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By Bob Soden
Who is Walter Foeger and what is Natur Teknik ? Perhaps you weren’t asking, but everyone interested in ski history and ski technique ought to know of them. Both once played an innovative and influential role in the evolution of ski teaching theory and methodology, as well as the early development of the Jay Peak ski area, yet unfortunately are largely forgotten today.
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Cover
of the 1967-68 Jay Peak promotional
brochure and trail map featuring
Walter Foeger
skiing Montreal Trail at left;
daughter Evi Foeger posing under
year-old Tramway |
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Courtesy O'Shea Publishing,
Enosburg Falls |
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| Aerial view of Jay Peak in January 1957 showing
the Open Slope on the left, the Poma lift to its right and, further to the right,
the newly cut Sweetheart Trail barely visible through the trees |
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Photo courtesy Richardson /
Newport Daily Express |
For other research papers on ski history please see
www.skiinghistory.org.
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