https://www.skiinghistory.org/history/slope-grooming-how-it-started

An interesting read on how snow grooming started. 

"The gravity-powered Packer-Grader weighed about 700 lb and was steered by a skier. The technique: go straight down the fall line, depending on the blade for speed control. At Winter Park, Bradley sent teams of “pilots” down the mogul fields in V-formation, like a squadron of fighter planes. According to Groswold, they earned 25 cents an hour “combat pay” over and above the trail crew wage. Rig and pilot returned to the top of the hill via T-bar."

Wow. Just Wow.

 

 

 

 

 

The first place I ever skied..high up in the Atlas Mountains of Morocco they would bring in the Army to stomp the snow down...45 years ago..leather strap bindings....good ole days!

I was told Laurel Mountain had a skier hauled mogul planner in the 1950,s.  blade cut tops off moguls and it dropped into the trough below. never saw it or a picture