Thredbo Alpine Museum in Thredbo Village, New South Wales, Australia | Non-profit organisation

Thredbo Alpine Museum

Locality: Thredbo Village, New South Wales, Australia

Phone: +61 411 224 356

Address: Thredbo Alpine Hotel 2625 Thredbo Village, NSW, Australia

Website: http://www.thredboalpinemuseum.org.au

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25.01.2022 Sit back and give yourself 1 x hour - to enjoy Franks amazing #alpine #skiing #history his #life #story The interview is in Czech with English subtitles - Frank - our oldest #Olympian charts his life - his escape in 1948 from the former communist Czechoslovakia - (the #Czech Republic) - to #Stanton am #Arlberg then to #Australia and finally settling in #Thredbo in the #Snowy #Mountains of NSW Interviewer: Ondrej Bohac - Embassy of the Czech Republic in Canberra... Video: Randy Weiman - www.hotshots.net.au See more

25.01.2022 The formative years of the #NSW #National and #Olympic #alpine #ski #racing development program - and prior to the beginnings of the #ThredboSkiRaceClub - ‘In other words the ski racers and the ski controlling bodies were encouraging the development of the Thredbo Valley to raise the standards for Australian downhill racing. It is a story that hasn’t been told properly I think. The following year, I think it was 1955, was the Olympic selection year for the Cortina Olympics i...n 1956 and George Chisholm decided we would have a proper Olympic training squad and we should all get together and get proper training. So it was organised that about seven or eight of us were invited to join this training squad to go to Cooma Hut at Perisher. Rudi Wirth, an instructor at the Chalet, was appointed the coach and I think six or seven of us trained there. Again, I don’t remember us using ski lifts at that stage. Danny Coleman had work commitments. I think he joined us for a few days. There was Bob Arnott, Bill Davy, Bruce Dyson and Jimmy Walker, who I had met in the 1950s during my first visit to The Chalet. Gordon and Billy Day ex Olympians were in the squad. We trained there and after a week we had the first championships on which Olympic selection were made. There were three Alpine Championships, NSW, the Victorian Alpine Championships, and for the first time ever in the history of skiing in Australia and the last time to date, the National Championships were held at my home mountain at Ben Lomond.’ Excerpt - Shann Turnbull Oral History - Please visit our website for the complete version :- www.thredboalpinemuseum.org.au

25.01.2022 #thredbo #resort & #Snowy #Mountains #alpine #history TONY SPONAR CENTENARY .......... personal stories ........... Robert Nylander reminisces about Tony Sponar........ I have so many stories with Tony, I will make it short..... We met skiing in St Anton Austria, where I spent the winters and Tony was a regular visitor. He showed me all the nooks and crannies of the snowy mountains, on my first visit 1972. He was still in Sponars Lakeside Inn, we skied regularly and partied. One year he organised a full, untracked powder tour of the whole main range, His skidoos had search and rescue permits in the park. In 1976 I participated in the first Alpine Hang Gliding World Championship. In Australia I started flying and introduced Tony to flying also in the main range, eventually we flew off the peak of Kossie and I let Tony go first, he later got in the Guinness book of World Records for that achievement; first man to fly from the peak of the Aussie continent.

23.01.2022 #ThredboResort - some early shots - much more #thredbo #alpine #history at - www.thredboalpinemuseum.org.au (Photos: Collman Family Collection)

23.01.2022 The lead photo is from the #ThredboAlpineMuseum A comprehensive review of the Twin Valleys Chairlift - Text - Rick Walkom...Continue reading

21.01.2022 Tony Sponar Centenary - media at the time always associated Antonin Sponar as a driving force behind the development of #thredbo - a true #SnowyMountains #pioneer and one of the founders of Thredbo Village - Comic Book sample photos - thank you Martin Nekola - (Who would be interested in a comic book on Tonys pioneering and adventurous life-story - Snowy Mountains primary school children perhaps?)

