"The atmosphere at Palisades Tahoe has always equaled a penchant for risk. It is matter of fact," explained the late Norm Simmons, who became known in the sixties for his epic leaps off KT's Eagle's Nest.

Here is the balance of the seven events that helped propagate the Palisades Tahoe legend.

Strapping on their stiff wooden boards, they descended down a narrow rock-walled needle of snow, over forty degrees of slope. It was beyond rational thought, but in one afternoon the two alpinists redefined the limits of skiing.

It was only fitting, therefore, that ten years later Allais would travel to the Sierra Nevada and become Palisades Tahoe’s first ski school director. For no other ski resort in North America has become as synonymous for being a wildlife sanctuary for adventure as the former Olympic site.

GLEN POULSEN 1960: At the end of the big winter of 1992-3, Glen Poulsen, son of Palisades Tahoe founder and ski pioneer Wayne Poulsen, streaked across the Sierra on skis in what may well be record time. Leaving Mammoth Mountain at daybreak, Poulsen sped up the San Joaquin River Canyon, crossed Minaret Pass, Island Pass and then 11,000-foot Donohue Pass. From there he schussed down Lyell Canyon to the Tioga Road and through Tuolumne Meadows to Tenaya Lake, then down Snow Creek to his Yosemite Valley destination.