Telluride, Crested Butte, Monarch and Powderhorn. These are downhill skiing areas, right? The names bring to mind the usual features of being lift-served, of letting skiers ride to the top, of having groomed runs, and of being professionally avalanche controlled. But wait! There’s more! At some Colorado lift-served ski areas, the phrase “uphill skiing” now can be added to those features. Uphill skiing necessarily involves climbing up a snowy slope against the pull of gravity, unassisted by any kind of a ski lift. If your ancestors came from Northern Europe or Northern Asia, they came from areas where they would have attached animal skins to their skis like this, in order to ascend a slope...
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