21.01.2022 The #thredbo #ski #school was predominately dominated by #Austrians in the 1960s and 70s - however Leonard Erharter the legendary Director of the Thredbo Ski School would readily hire instructors whose experience and qualifications met his exacting technical standards - #Swiss KARL & URSULA BERCHTOLD were such a couple - You can read their story about their early ski-instructing years in #australia #switzerland and #north #america - ... Please refer to Oral History on our website www.thredboalpinemuseum.org.au Photo: Leonard Erharter - June 1967 cover - Ski Australia (Kenmure Press)

20.01.2022 #thredbo #thredboskipatrol VALE Dr Nickel Crombie... We lost our dear friend and long time THS member Nick Crombie aged 89 some weeks ago. Many of his close friends at the high point of the pandemic were not even aware of his passing. Nick was privately cremated on 27th April 2020 - just an intimate family affair. Dearly loved husband of Beverley; loving father and father-in-law of Andrew and Gen, Sally and Andrew, Campbell and Sachiko; proud grandfather of Alec, Annabel, Hugh, Alexandra, Ellie and Sam, and fond brother of Fiona (UK). Nick was one of the principal medicos in the early 1970s who formulated the first aid Emergency Care manual which Steve Breathour was later to compile. This manual became the officially recognized ASPA (Australian Ski Patrol Association) Advanced Emergency Care Manual in 1986 and is utilized as the basis for on-the-hill patient care and retrieval by all Australian Ski Patrols to this day. Nick was a life member of the Thredbo Ski Patrol Association and a life member of the Australian Ski Patrol Association. A retired anesthetist and a keen yachtsman a member of RPAYC - Nick had a big heart and was always generous to a fault. Nick acknowledged that he was a hopeless golfer, he was much more interested in health wine and food; happiness and the pursuit of pleasure. We will miss him greatly.

20.01.2022 Triple Olympian and FIS World Cup winner Steve Lee spearheads the latest group of snowsports legends announced today as recipients of the #SnowAustraliaMedal. T...he 9-strong list features #CrossCountry skiers Christopher Allan, David Hislop and Chris Heberle, and #Alpine skiers Alistair Guss, Marilla Guss, Ondine McGlashan, Richard Biggins and Peter Forras. Read more https://bit.ly/3owXFx6 Australian Olympic Team Olympic Winter Institute of Australia Steve Lee's Support Tribe

18.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS! - #Thredbos - Frank Prihoda & Christine Davy SNOW AUSTRALIA - MEDAL RECIPIENTS... https://www.snow.org.au/view/online/&id=ajt5eoxdcbhdbl9n

18.01.2022 #ThredboAlpineMuseum - March Quiz - who is this and whereabouts? #thredbo resort early 1960s - (photo:- Collman Family Collection)

18.01.2022 When time slides backwards............. #alpine #ski #history - a photo tribute - Elyne & Tom Mitchell #snow #backcountry #SnowyMountains #freeriders - #ski-touring to #adventure - heading out from #Thredbo ............ ... Backcountry ski- touring - so very popular nowadays - Elyne & Tom Mitchell - our legendary ski-touring #pioneers - alpine explorers and trailblazers - many decades before tourings more recent revival - Read Elynes amazing story about her backcountry exploits - Please refer to Oral History on our website www.thredboalpinemuseum.org.au Photos: Mitchell Family Collection

17.01.2022 #thredbo #resort #alpine #history #milestone - April 19th 1949 - - 71 year anniversary - ... #StAnton am #Arlberg and the Thredbo AussieCzech Connection April 19th the day on which Tony Sponar, Frank Prihoda and Karel Nekvapil ceased operations and packed up their mechanized ski-lift in St Christoph in the Arlberg - eventually migrating to #Australia

17.01.2022 Sit back and give yourself 1 x hour - to enjoy Frank's amazing #alpine #skiing #history his #life #story The interview is in Czech with English subtitles - Frank - our oldest #Olympian charts his life - his escape in 1948 from the former communist Czechoslovakia - (the #Czech Republic) - to #Stanton am #Arlberg then to #Australia and finally settling in #Thredbo in the #Snowy #Mountains of NSW Interviewer: Ondrej Bohac - Embassy of the Czech Republic in Canberra... Video: Randy Weiman - www.hotshots.net.au See more

