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After two-thirds of the six-mountain schedule, Harvard ski team captain Steele has crashed in such varied locales as the Mission Ridge, Washington slalom; in the Mt. Hood Giant Slalom; and in the Dick Springer Memorial Slalom at Mammoth Mt., Calif...
...Benjy and I are perfecting our helicopter turns off cornices. There are these great cornices out here. You take off and do 360 or so degrees in the air and you land about 30 feet below the cornice. Ben made a perfect one down a slope called Climax at Mammoth on Sunday...
Against the best field of the whole series at the Dick Springer Memorial Giant slalom at Mammoth Mountain, on April 7, Steele finished 13th, and stood 12th after his first run. Skiing hotter than a dollar pistol, Eric Poulsen of the U.S. ski team won that event by over two seconds...
...totally dedicated to burning their lives out like roman candles in mad pursuit of the Edge, Carter and Steele have found an economical and princely mode of transport. Riding on stuffed sofas and listening to eight-track-tape rock, they ride from Snoqualmie to Mt. Hood to Mammoth to Squaw Valley with Carter's old skiing buddy Charley Goodrich in the Head ski van, which tends to the needs of Head racers at major events...
Other members of the Eastern regional team don't seem to possess the equanimity of Steele and Carter in the agony of defeat, so they continue to invent new competitions. The first annual Avis memorial Mt. Hood-to-Mammoth Mt.-peak-to-shining-peak sprint was completed by rented cars piloted by "Rat Reid" and "Boomer Mumphord" in the phenomenal time of nine hours, ten minutes. The two covered the normally 14-hour jaunt, crossing over two 8000-foot passes with switchback sections, within five minutes of each other; and the winner, whoever he was, got two cases of beer...