Word: skying
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...members of the Crimson ski team and scores of undergraduate novices will depart today for the annual Dartmouth Winter Carnival at Hanover. Unless a serious thaw sets in in the New Hampshire hills, the athletic end of the carnival will get started tonight and last through Sunday afternoon...
...governor of the state of Maine, declared he was highly encouraged by this tip yesterday. He said the family had stopped to eat at the roadhouse several times on route to their estates in Woolrich, Maine. His son might also have gone there, he continued, on route to the ski country...
Among Canada's famed skiing lands is the Banff-Jasper area of the Rockies, where the rocket-fast three-mile runs start at the 10,000-ft. level. Other thrill-seekers slide down the Douglas and Drummond glaciers. But most of the skiing is done where most of the $50 million invested in ski lodges, inns, ski tows and slopes in Canada has been spent. That is the 50-mile sweep of rolling, easily accessible Laurentian Mountains, 40 miles north of Montreal. This winter Laurentian resort operators hope to rake in over $30 million from 300,000 skiers...
Last week the weather reports from the Laurentians sounded forbidding to all but skiers. With three feet of snow already on the ground it was "snowing hard." And the special ski trains, first since 1940, rolled steadily north out of Montreal...
...Laurentian resort: Gray Rocks Inn, a sprawling, homey frame house where the food is substantial, the rates low ($5 to $7 a day, including meals), and good slopes and trails start at the back door. There, as in most of the lodges, expert and duffer alike turn out for ski-school lessons at rates which average $2 for a half-day. There are scores of others, from the stucco Chalet Cochand to the simplest and cheapest French Canadian farmhouse...