1873 February 3 - First recorded account of skiing in Southern California, Joseph B. Tyler diary.

1921 - Edi Jaun, ski pioneer and promoter, arrives in Lake Arrowhead. He was one of the first people in Southern California who was a skilled skier.

1922 January 16 - First ski ascent of the summit of Mt. San Antonio (Mt. Baldy) by George O. Bauwens, a professor at USC.

1924 February 24 - First ski jumping meet held in Big Bear Valley.

1924 September 1 - Big Pines Park, summer and winter playground operated by the Los Angeles County Dept. of Parks and Recreation, officially opens.

1927 - First Annual Midwinter Carnival is held in Lake Arrowhead.

1928 - Edelweiss Ski Club formed. One of Southern California's earliest clubs.

1929 - First ski jump in Southern California built at Big Pines.

1930 February - First world record ski jump at Big Pines. 137.5 feet set by Halvor Bjorngaard.

1930 October 7 - California Ski Association is created. Becomes the Far West Ski Association in 1949.

1930 December - Walter E. Kruckman forms the Rim of the World League to promote winter sports in the San Bernardino Mountains.

1931 February 3 - First ski ascent of the summit of San Gorgonio by Murray Kirkwood, Bill Cover, George Gibbs, and Loyd Cooper.

1931 - Southern California Winter Sports League formed to organize and promote winter sports.

1931 - Van Degrift's Ski Hut becomes the first store in Los Angeles to sell ski equipment.

1932 January 2 - Big Pines Ski Club formed. Still in existence, it is the oldest continuous ski club in Southern California.

1932 - Halvor Halstad designs and constructs a ski jump at Lake Arrowhead. It is christened Halstad Hill. Halstad was a well known ski jumper and a member of the U.S. Ski Hall of Fame.

1932 - Walter Mosauer, father of Alpine skiing in the Southland, arrives in Southern California.

1933 - Walter Mosauer, professor of Zoology, starts a ski team at UCLA.

1933 February - California State Ski Championships are held on the jumping hill at Big Bear Lake.

1934 January - First slalom race in Southern California is held at the Camp Seeley Snow Carnival.

1934 October 6,7 - Edelweiss Ski Hut is built on the slopes of San Gorgonio.

1934 November 7 - Ski Mountaineers section of the Sierra Club is formed by Walter Mosauer. He and 13 others make up the inaugural group: Leland Curtis, Frank "Tug" Richardson, Stanley Allen, Robert Frampton, Louis Turner, Eric Varney, Seth Blakeman, Miles Werner, Dick Jones, Mac Salter, Louis Simon, Glen Dawson, and Murray Kirkwood.

1934 - First instructional ski book published in Southern California: On Skis Over Mountains by Walter Mosauer.

1935 March 16 - First San Antonio Downhill Race held. Race began on the summit and covered two miles. Oldest ski race in Southern California.

1935-36 - Sling lift is built at Fish Camp (now known as Snow Valley). This is the first ski lift in Southern California.

1936 January - San Antonio Ski Hut construction completed by Sierra Club Ski Mountaineers.

1936 September - San Antonio Ski Hut burns. New hut is finished by winter 1937.

1936 September - Ethel Severson Van Degrift becomes the first female member of the Sierra Club Ski Mountaineers.

1936 - Clarita Heath Bright, a South Pasadena native, becomes a member of the first U.S. Women's Olympic Ski Team. Competed in the 1936 Olympics at Garmisch.

1937 - Sverre and Lois Engen re-name Fish Camp "Snow Valley". The Forest Service officially makes the name change later in the year.

1937 - Harlow Dormer and Craig Wilson install the first rope tow on Table Mountain (now Ski Sunrise).

1937 April - First attempt to develop San Gorgonio into a downhill ski resort.

1937 August 10 - Walter Mosauer dies of a form of plant poisoning contracted on a reptile hunting expedition in Mexico.

1937 October 29 - Ski run built on the roof of May Company's downtown store.

1937 Fall - San Diego Ski Club formed. It is the second oldest continuous club in Southern California.

1938 - Sling lift, modeled after the Fish Camp lift, is installed at Big Bear Lake. This is Big Bear's first lift.

1938 - Edi Jaun and John Elvrum build a sling lift on the hill behind the Lake Arrowhead Village School (where the fire station is now located).

1938 January 29 - First issue of The Mugelnoos, official newsletter of the Sierra Club Ski Mountaineers, is published.

1938 February 27 - First Annual Southern California Open Ski Meet is held in the Los Angeles Coliseum. Sponsored by the Lake Arrowhead Ski Club, this is the first ski jump tournament in Southern California to be held on man-made snow.

1938 - First ski tow installed on Mt. Baldy by Fuzz Merritt for Pomona College students. Tow was located on Movie Slope.

1938 - Keller Peak Ski Hut, located across the highway from Snow Valley, completed by the Sierra Club Ski Mountaineers.

