Ski the Great Potato

In Ski the Great Potato: Idaho Ski Areas, Past and Present, you'll find the histories of the 21 current Idaho ski areas and of 72 of the historical or "lost" areas. Forward by Idaho's own Olympic gold medalist Picabo Street. It was selected as a winner of the International Skiing History Association’s Skade Book Award.The book gives the basic facts about each area and how it started, and includes stories of the people who skied at each one. There are stories of stolen snow plows, an exploding stove, a moose taking a nap on a ski run, a ski jump from Idaho to Canada, a dog who stole sack lunches, and the fate of a young woman who froze to the seat of a portable toilet.While researching the microfilms of Idaho newspapers, we found many hidden and forgotten stories of ski area start-ups in the weekly papers. It was almost always a community deal: meet in the basement of the drugstore on Tuesday night; we are forming a ski club, says the paper. A rancher, farmer, or mechanic promises to do