“Skiing in my day was as much hiking as it was going downhill.”

Those were the words of late Black Mountain ski school director, 10th Mountain Division World War II veteran and original Eastern Slope Ski Club instructor J. Arthur Doucette in an interview in 1988 about the early days of skiing in the White Mountains in the 1930s.

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