From Die Muskete, 1937.

From Mocca, 1933.

From Mocca, 1929.

Here's a precursor to jet skiis.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1934.

A sleepwalker goes sleep-skiing.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1939.

Here's the best, most realistic way to see how you'll look in skiis.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1935.

From an ad in Die Muskete, 1913.

Here's a precursor to Where's Waldo.  There are actually two figures wearing red-striped shirts hidden within the image.  Also don't miss the giant cat on skiis, the lady with a "no parking" sign on her derrière, the angel on a hobby horse, the sun itself on skiis, as well as the two knights in armor and the frog skiing.  Jeannie from I Dream of Jeannie is in there, too.  From Fliegende Blätter, 1938.

He'd look even more nonchalant if he were munching an apple, as literary humorist Jonathan Caws-Elwitt might have pointed out.  From Mocca, 1934.

From Die Muskete, 1923.

"Look at the 'boidy.'"  From the Arthur O'Connor scrapbook, 1949, courtesy of the NDSU Archives.

From Three in Norway By Two of Them, by James Arthur Lees and Walter Clutterbuck, 1882.