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Longenecker was not an inexperienced climber. Further, it is reasonable to believe that Parysko ran by three emergency telephones because he knew that they connected only with the Appalachian Mountain Club camp at the base of the mountain, staffed during normal ski hours. He passed the telephones at night. We cannot say if he knew, or discovered, that the Teuckerman Ravine Shelter was unoccupied. Certainly he passed the two first aid caches simply because it was not aid for himself he sought, but help for his snow-buried companion...
Parysko was running down the Sherbourne Ski Trail, in all probability, to get help at the Spur Cabin, occupied by some members of the Harvard Mountaineering Club, its owner. Their letter says "The final irony of fate is that he died just a few yards beyond (our) Spur Cabin . . ."The path leading some 75 yards form the trail to this cabin is marked only by tree blazes (which are as good as invisible at night) but is indicated by no sign whatever. There is but ONE sign of which I know that indicates the way to the H.M.C. cabin...
...crippled woman got the ride she wanted on a ski lift, and rode down on a rescue toboggan for a dividend thrill...
Even without its ace jumper and cross country man, Captain Hans Vitzthum, who had dislocated his shoulder prior to the meet, the varsity ski team placed second to Norwich in the Eastern Divisional Championships at Lyndonville, Vt., this weekend...
...varsity ski team feces its most important meet of the season this weekend in the Eastern Divisional Skiing Championships at Lyndenville...