Word: ski
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...your cover story "Holiday on Skis" [Dec. 25]: I do not argue with doctors who deny that the ultraviolet rays encountered while skiing have an aphrodisiac effect. However, the sheer sensual experience of the warm sun, snow spray in the face, weightless microseconds on a mogul, the symphony of wind blowing through pine forests, thrills of speed, danger and precision and not insignificantly, the form-fitting nature of ski clothing create in this skier a desire for more than a quiet evening with a good book...
...When the Mammoth Mountain people read your story, you will have a lot more than a fractured tibia. It will take a dozen St. Bernards to sniff you out from under an avalanche of critical mail for ignoring that great ski resort...
...rich skiers can ski your lives away, but kindly think of nonskiers like myself before you take to the slopes. You are encouraging a sport that causes mountainsides to be razed and hundreds of condominiums and hotels to be built in once virgin valleys. You are destroying the landscape that belongs to all of us just to enjoy a "sensual experience...
...good story but ski touring deserves much more than a brief paragraph. Besides being much more economical and easy to learn, touring is an outdoor activity suitable for nearly all ages and levels of physical ability. A family can find real togetherness in touring...
Premonitions. On rare occasions, there were grim premonitions. One day Bruce and a friend went ski-sailing for the first time on Crystal Lake. The experience was exhilarating: "I do not be lieve that I have ever felt more completely in tune with the universe than I felt that morning." Then, without warning, the ice turned thin, and as Catton looked down he could see only the blackness of the water below. "It was not just my own death that had been down there," Catton writes. "It was the ultimate horror, lying below all life, kept away by something...