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Sugar Bowl has produced many Olympic skiers, the latest begin Dodie Post, a participant in this year's meet at Saint Mortiz, and is famed for its fast, steep runs...
Stowe has little to offer the novice, One trail, a converted toll road to the peak, is gentle and smooth, while two other trails, blazed this year especially for novices, still have tough spots. Mansfield is a steep mountain, home of the Nose Dive, which was once an Olympic downhill run but is new one of the most popular export trails in the East, and, as such, draws skiers with considerable experience...
Near Mt. Palomar's forested upper slopes thick fog drifted over the road and hail hissed out of the clouds. The three trucks groped through it fearfully, for a skid might have rolled both trucks and mirror down the steep mountainside. Then, as the mirror neared the observatory dome-shining like frosted silver and big as a railroad roundhouse-a shaft of brilliant sunlight broke through the clouds. The nearest star, the sun, was friendly...
...last man went up the gangway, Murphy's face turned upwards. His glance traveled up the steep steel cliff with the pleasure of a man savoring something infinitely pleasant. And when the braying of the whistle announced Commodore Illingworth's impatience to be off, Murphy grinned. Then, a celebrity, he went off with the newsmen...
...With Steep Rock grossing upwards of $8,000,000 a year, Eaton has no intention of cashing in his paper profits. He now plans to open up four more open-pit mines, boost output to 5,000,000 tons in a few years. The Mesabi range is approaching exhaustion and Eaton is sure that he can sell all the ore he can mine for years to come...