- Faster Easier Better Evolution of XC Track Setting By Rick Eliot with John Caldwell from: http://skiinghistory.org Over the last half-century, setting and maintaining cross-country tracks has progressed from an arduous process requiring many workers to an efficient, machine reliant method that uses just one person to operate the levers, buttons and switches.
- First artificial snow Guinness World Records The first successful artificial snow was created accidentally by Canadian researcher Ray Ringer and colleagues while studying ice formation on jet engines in a cold wind tunnel.
- Large scale Snow Making and Storage Snow making began in North America, in the 1950’s with, Americans Art Hunt, Dave Richey, and Wayne Pierce developing one of the first practical snow cannons.
- The Electric Piston Bulley Groomer
- Snow Grooming for Cross Country Skiing