Posters show golden age of winter sport

Anyone can enjoy the beauty of ski posters.
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Attach a long, flat board to each foot. Use a metal pole in each hand to propel yourself forward, then zoom, zig and zag down the steep, snowy, slippery slope of a mountainside.
Ski bunnies fanatically follow the season's first falling flurry. But some take a different slant on the slopes, preferring instead to enjoy the sport by sitting in a ski lodge, lounging by a fireplace and sipping something soothing.
However, no matter how one votes in such a ski poll, anyone can enjoy the beauty of ski posters.
"The Art of Skiing: Vintage Posters From the Golden Age of Winter Sports" by Jenny de Gex is a large-format book that celebrates the art of early 20th-century ski posters, with text and 200 color photos of examples from the 600 posters amassed by Mason Beekley, a skiing artifacts enthusiast whose collection is housed at Mammoth Lakes in California.
The posters take readers on a ski tour that starts appropriately in Norway, "the cradle of skiing," and makes its way through Europe before crossing the Atlantic to visit spots in the U.S. and finally in Canada.
The posters reproduced here depict some of the stops along the way.
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