Word: skying
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the sportsclub members work out in a gym at least once a week. Many hike regularly, bowl, ride bikes or swim. Others ski cross-country, sometimes covering as many as twelve miles a day. Nothing remarkable about this-except that the sportsmen and women are all at least 62, and some are more than 90. Their club is just one part of an unusual city-run program in Grenoble, France, designed to help the aged rediscover their youth and zest for life through physical, social and artistic activity...
After two-thirds of the six-mountain schedule, Harvard ski team captain Steele has crashed in such varied locales as the Mission Ridge, Washington slalom; in the Mt. Hood Giant Slalom; and in the Dick Springer Memorial Slalom at Mammoth Mt., Calif...
Carter, who made the phone call to Cambridge, only saw fit to mention his one good race-but the Harvard ski coach seems to be getting into the spirit of self-destruction as well, for he reports that after the races, "Benjy and I are perfecting our helicopter turns off cornices. There are these great cornices out here. You take off and do 360 or so degrees in the air and you land about 30 feet below the cornice. Ben made a perfect one down a slope called Climax at Mammoth on Sunday...
Against the best field of the whole series at the Dick Springer Memorial Giant slalom at Mammoth Mountain, on April 7, Steele finished 13th, and stood 12th after his first run. Skiing hotter than a dollar pistol, Eric Poulsen of the U.S. ski team won that event by over two seconds...
...like roman candles in mad pursuit of the Edge, Carter and Steele have found an economical and princely mode of transport. Riding on stuffed sofas and listening to eight-track-tape rock, they ride from Snoqualmie to Mt. Hood to Mammoth to Squaw Valley with Carter's old skiing buddy Charley Goodrich in the Head ski van, which tends to the needs of Head racers at major events...