Word: trailing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...famous Lord trail, a nar- row hazard to even the best skiers last year, was given a face lifting and now provides room for any amount of tail-wagging and stemming. Mount Mansfield, hidden in the nether regions of Vermont and a long voyage by train or car, caters to skiers who want to ski and has little social life. It is expensive, but the expense pays for fun over the hickories, not over cocktails...
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...
...rocky and rugged Blue Ribben trail provides more schussing and less plummeting than last year. As long as the weather favors the south-facing trails, the skiing is smooth and fast, and popularity of the area has instigated plans for another network of trails and tows on the north side of the Mountain. The ski club's big annual slalom is held at Bromley...
Hogback is relatively close to Boston, 95 miles, and has facilities for novice to expert downhill runners. The Brattleboro region was given the New Look over the summer in the extension of old trails and tows and the addition of one new trail-tow network...
Bush Christmas is the story of four white Australian children and one black one who set out, under pretense of a short camping trip, to trail a gang of horse thieves. The youngsters follow the bad men into grand, forlorn, unpeopled mountains. They get lost; they run out of food; they lean more & more on the little black boy's irreducible good cheer and his inherent ability to fend for himself. He teaches them not only how to live off the land (fried snakes for Christmas dinner), but also how to make life a merry hell for the horse...