Editing La Porte, California (section)

===Sierra longboard racing===
[[File:Dope_is_King.jpg|thumb|1869 Alturas Snow Shoe Club race meet]]
[[Skiing]] may have been practiced in Rabbit Creek as early as 1851 by  Hamilton Ward and James Murray using improvised barrel staves.<ref>Berry, William B. (1991) ''Lost Sierra: Gold, Ghosts, and Skis, the legendary days of skiing in the California mining camps''
Soda Springs: Western America SkiSport Museum {{OCLC|26037828}} p11</ref> In 1866 the Alturas Snowshoe Club was formed at La Porte.<ref>''Sacramento Daily Union'' Volume 32, Number 4967, 28 February 1867</ref><ref>Mills, David C. (1938) “California Pioneers on Skis” ''American Ski Annual'' pg 35–36</ref> This longboard racing association was founded by Creed Haymond to arrange the local Norwegian snow-shoe club tournaments at [[Onion Valley]],<ref>[https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MDA18680129.2.6&srpos=19 "Snow Shoe Racing"] ''Marysville Daily Appeal'', Vol 17 #24, 29 January 1868</ref> Port Wine,<ref>[https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDU18690304.2.2&srpos=29 "Snow Shoe Races in Sierra"] ''Sacramento Daily Union'', Volume 36, Number 5596, 4 March 1869</ref> St. Louis, Pine Grove,<ref>[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn86058108/1863-03-21/ed-1/seq-2/  "Snow Shoe Race"] ''Weekly Butte Record'', March 21, 1863 p2</ref> Howland Flat,<ref>[https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=SDU18680328.2.4&srpos=27 "Snowshoe Racing at Howland Flat"] ''Sacramento Daily Union'' Volume 35 Number 5304, 28 March 1868</ref> Newark,<ref>[https://cdnc.ucr.edu/?a=d&d=MDA18620225.2.4&srpos=102 "The News"] ''Marysville Daily Appeal'' Volume V, Number 48, 25 February 1862</ref> [[Gibsonville, California|Gibsonville]],<ref>[https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn82014381/1890-04-03/ed-1/seq-3/ "Racing on Snow-Shoes"] ''Sacramento Daily Record-Union'' April 03, 1890</ref> and others. The last annual La Porte tournament was held in 1911, although revivals were held in 1938, 1941, 1951–1952, 1964 and since 1993 at nearby California locations.<ref>Page, David (2017) [https://www.powder.com/stories/longboarding-lost-sierra Longboarding Through the Lost Sierra] ''Powder'' magazine</ref><ref>Berry, William B. (1991) ''Lost Sierra: Gold, Ghosts, and Skis'' Soda Springs: Western America SkiSport Museum {{OCLC|26037828}} pp222–223</ref>

[[California Historical Landmark]]s 723 and 724 note La Porte as a Pioneer Ski Area of America.<ref>[https://ohp.parks.ca.gov/ListedResources/Detail/723 Pioneer Ski Area] Parks CA</ref>
Plumas National Forest Service placed an informational placard atop nearby Lexington Hill, replacing a 1991 Alturas Snowshoe Club marker which commemorated the start of organized downhill ski racing in the western hemisphere.<ref>[https://www.plumasmuseum.org/pdf/nletter05.08.pdf Historical Markers of Plumas County] ''las Plumas'' v34 #2 2008 Plumas County Museum Association p4</ref>