A final exam on skiing history and geography just before the snowguns start blasting.

Guess statues & ski areas
Six photos of statues at ski areas - can you name the ski areas where these statues are located and the individuals depicted?
1. http://www.snowjournal.com/images/gallery_snowjournal/4b1558c20d929.jpg
2. http://www.snowjournal.com/images/gallery_snowjournal/4b15596087e25.jpg
3. http://www.snowjournal.com/images/gallery_snowjournal/4b1559f45e96e.jpg
4. http://www.snowjournal.com/images/gallery_snowjournal/4b155a52daea6.jpg
5. http://www.snowjournal.com/images/gallery_snowjournal/4b155aa3db7d4.jpg
6. http://www.snowjournal.com/images/gallery_snowjournal/4b155ad94add1.jpg

#1 Stein Erickson? - Deer Valley

One of em gotta be Andy on MPC...

#3 Hannes Schneider Canmore
#6 Snowshoe Thompson Tahoe

Correct. Three down and three to go!

Andy don't need no stinking statue. He's a legend in his own mind.

So..are you saying there isn't a statue of me up on MPC..its all in my mind? ...I QUIT...

I'll take a guess at number 2. Whiteface. It is dedicated to the 10th Mountain Division. There is a monument, given by the people of Italy, near the top of the lift on 'little whiteface'. It's not this picture but a rock from Italy with a plaque on it. The rock comes from Riva Ridge, site of one of their most famous battles. There are a dozen or more trails named Riva Ridge around the country, the most famous at Vail. The picture could also be from Ski Cooper in Colorado, near Camp Hale where the mtn. troops trained. There is a Cat Ski operation called Chicago Ridge there. I've skied it.

Number 6 is Snowshoe Thompson, who carried the mail in Tahoe for 20+ years, and that's a California flag so it is definitely Tahoe on the Calif. side. I'll guess Sugar Bowl.

Lastly, here is a dead giveaway for you,
http://media.signonsandiego.com/general/media/images/winterchecklist-mammoth-p.jpg

That would be Cranmore, NH, first lift served place I ever skied, 1954. Canmore is a great ski town in Alberta between Calgary and Banff. I'd rather be there than NH.

Hints:
#2 depicts a couple who pioneered ski area developments in Colorado
#4 individual is one of the skiing greats who just retired from World Cup, location is the ski area where he grew up
#5 five-time olympian, this person worked for ABC as TV color commentator for 1964 and 68 Winter Olympics. Statue dedicated in 2008, four years after his death.

#2 I was going to go with Ed & Dolores LaChapelle; no idea where the statue might be.

In response to hundreds of curious PMs , here are the answers to this quiz:

1. Deer Valley UT, Stein Eriksen
2. Keystone CO, Max and Edna Dercum
3. Cranmore New Hampshire, Hannes Schneider
4. Flachau Austria, Hermann Maier
5. Lake Placid, NY, Art Devlin
6. Boreal CA, Snowshoe Thompson
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A final exam on skiing history and geography just before the snowguns start blasting.

Guess statues & ski areas
Six photos of statues at ski areas - can you name the ski areas where these statues are located and the individuals depicted?
1. http://www.snowjournal.com/images/gallery_snowjournal/4b1558c20d929.jpg
2. http://www.snowjournal.com/images/gallery_snowjournal/4b15596087e25.jpg
3. http://www.snowjournal.com/images/gallery_snowjournal/4b1559f45e96e.jpg
4. http://www.snowjournal.com/images/gallery_snowjournal/4b155a52daea6.jpg
5. http://www.snowjournal.com/images/gallery_snowjournal/4b155aa3db7d4.jpg
6. http://www.snowjournal.com/images/gallery_snowjournal/4b155ad94add1.jpg

1 is Deer Valley
2 is Keystone

the rest ???