Two skiers take a break from skiing on a ski run on Peak 8 at the Breckenridge ski area in Colorado. The man wears a striped sweater over a white turtleneck, tan ski pants and no hat. Standing upslope from him is a woman dressed in a red jacket and black ski pants. Her blonde hair is loose and covered with a light blue headband. She wears dark framed sunglasses even though the sky is overcast and cloudy.
Topolnicki Sr., John A.A dog walks across Main Street in Breckenridge. Businesses line both sides of the paved street, including (from left) Breckenridge Pharmacy, Drugs, and Liquor; a ski rental shop; a Cafe serving Coors beer and 7-Up and Coca Cola soft drinks. On the east side is the stone front building that housed Finding's Hardware Store, and a Mountain Bell telephone booth.
Topolnicki Sr., John A.A hippie holding a rock sits on a hillside overlooking the dredge piles and the town of Breckenridge, Colorado. Looking east from Shock Hill with Bald Mountain in the background. The man has shoulder length dark hair, a full beard and mustache, and is dressed in jeans, boots and a leather sleeveless vest or tunic over a striped collared shirt.
Topolnicki Sr., John A.A hippie holding a rock sits on a hillside overlooking the dredge piles and the town of Breckenridge, Colorado. Looking east from Shock Hill with Bald Mountain in the background. The man has shoulder length dark hair, a full beard and mustache, and is dressed in jeans, boots and a leather sleeveless vest or tunic over a striped collared shirt.
Topolnicki Sr., John A.A hippie holding a rock sits on a hillside overlooking the dredge piles and the town of Breckenridge, Colorado. Looking east from Shock Hill with Bald Mountain in the background. The man has shoulder length dark hair, a full beard and mustache, and is dressed in jeans, boots and a leather sleeveless vest or tunic over a striped collared shirt.
Topolnicki Sr., John A.A hippie holding a rock sits on a hillside overlooking the dredge piles and the town of Breckenridge, Colorado. At sunset, looking east from Shock Hill with Bald Mountain in the background. The man has shoulder length dark hair, a full beard and mustache, and is dressed in jeans, boots and a leather sleeveless vest or tunic over a striped collared shirt.
Topolnicki Sr., John A.Ski trails on a mountain slope, at an unidentified ski area in Colorado.
Topolnicki Sr., John A.Ski trails on a mountain slope, at an unidentified ski area in Colorado.
Topolnicki Sr., John A.A skier stops to enjoy the view from above the terminus of a chairlift, probably Chairlift 1 on Peak 8 of the Breckenridge ski area in Colorado. Chairlift 1 started at the base of Peak 8, near the Bergenhof Restaurant, and went up the slope to a point about 500 feet above tree line or timberline.
Topolnicki Sr., John A.A skier stops to enjoy the view from above the terminus of a chairlift, probably Chairlift 1 on Peak 8 of the Breckenridge ski area in Colorado. Chairlift 1 started at the base of Peak 8, near the Bergenhof Restaurant, and went up the slope to a point about 500 feet above tree line or timberline.
Topolnicki Sr., John A.A backcountry skier stops to enjoy the view from Boreas Pass of the Breckenridge ski area and the Tenmile Range. Her long blonde hair is pulled into a low ponytail and is covered with a headband.
Topolnicki Sr., John A.A skier wearing an off-white wool sweater and black wool ski pants launches into the air after hitting a kicker or hump in the snow. This maneuver is sometimes called "catching air". On a ski trail through the trees at Peak 8 of the Breckenridge ski area in Colorado.
Topolnicki Sr., John A.A woman wearing a red and white Nordic-patterned sweater and dark framed sunglasses is reclined on skis supported by ski poles stuck in very deep snow. Her long blonde hair is pulled into a low pony tail, covered with a headband. The photograph was probably taken somewhere on Boreas Pass, east of Breckenridge. In the background is a view of the ski runs on Peak 8 at the Breckenridge ski area in Colorado.
Topolnicki Sr., John A.Postcard, "Colorado Photography" by John Topolnicki. Scalloped edges. Caption on the reverse includes the four (4) b's Breckenridge logo: "Wagon Wheels in Colorful Colorado". Also, a three (3) verse poem about wagon wheels.
Topolnicki Sr., John A.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.
Topolnicki Sr., John A.An automobile drives south to Breckenridge along the Blue River on Colorado State Highway 9.
Topolnicki Sr., John A.Postcard, "Colorado Windows" by John Topolnicki. Scalloped edges. Caption on the reverse: "Winterscapes of Summit County, Colorado" and "Not even the chill of Winter can dampen the beauty of the majestic Ten Mile Range peaks that loom above (13,000 ft.) from a far-away sea level."
Topolnicki Sr., John A.Postcard, "Colorado Photography" by John Topolnicki. Scalloped edges. Caption on the reverse includes the four (4) b's Breckenridge logo: "Arapahoe Basin; Colorful Colorado; 68 miles west of Denver - US-6 Off I-70; 11 miles east of Dillon and I-70 Interchange" and "Located on the Continental Divide at an elevation of 10,800 - 12,500 the highest ski area in the country. Normal season runs from early November well into June. Modern lifts - comfortable double chairs and fast Poma lifts of varying lengths."
Topolnicki Sr., John A.Postcard, a "Colorado SPECTA-VUE" by John Topolnicki. Caption on the reverse: "Arapahoe Basin Ski Area; U S 6 - Western Slope of Loveland Pass Colorado - Ski Country U. S. A." and "Alpine skiing on (12,500') Mt. Norway from November to June. Serviced by (3) double chair lifts and (5) Poma lifts."
Topolnicki Sr., John A.Postcard, "Colorado Photography" by John Topolnicki. Scalloped edges. Caption on the reverse includes the four (4) b's Breckenridge logo: "Autumn Along Eagles Nest - Gore Range; Colorado Hwy. 9; Summit County, Colorful Colorado" and "The sublimity of this portion of the range is unconquerable. Located between Interstate Hwy. 70 interchange at Silverthorne and Green Mountain Reservoir, a Colorado State Recreational Area."
Topolnicki Sr., John A.