Magic Ingredients Video
From the Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre Collection. All interviews conducted in 2021/2022.
Transcript:
[Rossland Museum & Discovery Centre logo on a white screen]
Libby Martin: One of the things about Red Mountain is the accessibility. It has a lot to do with so many young kids participating in the sport. It’s the fact that they can get there I mean now they can even get a bus out you know.
Nancy Greene Raine: It’s really hard to say why so many good racers come from one area, but obviously it’s the mountain.
Ginger Baines: Absolutely it was the terrain that trained us.
Patricia Stevens: I always say the cliff because the cliff was hard to ski, I’m sure you’ve skied it.
Ruth Grubisic: The cliff is not able to be snowcatted, you know, you can’t run a snowcat, it’s that steep and it was part of our daily skiing.
Ginger Baines: The saying always went “If you can ski over the cliff of Red Mountain, you can ski anywhere in the world.”
Nancy Greene Raine: Kids in Rossland learned to ski all over all kinds of terrain.
Libby Martin: And I think that’s one reason why Red has had so many good racers. I mean at one time they had more racers on the National Team than any other club in Canada.
Al Fisher: But the, it is the, the people.
Don Stevens: The people that organized everything ahead of time that are behind the scenes that you don’t know about.
Sean Valentine: Every yime there was an event the community would stand up, participate, you know, volunteer all that kind of stuff and it’s unbelievable what a small town like Rossland can put together.
Don Stevens: And the fact that you do have that legacy like I said it, you just, it’s the next step.
Nancy Greene Raine: And the culture comes from the history and the people have gone before and the stories get told and you know the fact that they can go in the lodge and see the pictures of the past racers that were on the National Team from this little town. So that’s all part of it. It’s a culture and it’s a culture of encouraging the kids to dream to dream big and go for it.
[Text which reads, “Supported by” followed with a blue logo for the Trail and District Arts Council]