On-line book: Written in the Snows

I just began reading through your first chapter. I love what I'm seeing so far! Keep up the awesome work! It's a another great contribution to the community.

Fabulous work you have done! Great read while waiting new snow to fall. I take my "skis" off to you.

[size=12pt]Written in the Snows
Across Time on Skis in the Pacific Northwest[/size]

I've completed another chapter of my on-line history of Northwest skiing:

[size=12pt]"A Far White Country"[/size]

My previous chapter ("The Ski Climbers") dealt with events between about 1928 and 1948.  In this chapter, I've jumped back to the beginning, roughly the years between 1890 and 1920.  This chapter describes how skis first came to Washington's mountains, how the railroads made winter recreation possible in the Northwest, and who the first skiers were.  I expect to insert another chapter between this one and "The Ski Climbers" as I continue my work.

You can find the new chapter on the website devoted to the book:

written-in-the-snows.net/

I hope you enjoy "A Far White Country."

Lowell just fantastic!
Is there any more artwork by Yngvar Sonnichsen ?
"Ski Tourney Thrills Mountain Crowd" in Part 4 was great.
A block print ?

Lowell just fantastic!
Is there any more artwork by Yngvar Sonnichsen ?
"Ski Tourney Thrills Mountain Crowd" in Part 4 was great.
A block print ?

Hi Robie,

Yes, I think the Sonnichsen artwork may have been a block print. You would not believe how much work it took to get that. I found it in the newspaper microfilms at UW, printed it out on their crummy copy machines, scanned it at home, then spent hours scrubbing the whitespace using GIMP so it's legible. But it was worth it.

Last winter I received an email from Christine Anderson of the Sons of Norway. She told me this about Sonnichsen:

The Sun, 5 August 1917 "Ski Tourney Thrills Mountain Crowd" it is probably Yngvar Sonnichsen who did the drawing only because he was an artist living here in Seattle. His brother S. Engelhard Sonnichsen was the architect for Norway Hall in Seattle. In the Seattle Times February 4, 1917, article it would be Thomas Kolderup. He was a member of our lodge. His grandnephew still is.

That's all I know about the Sonnichsens at this point.

Magnificent! I look forward to reading this all very carefully, several times.