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EVER WONDER WHERE DR. SEUSS GOT

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THE INSPIRATION FOR THE

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GRINCH'S WILD WINTERY RIDE FROM

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HIS MOUNTAINTOP LAIR TO THE

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VALLEY BELOW? MAYBE IT CAME

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FROM HIS IMAGINATION, BUT MORE

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LIKELY IT WAS BASED ON A PLACE.

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ANOTHER FAMOUS DOCTOR, THIS ONE

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IN THE FIELD OF MEDICINE,HAD

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THE SAME SNOWY INFLUENCE DURING

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HIS COLLEGE YEARS.  C. EVERETT

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KOOP, THE 13TH SURGEON GENERAL

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OF THE UNITED STATES, SHARED

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SOMETHING WITH ANOTHER

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IMPRESSIVE CROWD  100 WINTER

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OLYMPIANS  THEY ALL HAVE  A

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PASSION FOR SNOW! DR. SEUSS, DR.

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KOOP  AND AN EXTRAORDINARY

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NUMBER OF WINTER OLYMPIANS WERE

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AMONGST GENERATIONS OF SKIERS

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WHO WERE NOT NECESSARILY TOP

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COMPETITORS, BUT WHO CREATED THE

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MOUNTAIN RESORTS, THE GEAR, THE

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LESSONS, THE WRITTEN WORDS, THE

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IMAGES, THE RETAIL SHOPS, THE

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MEDICAL FACILITIES AND  MOST

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OTHER ASPECTS OF MODERN

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SNOWSPORTS, HAD ONE THING IN

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COMMON. THEY ALL SPENT TIME IN

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THE SMALL TOWN OF HANOVER, NEW

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HAMPSHIRE. THE DRAW - DARTMOUTH

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COLLEGE. MORE MEMBERS OF THE

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UNITED STATES SKI HALL OF FAME

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HAVE BEEN ASSOCIATED WITH

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DARTMOUTH THAN ANY OTHER

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LOCATION OR INSTITUTION. DR.

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SEUSS WAS A DARTMOUTH STUDENT IN

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THE 1920'S WHOSE REAL NAME WAS

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THEODOR GEISEL.  THOUGH GEISEL

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WAS NOT A SKI RACER, HE SPENT

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HIS COLLEGE WINTERS SURROUNDED

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AND LOTS OF SNOW. DR. KOOP CAME

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TO HANOVER AS A FOOTBALL PLAYER

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BUT BECAME A SKIER. THERE'S NOT

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MUCH SKIING DONE IN BROOKLYN.

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WHEN I CAME HERE  THE WHOLE SKI

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PICTURE WAS DIFFERENT THAN I

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IMAGINED IT...  I CERTAINLY KNEW

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I WAS NOT ANY TRAINEE FOR A SKI

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TEAM POSITION.  SO MY FRATERNITY

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BROTHER SUGGESTED TO OTTO

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SCHNEIBS, THE COACH,  HE LET ME

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PRACTICE WITH THE DARTMOUTH SKI

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TEAM, KNOWING THAT I  WAS JUST

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THERE FOR THE RIDE...  THAT LED

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TO MY BEING THE ONLY PERSON IN

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MY FRATERNITY THAT DID  ANY SKI

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JUMPING. WHEN WE HAD AN

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INTERFRATERNITY SKI DERBY, I GOT

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OUT THERE LATE IN THE DAY. THE

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TAKE OFF FROM THE LIP OF THE

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JUMP WAS FROZEN. 'DID EVERYTHING

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I COULD TO TAKE A HIGH JUMP OFF

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THE  EDGE OF THE LIP. HERE I

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WAS, UP HIGHER IN THE TREES THAN

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I EVER HAD  BEEN BEFORE. I KNEW

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I WAS GOING TO OVER JUMP THE

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JUMP AND SO I  TRIED TO DO A

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SOMERSAULT. INSTEAD OF THAT, I

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BROKE MY NECK. I WAS PARALYZED.

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I WAS NOT ABLE TO MOVE MY HANDS

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OR MY FEET. SO THE FIRST NIGHT I

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SPENT IN DICK'S HOUSE, THE

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COLLEGE INFIRMARY, I WAS NOT

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ABLE TO  MOVE MY ARMS OR MY

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LEGS, BUT NOBODY TOLD ME IT

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WOULD PROBABLY BE TEMPORARY. TWO

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DAYS LATER, I BEGAN TO GET

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MOTION BACK IN THINGS. I DECIDED

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RIGHT THEN I WOULD NEVER HAVE  A

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PATIENT THAT I PUT IN THAT

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POSITION.  HE WOULD ALWAYS KNOW

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AS  MUCH AS I DID. DR. KOOP IS

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ONE OF THOUSANDS OF STUDENTS

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OVER THE LAST CENTURY WHO

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LEARNED TO SKI WHILE AT

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DARTMOUTH. THE COLLEGE WAS THE

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FIRST IN THE UNITED STATES TO

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HAVE A SKI TEAM AND SKI

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FACILITIES WHERE STUDENTS AND

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OTHERS AFFILIATED WITH THE

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COLLEGE AND THE SURROUNDING

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COMMUNITIES COULD SKI. MANY

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LIKE DR. KOOP WERE GREATLY

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IMPACTED BY THEIR SKI

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EXPERIENCES. SOME OF THOSE

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SKIERS STAYED IN THE SPORT AS

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THEIR LIVELIHOOD AND THEIR

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LIFESTYLE.  HOW IS IT THAT A

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COLLEGE OF 4,100 UNDERGRADUATES

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AND 1,700 POST-GRADUATES COULD

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SPAWN A SPORT THAT IS NOW A $25

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BILLION- DOLLAR INDUSTRY IN

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NORTH AMERICA, A SPORT CENTERED

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AROUND GLIDING DOWN SNOW-

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COVERED MOUNTAINS OFTEN AT GREAT

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SPEED? TO ANSWER THIS QUESTION,

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YOU FIRST NEED TO UNDERSTAND

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DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, THE SMALLEST

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AND MOST REMOTELY LOCATED

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COLLEGE IN THE IVY LEAGUE.

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DARTMOUTH WAS FOUNDED IN 1769

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BY A MINISTER NAMED ELEAZAR

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WHEELOCK UNDER ROYAL CHARTER

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GRANTED BY KING GEORGE III. IT

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IS THE NINTH OLDEST COLLEGE IN

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THE UNITED STATES. WHEN

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DARTMOUTH WAS FOUNDED, IT WAS

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ON THE EDGE OF THE COLONIAL

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FRONTIER. WINTERS WERE LONG AND

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SNOWY. WHAT DO YOU GET WHEN YOU

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PUT AMBITIOUS, ADVENTUROUS

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YOUNG MEN IN AN ISOLATED WINTER

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OUTPOST? IN DARTMOUTH'S CASE,

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YOU GET A CURIOSITY AND

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WILLINGNESS TO TRY NEW THINGS

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OUTDOORS.  WHEN THE EARLIEST

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SKIS SHOWED UP IN HANOVER IN

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THE LATE 1880'S, IT WAS NO

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SURPRISE THAT A FEW INTREPID

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STUDENTS EMBRACED THE 10-FOOT

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LONG BOARDS THAT GLIDED ACROSS

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THE SNOW WITH THE AID OF A

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SINGLE POLE FOR BALANCE,

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BREAKING AND TURNING. HANOVER,

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NEW HAMPSHIRE IS NOT EVEN

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LOCATED IN A MOUNTAIN RANGE. IT

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IS IN THE CONNECTICUT RIVER

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VALLEY, AN HOUR FROM THE NEAREST

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HIGH PEAKS IN NEW HAMPSHIRE'S

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WHITE MOUNTAINS AND VERMONT'S

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GREEN MOUNTAINS, ON TODAY'S

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ROADS IN MODERN AUTOMOBILES  BUT

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THERE'S SNOW. IN NOVEMBER OF

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1909, A STUDENT NAMED FRED

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HARRIS ENVISIONED A CLUB THAT

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WOULD GET STUDENTS OUTDOORS ONTO

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THE SNOW. HIS EFFORTS RESULTED

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IN THE FOUNDING OF THE DARTMOUTH

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OUTING CLUB, ONE OF THE LEADING

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FORCES IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF

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MODERN SKIING. SO, HERE WE ARE

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IN DARTMOUTH, IN THE GRANITE

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STATE, WHERE WINTER IS TOUGH.

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AND SO HARRIS IN 1919 WROTE AN

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ARTICLE FOR NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC

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WHICH WAS ALL ABOUT DARTMOUTH

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AND SKIING AND BEING IN THE

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OUTDOORS AND THROUGH  NATURE'S

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WONDROUS WOODLANDS AND ALL THAT

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SORT OF QUASI- RELIGIOUSNESS.

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AND IT APPEALED TO AN INCREDIBLE

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NUMBER OF PEOPLE. THESE PEOPLE

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ARE KIND OF LEFT OVER MUSCULAR

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CHRISTIANS IN MANY, MANY WAYS.

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THEY'VE GOT TO PROVE THEMSELVES.

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THEY CAN'T JUST HAVE EVERYTHING

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ON A PLATE. WITH THE FOUNDING OF

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THE DARTMOUTH OUTING CLUB,

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HARRIS CREATED THE FIRST

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COLLEGIATE WINTER CARNIVAL. THIS

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LED TO THE FIRST INTERCOLLEGIATE

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SKI COMPETITION IN THE UNITED

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STATES, THE CREATION OF ALPINE

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DISCIPLINES SUCH AS DOWNHILL,

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SLALOM AND GIANT SLALOM. I SEE

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FRED HARRIS AS AN AGENT OF

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MODERNIZATION.  MEANING THAT

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HE TOOK SKIING WHICH HAD BEEN

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BASICALLY SOME SORT OF FOLK

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CULTURE TYPE OF THING INTO A

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MODERN SPORT.  AND WHEN YOU DO

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THAT IT REQUIRES THAT YOU HAVE

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A CERTAIN DEGREE OF FAIRNESS IN

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BOTH WHO'S COMPETING, AND ALSO

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IN THE CONDITIONS OF

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COMPETITION.  YOU'VE GOT TO

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HAVE A BUREAUCRACY IN ORDER TO

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MANAGE ALL THOSE THINGS AND

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THAT'S TIED UP WITH RECORD

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KEEPING AND INDEED RECORDS

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THEMSELVES. ANY FOOL CAN MAKE A

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RECORD, BUT TO BREAK THE RECORD

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YOU'VE GOT TO KNOW WHAT THE

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RECORD WAS BEFOREHAND. THEREFORE

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YOU REQUIRE ALL SORTS OF RULES

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AND REGULATIONS... THE

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DARTMOUTH OUTING CLUB DID DO ALL

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THOSE THINGS. THE DARTMOUTH

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OUTING CLUB WAS THE NOT THE

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FIRST OUTING CLUB EITHER, BUT

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WHAT HAPPENED WITH HARRIS AND

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WHAT HAPPENED WITH DARTMOUTH WAS

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THAT DARTMOUTH BECAME THE

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FULCRUM AROUND WHICH AN

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INCREASING NUMBER OF CIRCLES OF

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SKIING OCCURRED. AN IMPORTANT

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PART OF FRED HARRIS' VISION WAS

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A WINTER FESTIVAL, CALLED SIMPLY

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"WINTER CARNIVAL", BUT ITS

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INFLUENCE ON THE GROWTH OF

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SKIING, BOTH SOCIALLY AND

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COMPETITIVELY, WAS FAR-REACHING.

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THERE WAS REVELRY, OF COURSE, AS

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WELL AS ICE SCULPTURES,DANCING

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AND GLUHWEIN, BARREL JUMPING AND

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OTHER CHANCES TO ENJOY THE SNOW.

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WINTER BECAME FUN, AND FUN

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CREATES PASSION. IT ALSO CREATES

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MEDIA COVERAGE. AS DARTMOUTH

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ALUMNI SPREAD THROUGHOUT THE

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UNITED STATES, THEY HELPED

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CREATE OTHER "MARDI GRAS'S OF

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WINTER" MODELLED AFTER

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DARTMOUTH'S FAMOUS, OR PERHAPS

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INFAMOUS, WINTER WEEKEND.

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DARTMOUTH WAS AN ALL BOYS

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SCHOOL WHEN I WAS HERE, SO

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WINTER CARNIVAL WAS REALLY A

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GREAT TIME BECAUSE GUESS WHAT

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HAPPENED, WOMEN CAME TO TOWN.

