Tips and Topics (Jennings)

Issue: 1937 January

finest winter sport center anywhere in the world.
Count Felix Schaffgotsch, Austrian sportsman and
life-long devotee of skiing a~d winter sports was
• authorized to make a careful exploration of all pos-
sible sites along the route of the Union Pacific.
Thoroughly familiar with all the central European
sport centers-Davos, San Anton, Kitzbuhel, St.
Moritz and Murren-Count Schaffgotsch looked over
the western mountain territory with expert apprecia-
tion. He reported he had found just what he wanted
in central southern Idaho.
The great advantage of Sun Valley is its ideal
situation in a small basin surrounded by mountains,
hills and slopes largely free from timber. The base
A common sight in Sun Valley
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of the valley is 6,000 feet above sea level. The sur-
rounding hills range from 8,500 to 12,000 feet.
Brilliant sunshine with frequent snowfalls give
constant powder snow during the long season based
on ten years' statistics from the government forest
ranger.
Heavy snows arrive m December and re-
main into April.
The Sawtooth Mountain Range running east and
· west protect Sun Valley and its surrounding territory
from the cold northern gales which do so much to
spoil so many winter sports. • There are any number
of wonderful runs and excursions both long and
short.
Natural, hot springs provide out-door bath-
ing the year around.
The main building 1s Sun Valley Lodge, ultra-
modern Alpine sports hotel. The first guests will be
received during the Christmas holidays.
In Sun Valley you will see such strange sights as
skiers stripped to the waist in the middle of winter.
Bathers diving and swimming in an out-door hot
springs pool.
Sun bathers courting a sun-tan out
doors in the roofless ice igloos open to the bright
winter sunshine. There is an abundance of wild
game.
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