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This beautiful reproduction poster has been re-mastered from a Splitkein Ski poster, advertising the Timberline Lodge and skiing facilities located on the slopes of Mount Hood, Oregon. This image was originally painted by commercial artist, Harald Damsleth in 1938, and various ski resorts added their names to the unsigned version of the stock art in the following years.
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TIMBERLINE LODGE HISTORY & SPLITKEIN SKIS
Timberline Lodge ski area is the ski and snowboarding area of Timberline Lodge, a National Historic Landmark in the U.S. state of Oregon. It is one of a few ski areas in the United States with most of the skiable terrain below the main lodge. It is located on the south face of Mount Hood, about 60 miles east of Portland, accessible via the Mount Hood Scenic Byway.
The lodge was constructed between 1936 and 1938 as a Works Progress Administration project during the Great Depression. That year, Timberline opened as Oregon's first destination ski resort with a portable rope tow. The next year, the Magic Mile chairlift opened, as well as Silcox Hut, which sits about one thousand vertical feet and a mile above the main lodge, and was the original unloading and warming hut.
Summer skiing and summer race camps began at Timberline in 1956. Before the Palmer chairlift was constructed in 1983 (which provides access above the 7,000-foot level), the conditions at Timberline allowed skiing from the Mile November through July or August. With the Palmer, a skiable surface is available year-round. Timberline is the only ski area in the states with lift accessed skiing and snowboarding all twelve months of the year. Ski and snowboard camps draw thousands of people to the slopes during the months of June, July and August.
In the 1860s, Samuel Leeds Allen established the S. L. Allen Co. to manufacture farm equipment, and various other items he invented. The manufacturer slowed during the winter months, so Allen added a line of snow sport products to supplement his line. Allen was a "coasting" enthusiast since his youth, and he developed the Flexible Flyer sled. The sled became a winter favorite, enjoyed by generations of American children. As a further diversification, S. L. Allen Company made wooden skis, especially during World War II.
In the 1930s, Splitkein developed the laminated skis, and S. L. Allen used its Flexible Flyer name to partner with Splitkein and produce laminated wooden skis. The Splitkein ski brand was manufactured by several different ski companies, with strict specifications for construction. The Mercury line was a low-priced, hickory ridge-top ski brand of Flexible Flyer. When metal skis became popular in the late 1950s, Flexible Flyer wooden skis faded from the marketplace.