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HARRIS WAS RIGHT WHEN HE SAID

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IT'S GOING TO BE BIGGER THAN THE

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SUMMER PROM. IT WAS THE WINTER

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HAPPENING LARGELY BECAUSE THE

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DARTMOUTH MEN HAD WOMEN TO COME

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FROM HOLYOKE, FROM SMITH, FROM

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WELLESLEY, FROM VASSAR AND SO

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ON...  THE GREATEST PART OF THE

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CARNIVAL WAS THE JUMP. NOT MANY

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PEOPLE WERE GOOD AT JUMPING,

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BUT THE BOYS AT DARTMOUTH WERE

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GOOD AT JUMPING. IN THOSE DAYS

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YOU DID EVERYTHING, BUT THE JUMP

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WAS THE MAJOR ATTRACTION. IT

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REALLY PROVIDED A SHOW. ONE

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EARLY JOHNNY APPLESEED OF SKIING

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WAS A GERMAN NAMED OTTO

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SCHNIEBS. SCHNIEBS WAS HIRED TO

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COACH THE DARTMOUTH SKI TEAM IN

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1931. A PROMINENT EUROPEAN SKIER

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OF THAT ERA, DARTMOUTH GAVE HIS

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SELECTION MORE THOUGHT AND CARE

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THAN IT DID TO MANY MEMBERS OF

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THE COLLEGE'S FACULTY AT THE

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TIME. THE LEGENDARY WALTER

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PRAGER, TWO-TIME WINNER OF THE

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RESTIGIOUS ARLBERG-KANDAHAR

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RACE AND ONE OF THE SKIING'S

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FIRST WORLD CHAMPIONS, WAS

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ANOTHER. AS EARLY APOSTLES OF

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THE SPORT,  SCHNIEBS AND PRAGER

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LED THEIR ATHLETES TO SUCCESS

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BOTH OLLEGIATELY AND AT THE

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OLYMPIC LEVEL. THEY ALSO WANTED

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TO MAKE THE GREATER POPULATION

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WHAT SCHNIEBS CALLED, "SKI

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CONSCIOUS". SCHKIING ISS NOT A

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SCHPORT. IT ISS A VAY OF LIFE!

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WHEN I WOKE UP AND HEARD THAT

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SOFTNESS OUTSIDE THAT LET YOU

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KNOW THERE'S SNOW ON THE

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GROUND, I WAS HAPPY. I HAD A

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PASSION FOR SNOW, AND I HAD A

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PASSION FOR SKIING. AND I MIGHT

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SAY THE COLLEGE HAD MUCH MORE OF

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A PASSION FOR SKIING. MY MENTAL

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IMAGE OF DARTMOUTH ON A WINTER

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AFTERNOON IS SCADS OF KIDS

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COMING OUT OF DORMITORIES,

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FRATERNITIES WITH THEIR SKIS

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OVER THEIR SHOULDER, HEADING

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OUT FOR THE GOLF COURSE. IT

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LOOKED LIKE MUCH MORE OF A SKI

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TOWN THEN THAN IT DOES NOW

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INSPITE OF THE FACT THAT SKIING

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WAS REALLY NOT A POPULAR SPORT

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AND WAS JUST IN THE BEGINNING OF

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ITS NEW ENGLAND BIRTH. WHILE

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MANY WINTER TRADITIONS QUICKLY

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FORMED AT THE COLLEGE,

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INTERCOLLEGIATE SKIING

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COMPETITION REMAINED THE HEART

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OF IT, FIRST AT DARTMOUTH, AND

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SOON AT OTHER UNIVERSITIES

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WHERE WHERE WINTERS WERE WHITE.

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AT FIRST, INCOLLEGIATE SKIING

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ONLY INCLUDED JUMPING AND

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CROSS-COUNTRY. IT WAS AT

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DARTMOUTH WINTER CARNIVAL THAT

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SKI RACERS TRIED SLALOM FOR THE

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FIRST TIME IN NORTH AMERCA. WHEN

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ONE TALKS ABOUT ALPINE SKIING I

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THINK ONE OF THE THINGS TO

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REALIZE IS THAT IT COMES OUT OF

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A SKI MOUNTAINEERING BACKGROUND,

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WHERE A SKIER WOULD WALK UP

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THROUGH THE WOODS, GET TO TREE

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LINE, AND THEN WALK UP TO THE

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TOP OF THE MOUNTAIN.  AND OF

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COURSE, ABOVE TREE LINE, IT IS

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BARE, AND THAT AFFORDED THE

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POSSIBILITY OF THE DOWN-MOUNTAIN

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RUSH.  THE MOMENT THAT YOU GOT

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TO THE TREES, THEN YOU HAD TO

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WATCH OUT. JOHN CARLETON SKIED

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FOR DARTMOUTH IN THE EARLY 1920S

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THEN WENT TO OXFORD UNIVERSITY

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IN ENGLAND AS A RHODES SCHOLAR,

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WHERE HE CONTINUED TO COMPETE IN

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SKIING. IT WAS THERE THAT HE MET

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ARNOLD LUNN. CARLETON, WHO

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COMPETED IN THE FIRST-EVER

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WINTER OLYMPICS IN CHAMONIX,

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FRANCE, INTRODUCED LUNN TO

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CHARLES PROCTOR, A DARTMOUTH

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PROFESSOR WHO WOULD LATER BE

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REFERRED TO BY SOME AS THE

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"FATHER OF AMERICAN ALPINE

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SKIING." PROFESSOR PROCTOR

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INTRODUCED DARTMOUTH SKIERS TO

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THE IDEA OF MAKING TURNS AROUND

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PINE BOUGHS SIMILAR TO THE

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SLALOM RACES LUNN HAD DEVELOPED

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IN THE ALPS. PROCTOR WAS KEENLY

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INTERESTED IN ALPINE SKIING AS

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A COMPETITIVE DISCIPLINE.THE

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SLALOM WAS ACTUALLY A

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SIMULATION OF WHAT LUNN USED TO

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CALL TREE RUNNING. THIS ALL

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OCCURRED IN THE FIRST WORLD WAR

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PERIOD, BEGINNING PARTS OF THE

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1920S, AND IT GOT ORGANIZED BY

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ARNOLD LUNN. AND JUST AT THIS

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TIME, PEOPLE LIKE PROCTOR

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STARTED READING THE BRITISH SKI

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ANNUAL UNDER ARNOLD LUNN'S

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EDITORSHIP. THAT GAVE HIM A

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VEHICLE TO SHOW AND TO CAJOLE

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AND TO ENTHUSE PEOPLE FOR ALPINE

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SKIING. AT THE SAME TIME THERE

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BEGAN TO COME A FEW PEOPLE WHO

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WERE DOING THIS SORT OF SKIING

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FROM PARTICULARLY AUSTRIA, THEN

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YOU BEGIN TO GET PEOPLE

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INTERESTED IN ALPINE SKIING.

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ORIGINALLY THE MARK OF A GOOD

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ALPINE SKIER WAS TO GO STRAIGHT

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DOWN A HILL, NO TURNING.

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TURNING WAS SISSY. PROBLEM HERE

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IS THAT YOU CAN'T REALLY DO

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DOWNHILL SKIING UNLESS YOU CUT A

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WAY THROUGH THE WOODS. AND IT'S

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A HARD SELL ALSO FROM A

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TECHNIQUE POINT OF VIEW. IF YOU

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LOOK AT SLALOM COURSES IN THE

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1920S, YOU'LL FIND THAT THEY

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MEANDER ALMOST. IT'S LARGELY

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BECAUSE THEY COULDN'T TURN

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SHARPLY.  YOU CAN ONLY TURN

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SHARPLY WHEN YOU'VE GOT THE

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EQUIPMENT TO DO THAT.  THAT IS,

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YOU'VE GOT A CERTAIN TYPE OF

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SKI WHICH WILL HOLD ON EDGE,

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AND YOU'VE ALSO GOT A VERY

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LIGHT POLE. SO THE WHOLE CHANGE

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IN THE MANUFACTURE OF EQUIPMENT

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ALSO PLAYS A ROLE INTO IT AS

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THE 1920S AND ‘30S COMES INTO

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VIEW. DARTMOUTH HOSTED THE

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FIRST SLALOM RACE IN THE UNITED

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STATES DURING THE 1925 WINTER

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CARNIVAL.  IT WAS WON BY

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PROFESSOR PROCTOR'S SON,

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CHARLIE, A STUDENT AT THE

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COLLEGE. THE YOUNGER PROCTOR

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WOULD BECOME A MEMBER OF THE

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1928 OLYMPIC SKI TEAM IN SAINT

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MORITZ, SWITZERLAND, THOUGH HE

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COMPETED IN ONLY THE NORDIC

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EVENTS.  ALPINE SKIING WAS STILL

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8 YEARS AWAY FROM BECOMING PART

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OF THE OLYMPICS. TWO YEARS AFTER

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THAT INAUGURAL SLALOM,

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PROFESSOR PROCTOR AND DARTMOUTH

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SKI COACH, ANTON DIETRICH,

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ENVISIONED A "DOWN THE MOUNTAIN

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RACE" IN WHICH COMPETITORS

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DESCENDED AS FAST AS THEY COULD.

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DARTMOUTH OWNED THE PERFECT

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PLACE TO HOLD SUCH A RACE, MOUNT

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MOOSILAUKE, ELEVATION 4,802

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FEET, ON THE WESTERN EDGE OF THE

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WHITE MOUNTAINS. THE FASTEST

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SKIERS TOOK 21 MINUTES TO

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COMPLETE THE 4-MILE COURSE WITH

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A VERTICAL DROP OF ABOUT 3,000

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FEET. THE MOOSILAUKE DOWNHILL

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BECAME POPULAR VERY QUICKLY. IN

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1931, A DARTMOUTH ALUMNUS NAMED

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JACK MCCRILLIS FILMED THE

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EVENT. MCCRILLIS AND PROFESSOR

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PROCTOR PRESENTED THIS FILM TO

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THE NATIONAL SKI ASSOCIATION,

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WHICH ULTIMATELY PERSUADED THE

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NORDIC-MINDED ORGANIZATION TO

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SANCTION THE THE FIRST NATIONAL

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DOWNHILL CHAMPIONSHIPS ON MT.

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MOOSILAUKE IN 1933. A FRESHMAN,

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BEM WOODS, WON THE RACE,

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BECOMING THE FIRST OF LITERALLY

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HUNDREDS OF NATIONAL CHAMPIONS

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TO COME OUT OF DARTMOUTH'S

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SKIING PROGRAM. FOUR YEARS

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LATER, COACH WALTER PRAGER AND

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DICK DURRANCE, THE TOP RACER ON

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THE DARTMOUTH SKI TEAM AND IN

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THE UNITED STATES AT THE TIME,

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SET THE FIRST GIANT SLALOM

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COURSE IN THE U.S., IN TUCKERMAN

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RAVINE. CROSS COUNTRY REQUIRES

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TIME, EFFORT AND SWEAT.  ONCE

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YOU'RE AT THE TOP OF A HILL,

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DOWNHILL REQUIRES COURAGE, SPEED

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AND TECHNIQUE. IN EARLY PART OF

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THE 20TH CENTURY, THIS IS THE

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TIME WHEN MOTOR RACING BEGINS.

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THIS IS A TIME WHEN THE AIRPLANE

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IS INVENTED, AND YOU BEGIN TO

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HAVE SPEED TRIALS.  THIS IS THE

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TIME WHEN THE BARNSTORMERS ARE

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DOING THEIR CRAZY THINGS  SPEED

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WAS THE CRY OF THE MOMENT.

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ALPINE SKIING ABSOLUTELY HIT THE

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SPEED NERVE. PERHAPS DARTMOUTH

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SKIERS HAD AN EARLY EDGE IN

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THOSE FIRST ALPINE EVENTS, AS IT

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WAS DARTMOUTH SKIERS THAT

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INTRODUCED THEM. BUT OVER THE

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LAST CENTURY, GENERATIONS OF

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DARTMOUTH SKIERS HAVE CONTINUED

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TO BE AMONG THE VERY BEST IN THE

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COUNTRY, WINNING NATIONAL

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CHAMPIONSHIPS AND COMPETING IN

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EVERY WINTER OLYMPICS FOR THE

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UNITED STATES AND OTHER

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COUNTRIES. MOST RECENTLY, TWO

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DARTMOUTH STUDENTS EARNED

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OLYMPIC MEDALS IN VANCOUVER IN

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2010. MY PLAN WAS TO CONTINUE

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WITH THE U S SKI TEAM AND GO TO

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SCHOOL AT DARTMOUTH AT THE SAME

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TIME. I REALLY CREDIT DARTMOUTH

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FOR BEING THE REASON THAT I'VE

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BEEN ABLE TO STAY ON THE U S

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SKI TEAM. STARTING AT THE END OF

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MY SKI SEASON, I COME TO

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DARTMOUTH FOR THE SPRING TERM

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THEN BEGINNING OF JUNE, I

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USUALLY START TRAINING AGAIN.

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I'M PRETTY MUCH SKIING AND

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TRAINING FOR SKIING RIGHT UP

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UNTIL THE DAY THAT SPRING TERM

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STARTS. HANNAH KEARNEY, THE 2010

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OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST IN MOGULS

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AND THE 2011 AND 2012 WORLD CUP

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MOGUL AND OVERALL FREESTYLE

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CHAMPION, GREW UP IN NORWICH,

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VERMONT, DIRECTLY ACROSS THE

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CONNECTICUT RIVER FROM DARTMOUTH

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COLLEGE, WHERE SHE EVENTUALLY

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BECAME A STUDENT. KEARNEY IS THE

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LATEST EXAMPLE OF HOW DARTMOUTH

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PROVIDES OPPORTUNITIES TO LOCAL

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KIDS TO BECOME SKIING CHAMPIONS,

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AS WELL AS HOW DARTMOUTH'S

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SKIING HERITAGE CONTINUES TO

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ATTRACT THE TOP COMPETITORS ON

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THE SLOPES. THE DARTMOUTH SKIWAY

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WAS THE REASON I BEGAN

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FREESTYLE SKIING. THE FORD SAYER

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SKIING PROGRAM THAT'S OFFERED

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AFTER-SCHOOL SKIING ON

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00:20:29,133 --> 00:20:30,900
WEDNESDAY AFTERNOONS. IT TOOK

496
00:20:30,900 --> 00:20:33,066
JUST A FEW WEEKS OF TRAINING

497
00:20:33,066 --> 00:20:34,833
THERE AND I WAS HOOKED. AND I'VE

498
00:20:34,833 --> 00:20:37,500
BEEN DOING THE SPORT EVER SINCE.

