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...
by Christian Beckwith | Oct 15, 2022 | Ninety-Pound Rucksack Episodes, Ninety-Pound Rucksack Podcast
This Abridged version of Episode 1 looks at how the 1939 Soviet invasion of Finland catalyzed the creation of the 10th Mountain Division… with a little help from the National Ski Patrol System, the United States Army, and a couple of twenty-something climbers from The...
by Christian Beckwith | Oct 3, 2022 | Ninety-Pound Rucksack Episodes, Ninety-Pound Rucksack Podcast
How a search for the roots of Teton mountaineering led to a podcast (and book) about the US Army’s 10th Mountain Division and the dawn of outdoor recreation in America. “As is well known,” American mountaineering legend Bill House wrote in The 1946 American...
