by Christian Beckwith | Mar 3, 2023 | Ninety-Pound Rucksack Episodes, Ninety-Pound Rucksack Podcast
This Abridged version of Episode 6 follows the mountain troops to Mount Rainier National Park where, in the middle of February 1942, they began their ski training at one of the best places a soldier could ever learn to ski—a place called, appropriately enough,...
by Christian Beckwith | Mar 1, 2023 | Ninety-Pound Rucksack Episodes, Ninety-Pound Rucksack Podcast
This Abridged version of Episode 5 explores the 10th Mountain Division’s halcyon days: the pivotal period from late 1941 until early 1942 when the War Department activated America’s very first test force for cold-weather and mountain warfare at Ft. Lewis,...
by Christian Beckwith | Feb 25, 2023 | Ninety-Pound Rucksack Episodes, Ninety-Pound Rucksack Podcast
Episode 4 takes a deep dive into the US Army’s experimental ski patrols of 1940-1941, and the events that led to the activation of the 1st Battalion (Reinforced), 87th Mountain Infantry at Ft. Lewis, Washington—the unit that would eventually become the 10th...
by Christian Beckwith | Oct 17, 2022 | Ninety-Pound Rucksack Episodes, Ninety-Pound Rucksack Podcast
This Abridged version of Episode 3 explores the 10th Mountain Division’s backstory in the lead-up to America’s entry into World War II. The episode includes abridged interviews with Chris Juergens, PhD, the Anschutz Curator of Military History at History...
by Christian Beckwith | Oct 16, 2022 | Ninety-Pound Rucksack Episodes, Ninety-Pound Rucksack Podcast
Episode 2, Part 2 delivers a deep dive into the state of American and European climbing before the war, as well as how the rise of the Third Reich caused some of the best German and Austro-Hungarian mountaineers to emigrate, influencing climbing and skiing in America...
by Christian Beckwith | Oct 16, 2022 | Ninety-Pound Rucksack Episodes, Ninety-Pound Rucksack Podcast
Episode 2 Part 1 provides a sweeping overview of the history of skiing in America as told through the experiences of one of the 10th Mountain Division’s greatest unsung heroes, John Andrew McCown II. Episode includes interview excerpts with Paul Petzoldt, the Teton...
