Western America Skisport Museum

WESTERN AMERICA SKISPORT MUSEUM

CALIFORNIA POINT OF HISTORICAL INTEREST HEV-003

DOWNHILL SKI RACING HISTORY IN THE 

WESTERN HEMISPHERE FIRST BEGAN IN 

CALIFORNIA CIRCA 1857, AND IN THIS 

FAMOUS DONNER PASS OF THE SIERRA 

NEVADA THE AUBURN SKI CLUB PRESENTS A FULL 

EXHIBITION OF PIONEERED MANPOWER TRANSPORTATION 

AND SKISPORT HISTORY AS PREPARED BY HISTORIAN 

WILLIAM B. BERRY.

ERECTED 1978 BY AUBURN SKI CLUB WITH COOPERATION 

OF NEVADA COUNTY HISTORICAL LANDMARKS COMMISSION. 

FEBURARY 19, 1973