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A snowcat is stopped in front of the Winter Park Ski Shop at Winter Park Ski Resort in Colorado. Skis lean against a rack in the foreground. Circa 1960s.

An instructor demonstrates to ski school students how to walk uphill in skis at the base of an unidentified ski area in Colorado. The instructor wears a light blue jacket and black ski pants. In the background is a parking lot filled with cars, and a ski lodge building.

A Colorado Specta-Vues postcard by Rock Hillendale. Captioned on the reverse: "Peak 8 Ski Area - Breckenridge, Colorful Colorado - Rounder's Run and Ego Lane in the shadow of magnificent (13,100') Peak 8."

Looking east over the parking lot at the base of Peak 8 of the Breckenridge Ski Resort. A person is standing on the deck of the Bergenhof Bar and Restaurant. View of Bald Mountain in the background. January 1965. Printed on Kodak Paper.

Looking east over the parking lot at the base of Peak 8 of the Breckenridge Ski Resort in January 1965. On the roof of the building in the foreground is a red dragon wood shape cut-out. Printed on Kodak Paper.

View of the ski runs on Peak 8 of the Breckenridge ski area in Colorado. In the foreground are piles of rock tailings left behind by gold dredging operations.

Breckenridge ski area facilities and parking lot at the base of Peak 8. The buildings, from left to right: ski school meeting place, operations building and ticket office (nicknamed "Ullrhom") and a ski shop. The practice hill and T-bar lift (a type of surface lift usually found on beginner ski slopes) are east of the facilities and parking lot. On January 10, 1966 the recently completed Ullrhom building exploded, killing one man and injuring 12 others. The cause was a suspected propane gas leak.

Postcard, "Colorado Photography" by John Topolnicki. Caption on the reverse includes the four (4) b's Breckenridge logo: "Breckenridge Ski Area; I-70/US 6 and Colorado 9; Ski Country; Colorado" and "Base facilities from the left to right. Bergenhof - #1 Chair lift terminal - Ullr building and Administrative Offices. Parking lots in background and loaded chair in foreground."

Title quoted from handwritten text on the item: "Breckenridge Slopes from Boreas Road". View of the ski runs on Peak 8 at the Breckenridge ski area. East of Breckenridge, Colorado.

Title quoted from handwritten text on the item: "The Ullrhom, Breckenridge Ski Area". Skiers gather outside the operations building at the Peak 8 base of the ski area, where the lift ticket offices, rental shop and lunch room was located. The building was nicknamed the "Ullrhom" in honor of "Ullr", Nordic patron saint of skiers. In 1966 a propane leak at the Ullr Holm caused an explosion resulting in the death of one man and injuring 12 others. The slide transparency support/holder is dated February 1967; the photograph was probably taken before 1966.

Title quoted from handwritten text on the item: "View from Springmeyer, Breckenridge Ski Area". Looking east on Peak 8 of the Breckenridge ski area in Colorado. The ski run was named after Mr. Alva Springmeyer, a Breckenridge resident circa 1940s-1950s, although it was misspelled as Springmeier.

Ski trails on a mountain slope, at an unidentified ski area in Colorado.

Title quoted from handwritten text on the item: "Bergenhof Chalet, Breckenridge Ski Area". The Bergenhof restaurant opened the day before the first official opening of the ski area on December 16, with a party to mark the start of the 1961 season. It was one of three original buildings that made up the Peak 8 base area facilities. It was demolished in 2013. The facility on the right is the ski lift terminal for Chairlift 1.

Title quoted from handwritten text on the item: "Romance of the Rock Piles and Breckenridge Ski Area". Shows the gold dredging tailings or rock piles along Blue River, on the west side of Breckenridge, Colorado. Circa 1967.

Ski trails on a mountain slope with alpenglow (rosy light of a setting or rising sun seen on high mountains). At an unidentified ski area in Colorado.

The town of Breckenridge, Colorado, and the Breckenridge ski area at dawn. Pictured far right (west side of North Main) is the Gold Pan Restaurant and Bar.

Title quoted from handwritten text on the item: "Breckenridge Ski Area". Shows skiers on Chairlift 1 and Peak 8 base area facilities. The building on the left is the Bergenhof Bar and Restaurant; on the right is Chairlift 1 lift terminal. Parking lots in background.

Title quoted from handwritten text on the item: "View of Ego Lane from Bergenhof Terrace". The Bergenhof cafeteria or restaurant was located in the Peak 8 base area of the Breckenridge ski resort in Colorado. Ski runs higher up the slope are (left to right): Spruce, Rounder's Run, and Little Johnny.

Title quoted from handwritten text on the item: "Peak 8 in the Ten Mile Range of the Breckenridge Ski Area".

Title quoted from handwritten text on the item: "Daybreak at Breckenridge Ski Area and Breckenridge". Colorado, circa 1967.