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Dates: during 1930-1939
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STOWE--Mt. Mansfield Region--4 inches powder at Smugglers' Notch, increasing to 12 inches at summit. Thin base on upper half of mountain. Good skiing on entire Toll Road, little or none elsewhere...
Among the newer developments is one of America's few funiculars, the Cannon Mt. tramway in New Hampshire. It has carried passengers all summer, and opens soon for the winter season. The Cannon Mt. trail now runs to the summit, and a C.C.C. crew has been repairing storm damage on the Taft trail
...Post and TIME say he built "with his two hands"! About 1920 the Appalachian Mountain Club built an extension to their Lakes-of-the-Clouds hut on the side of Mt. Washington. . . . Tom was one of several who packed building material one and one-half miles down from the summit of the mountain-no easy task-and assisted in cooking for the mountain climbers who occupied the hut while the work was going...
...mountain ridge in Summit County, Utah, newshawks discovered a granite tombstone erected several years ago by Federal Emergency Relief Administration workers. Inscription: "In memory of Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932-36." Explained a local county commissioner: ''What the stonecutters really meant was, 'In appreciation of Franklin D. Roosevelt...
Next day the natives shuddered. Mt. Eiger was enveloped in a swirling froth of snow. In spite of the fact that Swiss authorities had warned that local guides could no longer be asked to risk their lives trying to rescue Eigerwand climbers, two natives clambered to the summit over the usual route, peered down the overhanging wall when the storm let up for a moment, saw no one, returned to the valley. The following morning, as spectators ran to the telescopes for a morbid view of frozen corpses, the quartet calmly walked into Kleine Scheidegg. They had conquered the Eigerwand...