Brief by Central Staff
Ski History – April 2006 – Colorado Central Magazine
Until recently, it was presumed that recreational skiing began in the 1880s in Irwin, a mining camp in Gunnison County.
But the Rio Grand County Museum in Del Norte has discovered an earlier club. The March 3, 1877, edition of the San Juan Prospector, a newspaper published in Del Norte, had an article headlined “Summit’s Snow Shoe Club.”