After having been out of service for several seasons because of war
conditions, the Milwaukee Road announces extensive improvements for the
coming winter activities.
To begin with, in order to avoid confusion with the Snoqualmie Ski Area, the name has been changed to the Milwaukee Road Ski Bowl. A three-year plan of development now under way will make it one of the largest skiing areas in the United States. The initial program contemplates the clearing of approximately 360 acres of skiing terrain, of which about half will be completed this year, barring unforeseen difficulties. The Talley-Ho skiboggan chair lift, developed by Keith Talley of Seattle, will be installed which will permit skiers and non-skiers alike to attain an altitude of 3,600' on approximately a 1,600' run and together with the additional rope tow that is to be installed from the 3,600' level, will carry the better type of skiers to the top of Rocky Point, a 4,000' altitude from which point wide ski lanes will be available from both sides of the mountain back to the Ski Bowl Lodge, approximating a run of about 1 1/2 miles. Incidentally, the Talley-Ho lift is equipped to handle 1,440 persons per hour as compared with approximately 300 per hour for the average size chair lift. The fact that this lift is designed to ride downhill as well as up should be a boon to non-skiers. In addition, the small lower cable lift, with individual rope attachments for pulling up the skiers, will be extended aproximately 200', which will make it around a 1,600' tow. This will be intended for the novices and a seperate wide ski area will be adapted for them, eliminating all cross-skiing in that these lanes will be seperated by sufficient timber to insure safe skiing for all types of skiers. Once again the Olympian Hill, on which the 1941 national jumping events were held, will be available and the Seattle Ski Club is locating a lodge at the Ski Bowl, approximately 1 mile from the lodge, and will conduct free jumping lessons on Sunday under the tutelage of Olav Ulland. As in the past, there will be no overnight accommodations in the area but ski trains will be run from Seattle and Tacoma on approximately a two and three hour schedule from these points. It is intended that we feature to outside skiers the opportunity to ski at the most novel ski resort and be able to stay overnight at their favorite hotel in either Seattle or Tacoma, and special trains will also be run at night for special groups of 250 or more as the entire area will be floodlighted. Ken Syverson, well-known skier and originator of the Sunday Ski School, will again be in charge of the Seattle Times Free Ski School featured on Saturday for students. In addition, during the 3 year program, it is expected to develop a ski lane to Bandera from the top of Rocky Point, approximately 8 miles, at which point it is intended the ski trains will pick up the skiers on their return to Seattle and Tacoma. Further developments will be made next year from the top of Rocky Point
to the top of Silver Peak area via snowcat, a distance of 3 1/2 miles,
and an altitude of 6,000' is possible at the latter point.
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