Alta and Vicinity

File — Box: 3, Folder: 14

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Photograph number 1: Lift on June 17, with Dee and Chick up Collins Gulch, snowed 1 foot that night
Photograph number 2: Superior from under lift
Photograph number 3: Superior, face is really very gently sloped as seen in this profile
Photograph number 4: Superior
Photograph number 5: Marble Cliffs below Alta, edge of Superior
Photograph number 6: Superior right and the Dromedaries left
Photograph number 7: Wild Cannon, Superior thru clouds
Photograph number 8: Superior
Photograph number 9: Superior, Ein sturmischer tag!
Photograph number 10: Superior and slide areas
Photograph number 11: Superior
Photograph number 12: Superior from Albion Pass
Photograph number 13: Down Little Cottonwood from Wolverine, Superior
Photograph number 14: Superior and slide areas
Photograph number 15: Well up above the cascade, Salt Lake Valley
Photograph number 16: Alta, just around the corner
Photograph number 17: The slide gully, late 1930s
Photograph number 18: Rocks not yet fully covered
Photograph number 19: Up!
Photograph number 20: Do.
Photograph number 21: Twin Peaks
Photograph number 22: Tom Mathews im Pulverschnee
Photograph number 23: The slide gully, Alta
Photograph number 24: Alf Engen front left, Reid Olsen back in stocking cap, just at top of Nenner Curve, Alta
Photograph number 25: Before there were lifts at Alta, probably Bill in a "Christie", Collins
Photograph number 26: In the Nenner Curve, Early in the season before slides had filled it
Photograph number 27: On ridge between Dog Lake and Lake Mary
Photograph number 28: The alp where lift (?) begins to flatten out, Superior back
Photograph number 29: Superior
Photograph number 30: Salt Lake Valley down Little Cottonwood Canyon
Photograph number 31: Ted
Photograph number 32: An old mine building in Alta; torn down 1941 to make ice skating rink
Photograph number 33: Do
Photograph number 34: Toward Mt. Lake, Sugarloaf right
Photograph number 35: Sugarloaf, etc. in background
Photograph number 36: Sugarloaf and Chick's tracks. June 17, the next day it had snowed
Photograph number 37: Bill Lence, saddle between Devil's Castle and Sugarloaf back, notice December lack of snow
Photograph number 38: Cliffs across from Gad Valley, late 1930s
Photograph number 39: Ted's slope leading into White Pine from Peak of American Fork Twin
Photograph number 40: Bottom of Gad Valley looking toward Alta, spring snowfall on green vegetation
Photograph number 41: Top of White Pine, Ted's Slope at left
Photograph number 42: Hidden Peak left, American Fork, Twin right. Good powder just back of trees in middle
Photograph number 43: Hidden Peak
Photograph number 44: Baldy, June 17
Photograph number 45: Baldy
Photograph number 46: Under the cliffs of Baldy, June 17 late 1930s
Photograph number 47: Baldy in early morning sun
Photograph number 48: Under Baldy Cliffs, June 17
Photograph number 49: All the Alta peaks, even Lone Peak. Notice slope of shoulder of Baldy and Mt. Lake
Photograph number 50: Baldy and Upper Collins
Photograph number 51: Cornices on East side of Baldy summit
Photograph number 52: McConnell nearing shoulder of Baldy
Photograph number 53: Karl Fahrner on Baldy
Photograph number 54: Baldy Cliffs, cornice above left is skied from summit
Photograph number 55: Baldy from near pass
Photograph number 56: Timpanogos from Baldy
Photograph number 57: Unidentified
Photograph number 58: Powder under the Baldy Cliffs
Photograph number 59: Coming down from West side of cirque
Photograph number 60: Unidentified
Photograph number 61: The shoulder of Baldy and Twin Peaks just breaking thru clouds from Alta Germania Pass, the Oquirrhs across the valley fog sea
Photograph number 62: Baldy and Upper Collins, June 18, 1939
Photograph number 63: Relict trees protected from slides by cliff above (no conloir), Baldy looking West to shoulder
Photograph number 64: In Upper Basin
Photograph number 65: Early December trip into Upper Basin, Bill
Photograph number 66: The slope on which I skied
Photograph number 67: Toward Hidden Peak, Krumholz on side of peak, cliffs farther South
Photograph number 68: Sunset Peak
Photograph number 69: Ridge between Sunset Peak and Devil's Castle
Photograph number 70: Upper Alta Basin, vicinity of Mt. Lake
Photograph number 71: Upper Alta Basin from Albion Pass
Photograph number 72: The schuss into the CCC Camp, Upper Basin, Albion Pass back

Dates

circa 1930-1949

Language of Materials

From the Collection: Collection materials are in English.

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