XC-ski racing in 1969 in Alaska

I was searching for something completely different and found this.

This article is mostly about a "lost" trail near Anchorage,
Alaska. But there are some old photos of races from 1969. Included
are photos of a very young Shirley Firth, one of the famous
Firth twins from NWT who dominated the Canadian women's
racing scene in the 1970s.

http://www.alsap.org/GirdwoodJrNatl/GirdwoodJrNatl.htm

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David Dermott , Wolfville Ridge, Nova Scotia, Canada
WWW pages: http://www.dermott.ca/index.html

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008 10:47:44 -0300, David Dermott
wrote:


I was searching for something completely different and found this.

This article is mostly about a "lost" trail near Anchorage,
Alaska. But there are some old photos of races from 1969. Included
are photos of a very young Shirley Firth, one of the famous
Firth twins from NWT who dominated the Canadian women's
racing scene in the 1970s.

http://www.alsap.org/GirdwoodJrNatl/GirdwoodJrNatl.htm

Very cool.

Which photo are you referring to?

The owner of Lapland Lake in NY, Olavi Hirvonen, was a ski trainer for
the US Army in Alaska sometime after WWII.

Gene

David Dermott wrote:


I was searching for something completely different and found this.

This article is mostly about a "lost" trail near Anchorage,
Alaska. But there are some old photos of races from 1969. Included
are photos of a very young Shirley Firth, one of the famous
Firth twins from NWT who dominated the Canadian women's
racing scene in the 1970s.

http://www.alsap.org/GirdwoodJrNatl/GirdwoodJrNatl.htm

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David Dermott , Wolfville Ridge, Nova Scotia, Canada
WWW pages: http://www.dermott.ca/index.html

On Thu, 30 Oct 2008, wrote:

Which photo are you referring to?

The owner of Lapland Lake in NY, Olavi Hirvonen, was a ski trainer for
the US Army in Alaska sometime after WWII.

Gene

David Dermott wrote:


Included
are photos of a very young Shirley Firth, one of the famous
Firth twins from NWT who dominated the Canadian women's
racing scene in the 1970s.

http://www.alsap.org/GirdwoodJrNatl/GirdwoodJrNatl.htm


The photos are scanned from magazines and newspapers so
aren't of very high quality. The photo I was refering to was the second one
titled :

Shirley Firth and Fred Kelly after winning 1st places in individual
competition at the U.S. Junior National Cross Country Skiing
Championships in Girdwood, AK.
[Photo credit: Alaska Sportsman Magazine, June 1969, Page 9]



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David Dermott , Wolfville Ridge, Nova Scotia, Canada
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