SKI TICKETS Before tows and lifts were introduced at Falls Creek, it could take skiers 20 minutes to climb to the Summit … but only TWO minutes to go back to the bottom. The arrival of tows, then chairlifts and T-bars changed the face of skiing forever. The first rope tow was constructed by Toni St. Elmo for the 1951 winter season. Bob Hymans installed a smaller tow for his guests at Skyline Lodge. Tows were still quite slow, so in 1956 Bob Hymans created his single chairlift. In 1958 the Village rope tow, designed by Albury engineer Jock Wilson, opened. It was financed by shareholders including Bill Griffith (Bowna Ski Club) and the Bridgford family (St. Trinian’s Ski Club). Several other tows followed including the Summit T-bar in 1961, built by Ron McCallum and operated by Alpine Developments Pty. Ltd. which was a company formed by C. H. (Bill) Bridgford. By 1982 Falls Creek was served by 16 different lifts or T-bars, all owned and operated by Alpine Developments (Holdings) Pty. Ltd. During the development of Falls Creek, different methods have been used to pay for the use of tows, lifts and T-bars … including metal tokens, single tickets, strips of tickets and season passes. The Falls Creek Historical Society Collection includes many examples of these items.These tickets are significant because they represent an aspect of the management of activities at Falls Creek.Two books of Cross Country Season Pass Tickets for 2010. The blue tickets are Child's tickets and the red tickets for adults. Each book contains 20 tickets.Blue Tickets: FALLS CREEK CROSS COUNTRY SEASON PASS CHILD Red Tickets: FALLS CREEK CROSS COUNTRY SEASON PASS ADULTfalls creek cross country, falls creek ski tickets, season pass

Part of an annual marketing campaign, this booklet was designed to provide information for planning a cross country skiing activities in 2006. It also included an application form for the annual Hoppet. The back cover declares it is the "Perfect Planning Partner for the Perfect Holiday".This item is important as it documents seasonal activities at Falls Creek Alpine Resort An A4 sized marketing booklet, including images and advertising information promoting cross country skiing activities.falls creek marketing, falls creek 2006, cross country skiing, kangaroo hoppet

A volume of 204 pages including historical information, equipment and techniques for improving skills in cross country skiing.Cross-Country Skiing will help skiers develop better form and style for more pleasurable skiing. With coaching based on the highly successful German Ski Association training program, the authors tailor their instruction to the needs of the amateur with aspirations. Step-by-step photo sequences and uncomplicated line drawings show crucial variations in movements that can mean the difference between smooth, efficient action and strained and wasted effort. For those aiming at competition, tips on technique, training, and waxing are included. Information on choosing proper equipment and specialised approaches to training, including overall conditioning, endurance building, and training tactics aim to assist skiers in building a competitive edge. cross country skiing, training techniques

This volume of 151 pages is an update of one of the first books dedicated to Cross Country skiing. It includes illustrations, photographs and text.non-fictionThe indispensable guide to cross-country for family fun, touring at all ages and competition, by the #1 writer. John Caldwell started the North American boom in this happy, cheap, safe, easy-to-learn (don't need lessons) for the whole family sport with his classic X-C ski book- the first devoted entirely to cross-country skiing. THE NEW CROSS-COUNTRY SKI BOOK is completely rewritten, newly illustrated and updated, including the latest information on the new no-wax skis. For new skiers it provides information the one-day tour and how to organize a tour-race as well as updated equipment reports. It also includes advice about training for expert skiers.cross country skiing, skiing training and equipment

This publication was developed by the Falls Creek Resort Management Committee to promote activities and facilities at Falls Creek for the Winter Season 1999. It was a publication specifically focused on cross country skiers. This item is significant because it illustrates how Falls Creek has been marketed and promoted over time.A coloured fold out trail guide including a map of all trailsfalls creek trails, falls creek marketing, falls creek promotion, cross country skiing

A small booklet featuring a skier waxing her ski on the front cover. The back cover features an image of the authors accompanied by a brief biography of each of them. It includes sketches and diagrams. This book was first published as Skismöring under auspices of Foreningen til Ski-Idrettens Fremme, Oslo in 1970.non-fictionThis booklet aimed to teach skiers the best techniques to wax their skis for cross-country skiing. M. Michael Brady was certified as a cross-country ski-racing coach by the Norwegian Ski Federation and also taught cross-country coach and instructor courses in Alaska and Australia. He was also the Nordic editor for SKI Magazine. Lorns O. Skjemstad was an experienced cross-country ski racer with gold, silver and bronze medals from the Holmenkollen Games, the Finnish Lahti Games, and the Norwegian Championships. He also wrote many articles on cross-country technique and waxing, including several in SKI Magazine.waxing techniques, cross country skiing

