Sahalie Ski Club lodge, 1931.” data-image-selection=”{“x1″:75,”y1″:45,”x2″:2740,”y2″:1953,”width”:2665,”height”:1908}”>
Both skiing’s favorite catch phrase and its biggest myth: There are no friends on powder days. In truth, community is—and always has been—both the why and how of snow sports. And long before we were split into skiers and snowboarders, Stevens devotees and Crystal enthusiasts, a different kind of affiliation shaped alpine culture in the Northwest: ski clubs.
“Norwegian immigrants brought their passion for ski jumping with them,” says John Lundin, ski historian and author of a book on local ski history, and Western Washington had a lot of Scandinavian transplants. One club erected a jump in Cle Elum in
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