Word: mountainous
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Typical of the new efforts is the vast program set up by the keepers of Belknap Mountain. New chair lifts with footrests and hand rails have been put in as well as an extra open slope and "Tiger" trail. Lights for night skiing have been installed and the $100,000 recreation lodge has set up a sun deck for the hearty out-of-doors man. Facilities for sales, rentals and repairs are also available here...
...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...
...Jackson, Thorn Mountain and Black Mountain begin their third season of service with chair life and apline lift respectively...
According to present plans a small group of members will leave Cambridge on December 26 for Maine. Arriving at Millinocket they will snowshoe the two day trip to the base of the mountain and then spend another four or five days trying to gain the summit...
...heady liqueur, Chartreuse, which they have made since the 17th Century from a secret formula. But the real Carthusian preoccupation is prayer. Pope Pius XI said of the Carthusians that their special duty is, like Moses in the fight between the Israelites and the Amalekites, to be on the mountain praying while the battle is being fought out below...