499
00:20:37,500 --> 00:20:39,833
THE HEAD TECHNICAL COACH OF THE

500
00:20:39,833 --> 00:20:41,100
UNITED STATES SKI TEAM WHEN I

501
00:20:41,100 --> 00:20:42,866
QUALIFIED FOR THE FREESTYLE TEAM

502
00:20:42,866 --> 00:20:44,733
WAS LIZ MCINTYRE WHO HAPPENS TO

503
00:20:44,733 --> 00:20:45,633
BE A DARTMOUTH GRADUATE. I

504
00:20:45,633 --> 00:20:47,400
REMEMBER MARCHING IN A PARADE

505
00:20:47,400 --> 00:20:48,533
FOR HER IN 1994 WHEN SHE CAME

506
00:20:48,533 --> 00:20:50,333
BACK WITH HER MEDAL FROM THE

507
00:20:50,333 --> 00:20:52,166
OLYMPICS. THAT TRANSITION FROM

508
00:20:52,166 --> 00:20:53,400
FAN OF LIZ MCINTYRE TO ONE OF

509
00:20:53,400 --> 00:20:54,833
HER ATHLETES, THERE'S A STRONG

510
00:20:54,833 --> 00:20:56,433
DARTMOUTH CONNECTION. THE

511
00:20:56,433 --> 00:20:59,800
EARLIEST SKIERS PIONEERED ROUTES

512
00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,166
ON THE HIGHEST NEW ENGLAND

513
00:21:02,166 --> 00:21:03,333
PEAKS. THEY OPTED FOR SKIS

514
00:21:03,333 --> 00:21:05,066
RATHER THAN SNOWSHOES AND WERE

515
00:21:05,066 --> 00:21:07,600
MORE SKI EXPLORERS THAN SKIERS

516
00:21:07,600 --> 00:21:09,000
IN THE WAY WE THINK OF POPULAR

517
00:21:09,000 --> 00:21:12,800
SKIING TODAY. WHILE THESE EARLY

518
00:21:12,800 --> 00:21:13,900
FEATS OF EXTREME SKIING WERE

519
00:21:13,900 --> 00:21:15,133
CERTAINLY NOTABLE, PARTICULARLY

520
00:21:15,133 --> 00:21:16,266
ON THE EQUIPMENT OF THE DAY,

521
00:21:16,266 --> 00:21:18,100
MOST PEOPLE SKIED AT LOWER

522
00:21:18,100 --> 00:21:20,800
ELEVATIONS ON OPEN PASTURELAND.

523
00:21:20,800 --> 00:21:24,033
ONE SUCH LOCATION, WOODSTOCK,

524
00:21:24,033 --> 00:21:27,066
VERMONT, ABOUT 20 MILES WEST OF

525
00:21:27,066 --> 00:21:28,233
HANOVER, WAS AN EARLY

526
00:21:28,233 --> 00:21:29,600
DESTINATION. THE SLOPING DAIRY

527
00:21:29,600 --> 00:21:32,000
FARMS OFFERED 400 TO 600 FEET OF

528
00:21:32,000 --> 00:21:36,600
VERTICAL DROP, WHICH THE 1932

529
00:21:36,600 --> 00:21:37,933
BRITISH SKI YEARBOOK DESCRIBED

530
00:21:37,933 --> 00:21:40,233
AS QUOTE, "POSSIBLY THE BEST

531
00:21:40,233 --> 00:21:43,000
SKIING COUNTRY EAST OF THE

532
00:21:43,000 --> 00:21:45,333
ROCKIES, MARRED ONLY BY THAT

533
00:21:45,333 --> 00:21:47,200
DIABOLICAL AMERICAN INVENTION,

534
00:21:47,200 --> 00:21:47,733
THE BARBED WIRE FENCE". IN

535
00:21:47,733 --> 00:21:52,200
1934, A DARTMOUTH GRADUATE

536
00:21:52,200 --> 00:21:53,900
NAMED WALLACE "BUNNY" BERTRAM

537
00:21:53,900 --> 00:21:55,933
USED A MODEL A ENGINE TO DRIVE A

538
00:21:55,933 --> 00:21:58,100
ROPE THAT HAULED SKIERS UP A

539
00:21:58,100 --> 00:22:00,566
SLOPE KNOWN AS GILBERT'S HILL

540
00:22:00,566 --> 00:22:02,800
NEAR WOODSTOCK, VERMONT. HE

541
00:22:02,800 --> 00:22:03,666
DIDN'T INVENT THE ROPE TOW, BUT

542
00:22:03,666 --> 00:22:04,966
THE ONE HE OPERATED IN WOODSTOCK

543
00:22:04,966 --> 00:22:07,166
WAS THE FIRST SKI TOW IN THE

544
00:22:07,166 --> 00:22:10,066
UNITED STATES. THE ARRIVAL OF

545
00:22:10,066 --> 00:22:11,466
SKI LIFTS ENABLED THOUSANDS TO

546
00:22:11,466 --> 00:22:12,233
EXPERIENCE SKIING AND OPENED UP

547
00:22:12,233 --> 00:22:14,233
THE OPPORTUNITY FOR SKI

548
00:22:14,233 --> 00:22:16,200
COMMUNITIES TO DEVELOP. AFTER A

549
00:22:16,200 --> 00:22:18,033
COUPLE OF YEARS, BERTRAM MOVED

550
00:22:18,033 --> 00:22:20,233
HIS ROPE TOW TO A NEARBY HILL,

551
00:22:20,233 --> 00:22:21,933
KNOWN AS HILL NO. 6. BECAUSE OF

552
00:22:21,933 --> 00:22:22,800
ITS STEEPNESS, BERTRAM JOKED

553
00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:28,266
THAT TO SKI HILL NO. 6 WOULD BE

554
00:22:28,266 --> 00:22:29,166
SUICIDE. AS A RESULT, BERTRAM'S

555
00:22:29,166 --> 00:22:30,366
SKI AREA BECAME KNOWN AS SUICIDE

556
00:22:30,366 --> 00:22:35,800
SIX. LIFT INNOVATIONS CAME

557
00:22:35,800 --> 00:22:38,900
QUICKLY, LED BY TWO OTHER

558
00:22:38,900 --> 00:22:40,700
DARTMOUTH SKIERS. THE WINTER

559
00:22:40,700 --> 00:22:43,266
AFTER BUNNY BERTRAM INSTALLED

560
00:22:43,266 --> 00:22:44,500
HIS ROPE TOW, DAN HATCH BUILT

561
00:22:44,500 --> 00:22:47,000
ONE OF THE FIRST OVERHEAD CABLE

562
00:22:47,000 --> 00:22:49,700
LIFTS IN NORTH AMERICA, A J-BAR,

563
00:22:49,700 --> 00:22:51,166
ON OAK HILL IN HANOVER, MODELED

564
00:22:51,166 --> 00:22:54,033
AFTER A PICTURE HE HAD SEEN OF A

565
00:22:54,033 --> 00:22:55,600
SIMILAR LIFT IN DAVOS,

566
00:22:55,600 --> 00:22:58,966
SWITZERLAND. MEANWHILE, CHARLIE

567
00:22:58,966 --> 00:23:02,500
PROCTOR HAD BECOME AN ADVISOR TO

568
00:23:02,500 --> 00:23:03,500
AVERELL HARRIMAN, THE RAILROAD

569
00:23:03,500 --> 00:23:05,033
MAGNATE WHO WAS DEVELOPING SUN

570
00:23:05,033 --> 00:23:06,500
VALLEY. PROCTOR SAW THE J-BAR IN

571
00:23:06,500 --> 00:23:08,333
HANOVER AND RECOMMENDED THE

572
00:23:08,333 --> 00:23:09,866
OVERHEAD CABLE DESIGN, BUT WITH

573
00:23:09,866 --> 00:23:13,433
A TWIST: A SKIER COULD SIT ON IT

574
00:23:13,433 --> 00:23:14,633
UP IN THE AIR!  SUN VALLEY

575
00:23:14,633 --> 00:23:18,133
CLAIMED THE FIRST CHAIRLIFT IN

576
00:23:18,133 --> 00:23:19,333
THE WORLD A YEAR LATER, IN 1936.

577
00:23:19,333 --> 00:23:22,566
THE YOUNGER PROCTOR HELPED LAY

578
00:23:22,566 --> 00:23:36,200
OUT MANY SKI TRAILS IN NEW

579
00:23:36,200 --> 00:23:38,133
ENGLAND THAT WERE CUT BY THE

580
00:23:38,133 --> 00:23:39,666
CIVILIAN CONSERVATION CORPS.

581
00:23:39,666 --> 00:23:41,066
SEVERAL OF THESE BECAME THE

582
00:23:41,066 --> 00:23:43,233
FOUNDATIONS FOR WELL-KNOWN SKI

583
00:23:43,233 --> 00:23:44,166
AREAS, SUCH AS THE TAFT TRAIL

584
00:23:44,166 --> 00:23:47,533
WHICH GREW INTO CANNON MOUNTAIN;

585
00:23:47,533 --> 00:23:49,733
THE WILDCAT TRAIL WHICH BECAME

586
00:23:49,733 --> 00:23:51,933
THE WILDCAT SKI AREA; AND THE

587
00:23:51,933 --> 00:23:54,133
TECUMSEH TRAIL, WHICH BECAME

588
00:23:54,133 --> 00:23:54,900
WATERVILLE VALLEY. IN THE

589
00:23:54,900 --> 00:23:59,166
1930'S, ONE OF DARTMOUTH'S EARLY

590
00:23:59,166 --> 00:24:00,133
SKI EXPLORERS, CARL SHUMWAY,

591
00:24:00,133 --> 00:24:03,500
HELPED PERSUADE THE BOSTON &

592
00:24:03,500 --> 00:24:04,266
MAINE RAILROAD TO OPERATE "SNOW

593
00:24:04,266 --> 00:24:06,800
TRAINS" FROM BOSTON'S NORTH

594
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,666
STATION TO VARIOUS SKI HILLS,

595
00:24:09,666 --> 00:24:10,866
GIVING SKIERS A LESS STRESSFUL,

596
00:24:10,866 --> 00:24:13,200
MORE SOCIAL WAY TO TRAVEL TO THE

597
00:24:13,200 --> 00:24:14,100
MOUNTAINS. A CONSUMMATE

598
00:24:14,100 --> 00:24:15,866
MARKETER, HE PROMOTED THE SPORT

599
00:24:15,866 --> 00:24:19,266
AT THE WINTERS SPORTS EXPO AT

600
00:24:19,266 --> 00:24:20,566
THE BOSTON GARDEN, ONE OF THE

601
00:24:20,566 --> 00:24:22,866
FIRST INDOOR SKI SHOWS IN THE

602
00:24:22,866 --> 00:24:24,033
COUNTRY. SHUMWAY'S EFFORTS

603
00:24:24,033 --> 00:24:25,066
COMBINED WITH THE INVENTION OF

604
00:24:25,066 --> 00:24:27,200
SKI LIFTS, THE CUTTING OF THE

605
00:24:27,200 --> 00:24:30,633
CCC TRAILS AND THE MEDIA

606
00:24:30,633 --> 00:24:32,033
ATTENTION PAID TO THE 1932

607
00:24:32,033 --> 00:24:35,166
WINTER OLYMPICS AT LAKE PLACID,

608
00:24:35,166 --> 00:24:37,300
AT WHICH FRED HARRIS AND

609
00:24:37,300 --> 00:24:38,900
PROFESSOR PROCTOR OFFICIATED,

610
00:24:38,900 --> 00:24:41,566
ALL HELPED CREATE THE FIRST

611
00:24:41,566 --> 00:24:42,666
SKIING BOOM EVEN THOUGH THE

612
00:24:42,666 --> 00:24:44,666
COUNTRY WALLOWED UNDER THE

613
00:24:44,666 --> 00:24:46,133
WEIGHT OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION.

614
00:24:46,133 --> 00:24:46,600
EIGHT DARTMOUTH SKIERS

615
00:24:46,600 --> 00:24:51,266
QUALIFIED FOR THE 1940 WINTER

616
00:24:51,266 --> 00:24:54,866
OLYMPICS: DICK DURRANCE, HAROLD

617
00:24:54,866 --> 00:24:56,200
HILLMAN, AND ED WELLS IN ALPINE

618
00:24:56,200 --> 00:24:58,000
SKIING; DAVID BRADLEY, SEL

619
00:24:58,000 --> 00:25:00,933
HANNAH AND THE CHIVERS BROTHERS,

620
00:25:00,933 --> 00:25:02,333
HOWARD AND WARREN, IN CROSS-

621
00:25:02,333 --> 00:25:05,600
COUNTRY AND NORDIC COMBINED; AND

622
00:25:05,600 --> 00:25:08,633
JOHN LITCHFIELD IN SKI JUMPING.

