Antique & Vintage Postcards

Chrome-era postcard of dog team sled rides at Mount Snow, Vermont — a team of eight Siberian Huskies pulling a red sled with passengers through a birch-and-pine forest trail, the musher standing on the back runners and the dogs at full stride in deep snow under bright winter sun. Mount Snow opened in 1954 in West Dover, Vermont, and its founder Walt Schoenknecht was famous for dreaming up attractions that went far beyond skiing: an outdoor heated pool, an indoor ice rink, movies in the base lodge, cheese fondue parties — and dog sled rides, which this card explicitly advertised as part of "just one of the many things to do at the world's largest ski resort." By the time this card was printed, Sports Illustrated had already dubbed Schoenknecht Vermont's "phenomenal snowman" and Mount Snow was drawing more skiers per hour than any resort in the country.