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Home - 2009 Award Nominees- Voting Instructions - Voting CLOSED The skiing legacy handed down to us from the late-1850s era of Snowshoe Thompson is alive and flourishing in the “Lost Sierra” of Bill Berry. Exhaustive research into the origins of skiing in the Lost Sierra of Plumas and Sierra counties has shown that it is the birthplace of competitive ski racing in North America, dating from 1857 or even 1853, and the first ski lift in 1870. The ski lift was an ore bucket operated by the nearby Mohawk Mine at Johnsville. The first racing clubs were the Alturas Snowshoe Club of LaPorte and the even earlier Onion Valley Snowshoe Club. The Plumas Ski Club has taken on the responsibility from the Alturas Club of continuing the longboard legacy since 1952. Plumas Ski Club has done this remarkable and continuing research into longboard racing, waxing (“doping”), design and construction. Several attempts were made for longboard revival from 1926 to 1938 with local races. Plumas was formed to continue the legacy of longboard racing and they were helped from time to time with television coverage in the years 1952-1991. The Plumas Ski Club formally inaugurated the Historic Longboard Revival Race series in 1993 and it now has a 16-year track record of success. The longboard racing series has even caused the Feather River Community College to start a Longboard Construction Class – it produced 20 new pairs of skis, each 12-16 feet long, in the current season. These are historically accurate, even down to the Alturas innovation of a central groove. It is rumored that before the class was turning out longboards, the local makers “drank ardent spirits from the nearly finished base grooves to “season” the new longboards, just as the Lost Sierra miners might have done.” The Plumas Club has always tried to make the longboard racing historically accurate. This has “even included being historically consistent with the pre-race, festive parties that the racers of yore had enjoyed. Highlight is the “Redstreake Snowball,” a semi-formal soiree of dancing and drinking and general frivolity that would have made the old-time Lost Sierra racers proud.” For their comprehensive research and devotion to the legacy of downhill skiing and racing and a 16-year record of Historic Longboard Revival Racing, we nominate the Plumas Ski Club for the Jordan-Reily award for 2009. Long live longboards |
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