623
00:25:08,633 --> 00:25:09,200
HAROLD HILLMAN WAS CREDITED

624
00:25:09,200 --> 00:25:42,700
WITH THE FIRST SKIING DESCENT

625
00:25:42,700 --> 00:25:45,266
OF "HILLMAN'S HIGHWAY", IN THE

626
00:25:45,266 --> 00:25:46,700
FAMOUS, DAUNTING CIRQUE,

627
00:25:46,700 --> 00:25:48,200
TUCKERMAN RAVINE ON MOUNT

628
00:25:48,200 --> 00:25:49,400
WASHINGTON. SEL HANNAH AND JOHN

629
00:25:49,400 --> 00:25:50,733
LITCHFIELD WENT ON TO HELP

630
00:25:50,733 --> 00:25:52,100
CREATE SOME OF THE MOST WELL-

631
00:25:52,100 --> 00:25:53,366
KNOWN SKI AREAS IN THE COUNTRY.

632
00:25:53,366 --> 00:25:54,700
HANNAH AT CANNON MOUNTAIN AND

633
00:25:54,700 --> 00:25:55,900
MANY OTHER RESORTS; LITCHFIELD

634
00:25:55,900 --> 00:25:57,333
AT SUN VALLEY AND ASPEN. I WAS

635
00:25:57,333 --> 00:25:57,933
BORN AND GREW UP IN THE STATE

636
00:25:57,933 --> 00:25:59,033
OF MAINE. MOST OF THE YOUNG MEN

637
00:25:59,033 --> 00:26:00,966
IN MAINE AT THAT TIME, AND

638
00:26:00,966 --> 00:26:02,300
THROUGHOUT NEW ENGLAND, IN THE

639
00:26:02,300 --> 00:26:03,566
EAST, WERE INTERESTED IN

640
00:26:03,566 --> 00:26:04,133
JUMPING. WE WERE INFORMED BY

641
00:26:04,133 --> 00:26:05,200
THE NATIONAL SKI ASSOCIATION

642
00:26:05,200 --> 00:26:06,300
THAT THE EXTENT OF THEIR

643
00:26:06,300 --> 00:26:07,700
FUNDING COULD ONLY BE $250 PER

644
00:26:07,700 --> 00:26:09,133
PERSON. THE REST HAD TO BE

645
00:26:09,133 --> 00:26:10,900
FUNDED BY US INDIVIDUALLY IF WE

646
00:26:10,900 --> 00:26:12,300
WISHED TO GO.  QUITE A

647
00:26:12,300 --> 00:26:13,966
DIFFERENCE FROM WHAT THE

648
00:26:13,966 --> 00:26:15,433
SITUATION IS TODAY. THOUGH THE

649
00:26:15,433 --> 00:26:16,633
1940 OLYMPIC TEAM WAS ARGUABLY

650
00:26:16,633 --> 00:26:18,033
THE GREATEST ASSEMBLY OF SKIING

651
00:26:18,033 --> 00:26:19,533
TALENT FROM DARTMOUTH TO BE

652
00:26:19,533 --> 00:26:20,733
NAMED TO AN OLYMPIC TEAM, THEY

653
00:26:20,733 --> 00:26:21,933
DID NOT COMPETE. THE OLYMPICS

654
00:26:21,933 --> 00:26:23,066
WERE CANCELLED WITH THE ADVENT

655
00:26:23,066 --> 00:26:24,300
OF WORLD WAR II. RATHER THAN

656
00:26:24,300 --> 00:26:25,366
OLYMPIC MEDALS, THESE TALENTED,

657
00:26:25,366 --> 00:26:26,566
COURAGEOUS MEN EARNED MEDALS OF

658
00:26:26,566 --> 00:26:27,600
ANOTHER SORT, MEDALS OF HONOR.

659
00:26:27,600 --> 00:26:28,866
IT WAS A KEY MEMBER OF THE 1940

660
00:26:28,866 --> 00:26:29,433
OLYMPIC TEAM, DAVID BRADLEY,

661
00:26:29,433 --> 00:26:30,566
WHO PLAYED A CRUCIAL ROLE IN

662
00:26:30,566 --> 00:26:31,666
THE FORMATION OF THE ARMY'S

663
00:26:31,666 --> 00:26:32,800
FAMED 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION.

664
00:26:32,800 --> 00:26:35,000
IN FEBRUARY OF 1940, BRADLEY

665
00:26:35,000 --> 00:26:36,200
ABANDONED HIS POST-GRADUATE

666
00:26:36,200 --> 00:26:37,400
STUDIES AT CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY

667
00:26:37,400 --> 00:26:38,566
TO WORK AS A REPORTER COVERING

668
00:26:38,566 --> 00:26:39,866
THE RUSSO-FINNISH WAR. THE RED

669
00:26:39,866 --> 00:26:41,000
ARMY WANTED CONTROL OF THE

670
00:26:41,000 --> 00:26:42,400
KARELIAN ISTHMUS, WHICH HAD

671
00:26:42,400 --> 00:26:43,700
GREAT STRATEGIC IMPORTANCE, AND

672
00:26:43,700 --> 00:26:44,966
HAD LAUNCHED A MASSIVE ATTACK

673
00:26:44,966 --> 00:26:45,500
THREE MONTHS EARLIER. THE

674
00:26:45,500 --> 00:26:46,733
WINTER OF 1939 AND '40 WAS

675
00:26:46,733 --> 00:26:47,900
ABSOLUTELY ONE OF THE WORST

676
00:26:47,900 --> 00:26:49,100
POSSIBLE WINTERS EVER.

677
00:26:49,100 --> 00:26:50,200
MECHANIZED TROOPS DON'T DO WELL

678
00:26:50,200 --> 00:26:51,800
IN WINTER.  GENERAL WINTER WAS

679
00:26:51,800 --> 00:26:52,900
REALLY ONE OF THE GREAT REASONS

680
00:26:52,900 --> 00:26:54,200
THAT THE FINNS DID AS WELL AS

681
00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:56,133
THEY DID.  THE SECOND REASON IS

682
00:26:56,133 --> 00:26:58,066
THAT THE FINNS WERE BASICALLY

683
00:26:58,066 --> 00:26:59,733
DIVVIED UP INTO WHAT WE WOULD

684
00:26:59,733 --> 00:27:01,566
NOW PROBABLY CALL SMALL COMMANDO

685
00:27:01,566 --> 00:27:03,233
UNITS. YOU CAN MOVE MUCH MORE

686
00:27:03,233 --> 00:27:05,366
SWIFTLY. THE CHAIN OF COMMAND IS

687
00:27:05,366 --> 00:27:07,333
VERY, VERY SIMPLE.  THOSE TWO

688
00:27:07,333 --> 00:27:10,033
THINGS IMPRESSED DAVID BRADLEY

689
00:27:10,033 --> 00:27:11,700
VERY MUCH. MEANWHILE MANY KEY

690
00:27:11,700 --> 00:27:15,566
FIGURES IN AMERICAN SKIING,

691
00:27:15,566 --> 00:27:17,066
INCLUDING MINNIE DOLE, FOUNDER

692
00:27:17,066 --> 00:27:19,466
OF THE NATIONAL SKI PATROL, AND

693
00:27:19,466 --> 00:27:23,633
ROGER LANGLEY, PRESIDENT OF THE

694
00:27:23,633 --> 00:27:24,166
NATIONAL SKI ASSOCIATION,

695
00:27:24,166 --> 00:27:25,333
FEARED THAT IF ENGLAND FELL TO

696
00:27:25,333 --> 00:27:27,500
THE NAZI'S, NEW ENGLAND WOULD

697
00:27:27,500 --> 00:27:29,500
BE THEIR NEXT TARGET. NEITHER

698
00:27:29,500 --> 00:27:31,800
DOLE NOR LANGLEY WENT TO

699
00:27:31,800 --> 00:27:33,333
DARTMOUTH, BUT A NUMBER OF

700
00:27:33,333 --> 00:27:34,966
DARTMOUTH SKIERS HAD HELPED DOLE

701
00:27:34,966 --> 00:27:36,166
LAY THE FOUNDATION FOR THE

702
00:27:36,166 --> 00:27:37,966
NATIONAL SKI PATROL. AND THE

703
00:27:37,966 --> 00:27:40,266
MOST PROMINENT SKI RACERS IN THE

704
00:27:40,266 --> 00:27:41,433
UNITED STATES WERE FROM THE

705
00:27:41,433 --> 00:27:43,166
DARTMOUTH SKI TEAM, THUS THE

706
00:27:43,166 --> 00:27:44,866
CLOSE CONNECTION BETWEEN THE

707
00:27:44,866 --> 00:27:46,633
COLLEGE, BRADLEY AND THESE TWO

708
00:27:46,633 --> 00:27:49,100
NATIONAL SKI ORGANIZATIONS. DOLE

709
00:27:49,100 --> 00:27:50,366
AND LANGLEY WORRIED, RIGHTFULLY,

710
00:27:50,366 --> 00:27:53,533
THAT THE UNITED STATES WOULD BE

711
00:27:53,533 --> 00:27:54,866
GROSSLY UNDER-PREPARED AGAINST

712
00:27:54,866 --> 00:27:56,833
THE AXIS ARMY'S HIGHLY TRAINED

713
00:27:56,833 --> 00:27:59,166
MOUNTAIN INFANTRY. LANGLEY WROTE

714
00:27:59,166 --> 00:28:01,700
TO HENRY STIMSON, U.S. SECRETARY

715
00:28:01,700 --> 00:28:03,566
OF WAR, OFFERING THE NATIONAL

716
00:28:03,566 --> 00:28:05,400
SKI ASSOCIATION'S SERVICES. IN

717
00:28:05,400 --> 00:28:10,233
A LETTER TO MINNIE DOLE DATED

718
00:28:10,233 --> 00:28:11,766
FEBRUARY 18, 1941 , BRADLEY

719
00:28:11,766 --> 00:28:14,700
DESCRIBED IN GREAT DETAIL THE

720
00:28:14,700 --> 00:28:16,666
TACTICS, EQUIPMENT AND TRAINING

721
00:28:16,666 --> 00:28:18,966
TECHNIQUES USED BY THE FINNS.

722
00:28:18,966 --> 00:28:19,466
DOLE MET WITH COMMANDING

723
00:28:19,466 --> 00:28:22,200
GENERAL GEORGE MARSHALL,

724
00:28:22,200 --> 00:28:23,866
OFFERING TO ORGANIZE A MOUNTAIN

725
00:28:23,866 --> 00:28:25,733
DIVISION WITH THE HELP OF THE

726
00:28:25,733 --> 00:28:27,600
NATIONAL SKI PATROL. THE ARMY

727
00:28:27,600 --> 00:28:29,733
FINALLY CONSENTED, RECRUITING

728
00:28:29,733 --> 00:28:31,600
DICK DURRANCE TO TEACH 200

729
00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:34,733
ELITE PARATROOPERS TO SKI. THE

