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...Weather's Good . . ." During all the hustle & bustle at Cranmore, Mont Tremblant, Sun Valley and Aspen, Andy Mead was growing up. Her parents were as ski-crazy as anybody. Near the Vermont town of Rutland, Bradford and Janet Mead were building up a resort named Pico Peak, and incidentally raising their two children, Andrea and Peter-who is now wasting his early ski training in the Air Force. Ski enthusiasts with an independent income, the Meads made an annual spring pilgrimage to Switzerland's Davos. They brought up their children on a principle which the children thoroughly approved...
...time Andy was a stringy eleven-year-old, she was competing with grownups. In the Women's Eastern Slalom championship, on her home course at Pico, she placed second. When she was 13, she knocked herself out for the whole season after the only bad accident of her skiing career: a leg broken* while she was dashing down the slopes to get a stretcher for an injured skier. She speaks of the accident now with the twangy taciturnity of a good Vermonter: "It wasn't much. A good skier's break...
...Rutland (Pico Peak)--4-15, less than 1 inch forzen granular, cloudy. Both trails poor...
...Pico Peak: Three to ten with six powder. Poor upper, fair lower...
...Pico Peak--7-40 with 3 powder surface. Cloudy. Skiing good upper, fair to good lower trails...