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A black and white photograph of young women skiing in full-length dresses and hats

The Curious Lives of Ski Migrants

Janet Manley, Catapult, April 2022

Janet Manley traces the origins of ski culture and its distinctive aesthetic to homesick European migrants 'finding ways to slide about on patches of snow'.

Thanks to these émigrés, there is not only skiing in Australia, but also an outcrop of 'chalets' and 'Tyrolean villages' mixed in with the caravan parks, pubs, and bowling clubs. The scene is just as confusing in the United States, particularly in the northeast, where I now live. Driving toward a mountain, you will see CITGO gas stations disguised as alpine chalets and Swiss A-frames selling barbecue wings.

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