730
00:28:34,733 --> 00:28:37,733
PARATROOPERS HAD BEEN TAUGHT TO

731
00:28:37,733 --> 00:28:39,166
ROLL FORWARD WHEN THEY HIT THE

732
00:28:39,166 --> 00:28:40,800
GROUND, BUT WHEN THEY TRIED TO

733
00:28:40,800 --> 00:28:42,166
DO THAT ON SNOW, THEY BROKE

734
00:28:42,166 --> 00:28:42,700
THEIR LEGS. THEY BROUGHT A

735
00:28:42,700 --> 00:28:45,566
BUNCH OF SOLDIERS OUT TO ALTA TO

736
00:28:45,566 --> 00:28:46,733
SEE IF HE COULD TRAIN THEM TO

737
00:28:46,733 --> 00:28:50,200
SKI.  AND AT THE END OF THE

738
00:28:50,200 --> 00:28:52,300
WINTER THEY DECIDED THEY WERE

739
00:28:52,300 --> 00:28:53,833
GOING TO GO LOOKING FOR SKIERS

740
00:28:53,833 --> 00:28:55,133
AND TRAIN ‘EM TO SHOOT.   ‘CAUSE

741
00:28:55,133 --> 00:28:57,533
IT, IT JUST TAKES TOO LONG TO

742
00:28:57,533 --> 00:28:58,533
LEARN TO SKI. ABOUT 120

743
00:28:58,533 --> 00:29:03,466
DARTMOUTH STUDENTS AND FACULTY

744
00:29:03,466 --> 00:29:10,666
WERE RECRUITED FOR THE 10TH

745
00:29:10,666 --> 00:29:11,900
MOUNTAIN DIVISION. DARTMOUTH WAS

746
00:29:11,900 --> 00:29:15,100
THE SINGLE LARGEST CONTRIBUTOR

747
00:29:15,100 --> 00:29:17,566
OF MANPOWER TO THE U.S. SKIING

748
00:29:17,566 --> 00:29:20,166
TROOPS, AND FILLED MANY OF THE

749
00:29:20,166 --> 00:29:21,366
LEADERSHIP POSITIONS. LIFE

750
00:29:21,366 --> 00:29:24,333
MAGAZINE PUBISHED A COVER STORY

751
00:29:24,333 --> 00:29:25,666
ON THE 10TH MOUNTAIN DIVISION,

752
00:29:25,666 --> 00:29:26,200
FEATURING DARTMOUTH COACH

753
00:29:26,200 --> 00:29:27,700
WALTER PRAGER AMONG THE

754
00:29:27,700 --> 00:29:29,400
MOUNTAIN LUMINARIES IN THE

755
00:29:29,400 --> 00:29:31,433
SPECIAL UNIT. WE LEARNED

756
00:29:31,433 --> 00:29:33,900
MILITARY SKIING, WHICH IS

757
00:29:33,900 --> 00:29:37,200
BASICALLY THE SNOWPLOW, THE STEM

758
00:29:37,200 --> 00:29:42,900
TURN, BECAUSE YOU'RE CARRYING 90

759
00:29:42,900 --> 00:29:56,933
LBS OF RUCKSACK. THE 10TH

760
00:29:56,933 --> 00:29:57,966
MOUNTAIN DIVISION RECRUITS

761
00:29:57,966 --> 00:29:59,433
TRAINED AT 9,000 FEET ABOVE SEA

762
00:29:59,433 --> 00:30:00,833
LEVEL NEAR PANDO, COLORADO,

763
00:30:00,833 --> 00:30:02,833
ABOUT HALFWAY BETWEEN ASPEN AND

764
00:30:02,833 --> 00:30:04,300
VAIL, AT A PLACE DUBBED CAMP

765
00:30:04,300 --> 00:30:05,866
HALE. SKI PATROL FILM NARRATOR

766
00:30:05,866 --> 00:30:18,166
DESCRIBES TYPES OF SKIERS

767
00:30:18,166 --> 00:30:21,600
RECRUITED FOR THE 10TH MOUNTAIN

768
00:30:21,600 --> 00:30:23,333
DIVISION. DARTMOUTH MEN WERE

769
00:30:23,333 --> 00:30:25,100
VERY PROMINENT IN THE

770
00:30:25,100 --> 00:30:28,333
DEVELOPMENT OF THE SKI TROOPS

771
00:30:28,333 --> 00:30:45,366
EQUIPMENT WAS BEING TESTED.

772
00:30:45,366 --> 00:30:46,533
OPERATIONS MANUALS WERE BEING

773
00:30:46,533 --> 00:30:48,166
WRITTEN. TRANSPORTATION WAS

774
00:30:48,166 --> 00:30:48,733
UNIQUE. MOTORIZED TOBOGGANS

775
00:30:48,733 --> 00:30:52,166
WERE BEING EXPERIMENTED WITH,

776
00:30:52,166 --> 00:30:55,300
ALL FORMS OF COMMUNICATION.

777
00:30:55,300 --> 00:30:56,200
DOG TEAMS WERE BEING

778
00:30:56,200 --> 00:30:58,166
EXPERIMENTED WITH. THE 10TH

779
00:30:58,166 --> 00:30:59,933
MOUNTAIN DIVISION SAW NO ACTION

780
00:30:59,933 --> 00:31:01,766
FOR MOST OF THE WAR UNTIL

781
00:31:01,766 --> 00:31:04,666
CHRISTMAS OF 1944, WHEN THEY

782
00:31:04,666 --> 00:31:07,066
WERE RUSHED INTO POSITION IN

783
00:31:07,066 --> 00:31:08,800
ITALY'S APPENINE MOUNTAINS. IF

784
00:31:08,800 --> 00:31:11,366
THE 10TH MOUNTAIN TROOPS COULD

785
00:31:11,366 --> 00:31:14,166
GAIN CONTROL OF NAZI-HELD MOUNT

786
00:31:14,166 --> 00:31:17,633
BELVIDERE, THE U.S. COULD SEAL

787
00:31:17,633 --> 00:31:21,100
OFF THE ALPS. THE PROBLEM WITH

788
00:31:21,100 --> 00:31:22,733
CONQUERING BELVIDERE WAS THAT

789
00:31:22,733 --> 00:31:24,366
THE NAZI'S HAD AN UNOBSTRUCTED

790
00:31:24,366 --> 00:31:26,233
VIEW FROM A HIGH SHOULDER OF THE

791
00:31:26,233 --> 00:31:27,166
MOUNTAIN, CODE NAMED "RIVA

792
00:31:27,166 --> 00:31:30,166
RIDGE". IT DOESN'T BECOME REAL

793
00:31:30,166 --> 00:31:32,700
UNTIL YOU GO TO THE FRONT. FEAR

794
00:31:32,700 --> 00:31:37,800
BEGINS TO SET IN. YOU FEEL IT IN

795
00:31:37,800 --> 00:31:40,033
YOUR STOMACH. RIVA RIDGE WAS

796
00:31:40,033 --> 00:31:43,533
INCREDIBLE.  ‘CAUSE THIS IS A

797
00:31:43,533 --> 00:31:44,933
2200 VERTICAL FEET, AN

798
00:31:44,933 --> 00:31:47,566
ESCARPMENT  THE GERMANS THOUGHT

799
00:31:47,566 --> 00:31:48,933
THAT WE WOULD NEVER TAKE RIVA

800
00:31:48,933 --> 00:31:53,433
RIDGE. GENERAL HAYS KNEW WE WERE

801
00:31:53,433 --> 00:31:56,400
GREEN TROOPS. HE SAID AS GREEN

802
00:31:56,400 --> 00:31:58,766
TROOPS, YOUR REACTION IS TO

803
00:31:58,766 --> 00:32:03,033
SHOOT AT ANYTHING... HE KNEW WE

804
00:32:03,033 --> 00:32:04,366
SHOULD NOT HAVE AMMUNITION IN

805
00:32:04,366 --> 00:32:08,066
OUR RIFLES. WE WERE LOADED WITH

806
00:32:08,066 --> 00:32:11,400
GRENADES. WE HAD FIXED BAYONETS

807
00:32:11,400 --> 00:32:12,766
AND THAT'S COLD STEEL, BABY.

808
00:32:12,766 --> 00:32:19,133
THAT MEANS YOU MAY GET CLOSE TO

809
00:32:19,133 --> 00:32:21,233
THE ENEMY.  YOU MAY HAVE TO GUT

810
00:32:21,233 --> 00:32:25,866
‘EM. SO YOU'RE NOT FEELING TOO

811
00:32:25,866 --> 00:32:27,000
HAPPY ABOUT THIS... SNOW LENT

812
00:32:27,000 --> 00:32:32,100
QUIET STEALTH TO THE AMERICANS

813
00:32:32,100 --> 00:32:35,333
WHO COURAGEOUSLY CLIMBED THE

814
00:32:35,333 --> 00:32:36,466
2,000-FOOT CLIFF IN ONE OF THE

815
00:32:36,466 --> 00:32:37,366
MOST AUDACIOUS FEATS IN THE

816
00:32:37,366 --> 00:32:39,333
HISTORY OF MOUNTAIN WARFARE. A

817
00:32:39,333 --> 00:32:40,933
GROUP OF ELITE ALPINISTS

818
00:32:40,933 --> 00:32:43,633
INCLUDING DARTMOUTH'S PERCY

819
00:32:43,633 --> 00:32:44,766
RIDEOUT MADE IT TO THE TOP OF

820
00:32:44,766 --> 00:32:45,366
RIVA RIDGE AT DAWN, OVERCOMING

821
00:32:45,366 --> 00:32:48,033
A SERIES OF DEADLY GERMAN

822
00:32:48,033 --> 00:32:49,033
ATTACKS. THE NEXT NIGHT, THE

823
00:32:49,033 --> 00:32:50,033
REST OF THE DIVISION QUIETLY

824
00:32:50,033 --> 00:32:53,666
CROSSED THE VALLEY AND CLIMBED

825
00:32:53,666 --> 00:32:54,800
MOUNT BELVIDERE. THE FIGHTING

826
00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:59,466
WAS FIERCE, HAND-TO-HAND IN THE

827
00:32:59,466 --> 00:32:59,933
DARK, BUT BY DAWN, THE

828
00:32:59,933 --> 00:33:01,400
AMERICANS CONTROLLED THE

829
00:33:01,400 --> 00:33:03,200
MOUNTAIN. THE MOUNTAIN TROOPS

830
00:33:03,200 --> 00:33:05,900
SUFFERED NEARLY 2,000 CASUALTIES

831
00:33:05,900 --> 00:33:08,166
BUT SUCCEEDED IN KEEPING THE

832
00:33:08,166 --> 00:33:09,900
GERMAN ARMY CONTAINED. THE

833
00:33:09,900 --> 00:33:13,600
SURVIVING MEMBERS OF THE 10TH

834
00:33:13,600 --> 00:33:14,633
MOUNTAIN DIVISION, AS WELL AS

835
00:33:14,633 --> 00:33:16,000
DARTMOUTH SKIERS WHO JOINED

836
00:33:16,000 --> 00:33:18,066
OTHER PARTS OF THE ARMED FORCES,

837
00:33:18,066 --> 00:33:19,633
RETURNED HOME. SOME TOOK UP

838
00:33:19,633 --> 00:33:22,600
THEIR STUDIES AGAIN, BUT A LARGE

839
00:33:22,600 --> 00:33:24,100
NUMBER WENT ON TO WORK IN THE

840
00:33:24,100 --> 00:33:25,600
DEVELOPING SKI INDUSTRY. DESPITE

841
00:33:25,600 --> 00:33:27,433
THE TRAGEDIES OF WAR, IT WAS THE

842
00:33:27,433 --> 00:33:29,400
SKIERS OF THE 10TH MOUNTAIN

843
00:33:29,400 --> 00:33:30,700
DIVISION WHO SET THE STAGE FOR

844
00:33:30,700 --> 00:33:32,433
POSTWAR GROWTH AND EXPANSION.

845
00:33:32,433 --> 00:33:35,633
DARTMOUTH ALUMNI WERE OFTEN

846
00:33:35,633 --> 00:33:37,000
PRESENT IN POSITIONS OF GREAT

847
00:33:37,000 --> 00:33:38,866
INFLUENCE. FOR EXAMPLE, FRIEDL

848
00:33:38,866 --> 00:33:41,233
PFEIFFER FOLLOWED HIS EARLY

849
00:33:41,233 --> 00:33:42,766
CAREER IN SUN VALLEY BY BUILDING

850
00:33:42,766 --> 00:33:44,633
UP ASPEN HAND IN HAND WITH

851
00:33:44,633 --> 00:33:46,433
DARTMOUTH SKIERS LIKE DICK

852
00:33:46,433 --> 00:33:49,000
DURRANCE, JOHN LITCHFIELD AND

853
00:33:49,000 --> 00:33:54,200
PERCY RIDEOUT. $250,000 IS WHAT

854
00:33:54,200 --> 00:33:55,566
WE FIGURED WE COULD BUILD THE

855
00:33:55,566 --> 00:33:57,100
LIFT FOR AND CUT SOME MORE

856
00:33:57,100 --> 00:33:57,666
TRAILS AND SO FORTH... STOCK

857
00:33:57,666 --> 00:34:02,100
WAS ISSUED. FRIEDL TOOK HALF

858
00:34:02,100 --> 00:34:03,233
BECAUSE HE HAD DONE THE MAJOR

859
00:34:03,233 --> 00:34:06,666
PART OF THE WORK AND THAT WAS

860
00:34:06,666 --> 00:34:07,600
FINE WITH US. FRIEDL AND I DID

861
00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:11,100
MOST OF THE MANAGING.  I

862
00:34:11,100 --> 00:34:12,933
REMEMBER SIGNING PAYROLL CHECKS

863
00:34:12,933 --> 00:34:14,266
AND SEEING THAT ALL THE WORKERS

864
00:34:14,266 --> 00:34:16,266
ON THE LIFT GOT PAID FRIDAY

865
00:34:16,266 --> 00:34:18,933
NIGHT.  AS TIME WENT ON, WE USED

866
00:34:18,933 --> 00:34:21,800
OUR SUN VALLEY EXPERIENCE TO GET

867
00:34:21,800 --> 00:34:24,566
PEOPLE LIKE GARY COOPER. HE CAME

868
00:34:24,566 --> 00:34:26,800
AND EVENTUALLY BUILT A HOUSE

869
00:34:26,800 --> 00:34:30,500
THERE. GUESTS KNEW EACH OTHER.

870
00:34:30,500 --> 00:34:33,666
THEY KNEW THE SKI INSTRUCTOR.

