Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...skiing record is a good one. Two years in succession he was asked to run the "Inferno," a trail that starts on the top of Mt. Washington and runs down close to five miles, dropping about 4000 feet. In this race, one of the longest in the country, he finished in the first ten both times...
Sunday morning the skiers will gather on Mt. Greylock for a run over the Thunderbolt trail in the downhill event. This run ranks with the Taft and Wildcat trails in difficulty...
...love of her but hate of him. That finished Wace's happiness: he took to drink, married a grateful prostitute. In middle age, both separated from their wives and each with a grown-up child, the enemies were settled in London. Sharpies began to dog Wace's trail again, went out of his way to shadow him, wrote him letters. . . . Gradually Wace became convinced that Sharpies' hounding was a deliberate incitement to murder. He fought against it as long as he could, eventually let himself be incited...
Proctor has worked on practically all of the ski trails in New Hampshire and has built a great many himself. Some of those he has built are the Wild Cat at Pinkham Notch and all other trails in the Pinkham Notch district, the Tuckerman Ravine Trail, the Bear Mountain run at Bartiett, the Chocerua run, and the Tuft trail at Francenia...
Peculiarly enough, many of the Freshmen with several years of skiing in Switzerland did not show up well. Trails seem to be the bugaboo of many European trained skiers, and not being accustomed to them, they get nervous. It takes a while for them to get on to the ropes of trail running. Later on we'll be hearing more about Freshmen...