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Matters of Taste: Agassiz Lodge proves Snowbowl sports more than just skiing

In winter, all eyes are on the snow report, but it wasn’t always like that.

When a record winter delivered abundant snow in January 1915, Norwegian brothers Ole and Pete Solberg introduced the wild notion of skiing. They had grown up on skis before immigrating to Flagstaff, so the brothers carried their homemade equipment up Observatory Hill and skied down. The next day, the entire town turned out to watch the men.





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