871
00:34:33,666 --> 00:34:35,566
THEY'D OFTEN COME BACK YEAR

872
00:34:35,566 --> 00:34:36,633
AFTER YEAR AND ASK FOR THE SAME

873
00:34:36,633 --> 00:34:40,700
SKI INSTRUCTOR.  IT WAS ONE BIG

874
00:34:40,700 --> 00:34:42,066
FAMILY. THERE WAS NOTHING QUITE

875
00:34:42,066 --> 00:34:42,600
LIKE THEN IN THE SPORTING

876
00:34:42,600 --> 00:34:45,733
FIELD. PETE SEIBERT WORKED IN

877
00:34:45,733 --> 00:34:49,100
ASPEN UNDER DARTMOUTH SKIER

878
00:34:49,100 --> 00:34:50,400
DICK DURRANCE, THEN, AFTER

879
00:34:50,400 --> 00:34:52,333
SEEKING DICK'S ADVICE, FOUNDED

880
00:34:52,333 --> 00:34:53,933
VAIL. SEIBERT'S LONG-TIME

881
00:34:53,933 --> 00:34:55,333
MOUNTAIN MANAGER, SARGE BROWN,

882
00:34:55,333 --> 00:34:58,100
WENT TO VAIL AFTER WORKING AS

883
00:34:58,100 --> 00:34:59,766
RESERVE OFFICER TRAINING CORP

884
00:34:59,766 --> 00:35:01,533
INSTRUCTOR AT DARTMOUTH.

885
00:35:01,533 --> 00:35:03,466
DARTMOUTH SKIER TOM CORCORAN WAS

886
00:35:03,466 --> 00:35:05,666
ASSISTANT TO DARCY BROWN,

887
00:35:05,666 --> 00:35:07,733
PRESIDENT OF THE ASPEN SKIING

888
00:35:07,733 --> 00:35:11,333
CORPORATION, BEFORE FOUNDING

889
00:35:11,333 --> 00:35:13,866
WATERVILLE VALLEY AND SERVING ON

890
00:35:13,866 --> 00:35:15,000
VAIL'S BOARD OF DIRECTORS. AND

891
00:35:15,000 --> 00:35:17,300
SO IT GOES, AN INTRICATE NETWORK

892
00:35:17,300 --> 00:35:20,366
OF PEOPLE IN THE WORLD OF SNOW

893
00:35:20,366 --> 00:35:21,666
WITH COMMON LINKS TO DARTMOUTH

894
00:35:21,666 --> 00:35:23,266
SKIERS. PETE SEIBERT WAS ON THE

895
00:35:23,266 --> 00:35:27,300
SKI PATROL AT ASPEN IN 1954 WHEN

896
00:35:27,300 --> 00:35:29,633
I WENT OUT FOR THE NATIONALS AND

897
00:35:29,633 --> 00:35:32,000
THE ROCH CUP. I'D NEVER BEEN ON

898
00:35:32,000 --> 00:35:34,466
A DOWNHILL COURSE THAT BIG

899
00:35:34,466 --> 00:35:35,833
BEFORE, AND I WASN'T THAT GOOD

900
00:35:35,833 --> 00:35:36,800
ANYWAY. I WAS FLYING OFF THE

901
00:35:36,800 --> 00:35:38,566
MINE DUMPS THAT WERE PART OF THE

902
00:35:38,566 --> 00:35:41,233
DOWNHILL THEN, FALLING ON THE

903
00:35:41,233 --> 00:35:43,033
FLATS. PETE CAME UP TO ME AT ONE

904
00:35:43,033 --> 00:35:46,200
POINT AND SAID, "SON, IF YOU

905
00:35:46,200 --> 00:35:48,200
DON'T LEARN HOW TO PRE-JUMP

906
00:35:48,200 --> 00:35:49,733
YOU'RE GOING TO KILL YOURSELF".

907
00:35:49,733 --> 00:35:51,366
THAT WAS THE BEGINNING OF A LIFE

908
00:35:51,366 --> 00:35:52,933
LONG FRIENDSHIP. EVEN THOUGH

909
00:35:52,933 --> 00:35:54,866
TOM CORCORAN HAD BEEN AN ELITE

910
00:35:54,866 --> 00:35:57,400
SKI RACER, HE REALIZED THAT THE

911
00:35:57,400 --> 00:35:58,833
GROWTH OF THE SPORT DEPENDED

912
00:35:58,833 --> 00:36:00,366
UPON RECRUITING BEGINNERS AND

913
00:36:00,366 --> 00:36:02,233
THAT THE BULK OF SKIERS WERE

914
00:36:02,233 --> 00:36:05,033
REALLY INTERMEDIATES. HE WANTED

915
00:36:05,033 --> 00:36:05,600
TO MAKE SKIING FUN FOR THEM,

916
00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:06,733
NOT SCARY, SO THEY WOULD LIKE

917
00:36:06,733 --> 00:36:09,933
THE SPORT AND KEEP COMING BACK.

918
00:36:09,933 --> 00:36:13,533
SEL HANNAH, A MEMBER OF THE

919
00:36:13,533 --> 00:36:14,833
CANCELLED 1940 OLYMPIC TEAM AND

920
00:36:14,833 --> 00:36:18,033
A POTATO FARMER IN FRANCONIA,

921
00:36:18,033 --> 00:36:19,666
NEW HAMPSHIRE, FIGURED

922
00:36:19,666 --> 00:36:20,233
PROMINENTLY IN POST-WAR SKI

923
00:36:20,233 --> 00:36:22,000
AREA DEVELOPMENT. HANNAH LAID

924
00:36:22,000 --> 00:36:24,733
OUT CANNON MOUNTAIN FOR THE

925
00:36:24,733 --> 00:36:26,466
STATE OF NEW HAMPSHIRE BEFORE

926
00:36:26,466 --> 00:36:28,133
THE WAR. AFTERWARD, HE FOUNDED

927
00:36:28,133 --> 00:36:30,233
THE FIRST SKI AREA DESIGN FIRM,

928
00:36:30,233 --> 00:36:31,866
SNO-ENGINEERING. HE WAS AN

929
00:36:31,866 --> 00:36:34,333
EARLY CONSERVATIONIST AND

930
00:36:34,333 --> 00:36:35,966
INNOVATOR, INTRODUCING EROSION

931
00:36:35,966 --> 00:36:38,266
CONTROL ON SKI SLOPES WITH

932
00:36:38,266 --> 00:36:40,866
WATERBARS AND OTHER TECHNIQUES

933
00:36:40,866 --> 00:36:43,200
WHICH ARE STILL USED TODAY. HE

934
00:36:43,200 --> 00:36:44,733
PERSONALLY WORKED ON THE LAYOUT

935
00:36:44,733 --> 00:36:46,900
OF OVER 200 SKI AREAS. MY

936
00:36:46,900 --> 00:36:51,266
PERSONAL MEMORIES OF MY

937
00:36:51,266 --> 00:36:52,566
GRANDFATHER IS THIS BIG BURLY

938
00:36:52,566 --> 00:36:53,133
GUY WITH A SANTA CLAUS BEARD

939
00:36:53,133 --> 00:36:54,400
WHO LOVED TO BE OUTDOORS...

940
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:57,766
"HEY, FRED. COME ON!" HE LOVED

941
00:36:57,766 --> 00:37:02,333
SKI RACING, LOVED DARTMOUTH AND

942
00:37:02,333 --> 00:37:04,233
NEVER WANTED GIRLS TO BE THERE

943
00:37:04,233 --> 00:37:05,366
UNTIL HE REALIZED THAT I MIGHT

944
00:37:05,366 --> 00:37:06,433
GO THERE. (LAUGHS) I ALWAYS

945
00:37:06,433 --> 00:37:09,066
FOUND IT FUN THAT CANNON

946
00:37:09,066 --> 00:37:11,300
MOUNTAIN, WHERE I DID A LOT OF

947
00:37:11,300 --> 00:37:12,200
MY SKIING, WAS HIS FIRST SKI

948
00:37:12,200 --> 00:37:13,566
AREA HE DESIGNED.  AND

949
00:37:13,566 --> 00:37:15,033
WATERVILLE VALLEY, WHERE I GREW

950
00:37:15,033 --> 00:37:16,333
UP RACING, ONE OF THE PRIMARY

951
00:37:16,333 --> 00:37:17,400
RACING TRAILS WAS CALLED SELS

952
00:37:17,400 --> 00:37:20,200
CHOICE BECAUSE THAT WAS REALLY

953
00:37:20,200 --> 00:37:20,766
WHERE HE WANTED THE PRIMARY

954
00:37:20,766 --> 00:37:21,833
PART OF THE MOUNTAIN TO BE. HE

955
00:37:21,833 --> 00:37:22,933
TOOK ME UP ONCE TO WALK A HILL

956
00:37:22,933 --> 00:37:24,666
AND TALK TO ME ABOUT THE

957
00:37:24,666 --> 00:37:26,633
DRAINAGE, THE WIND, THE SNOW

958
00:37:26,633 --> 00:37:28,800
FLOW. I REMEMBER HIM LAUGHING AT

959
00:37:28,800 --> 00:37:31,433
SOME MOUNTAINS. HE'S LIKE, "WHY

960
00:37:31,433 --> 00:37:32,333
DID THEY CUT DOWN ALL THOSE

961
00:37:32,333 --> 00:37:33,433
TREES? THE WIND'S GOING TO BLOW

962
00:37:33,433 --> 00:37:34,766
OFF ALL THE SNOW, AND THE LIFTS

963
00:37:34,766 --> 00:37:36,800
AREN'T GOING TO BE ABLE TO RUN."

964
00:37:36,800 --> 00:37:39,366
YOU JUST GET A REAL SENSE WHEN

965
00:37:39,366 --> 00:37:40,333
YOU'RE LIVING IN IT, IN ALL

966
00:37:40,333 --> 00:37:41,433
ASPECTS OF IT, OF HOW THINGS

967
00:37:41,433 --> 00:37:42,633
WORK OUT THERE. I KNEW THAT I

968
00:37:42,633 --> 00:37:44,766
WANTED TO BUILD A SKI RESORT,

969
00:37:44,766 --> 00:37:47,133
AND I KNEW THAT IT HAD TO BE IN

970
00:37:47,133 --> 00:37:48,266
THE EAST BECAUSE IT WOULD BE

971
00:37:48,266 --> 00:37:49,733
LESS EXPENSIVE TO BUILD IN THE

972
00:37:49,733 --> 00:37:51,066
EAST, AND I DIDN'T HAVE THAT

973
00:37:51,066 --> 00:37:52,766
MUCH MONEY.  I KNEW NEW

974
00:37:52,766 --> 00:37:54,100
HAMPSHIRE WELL. I LOOKED ACROSS

975
00:37:54,100 --> 00:37:57,900
NEW HAMPSHIRE AND STUMBLED

976
00:37:57,900 --> 00:37:58,466
ACROSS WATERVILLE VALLEY. IT

977
00:37:58,466 --> 00:37:59,266
WAS EXACTLY WHAT I WASLOOKING

978
00:37:59,266 --> 00:38:00,433
FOR. I COULD SEE WHERE THE

979
00:38:00,433 --> 00:38:02,333
INTERSTATE HIGHWAYS WERE GOING

980
00:38:02,333 --> 00:38:03,966
TO GO IN THE FUTURE, AND I'D

981
00:38:03,966 --> 00:38:05,100
HAVE PROXIMITY TO THESE

982
00:38:05,100 --> 00:38:06,166
POPULATIONS JUST SOUTH OF US ON

983
00:38:06,166 --> 00:38:08,266
THE EAST COAST, AND THAT MADE

984
00:38:08,266 --> 00:38:10,066
SENSE. TOM CORCORAN ATTENDED

985
00:38:10,066 --> 00:38:12,900
DARTMOUTH DURING WHAT IS OFTEN

986
00:38:12,900 --> 00:38:14,733
CALLED THE SKI TEAM'S "GOLDEN

987
00:38:14,733 --> 00:38:17,466
YEARS". DURING THIS TIME THE

988
00:38:17,466 --> 00:38:19,133
TEAM GARNERED NUMEROUS GOLD

989
00:38:19,133 --> 00:38:20,800
MEDALS IN COLLEGIATE, NATIONAL

990
00:38:20,800 --> 00:38:22,800
AND INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION.

