Arapahoe Basin

Arapahoe Basin
Arapahoe Basin Ski Area

A-Basin is known as the legend when in 1945 - 46, the Winter Sports Committee of the Denver Chamber of Commerce hired two men to make a statewide survey of potential ski area sites - Laurance "Larry" A. Jump, a Dartmouth grad and 10th Mountain Division veteran, and Frederick "Sandy" Schauffler, a Amherst grad and member of the 1940 Olympic ski team. At the time, only Berthoud Pass qualified as a winter sports area.

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