1939 January 22 - Second Annual Southern California Open Ski Meet is held in the Los Angeles Coliseum.

1939 June - Sepp Benedikter opens Pine Needle Ski Slope in North Hollywood at the present site of the Sheraton.

1939 November 28 - Ethel Severson Van Degrift begins the first regular ski column, "Ski Slants," in the Los Angeles Times. She is one of the first woman ski writers for a major metropolitan newspaper. Her last column appeared on April 13, 1954.

1939 - Lynn Newcomb installs first rope tow on Mount Waterman.

1939 - Southern Skis ski club formed. It is the third oldest continuous club in Southern California.

1939-40 - Les Salm, Lake Arrowhead's first fire chief, installs a 300-ft rope tow on "Suicide Hill" in Green Valley Lake.

1940 April - First San Gorgonio Downhill Race is held.

1940 Spring - Southern California section of the National Ski Patrol is formed by Walter Clemmons.

1940-41 - Bob Wubben installs a rope tow about 150 yards east of Les Salm's tow at Green Valley Lake.

1941-42 - John Elvrum purchases Snow Valley from the Arrowhead Springs Corporation.

1942 January 16 - Dorothy McClung, member of the San Diego Ski Club, is named the first female member of the National Ski Patrol.

1942 January - First chairlift in Southern California, and the second in the state, opens at Mount Waterman.

1943 - Howard More purchases Table Mountain Ski Area.

1944 - Herb Leffler and Jim Chaffee install a rope tow on Movie Slope at Mt. Baldy.

1945-46 - Larry Ferguson, Joe Fox, and Ernest C. "Doc" Vawter open Green Valley Lake Snow Bowl.

1947 March - First chairlift built on Blue Ridge (now Mountain High West) by Frank Springer and Tom Triol. This is Southern California's second chairlift.

1949 January - Tommi Tyndall starts Southern California's first training program for ski instructors.

1949 - The Lynn Lift is constructed in Big Bear. This is Big Bear's first chairlift.

1949 - The first chairlift at Snow Valley begins operating.

1950 - First chairlift installed at Holiday Hill by Sepp Benedikter and John Steinmann.

1950 - Kratka Ridge is developed by the Angeles Winter Development Association, a group of San Gorgonio ski club members.

1951 - Elizabeth "Schatzi" Wood is awarded the Yellow Merit Star by the National Ski Patrol for her outstanding patrol work.

1951 September - Pacific Southwest Mid-Summer Ski Jump Tournament held at the Los Angeles Country Fair, Pomona. Ski jump was the brainchild of Sepp Benedikter.

1952 December - First two chairlifts open at Mt. Baldy.

1952 - Tommi Tyndall opens Snow Summit with a 1,300-foot long chairlift.

1953 - First American amputee ski school is started at Snow Summit by Bob Engelien.

1953 - Chuck Smith opens Rebel Ridge Ski Area in Big Bear.

1954 - First chairlift at Kratka Ridge is constructed.

1956 Summer - Mt. Baldy stages summer ski jumping exhibitions and tournaments.

1958 - Junior Skiers of Southern California is founded by Betty Morning.

1959 - Permanent ski jumps built at Mt. Baldy.

1959 - First annual Tyler Van Degrift Memorial Race held at Mt. Baldy.

1961 - Rebel Ridge is the only ski area west of the Mississippi operating during Christmas 1961. Chuck Smith devises a successful snowmaking system.

1963 - Dave and Dan Platus buy the Lynn Lift area and rename it Snow Forest.

1963 September 12 - Palm Springs Tramway opens.

1966 June 25 - Ski Villa, the first and only year round ski resort in the United States, opens in Carbon Canyon.

1969 - Moonridge is under new ownership and is renamed Goldmine.

1969 - After 25 years of operating tows at Mt. Baldy, Herb and Jane Leffler sell Mt. Baldy Ski Lifts to Western Resorts Corporation.

1971 - After 30 years of ownership, John Elvrum sells Snow Valley.

1974 - Rebel Ridge closes permanently.

1975 - Table Mountain is renamed Ski Sunrise.

1975 - Dick Woodworth buys Blue Ridge and renames it Mountain High.

1979 - First ski lift is constructed at Ski Sunrise.

1979 - Terry Tognazzini purchases Holiday Hill.

1980 February - Green Valley Lake Cross Country Ski Center is opened by Dave and Sara Williams.

1988 - Goldmine is purchases by S-K-I Ltd. and is renamed Bear Mountain.

1992 February - Kerry and Bev Brown open Rim Nordic Ski Area.

1993 December - Ski Green Valley becomes Big Air Green Valley, the nation's sole snowboard-only area.

1997 - Oaktree Capital Management purchases Mountain High from Terry Tognazzini.

1999 February - Kerry and Bev Brown, owners of Rim Nordic Ski Area, purchase Green Valley Lake Cross Country Ski Center from Dave Williams.