Word: conway
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...most accessible areas which usually has a good snow cover is New Hampshire's Slope region, mecca of the Sunday ski train riders. This 20 mile long area on the east side of the White Mountains provides a variety of trails ranging from the wide, sweeping runs on North Conway's Cranmore Mountain to the rugged trails on Mount Washington...
...miles beyond North Conway lies the Jackson area where trails on Black and Thorn Mountains provide heavy snow covers and a varsity of open and wooded terrain. Black is served by a 3500-foot Alpine lift which brings skiers to trails for the novice as well as the expert. At nearby Thorn there is a 4,000-foot chair lift supplemented by two rope tows. Thorn has been improved with the widening of the practice slope and the addition of a new expert trail...
...winter. Skiers heading to the Eastern Slopes region, in particuar, will find at least a half-hour taken off the travelling time by using the New Hampshire Turnpike, from the Massachusetts line to Portsmouth, N.H., which was opened this summer. Another high-way improvement was made just below Conway, where the winding curves at Chocorua were eliminated...
Other lavish methods of skyward travel are still available to the person who is in a hurry to get to the top so that he may get back to the bottom. The Skimobile at North Conway for example sends little cars nearly a mile to the summit of Cran-more Mountain at the rate of 1,000 passengers per hour. At Cannon Mountain the enthusiast goes up 2,000 feet in a cable car, if that's your idea...
Several members of the Mountaineering Club will ski and practice ice climbing during the vacation, operating from their base cabin on the flank of Mt. Washington. The H.M.C. cabin is reached by driving to Pinkham Notch, halfway between North Conway and Gorham, N. H. and then climbing with skins two and a quarter miles up Hoot Spur...