15.01.2022 Thredbo before 1962. Frank Hurley photo from NLA.

15.01.2022 Once again we celebrate #ThredboResort’s fascinating #alpine #architectural #heritage - the #club #lodges in #thredbo and the #SnowyMountains and the #pioneers associated with these developments - No 2) in our biannual series of posts - documenting Thredbo’s architecture The first club lodge - ... CRACKENBACK SKI CLUB Crackenback Ski Club’s lodge was built in 1957 and was the first lodge at Thredbo. The founding members of Crackenback were also instrumental in the formation of Thredbo itself; in its corporate structure, locating and establishing the first tow and through to designing and building the main road into Thredbo. Photos: Crackenback Ski Club

14.01.2022 Australia's oldest living Winter Olympian, and #SnowAustraliaMedal recipient, Frank Prihoda is today celebrating his 99th birthday. Happy Birthday Frank! https://bit.ly/301MZv5 Australian Olympic Team Olympic Winter Institute of Australia

14.01.2022 CANDLELIGHT LODGE Celebrating the fascinating #history of our #alpine #architectural #heritage - the #commercial lodges in #thredbo and the #snowymountainsnsw and the #pioneers associated with these buildings. No 1) in a biannual series of posts - covering Thredbos architecture ... Candlelight Lodge is steeped in village history being the first commercial lodge built in 1957 and continues to embrace the Tyrolean spirit of the mountains first brought here by our post-war migrants working on the Snowy Hydro Scheme who went on to develop ski resort infrastructure and accommodation. Perhaps a little bit of Austria and southern. - Candlelight Lodge #candlelight - Suzanne & Kornel Deseo - officially opened Candlelight on Easter in 1957 - Suzanne Davidson - An Oral History - Please visit our website to access the complete version - www.thredboalpinemuseum.org.au

13.01.2022 Last nights fantastic #thredbo #resort 99th birthday celebrations for our #australian #olympic #legend - Frank Prihoda - Photos:- Randy Weiman

13.01.2022 Our heartfelt condolences go out to the people of #Kiandra - the birthplace of #Australian #skiing recently devastated with the destruction of their community and some important irreplaceable historical #heritage buildings. Thank you #ThredboResort for the timely updates on the current critical #firestorm situation. Some good news for our #Thredbo residents including some of our #pioneers, who are now able to return back home to the village. The photos from the early 1960s ...illustrate how far the village has grown. Of course every Thredbo building is precious yet the #ThredboAlpineMuseums world-class and irreplaceable #WinterSportsCollection and many of our irreplaceable #heritage lodges remain under threat. Thank you to our courageous #Fire and Rescue NSW personnel who have volunteered to stay behind and fight during this critical period, to endeavor to save the village. (Photos Collman Family Collection).

12.01.2022 Australias oldest living Winter Olympian, and #SnowAustraliaMedal recipient, Frank Prihoda is today celebrating his 99th birthday. Happy Birthday Frank! https://bit.ly/301MZv5 Australian Olympic Team Olympic Winter Institute of Australia

12.01.2022 #thredbo #ski #school #alpine #history https://www.thredbo.com.au//a-40-year-love-affair-with-t/

