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Martin is a stop on the Northern Pacific Railroad at the east portal of its tunnel under Stampede Pass, going through the Cascade Mountains, named for the nearby Martin Creek. Since the 1920s, Northwest skiers took the Northern Pacific Railroad to Martin to take advantage of the deep snow that fell there. The story of skiing at Martin is virtually unknown these days, and Martin is one of the Lost Ski Areas of Washington.
Publication Date
12-15-2018
Publisher
John W. Lundin
Keywords
skiing, Pacific Northwest, Stampede Pass, Northern Pacific Railroad
Disciplines
United States History
Recommended Citation
Lundin, John W., "SKIING AT MARTIN THE NORTHERN PACIFIC STOP AT STAMPEDE PASS" (2018). Works by Local Authors. 12.
https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/local_authors/12
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John is a lawyer who has done extensive research and writing about skiing history. His mother, Margaret Odell, was part of Seattle’s early ski scene in the late 1930s,and as advisor to the Queen Anne Ski Club from 1938 - 1940, she took her students by train every weekend to the Milwaukee Ski Bowl for ski lessons. John is a long time skier who learned to ski on Snoqualmie Pass using wooden skis, cable bindings, leather boots and rope tows, was a member of Sahalie Ski Club, and has homes in Seattle and Sun Valley, Idaho. He is a founder of the Washington State Ski & Snowboard Museum and serves on its board. John’s book, Early Skiing on Snoqualmie Pass, won a Skade award from the International Ski History Association as outstanding regional history book for 2017. A short version of this paper appears on HistoryLink.org, the on-line encyclopedia of Washington history.