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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cannon Mountain funicular is in operation and there are two trains daily heaving the North Station for Plymouth, where a bus leaves at 4.15 o'clock in the afternoon for Franconia. One train leaves at 9 o'clock, the other at 12.30 o'clock, both connecting with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Franconia Has Best Skiing In N. H.; Berkshires Are Fair | 12/2/1938 | See Source »

...Cranmore Mountain, about half a mile from Eastern Slope Inn at North Conway, New Hampshire, is the site of a unique experiment in ski tramways. Since last spring men have been clearing a 3,000 foot slope which has a vertical rise of 658 feet. The tramway is known as the "Skimobile," and consists of 60 individual streamlined cars with pneumatic tires that are clamped at uniform intervals to a steel cable running under a wooden platform. There are several disembarking stations on the way to the summit, serving shorter runs...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Franconia Has Best Skiing In N. H.; Berkshires Are Fair | 12/2/1938 | See Source »

...elegant English style of riding to hounds. You gallop over a paneled countryside, jumping fences and ditches in breathless pursuit of a pack of hounds that are in breathless pursuit of a fugitive fox. The other is a strictly native procedure, evolved in the mountain country of the south. You sit on a fence, following the unaccompanied chase...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Foxhunters | 11/28/1938 | See Source »

LACONIA--Belknap Mountain Region--15 inches powder on open slopes with skiing good. 16 to 24 inches on trails, skiing fair...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SNOW CONDITIONS | 11/26/1938 | See Source »

STOWE--Mt. Mansfield Region--4 inches powder at Smugglers' Notch, increasing to 12 inches at summit. Thin base on upper half of mountain. Good skiing on entire Toll Road, little or none elsewhere...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SNOW CONDITIONS | 11/26/1938 | See Source »

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