12.01.2022 Yes we may be closed - yet as we all #stayhome to #flattenthecurve - we will continue to post some great #thredbo #alpine #stories and content to keep you informed and entertained - Including articles of #international #alpine #skiing significance............... Hannes Schneider Meister Cup Race Marks a Century of Ski Films... Hannes Schneider, the founder of the Arlberg method of skiing and ski teaching which became the basis of the development of the mountain resort industry, was also the worlds first star of ski films. The 24th annual Hannes Schneider Race, a ski race to benefit the New England Ski Museum scheduled at Cranmore Mountain Resort on March 14, 2020, is especially notable because 2020 falls a full century since Hannes Schneider first appeared in a ski film produced by German filmmaker Arnold Fanck, the first of a series that would make him famous throughout Europe and the world. Fanck was a devoted skier who first skied in the Black Forest of Germany around 1908. He struggled to find and refine a technique that would suit the high mountain terrain he favored, finally evolving a combination of a telemark and stem Christie. Seeing Hannes Schneider skiing in Davos with the Swiss expert Ed Capiti before World War I was a revelation for Fanck, and when the war was ended he wrote to Hannes and proposed that they work together. The Wonder of the Ski, the first Fanck-Schneider collaboration, was followed by A Fox-hunt on skis through the Engadine, and these two films together with one by Sepp Allgeier provided the basis for the instructional book Wunder des Schneeschuhs published by Fanck with a co-author credit to Schneider. Illustrated with clips from Allgeiers slow motion films, the book was translated into English (and Japanese in an unauthorized edition) and became a classic source of instructional advice at a time when there were not yet many experienced ski instructors in the U.S. Through Fancks ski films, Hannes Schneider became a household name in much of central Europe, and undoubtedly contributed to the outcry raised when he was detained by unfriendly Nazi party members in the wake of the 1938 Anschluss. Though the Fanck-Schneider ski films were not the first to be shot, they may have been the most influential of the early productions. A full century on, film remains the best medium for showing the grace and beauty of skiing, the vehicle used by the great filmmakers who came after Fanck such as John Jay, Warren Miller, Dick Barrymore, Roger Brown, Greg Stump and many more. Article - Thank You............. New England Ski Museum newenglandskimuseum.org

11.01.2022 #ThredboAlpineMuseum - DECEMBER QUIZ - #Thredbo Ski-School - the first decade - #Thredbo #Ski #Instructors - 1967 - Anyone know the surnames of Gerry and Brian? L to R. standing: Helmut Steinocker, Ivo Deubler, Henni Larese, Leonhard Erharter (Director), Gerry ??, Geoff Meredith, Karl Berchtold, Helmut Pfister, Sigi Wolf. ... Seated: Vic Dalziel, Walter Auer, Brian ??, Walter Perwein, Herman Muchenschnabel, Gernot Schaermer and Hannes Kurath. (Photo - Vic Dalziel. Post: The Roof of Australia History Huts and Trails - Thanks, Fiona Jane).

11.01.2022 The #thredbo #ski #school was predominately dominated by #Austrians in the 1960’s and 70’s - however Leonard Erharter the legendary Director of the Thredbo Ski School would readily hire instructors whose experience and qualifications met his exacting technical standards - #Swiss KARL & URSULA BERCHTOLD were such a couple - You can read their story about their early ski-instructing years in #australia #switzerland and #north #america - ... Please refer to 'Oral History' on our website www.thredboalpinemuseum.org.au Photo: Leonard Erharter - June 1967 cover - Ski Australia (Kenmure Press)

11.01.2022 Beer! That fantastic tipple that both of your FB administrators are rather fond of; and back in the homeland - where the original Pilsener was first laid down in Pilsen in 1842 - the photo shows a classic example. And should you be at the #thredboresort attending the #kosciuszko #craft-beer #festival on Saturday 8th - tasting some marvelous beers - you may need a diversion for an hour or two. Were you aware that #skiing in #Australia began as early as the 1880s in the #Snow...yMountains? Come down and find out much more, visit us at the #thredboalpinemuseum - our #volunteers will be on hand to guide you through our #world class #snow-sports #collection which highlights the #skis of the early days - our current display focuses on the 1989 - 30th anniversary of the Thredbo Ski World Cup - and the #history of #Thredbo. The ThredboAlpineMuseum is open every weekend from 1pm to 5pm running up to and including the Easter break - for further information:- thredboalpinemuseum.org.au

