Word: skied
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Mountaineering Club, President Henry B. Washburn, Jr. '33 announced at the first fall meeting last night in Lowell House common room, that a trip to the club cabin on Mt. Washington has been arranged for next Sunday. Those who take the trip will busy themselves with clearing a long ski-trail and building a shelter near the cabin for the supplies to be used this winter. Mountaineering trips, local rock-climbs, and skiing expeditions have been planned for nearly every week end throughout the year, as well as several club dinners and lectures...
...skiing team's last race of the season was held on Sunday afternoon over the Mount Washington ski trail when Washburn won the slalom event of the Nansen Ski Club meet, in one minute, 7 2-5 seconds. This victory to a considerable extend atoned for the unsuccessful season hitherto...
Tomorrow afternoon four members of the skiing team will compete in the annual Nansen Ski Club race, which will be held this year over the new Mount Washington ski trail, H. B. Washburn '33 announced last night. The captain for next year's team will be elected after the race...
...team that will race tomorrow will be composed of H. B. Washburn '33, H. S. Sise '34, A. E. Ritchie, Jr. '34, and A. M. Hatch '33. The race is being sponsored by the Nansen Ski Club of Berlin, New Hampshire...
...world's fastest natural ski course is a tamped snow swath without a jump down the nearly perpendicular face of a mountain near St. Moritz in Switzerland. For weeks men have curried and patted, dragged toboggans up & down, to make a flawless surface. Last week 16 ski racers stood at the top. At intervals along the course were men with bamboo poles to swish over the light snow between runs. The racers wore goggles, had no ski sticks because they knew they could not stand up against the terrific wind resistance. Their skis were 9 ft. long and heavy...