NSA Recognizes Winter Recreation Potential of Reno 21 Dec 1930, Sun Nevada State Journal (Reno, Nevada) Newspapers.com

In the shadow of Mt. Rose, overlooking the beautiful Truckee Meadows, Washoe county’s winter sports center is located at the point where Mt. Rose highway to Lake Tahoe crosses Galena Creek. The above pictures, taken last Sunday by Roy Curtis, show the ski course and a few of the merry participants in the first ski tournament held in Nevada. The top picture shows the ski jump with Jake Pitser of Reno sailing down the slide after making a successful jump. The center picture, taken from a point near the judge’s stand, gives a view of the surrounding, snow-covered country. The lower picture is a road scene just before reaching Galena Creek. The height of the snow banks on either side indicates the depth and the work that was necessary to open the road. The inset at the right is a picture of Miss Emma Daily of Truckee, the only girl jumper in this vicinity. She made a jump of forty-three feet to score 17.64 points in last Sunday’s meet. The best jump of her class was fifty feet. The Reno Ski Club, aided by the Reno Chamber of Commerce and the Washoe county commissioners, had charge of developing the sports center.

Galena Creek Up-Ski 20 Feb 1932, Sat Reno Gazette-Journal (Reno, Nevada) Newspapers.com

Mt. Rose Upski – Wayne Poulsen 07 Nov 1939, Tue Nevada State Journal, Reno Nevada Newspapers.com

Scenes During the Carnival

Top picture is a distance view of the jumping hill at Galena creek yesterday as collegiate skiers vied in the closing event of the University of Nevada’s ski carnival. The jumper pictured here is just landing on the underbill. Lined along the sides are meet officials and photographers. Bottom right is a picture of a novice jumper about to bring sighs from the crowd as he came off the jump slightly off balance to end his leap in a prone slide to the bottom. Smallest skier at the Galena creek course yesterday is pictured at the left. Allan Ramsey, young son of Mr. and Mrs. Keston L. Ramsey of Reno, was not competing but spent the day running the hill. Young Ramsey stated he was in his third year of skiing he’s seven years old and “double stemmed” on down the hill.

Winter Carnival Galena Creek 05 Feb 1940, Mon Reno Gazette-Journal (Reno, Nevada) Newspapers.com

Crack U. S. and foreign skiers ran practice runs on the speedy Slide mountain course near here today in preparation for this weekend’s silver dollar ski derby. The fast down mountain race Sunday will climax two days of events that have already attracted an entry list of 50 persons, including experts from Switzerland, France, Canada, Norway, the New England states, Utah, Idaho, California, and Nevada. Tourney Director Warren Hart, who last year was clocked at miles per hour on the downhill run. said this year will be “much faster.” The course drops 3,000 feet in two miles. Hart said control gates have been set up at the bottom of the course to reduce contestants’ speed near the finish.

Silver Dollar Derby Gets World Attention – Reno Ski Bowl 20 Mar 1947, Thu Great Falls Tribune (Great Falls, Montana) Newspapers.com

Reno’s Silver Dollar racing course drops from the summit of 9700-foot-high Slide Mountain and non-skiers wishing to witness the event, which is scheduled to begin at 11:30 a.m. today, may do so from vantage points three miles distant at Washoe Lake.

Reno’s Silver Dollar Course 22 Mar 1947, Sat Nevada State Journal (Reno, Nevada) Newspapers.com

New amateur slalom champion of California is Dave McCoy of the Mammoth Mountain Ski club. He won the title with the form demonstrated here in the Silver Dollar Derby on Mt. Rose last weekend.

Little Yasi Teramota of the Yosemite Ski club topped several years of steadily improving ski performances by winning the downhill rare in the Silver Dollar Derby on Slide mountain last weekend. With the win went the California state downhill championship for 1948. Teramota is pictured breezing through two markers on the Slide mountain course.

Little Yasi & The Real McCoy – Silver Dollar Derby 24 Mar 1948, Wed Reno Gazette-Journal (Reno, Nevada) Newspapers.com

With three chair lifts in operation, this winter is near here, at Soda Springs, Squawl Valley, and the Sugar Bowl, and the T-bar running at Mount Rose, White Hills, and Donner Ski Ranch, another lift in the planning for the 1950-51 ski season.

It will be a mile-long lift at Mount Rose Bowl, with a vertical drop of 1,500 feet. With some of the potential runs being over three miles in length. It will open up the east side of Slide Mountain where the annual Silver Dollar Ski derby is held.

Lower Lift Planned from Mt. Rose Bowl to Slide Mountain 19 Mar 1950, Sun The Des Moines Register (Des Moines, Iowa) Newspapers.com

In 1950, the old Mt. Rose Highway was merely a summer road connecting Reno with beautiful Lake Tahoe. As the years marched on, the old SR 431 continued to be improved thus allowing winter travel to higher elevations; more terrain became easily accessible.

“This postcard view clearly demonstrates the potential for tremendous snowfall in the Tahoe Basin. This is the summit along Mount Rose Highway in July 1952. the depth of the snow is so overwhelming that it needs a photograph just to be believed. The automobiles provide a convenient sense of scale. (Courtesy of the North Lake Tahoe Historical Society)”

Reports of 20′ of snow falling from October to Jan 1, and then another 12′ in January.

Among the first to ride the Reno Ski Bowl chair lift yesterday following dedication ceremonies were District Judge Harold O. Taber and Mrs.Taber, shown in chairs. Giving them a sendoff are Ivan Sack (left), supervisor of the Toiyable National, and Carl F. Fuetsch, general manager of Washoe Development Corp. (Chamber of Commerce Photo) Reno Ski Bowl Dedicated; Gov. Russell Pulls Switch

Opening Dedication for the Reno Ski Bowl 26 Nov 1953, Thu Nevada State Journal (Reno, Nevada) Newspapers.com

Trail sign features Northwest Passage, Bull Whip, John Fremont, and Big Bonanza.