Word: sledding
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Winter sports, for which Quebec is famous, will include skating, tobogganing, curling, skiing, hockey, dog-sled racing, ski contests and snowshoeing, and are under the supervision of J. G. Strathdee, Sports Director. An interesting side trip is afforded by a visit to the ancient "Lower Town...
...Hoevenberg bob-sled run, near Lake Placid, N. Y., Gilbert Colgate and Richard Lawrence last week prepared to try for the two-man championship of North America. Dressed in bright blue uniforms, wearing goggles and blue leather helmets, neither bothered to examine the steering apparatus of the sled. They already knew that the most important bolt holding the front runner under control was missing, but they had decided to risk going down without...
...Hoevenberg run is the only place in the U. S. to practice a sport imported from Switzerland for the last Winter Olympic Games. It is a deep trench winding like an ice-lined gutter down the mountainside. Sleds ordinarily reach a maximum speed of about 60 m. p. h., gathering speed by riding high on the banks of its three dangerous turns- Whiteface, Shady Corner, Zig-Zag. The Colgate sled went a little faster than that. When it reached the bottom-still intact despite the missing bolt-its time for four heats was 7:57.31, a new U. S. record...
...After a New Hampshire snowfall of 20 in. and in a 60 m.p.h. gale the only way for Beatrice Coots, district nurse, to reach & aid in the confinement of Mrs. Milton Ames, on Ossipee Mountain, was by an eleven-dog sled which Mr. & Mrs. John Milton Seeley, owners of kennels at Wonalancet, N. H. organized and drove...
...accompanied by three or four husky footballers. He has burned off his shoes scrambling up the sides of volcanoes which other scientists had thought extinct, has gone down inside them to find he could melt copper twelve inches below the lava surface. Marooned by storms, he has used his sled dogs for food. In 1930 he took the first pictures of Aniakchak; the next year, with a pilot, he made the first airplane flight over it (narrowly escaping death when air currents rushing into the volcano's vents almost sucked the plane down); the next year, his seaplane landed...