A blue hard-covered volume of 145pages including a frontispiece, illustrations, tables, graphs and an index.non-fictionA publication from the series "Sports Medicine Guides" with an introduction by Allan J. Ryan. It is divided into three sections:- Part One - Advances in Cross-Country Skiing Part Two - Training Part Three - Nordic Sports Medicine cross country skiing, sports medicine for skiing

An advertising brochure for Cross Country Ski Hire in Marysville in Victoria.An advertising brochure for Cross Country Ski Hire in Marysville in Victoria.marysville, victoria, cross country ski hire, ski hire, lake mountain

An advertising brochure for Cross Country Ski Hire in Marysville in Victoria.An advertising brochure for Cross Country Ski Hire in Marysville in Victoria.marysville, victoria, cross country ski hire, ski hire, lake mountain

An advertising brochure for Cross Country Ski Hire in Marysville in Victoria.An advertising brochure for Cross Country Ski Hire in Marysville in Victoria.marysville, victoria, cross country ski hire, lake mountain, ski hire

These 34 photographs were taken at Flag Day, an annual sports competition between the Army Survey Regiment and the School of Military Survey, at Bendigo 19th of May 1989. The two RASvy units took turns each year to host the event. The day competition usually comprised basketball, cross country running, golf, sailing, squash, softball, tennis, touch football, tug-of-war and volleyball. The evening competition often included darts, carpet bowls, hookey, quoits and snooker. The winner of the Flag Day competition in 1989 is not known. Refer to items 9175.13P, 9176.15P, 9177.11P and 9178.20P for additional photographs taken at Flag Day 1989.This is a set of 34 photographs of Flag Day, Army Survey Regiment (ASR) verses the School of Military Survey (SMS), at Bendigo on the 19th of May 1989. Black and white photos are on 35mm negative film and scanned at 2400 dpi. They are part of the Army Survey Regiment’s Collection. .1) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – L to R: unidentified, Chris Wynn, Jeff Le Fevre, Greg Rowe, Peter Barrett – facing away, Ian ‘Rock’ Thistleton, Phil Meagher, unidentified (x2), Trevor Pearson, unidentified, Craig Hersant, Marty Lyons, unidentified (x2), George Austen. .2) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – L to R: Greg Rowe, Craig Hersant, Chris Wynn, Jeff Le Fevre, unidentified, Geoff Webb, Marty Lyons, unidentified, Phil Meagher, George Austen, Ian ‘Rock’ Thistleton, Rod Clarke, unidentified. .3) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – L to R: Derek Percival, Ian ‘Rock’ Thistleton, Phil Meagher, unidentified. .4) & .5) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – L to R: Rod Clarke, Chris Wynn. .6) & .7) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – George Austen. .8) & .9) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – L to R: Craig Hersant, unidentified. .10) & .11) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – Geoff Webb. .12) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – Marty Lyons. .13) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – Peter Clark. .14) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – Geoff Webb. .15) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – L to R: Greg Rowe, unidentified, in background – Marty Evans, unidentified, Geoff Webb, unidentified, Craig Hersant. .16) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – L to R: Greg Rowe, in background – Marty Evans, unidentified, Geoff Webb, unidentified, Craig Hersant. .17) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – George Austen, in background L to R: Marty Evans, unidentified. .18) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – unidentified participants. .19) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – Peter Clark. .20) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – Derek Percival, in background L to R: Marty Evans, unidentified, Craig Hersant, unidentified. .21) to .23) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – Jeff Le Fevre. .24) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – unidentified participant. .25) &.26) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – Marty Lyons. .27) to 29) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – Ian ‘Rock’ Thistleton. .30) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – L to R: unidentified, George Austen, Rod Clarke, Chris Wynn. .31) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – L to R: Peter Clark, Rod Clarke, Chris Wynn, Peter Barrett, Phil Meagher, Marty Lyons, unidentified (x2). .32) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – L to R: Brian Paul, Phil Meagher, Greg Rowe, Marty Lyons, unidentified, Peter Clark, Trevor Pearson, unidentified (x2), Rod Clarke, Peter Barrett, remainder unidentified. .33) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – Phil Meagher. .34) - Photo, black & white, 1989. Cross County Running – L to R: Greg Rowe, Phil Meagher, in background – unidentified, Marty Evans.There are no personnel identified. ‘Flag Day 19 May 1989’ is annotated on the negative sleeve.royal australian survey corps, rasvy, army survey regiment, army svy regt, fortuna

