the cabin was buried. By mid-March, most of the food was gone and there was talk of eating the family dog. To save the pet, Mason cut a pair of skis from the floorboards and headed across the drifts to shoot a rabbit. New Year’s, snow was piled “15 feet deep on the level” and the cabin was buried. By mid-March, most of the food was gone and there was talk of eating the family dog. To save the pet, Mason cut a pair of skis from the floorboards and headed across the drifts to shoot a rabbit.
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