11.01.2022 Memories of #thredbo and the #thredbo ski school - posted by Roland Wanner - thanks Roland -

10.01.2022 The #ThredboResort have kindly donated the remaining stock of the Jim Darby book - Thredbo 50 - to support us at the #ThredboAlpineMuseum. You will receive -Thredbo 50 - as well as - Starting Thredbo - the book written by Geoff Hughes - one of Thredbos founders - together with our latest award winning publication:-THREDBO: Pioneers Legends and Community - 3 x Books for the price of one! - for only $50! - simply an unprecedented one-off Christmas Holiday Special deal!... Please go to our website to order:- www.thredboalpinemuseum.org.au And navigate to the shop to place your order - and within a day or two you will receive your 3 x copies in the mail - all three for just $50 - Help support our #volunteers - WE VALUE YOUR DONATION ! - Proceeds from your purchase help support, preserve and maintain the ThredboAlpineMuseum Snow-sports Collection.

09.01.2022 Thredbo Alpine Museum now open welcome back Greg Bayliss. ABC Canberra Thredbo Alpine Museum open till 5.00pm today.

08.01.2022 A wonderful early shot of #thredbo 1957 - thank you Rod & Roof of Australia (Photo Danny Collman Collection)

08.01.2022 #thredboalpinemuseum met up with Rudolf Mraz the husband of Tony Sponars grandniece in #Praha this autumn. Thank you Rudolf for the #thredbo and #SnowyMountains memorabilia and photos from your TonySponar Collection - in a time when the SMH cost a mere 4 pence!

08.01.2022 #thredbo #ski #patrol founder Tommy Tomasi - the #SnowyMountains and #ThredboResort - were an evolving crucible of #Australias #multicultural #history - an exemplar for the nation. Video: thanks, Snowy Hydro - https://www.facebook.com/snowyhydroltd/videos/989463024860129/

07.01.2022 #thredbo #resort #alpine #history To open the mountain more staff are working diligently especially with the commissioning of the new #gondola - compared to the numbers of #lifties in past times - depicting a youngish Errol and Wayne - looks like the crew of mid 1970s - Photos: Frank Hussey

07.01.2022 Yes we are OPEN this weekend! Come visit the Thredbo Alpine Museum and browse over our book & video sales outlet between 1pm to 5pm. Were following state health safety guidelines regarding COVID-19. Our capacity will be limited to 10 x people in the ThredboAlpineMuseum at one time. Please keep a 6 foot distance between you and everyone else enjoying the museum. If youre sick, we ask that you please visit another time. For the safety of our staff and those around you, we r...equire everyone wear a face mask during their visit. #museumsmatter #thredbo #alpine #ski #history #snowboardhistory #winter #snow #skiing #snowboarding #shred #nordicskiing #alpineskiing #biathlon #backcountryskiing #halfpipe #snowsurf #skiracing #skifashion

07.01.2022 CONGRATULATIONS! - #Thredbo’s - Frank Prihoda & Christine Davy SNOW AUSTRALIA - MEDAL RECIPIENTS... https://www.snow.org.au/view/online/&id=ajt5eoxdcbhdbl9n

06.01.2022 Please be aware that prior to the COVID-19 crisis the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Canberra was planning a series of events in 2020 to commemorate 100 years of Czechoslovakian embassy and consulate affairs operating in other lands. One of these events in April was to commemorate Czech Footprints in Thredbo. Last week our committee was informed by Ondej Boh the Deputy Head of Mission, at the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Canberra , that the meeting would be postp...Continue reading

05.01.2022 Tommy Tomasi skiing at 94 - (Tommy turned 94 last week - intending to post on his birthday but our apologies - as site was down) - your 2 x administrators -