991
00:38:22,800 --> 00:38:28,666
GOING INTO THE '56 OLYMPICS,

992
00:38:28,666 --> 00:38:29,966
THERE WERE EIGHT GUYS ON THE

993
00:38:29,966 --> 00:38:31,200
MEN'S OLYMPIC ALPINE TEAM, AND

994
00:38:31,200 --> 00:38:31,800
FOUR OF ‘EM WERE DARTMOUTH

995
00:38:31,800 --> 00:38:32,733
GUYS. THE GUYS WHO WERE ON THE

996
00:38:32,733 --> 00:38:35,066
OLYMPIC ALPINE TEAM WITH ME WERE

997
00:38:35,066 --> 00:38:37,500
BILL BECK, WHO WAS THE BEST

998
00:38:37,500 --> 00:38:38,066
DOWNHILLER OF OUR GENERATION

999
00:38:38,066 --> 00:38:39,133
AND WHO HAD A FIFTH IN THE

1000
00:38:39,133 --> 00:38:40,200
OLYMPIC DOWNHILL AND THE

1001
00:38:40,200 --> 00:38:41,766
ARLBERG-KANDAHAR; RALPH MILLER,

1002
00:38:41,766 --> 00:38:44,533
WHO WAS THE FIRST PERSON TO GO

1003
00:38:44,533 --> 00:38:45,466
100 MILES PER HOUR ON SKIS;

1004
00:38:45,466 --> 00:38:46,733
BROOKIE DODGE WHO WAS 4TH IN THE

1005
00:38:46,733 --> 00:38:49,500
'56 OLYMPIC SLALOM; AND CHICK

1006
00:38:49,500 --> 00:38:52,766
IGAYA WHO WAS REALLY THE BEST

1007
00:38:52,766 --> 00:38:54,000
SKIER OF OUR GENERATION TO GO TO

1008
00:38:54,000 --> 00:38:55,333
DARTMOUTH. CHICK SKIED FOR

1009
00:38:55,333 --> 00:38:56,833
JAPAN. CORCORAN WAS BUT ONE

1010
00:38:56,833 --> 00:38:59,300
EXAMPLE OF HOW A DARTMOUTH

1011
00:38:59,300 --> 00:39:02,066
EDUCATION COMBINED WITH

1012
00:39:02,066 --> 00:39:04,033
EXCEPTIONAL TALENT AS A SKIER

1013
00:39:04,033 --> 00:39:05,600
LED TO AN INFLUENTIAL CAREER IN

1014
00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:06,866
THE SKI INDUSTRY. NOT EVERY SKI

1015
00:39:06,866 --> 00:39:11,833
RESORT FOCUSES ON ALPINE SKIING.

1016
00:39:11,833 --> 00:39:15,500
THE TRAPP FAMILY LODGE, IN

1017
00:39:15,500 --> 00:39:17,100
STOWE, VERMONT, WAS THE FIRST

1018
00:39:17,100 --> 00:39:18,800
DESTINATION NORDIC SKIING RESORT

1019
00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:20,533
IN THE UNITED STATES. THE VON

1020
00:39:20,533 --> 00:39:24,466
TRAPP FAMILY IS MOST FAMOUS FOR

1021
00:39:24,466 --> 00:39:26,400
THEIR ESCAPE FROM AUSTRIA DURING

1022
00:39:26,400 --> 00:39:28,300
WORLD WAR II AS DRAMATIZED IN

1023
00:39:28,300 --> 00:39:30,533
THE BROADWAY MUSICAL AND FEATURE

1024
00:39:30,533 --> 00:39:31,933
FILM, THE SOUND OF MUSIC.

1025
00:39:31,933 --> 00:39:34,700
JOHANNES VON TRAPP GRADUATED

1026
00:39:34,700 --> 00:39:35,800
FROM DARTMOUTH IN 1963. HE TOOK

1027
00:39:35,800 --> 00:39:38,033
OVER RUNNING THE HOTEL AND ADDED

1028
00:39:38,033 --> 00:39:41,166
THE CROSS-COUNTRY TOURING CENTER

1029
00:39:41,166 --> 00:39:42,833
WITH THE HELP OF OTHER DARTMOUTH

1030
00:39:42,833 --> 00:39:44,266
ALUMNI. MY FATHER, GEORG,

1031
00:39:44,266 --> 00:39:47,900
ENVISIONED THE FAMILY EARNING A

1032
00:39:47,900 --> 00:39:49,366
LIVING FARMING HERE, BUT THERE

1033
00:39:49,366 --> 00:39:51,100
WERE 10 OF US KIDS AND A ROCKY,

1034
00:39:51,100 --> 00:39:52,266
SLOW GROWING, COLD HILLSIDE FARM

1035
00:39:52,266 --> 00:40:00,266
IN NORTHERN VERMONT.  THERE WAS

1036
00:40:00,266 --> 00:40:01,000
NO WAY IT WAS GOING TO SUPPORT

1037
00:40:01,000 --> 00:40:02,866
US. WHEN THE SKI INDUSTRY BEGAN

1038
00:40:02,866 --> 00:40:05,333
TO GROW ON MT. MANSFIELD, WE

1039
00:40:05,333 --> 00:40:09,333
STARTED TAKING GUESTS. WHILE WE

1040
00:40:09,333 --> 00:40:10,166
WERE AWAY PERFORMING, THE

1041
00:40:10,166 --> 00:40:11,700
GUESTS STAYED IN OUR ROOMS. IN

1042
00:40:11,700 --> 00:40:14,633
THE ‘60S, PEOPLE WERE NOT SO

1043
00:40:14,633 --> 00:40:16,333
INTERESTED IN THE LODGE

1044
00:40:16,333 --> 00:40:16,866
EXPERIENCE.  OUR OCCUPANCY

1045
00:40:16,866 --> 00:40:19,833
BEGAN TO SUFFER HERE. AT

1046
00:40:19,833 --> 00:40:22,666
DARTMOUTH I HAD A NORWEGIAN

1047
00:40:22,666 --> 00:40:25,600
ROOMMATE. WE'D COME BACK HERE,

1048
00:40:25,600 --> 00:40:26,866
PUT OUR CROSS-COUNTRY SKIS ON,

1049
00:40:26,866 --> 00:40:27,933
AND GO ON THE MILES OF LOGGING

1050
00:40:27,933 --> 00:40:29,333
ROADS AND HAVE A GREAT TIME.  I

1051
00:40:29,333 --> 00:40:31,866
THOUGHT THAT THERE MIGHT BE A

1052
00:40:31,866 --> 00:40:33,733
MARKET FOR THIS IF IT WERE

1053
00:40:33,733 --> 00:40:38,100
PRESENTED PROPERLY. AND THE

1054
00:40:38,100 --> 00:40:38,966
PROGRAM HAS GROWN TO WHAT IT IS

1055
00:40:38,966 --> 00:40:39,966
NOW, WHICH IS A MAJOR CROSS-

1056
00:40:39,966 --> 00:40:42,600
COUNTRY DESTINATION. I ALWAYS

1057
00:40:42,600 --> 00:40:44,033
KNEW WHEN I GREW UP THAT I WOULD

1058
00:40:44,033 --> 00:40:45,900
COME BACK TO THE FAMILY BUSINESS

1059
00:40:45,900 --> 00:40:48,933
YOU HAVEN'T GROWN UP YET, SON

1060
00:40:48,933 --> 00:40:50,200
AND I'LL COME FULLY INTO THE

1061
00:40:50,200 --> 00:40:51,300
BUSINESS ONE OF THESE DAYS, BUT

1062
00:40:51,300 --> 00:40:53,133
IN THE MEANTIME, MY DAD REALLY

1063
00:40:53,133 --> 00:40:54,833
ENCOURAGED ME AFTER DARTMOUTH TO

1064
00:40:54,833 --> 00:40:56,500
HAVE MY OWN EXPERIENCES. SO I

1065
00:40:56,500 --> 00:40:58,033
TAUGHT SKIING IN ASPEN AND SOUTH

1066
00:40:58,033 --> 00:40:59,366
AMERICA. 'HAD A LOT OF GREAT

1067
00:40:59,366 --> 00:41:01,366
ADVENTURES. MY DAD STARTED TO

1068
00:41:01,366 --> 00:41:03,466
CALL ME UP AND SAY, "WHEN ARE

1069
00:41:03,466 --> 00:41:04,733
YOU GOING TO COME BACK AND HELP

1070
00:41:04,733 --> 00:41:06,033
OUT?" IF I REMEMBER CORRECTLY, I

1071
00:41:06,033 --> 00:41:07,766
SAID, "SAM, IF YOU DON'T COME

1072
00:41:07,766 --> 00:41:09,066
HOME SOON, I'M GOING TO SELL

1073
00:41:09,066 --> 00:41:10,566
THE PLACE."  (LAUGH.) SKIING IS

1074
00:41:10,566 --> 00:41:13,200
A LIFESTYLE, A CULTURE, THAT

1075
00:41:13,200 --> 00:41:14,466
COMBINES A LOVE OF THE OUTDOORS

1076
00:41:14,466 --> 00:41:15,066
WITH THE SENSATION OF GLIDING

1077
00:41:15,066 --> 00:41:16,433
ON SNOW. IT'S AN INDUSTRY

1078
00:41:16,433 --> 00:41:19,466
BECAUSE PEOPLE MAKE MONEY AT IT,

1079
00:41:19,466 --> 00:41:20,933
YET THE BUSINESS OF SKIING IS

1080
00:41:20,933 --> 00:41:23,100
VERY MUCH GROUNDED IN A PASSION

1081
00:41:23,100 --> 00:41:25,033
FOR SNOW. REAL ESTATE

1082
00:41:25,033 --> 00:41:28,366
DEVELOPMENT, I THINK, HAS

1083
00:41:28,366 --> 00:41:29,466
CONTRIBUTED TO THAT GROWTH

1084
00:41:29,466 --> 00:41:30,566
BECAUSE IT'S ENABLED THE RESORTS

1085
00:41:30,566 --> 00:41:32,966
TO HAVE A GREAT DEAL MORE ASSETS

1086
00:41:32,966 --> 00:41:35,700
IN TERMS OF THE ABILITY TO

1087
00:41:35,700 --> 00:41:36,966
BUILD, NOT JUST LIFTS, BUT TO

1088
00:41:36,966 --> 00:41:38,666
BUILD INFRASTRUCTURE WHICH

1089
00:41:38,666 --> 00:41:40,100
PERMITTED THEM TO EXPAND. WHAT I

1090
00:41:40,100 --> 00:41:42,833
THINK REAL ESTATE DID, IS, IT

1091
00:41:42,833 --> 00:41:43,700
MADE A LOT OF SKI AREAS IN SKI

1092
00:41:43,700 --> 00:41:44,900
RESORTS. IT WAS IMPORTANT TO THE

1093
00:41:44,900 --> 00:41:49,066
SKIERS TO BE ABLE TO PARTICIPATE

1094
00:41:49,066 --> 00:41:50,466
IN REAL ESTATE BECAUSE IT

1095
00:41:50,466 --> 00:41:51,933
ENABLED THEM TO BECOME PART OF

1096
00:41:51,933 --> 00:41:53,433
THE EQUITY SPIRAL, IF YOU MAY,

1097
00:41:53,433 --> 00:41:55,366
AND THEY HAD A PIECE OF THE

1098
00:41:55,366 --> 00:41:57,200
PIE. THEY BECAME A PART OF THE

1099
00:41:57,200 --> 00:41:59,300
RESORT ITSELF BY OWNING REAL

1100
00:41:59,300 --> 00:42:01,500
ESTATE. DIANE BOYER IS YET

1101
00:42:01,500 --> 00:42:02,633
ANOTHER DARTMOUTH ALUM WHO HAS

1102
00:42:02,633 --> 00:42:06,833
HELPED  SHAPED SKIING AS WE KNOW

1103
00:42:06,833 --> 00:42:07,800
IT. BOYER MATRICULATED SHORTLY

1104
00:42:07,800 --> 00:42:09,466
AFTER THE COLLEGE BECAME CO-ED

1105
00:42:09,466 --> 00:42:10,266
IN 1972. A MOGUL SKIER, SHE

1106
00:42:10,266 --> 00:42:14,366
NEVER COMPETED FOR THE COLLEGE,

1107
00:42:14,366 --> 00:42:16,200
BUT SKIING IS IN HER BLOOD.

1108
00:42:16,200 --> 00:42:17,633
TODAY, SHE IS THE PRESIDENT OF

1109
00:42:17,633 --> 00:42:21,000
SKEA, A FASHIONABLE BRAND OF

1110
00:42:21,000 --> 00:42:23,966
HIGH-END WOMEN'S SKIWEAR.  IN

1111
00:42:23,966 --> 00:42:25,433
2005, SHE BECAME THE FIRST WOMAN

1112
00:42:25,433 --> 00:42:29,933
TO SERVE AS CHAIR OF SNOWSPORTS

1113
00:42:29,933 --> 00:42:32,233
INDUSTRIES AMERICA, OR S-I-A,

1114
00:42:32,233 --> 00:42:35,066
THE NATIONAL TRADE ASSOCIATION

1115
00:42:35,066 --> 00:42:38,200
FOR SKIING'S GEAR, APPAREL AND

1116
00:42:38,200 --> 00:42:41,366
ACCESSORIES. WHEN I WENT ONTO

1117
00:42:41,366 --> 00:42:42,666
THE BOARD OF SIA, THERE WERE

1118
00:42:42,666 --> 00:42:44,633
FIVE DARTMOUTH GRADUATES ON THE

1119
00:42:44,633 --> 00:42:46,266
BOARD. IT BECAME SORT OF A JOKE

1120
00:42:46,266 --> 00:42:47,900
FROM THE PRESIDENT OF THE

1121
00:42:47,900 --> 00:42:48,433
ORGANIZATION WHEN WE WERE

1122
00:42:48,433 --> 00:42:49,433
MAKING DECISIONS. HE'D SAY,

1123
00:42:49,433 --> 00:42:50,466
"WHAT DOES THE DARTMOUTH BRAIN

1124
00:42:50,466 --> 00:42:54,333
TRUST THINK?" OTHER DARTMOUTH

1125
00:42:54,333 --> 00:42:55,800
GRADUATES HAVE INFLUENCED WHAT

1126
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:57,566
WE WEAR ON THE SLOPES. IN 1914,

1127
00:42:57,566 --> 00:42:59,733
JOHN PIANE ORGANIZED THE FIRST

1128
00:42:59,733 --> 00:43:01,566
SKI SHOP CALLED THE DARTMOUTH

1129
00:43:01,566 --> 00:43:04,700
COOP, WHICH EXISTS TODAY THOUGH

1130
00:43:04,700 --> 00:43:06,600
IT NO LONGER SELLS SKI GEAR.

