On Sunday, March 19th, Ascutney Mountain Resort

hosted the 3rd Annual Vermont Antique Ski Race to benefit the Vermont Ski Museum and the 2nd Annual Cochran Memorial Lollipop Race for young skiers. The weekend began with about 35 former US Ski Team and Olympic ski celebrities getting together for a reunion on Saturday evening at the Resort Hotel.

Dinner was followed by entertainment in Brown?s

Tavern by John Hall, national recording artist and guitarist for Orleans and Bonnie Raitt.

Sunday morning began with former Olympians, US Ski Team members and enthusiastic locals gathering in the base lodge for registration. Many participants donned vintage clothing, some even daring to ski in leather boots on wooden skis. Guests we able to browse one of the largest collections of historic ski periodicals displayed by Jonathan Robinson of Sunapee, NH.

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This year about 35 ski celebrities participated

including Olympic Gold Medalist Bill Johnson, US and French National Champion Marilyn Cochran Brown, World Cup Champion Bob Cochran and 18-time Cross-Country Champion Martha Rockwell, just to name a few. Also following in the Cochran tradition, thirteen-year-old Ryan Cochran-Siegle took 1st in the metal-fiberglass division beating out many of the old-timers.

The Open Slalom Race was on the Screaming Eagle,

to the old timers of Ascutney it was Main Slope once again. The racers had a chance to dust off their old equipment for one last run to glory in the Woodie and Metal-Fiberglass competitions. The race course was complete with the once common yellow bamboo slalom poles. Some spectacular falls and some on wooden skis without edges provided much entertainment and provoked many fond memories.

WINNERS IN THE WOMEN'S AND MEN'S WOODIE AND

FIBERGLASS/METAL CATEGORIES WERE:

Female-Woodie Division

1st - Bonnie Plausteiner (Brownsville, VT)

2nd - Martha Rockwell (Cabot, VT)

Female-Metal/Fiberglass

1st - Stephanie Abrell (Sugarbush, VT)

2nd --Marilyn Cochran Brown (Norwich, VT)

3rd - Rosie Fortna (Stowe, VT)

Male-Woodie Division

1st - Bill Henne (Brownsville, VT)

2nd - Erl Morse (Carrabassett, ME)

3rd - Gary Fletcher (Ludlow, VT)

Male-Metal/Fiberglass Division

1st - Ryan Cochran-Siegle

2nd - Kurt Meyerrose (Alstead, NH)

3rd - Bob Cochran (Surry, NH)

A portion of the proceeds will go to the Vermont Ski Museum, a 501(c)3 organization with a mission to ?collect, preserve, and celebrate Vermont?s skiing history