| Title |
Bill Shorter flying over a 1965 Chevrolet Corvair parked in Little Cottonwood Canyon road at Alta. Mount Superior is in the background. |
| Photo Number |
P0931n1_01_06 |
| Description |
Photo of a skier (Bill Shorter or Alf Engen) jumping the Alta road on an avalanche in the mid-1960s |
| Date |
1965; 1966; 1967; 1968; 1969; 1970 |
| Textual Date |
Late 1960s |
| Creator |
Ted Johnson |
| Keywords |
Utah; Ski Archives; Skis and skiing; Skiers; Men; Ski jumping; Little Cottonwood Canyon; Ski resorts; Alta; Automobiles; Mount Superior; avalanches |
| Subject |
Skiers--Utah--Photographs; Avalanches--Utah--Photographs |
| Additional Information |
The car was owned by Bill Shorter, who was a handyman at the Alta Lodge. The photograph was taken on the road by Hellgate, halfway between Alta and Snowbird ski resorts, where an avalanche had covered the road. |
| Spatial Coverage |
Alta (Utah); Little Cottonwood Canyon (Salt Lake County, Utah); Salt Lake County (Utah) |
| Collection Number and Name |
P0931 Jim Gaddis Photograph Collection |
| Relation is Part of |
Ski and Snow Sports Archives |
| Holding Institution |
Multimedia Archives, Special Collections, J. Willard Marriott Library, University of Utah |
| Original Source |
N/A |
| Donated By/Purchased From |
Loaned for scanning by Jim Gaddis via Greg Thompson. |
| Rights |
 |
| ARK |
ark:/87278/s6zs3gtt |
| Setname |
uum_map_usa |
| ID |
948082 |
| Reference URL |
https://collections.lib.utah.edu/ark:/87278/s6zs3gtt |
