Word: edelweiss
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...publishers call The Eye of God (the name of the local mountain) a novel. It isn't. Anecdotes don't make a novel any more than edelweiss make an alp; but when Bemelmans does the picking, they make a bright nosegay...
Also instructing at Chickley Alp is William C. Burghardt, former assistant chief instructor at Mt. Ranier National Park School. Chickley Alp has two town and six trails. The Edelweiss Club, whose members compete throughout the East, practices over the racing trail and jumps, one of which is 30 meters. A quarter of a mile on this trail represents a thousand foot drop, and the average grade is from 16 to 28 percent...