E. John B. Allen on Journal Hans Faulkner, page 18 of the EST. 1977 New England Ski Museum Winter 2021 Issue Number 119 Ski Photographers of the White Mountains: Dorothy I. Crossley Part Three of the Museum's 2020 Exhibit By Jeff Leich Crossley arrived at Mittersill for the 1959-1960 season, and would make her winter home there for the rest of her life. This aerial photo- graph shows the chalet colony centered on a high knob at the same elevation of nearby landslide-scarred Franconia Notch. The rambling Mittersill Inn at the base of the ski lifts was built in 1968 on the site of the original inn, which was demolished to make way for the larger structure. Hubert von Pantz's vision of a ski village with lifts within walking distance was the first of its kind in the U.S., though earlier Sugar Bowl in California had built a limited number of houses at its base for stockholders. Mittersill's concept of family chalets near ski lifts would next appear at Hans Thorner's Magic Mountain, Vermont, then be widely adopted throughout snowy regions of the U.S. Continued on page 5