This medal commemorates performance in the Australian Cross Country Ski Championships and was awarded to Diana Patterson. Diana Patterson was born in Tasmania and originally pursued a career as a physical education teacher. After making a major career change, she applied to join the Australian Antarctic Division. She applied four times before she was accepted. Diana first travelled to the Antarctic in October 1987. By this time only ten Australian women had spent a winter there. She first worked at Casey Station, before becoming leader at Mawson Station therein becoming the first female leader of an Antarctic base of any nation. After retiring Diana guided tourist expeditions to the Antarctic for many years, as well as continuing work in research and conservation. In 2012 she published her story “The Ice Beneath My Feet: My Year In Antarctica”. Diana Patterson was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia (OAM) for "service to conservation and the environment”. As well as these outstanding career achievements, Diana has been a Board Member of both the Mt. Buller Alpine Resort Management Board, including a period as Chairman, and also the Falls Creek Resort Management Board. She was also a founding member of Falls Creek Historical Society.This medal recognises the performance of a highly recognised member of the Falls Creek community.Hexagon shaped medal with a skier and Nordic figure on the front and snowflake design on the reverse side.Below image: AUSTRALIAN SKI FEDERATIONx country skiing cbampionships, australian ski federation

The Worldloppet is a skiing race held throughout the world for cross country skiers. American Tony Wise conceived the idea of bringing together long distance skiers together. 14 ski marathons held in 4 continents (Europe, North America, Australia and Asia) with over 90,000 skiers each year.Falls Creek is on the Bogong High Plains at the top of the Kiewa Valley. Falls Creek held the first Kangaroo Hoppet in 1979 over a distance of 21 km with 80 participants. In 1995 a record 1588 participants took part. They received membership of the Worldloppet in 1991 holding the event on the last Saturday of August and haven't had to cancel the event. Two copies of a blue hard covered book with 167 pages consisting of an index (Kangaroo Hoppet page 54), information on 30 years of (cross country) skiing around the world with colored photos. cross country skiing; worldloppet; falls creek

Cross country boots are no longer attached to the ski by three holes hooked onto 3 'nails'. Very dark brown solid leather boots with 3 steel loops each side on the lower and 2 steel hooks on the upper section of the opening. The tongue is high and padded. The laces are thick and yellow. The sole is a thick rubber with 3 toe holes (to attach to skis) at the front end.Outer side: embossed 'V'. Inside tongue: 'Vasque / Boots'. Bottom of sole: 'Vibram / 'Made in Italy'cross country boots, skiing boots, falls creek, snow, cross country skiing

Coloured photograph of the 1987 Cross Country Representatives. The girl is wearing a yellow Golden Square t shirt and dark blue shorts and the boy is wearing a blue t shirt with PSVSA and Victorian Primary Schools Cross Country Championships on the front and blue shorts. The girl is sitting on a stool and the boy is standing behind it. The boy's name is Scott Ellerton and the girl's name is Megan Baxter.education, primary, golden square laurel st p.s., golden square laurel street p.s. collection - photograph - 1987 cross country representatives, scott ellerton, megan baxter

Used by local skier at Falls Creek on the High Plains during the early 1970s.Cross country skiing was a popular sport during the 1970's and has developed since with a variety of equipment enabling different types of cross country skiing.These cross country ski boots are size 8 (men's) and made of leather. The sole of the boot is slightly extended to accommodate four holes into which pegs on the ski bindings insert. cross country ski boots. nordic skiing. langlauf skiing. falls creek. bogong high plains.