04.01.2022 Perhaps some of you Thredbo skiers missed #skiing at #thredbo this season - and were unaware of the newly constructed Thredbo Ski Patrol Operations Centre! 2020 saw the #ThredboSkiPatrol move into a newly designed command and operations centre at #Merritt’s - George Freuden and many others have contributed over the decades - in making the #Thredbo patrol what it is today - #Australia’s, and one of the world’s greatest patrols - #TSPA ... #Thredbo #Ski #Patrol #Association George set up the Australian Ski Patrol Association; he co-founded the International Ski Patrol Federation; he was on the legal and safety committee for the International Ski Federation; he set up the international patrol exchange schemes with Val d’Isere in France and Canada and he spent time on the National Parks Advisory Committee. (George Freuden Oral History - see website) PART 1 -The Formative Years ‘On the June long weekend of 1957 TommyTomasi and Danny Coleman, both employed by SMHEA as hydrographers, and Geoff McClutchey co-founded a small informal group of volunteers to assist skiers who found themselves in difficulty; which in 1958 saw the formation of the Thredbo Ski Patrol.’ (Excerpt from - THREDBO SKI PATROL ASSOCIATION 60th anniversary review - (Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3) (Please refer to ‘articles’ on our website for the complete manuscript) The initial patrol for the 1958 season (the year John Rumble joined), was Doug Thatcher, Roy Sturgeon and Noel Weston. The minutes also showed that the 1959 committee consisted of David Crozier President, with Adrian Studley, plus George Derschko and Roy Tutty. (Excerpt from John Rumble Oral History - see website) www.thredboalpinemuseum.org.au

04.01.2022 William (Bob) Arnott 1922 - 2016 Discipline: Alpine Skiing Olympic participations: Oslo 1952... Significant Career Results: National Slalom Champion, 1953 Medal awarded in: 2020 "I was made for mountains and snow" - so begins Bob Arnotts book Seventy-five seasons, narrating the history of the Ski Club of Australia. https://www.snow.org.au/legacy/medal-bob-arnott/ Full article - thank you Snow Australia - For the Bob Arnott Oral History please see - OH www.thredboalpinemuseum.org.au

02.01.2022 #ThredboResort and the #ThredboAlpineMuseum hosted a bevy of distinguished #travel #writers in the ThredboAlpineMuseum yesterday - Frank our oldest living #Australian #Olympian talked at length about competing in the alpine skiing disciplines at the 1956 Cortina Winter Olympic Games. Randy as MC gave a classic overview of the Thredbo Story - the history of Thredbo and the importance of our World Class Alpine Collection on display - Randy covered his historical background as ...one of the leading lights in the world of Hot Dogging and Aerials as well - with a long standing commitment to the village - running his photography business in Thredbo over many decades - Jerry discussed the importance of Oral History and how the 31 Oral Histories became the basis of our award winning publication Thredbo:Pioneers:Legends:Community - their ready access via our website - as well as other key articles covering important historical aspects of Thredbos development - with two decades of experience during the formative years of Thredbo Ski Patrol, Jerry pointed out that George Freuden and the Thredbo Ski Patrol were instrumental in starting ASPA (Australian Ski Patrol Association) and FIPS ( Federation Internationale Patrol de Ski) - Rebel donated copies of Thredbo: 50 Years - a DVD to help inform our guests about Thredbo - and talked about its theme - in that Thredbo is Australias premier ski resort; back in 2007 we celebrated its 50th year as a year round Alpine village - Rebel talked about Thredbo: 50 Years, a film that revisits memories of a few pioneers of the Australian snow sports industry. Some were immigrants fleeing Europe who sought the landscape of their homelands, a few were fun loving Aussies, but all were determined to make the Hidden Valley their home - migrants such as Tommy Tomasi, who founded the #ThredboSkiPatrol and many others - Thredbo - a crucible and a microcosm of Australias rich multicultural history - L to R - Jerry Krejzar, Rowena Ryan, Ben Groundwater, Frank Prihoda, Helen Hayes, Catherine Marshall, Ian Lowe, Rob McFarland, Randy Weiman and Rebel Penfold-Russell

02.01.2022 #thredbo #resort #alpine #history A collage of photos - of well known characters from our past - who are they? Photos: Collman Family Collection

02.01.2022 A groundbreaking victory by this legend of Australian Alpine Skiing nearly 50 years ago. Name the who, what and when in this classic shot! #auswintersports