An advertising brochure for Cross Country Ski Hire in Marysville in Victoria.An advertising brochure for Cross Country Ski Hire in Marysville in Victoria. This building, along with most of the town of Marysville, was destroyed in the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires.marysville, victoria, cross counry ski hire, lake mountain, 2009 black saturday bushfires

Metal toe bindings clipped onto specially made boots with 3 holes at their toe on the sole enabling the cross country skier to be attached to the skis and to be able to lift their heel when skiing on flat ground.These bindings were used by skiers on the Bogong High Plains.Blue and white metal toe ski bindings with white toe clip and 3 blunt 'nails' sticking up at the front to enable a boot with 3 holes in the sole to fit on them. Two holes in the steel enable it to be fitted onto the ski. The sides are at angles narrowing towards the front."nordic norm 75 / ski lom / made in norway" inscribed between the nails and holesski bindings; bogong high plains; cross country skiing

These cross country ski boots are part of the pioneer ski recreational sport in the Victoria Alps. The mid 1900's saw the Victorian Alps begin to be used for recreational skiing, especially cross country. The majority of skiers at this point in time were either from the SEC Vic. Kiewa Hydro Scheme or from Melbourne. International skiers had better ski fields (ski lodges etc.) in Europe, the U.S.A. and Canada. With greater and better coverage of the Winter Olympics and some medal wins, skiing became more interesting and rewarding for city dwellers in Melbourne and Sydney.These ski boots are of great significance to the Kiewa Valley as it demonstrates that winter sports in the region have and still do attract not only skiers but also provide an employment (even though seasonal) avenue which "livens up" a small rural community and provides for a diversity of land usage which did not exist in the 1800's. These brown cross country ski boots, "Grief" brand have "cherry" inserts with cream laces, within the main boot. The boots have red and black laces and crossover tie flaps (to allow for maximum front foot entry. These boots do not have any ski clips to hold firm those restraints (quick release) on the skis (like "modern boots and skis). The heel section has the red Greif "W" pattern.At the underside of the rubber sole in freehand script "Cresta"snow skiing, ski boots, winter recreational sports.

Date made June 1990Black and white photograph showing Lakes Entrance State School students at the schools cross country race in Evitt Park, Lakes Entrance Victoriaschools, sports

Gold banner, white print. 'LCM Cross Country Run, BNPS 9 Year Girls 1998' Wooden rod at top, white fringing on bottom.bendigo, education, bendigo north primary school

Colour photograph Lakes Entrance Secondary College unnamed girl student taking part in Far East Gippsland Schools Cross Country run. Gippsland Victoriaschools, sports

Colour photograph Lakes Entrance Secondary College unnamed boy student taking part in Far East Gippsland Schools Cross Country run. Gippsland Victoriaschools, sports

Students competing in a cross country event, 1985. Please contact [email protected] to request access to this record.1980s, running, sport

Students identified as Naomi Ellis and Jason McCooey.Black and white photograph of two students of Lakes Entrance Primary School chosen to represent East Gippsland in Victorian State Schools Cross Country Championships at Bundoora. Victoriaschools, students

Made at Bogong Village by a Swiss Carpenter. Used by Sylvia Hogan-Edwards (nee McMahon). a student at Bogong Primary School in 1941 as an 8 year old. She has included a photo of a group of skiers at the School at Howmans Gap dated 26th July 1946. This photo was also in the Sun Newspaper. Sylvia is wearing a 'pixie hat'. Sylvia says she was 11 years old which would make it 1944. Photo is located in Photo Folder Snow Sports.Wooden cross country snow skis with steel bindings shaped to attach, with 6 screws, to the wooden ski and to hold on the sides a ski boot to slide in. It has remnant leather strap bindings attached to the steel to hold the ski boot. There is a woven cotton tie strap holding the pair of skis together.

A colour photograph of Cross Country Ski Hire in Murchison Street in Marysville in Victoria.A colour photograph of Cross Country Ski Hire in Murchison Street in Marysville in Victoria. This business, along with most of the businesses in Murchison Street, was destroyed in the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires.murchison street, cross country ski hire, marysville, victoria, photograph, 2009 black saturday bushfires

A digital copy of a colour photograph of Cross Country Ski Hire in Marysville in Victoria.A digital copy of a colour photograph of Cross Country Ski Hire in Marysville in Victoria. This building, along with most of the town of Marysville, was destroyed in the 2009 Black Saturday bushfires.marysville, victoria, cross country ski hire, ski hire, lake mountain, 2009 black saturday bushfires