1131
00:43:06,600 --> 00:43:09,766
HAROLD HIRSCH FOUNDED THE FIRST

1132
00:43:09,766 --> 00:43:10,933
SIGNIFICANT SKI CLOTHING BRAND,

1133
00:43:10,933 --> 00:43:15,233
WHITE STAG. LANE DWINELL, THE

1134
00:43:15,233 --> 00:43:16,433
FORMER GOVERNOR OF NEW

1135
00:43:16,433 --> 00:43:18,300
HAMPSHIRE, OWNED PROFILE

1136
00:43:18,300 --> 00:43:19,400
SKIWEAR; STEVE CRISAFULLI

1137
00:43:19,400 --> 00:43:19,966
DEVELOPED SLALOM SPORTSWEAR,

1138
00:43:19,966 --> 00:43:24,366
AND LATER, BOGNER'S SKI AND

1139
00:43:24,366 --> 00:43:26,700
SPORTSWEAR BUSINESS IN NORTH

1140
00:43:26,700 --> 00:43:27,633
AMERICA; HOWARD HEAD DID NOT

1141
00:43:27,633 --> 00:43:30,166
ATTEND DARTMOUTH, BUT HE SOUGHT

1142
00:43:30,166 --> 00:43:31,533
THE INPUT OF THE MANY PROMINENT

1143
00:43:31,533 --> 00:43:34,166
SKIERS AT THE COLLEGE WHILE

1144
00:43:34,166 --> 00:43:35,300
DEVELOPING THE FIRST METAL SKI.

1145
00:43:35,300 --> 00:43:38,833
LATER, A NUMBER OF HEAD'S KEY

1146
00:43:38,833 --> 00:43:39,366
EMPLOYEES, CONSULTANTS AND

1147
00:43:39,366 --> 00:43:41,133
SALES PEOPLE WERE DARTMOUTH

1148
00:43:41,133 --> 00:43:42,666
GRADUATES.IT WAS DARTMOUTH

1149
00:43:42,666 --> 00:43:45,566
ALUMNUS RICK ISAACSON, ONE OF

1150
00:43:45,566 --> 00:43:47,566
THE FIRST EMPLOYEES OF THE

1151
00:43:47,566 --> 00:43:49,133
INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT GROUP,

1152
00:43:49,133 --> 00:43:49,666
WHO MATCHED SKI HERO JEAN

1153
00:43:49,666 --> 00:43:54,300
CLAUDE KILLY WITH HEAD, WHICH

1154
00:43:54,300 --> 00:43:55,500
RESULTED IN THE HEAD-KILLY SKI,

1155
00:43:55,500 --> 00:43:56,633
ONE OF THE TOP SELLING SKIS OF

1156
00:43:56,633 --> 00:43:58,700
THE 1970S. IN ADDITION TO

1157
00:43:58,700 --> 00:44:01,566
CREATING THE SKI RESORTS AND

1158
00:44:01,566 --> 00:44:05,966
OTHER SKI-RELATED BUSINESSES,

1159
00:44:05,966 --> 00:44:08,300
DARTMOUTH SKIERS HAVE AVIDLY

1160
00:44:08,300 --> 00:44:09,600
PROMOTED THEIR ENTHUSIASM FOR

1161
00:44:09,600 --> 00:44:10,566
THEIR CHOSEN SPORT. ROB WALSH, A

1162
00:44:10,566 --> 00:44:14,900
4X PARALYMPIAN IN NORDIC AND

1163
00:44:14,900 --> 00:44:16,700
BIATHLON, WAS DIAGNOSED AT AN

1164
00:44:16,700 --> 00:44:19,200
EARLY AGE WITH HEREDITARY

1165
00:44:19,200 --> 00:44:22,200
MACULAR DEGENERATION, LEGALLY

1166
00:44:22,200 --> 00:44:23,566
BLIND, HE HAD NEVER COMPETED IN

1167
00:44:23,566 --> 00:44:25,766
SKIING BEFORE HE CAME TO

1168
00:44:25,766 --> 00:44:27,833
DARTMOUTH. THE HIGHLIGHT OF MY

1169
00:44:27,833 --> 00:44:29,866
SKI CAREER WAS THE 1988 PARA-

1170
00:44:29,866 --> 00:44:32,400
OLYMPICS. I REMEMBER GOING TO

1171
00:44:32,400 --> 00:44:33,966
JOHN MORTON, BEING AN OLYMPIAN

1172
00:44:33,966 --> 00:44:34,966
HIMSELF, AND ASKING HIM FOR

1173
00:44:34,966 --> 00:44:36,266
ADVICE  ABOUT HOW TO ADJUST TO

1174
00:44:36,266 --> 00:44:37,966
TIME ZONES AND HOW TO DEAL WITH

1175
00:44:37,966 --> 00:44:39,866
THE CULTURE. AS I WALKED OUT OF

1176
00:44:39,866 --> 00:44:42,300
THE LOCKER THAT AFTERNOON, HE

1177
00:44:42,300 --> 00:44:43,633
SAID, "BY THE WAY, BRING HOME

1178
00:44:43,633 --> 00:44:44,933
SOME HARDWARE." I FELT PRETTY

1179
00:44:44,933 --> 00:44:49,433
PROUD OF THE FACT THAT I COULD

1180
00:44:49,433 --> 00:44:50,566
CALL HIM UP FROM AUSTRIA AND

1181
00:44:50,566 --> 00:44:52,133
SAY, "HEY. WE'RE COMING HOME

1182
00:44:52,133 --> 00:44:54,200
WITH SOME GOLD". IT WAS PRETTY

1183
00:44:54,200 --> 00:44:57,100
SPECIAL. AT DARTMOUTH THEY TRY

1184
00:44:57,100 --> 00:44:58,166
NOT TO TRAIN SKIERS JUST TO BE

1185
00:44:58,166 --> 00:45:00,500
SUCCESSFUL AT NEXT WEEK'S

1186
00:45:00,500 --> 00:45:01,866
CARNIVAL OR THIS YEAR'S NCAAS.

1187
00:45:01,866 --> 00:45:05,566
THEIR FOCUS IS TO TRY TO TRAIN

1188
00:45:05,566 --> 00:45:06,133
ATHLETES TO BE SUCCESSFUL ON

1189
00:45:06,133 --> 00:45:11,866
THE BIGGER STAGE. IN THE 1950S,

1190
00:45:11,866 --> 00:45:12,933
ANOTHER DARTMOUTH GRADUATE,

1191
00:45:12,933 --> 00:45:14,266
LARRY JUMP, THE FOUNDER OF

1192
00:45:14,266 --> 00:45:15,733
ARAPAHOE BASIN, WAS AMONG THE

1193
00:45:15,733 --> 00:45:17,566
EARLY LEADERS IN ADAPTIVE

1194
00:45:17,566 --> 00:45:18,533
SKIING. IN THE 1970'S, METHODS

1195
00:45:18,533 --> 00:45:21,633
OF TEACHING ADAPTIVE SKIING

1196
00:45:21,633 --> 00:45:23,466
BASED ON SPECIFIC DISABILITIES

1197
00:45:23,466 --> 00:45:24,066
WERE PERFECTED AT WINTER PARK

1198
00:45:24,066 --> 00:45:27,700
BY DARTMOUTH SKIER, STEVE

1199
00:45:27,700 --> 00:45:28,333
BRADLEY, AND HIS TEAM. ONE OF

1200
00:45:28,333 --> 00:45:31,200
THE REASONS  WHY IT'S SO

1201
00:45:31,200 --> 00:45:35,400
IMPORTANT THAT WE SUPPORT THIS

1202
00:45:35,400 --> 00:45:37,200
ELITE LEVEL OF SKIER IS BECAUSE

1203
00:45:37,200 --> 00:45:39,366
THEY BECOME A ROLE MODEL FOR ALL

1204
00:45:39,366 --> 00:45:41,133
ADAPTIVE PEOPLE WHO LOOK AND

1205
00:45:41,133 --> 00:45:43,966
SAY, WOW, CAN THEY DO THAT?

1206
00:45:43,966 --> 00:45:45,200
THE PARALYMPIC GAMES ALWAYS

1207
00:45:45,200 --> 00:45:50,033
TAKE PLACE RIGHT AFTER THE

1208
00:45:50,033 --> 00:45:51,333
OLYMPIC GAMES.  SAME DOWNHILL AS

1209
00:45:51,333 --> 00:45:53,700
BODIE, DARREN RALVES, THE

1210
00:45:53,700 --> 00:45:55,900
HERMANATOR SKIED. THEY SKIED 90%

1211
00:45:55,900 --> 00:45:58,800
OF THE COURSE.  SIXTY-FIVE MILES

1212
00:45:58,800 --> 00:45:59,733
AN HOUR.  ONE LEG... OR THEY DID

1213
00:45:59,733 --> 00:46:06,133
IT IN THEIR SITTING POSITION IN

1214
00:46:06,133 --> 00:46:07,366
THEIR SLED.  THAT KIND OF

1215
00:46:07,366 --> 00:46:10,000
ATHLETICISM, THAT KIND OF

1216
00:46:10,000 --> 00:46:11,633
COURAGE IS REALLY INSPIRATIONAL

1217
00:46:11,633 --> 00:46:12,500
TO THE BROADER BASE OF DISABLED

1218
00:46:12,500 --> 00:46:14,533
PEOPLE. DIANA GOLDEN, WHO LOST

1219
00:46:14,533 --> 00:46:20,300
HER LOWER LEG TO CANCER AS A

1220
00:46:20,300 --> 00:46:20,800
CHILD, WAS ARGUABLY THE

1221
00:46:20,800 --> 00:46:21,800
GREATEST ADAPTIVE SKIER OF ALL

1222
00:46:21,800 --> 00:46:24,066
TIME. AN OLYMPIC GOLD MEDALIST

1223
00:46:24,066 --> 00:46:26,433
WHO BECAME A MOTIVATIONAL

1224
00:46:26,433 --> 00:46:28,233
SPEAKER, HER WORDS AND ACTIONS

1225
00:46:28,233 --> 00:46:30,166
OPENED THE DOOR FOR HUNDREDS OF

1226
00:46:30,166 --> 00:46:33,566
OTHER DISABLED SKIERS TO COMPETE

1227
00:46:33,566 --> 00:46:35,133
ON THE WORLD STAGE, AND

1228
00:46:35,133 --> 00:46:36,166
ENCOURAGED THOUSANDS OF OTHER

1229
00:46:36,166 --> 00:46:37,800
PEOPLE, DISABLED IN MILITARY

1230
00:46:37,800 --> 00:46:39,166
COMBAT, AT BIRTH, IN CAR

1231
00:46:39,166 --> 00:46:41,300
ACCIDENTS, FROM SPORT-RELATED

1232
00:46:41,300 --> 00:46:44,133
INJURIES, AND A HOST OF OTHER

1233
00:46:44,133 --> 00:46:45,066
TRAUMATIC EVENTS, TO FIND

1234
00:46:45,066 --> 00:46:46,533
FREEDOM ON THE SLOPES. DIANA HAD

1235
00:46:46,533 --> 00:46:50,200
ONLY ONE LEG, BUT SHE WAS STRONG

1236
00:46:50,200 --> 00:46:53,300
OF BODY, AND SHE WAS STRONG OF

1237
00:46:53,300 --> 00:46:54,500
MIND, AND SHE WAS STRONG OF

1238
00:46:54,500 --> 00:46:55,900
SPIRIT.  SHE WAS A REMARKABLE

1239
00:46:55,900 --> 00:46:58,633
PERSON, AND SHE WAS A LEADER.

1240
00:46:58,633 --> 00:47:02,000
THERE WAS TIME WHEN SHE SKIED

1241
00:47:02,000 --> 00:47:05,600
WITH THE PEOPLE ON THE ABLE-

1242
00:47:05,600 --> 00:47:06,900
BODIED U S TEAM, AND COACHES

1243
00:47:06,900 --> 00:47:08,100
SAID THAT SHE HELD THE BEST LINE

1244
00:47:08,100 --> 00:47:09,633
THROUGH A GS OF ANYBODY ON THE

1245
00:47:09,633 --> 00:47:10,900
HILL.  THAT WAS WITH ONE LEG. WE

1246
00:47:10,900 --> 00:47:14,166
HAD A WHAT THEY CALLED THE SKI

1247
00:47:14,166 --> 00:47:15,400
TEAM OLYMPICS, FIRST WORKOUT IN

1248
00:47:15,400 --> 00:47:16,400
THE FALL DOWN AT THE STADIUM

1249
00:47:16,400 --> 00:47:17,566
INTENTIONALLY TO TRY TO WEED OUT

1250
00:47:17,566 --> 00:47:20,966
PEOPLE WHO THOUGHT THEY MIGHT

1251
00:47:20,966 --> 00:47:22,033
LIKE TO BE ON THE SKI TEAM BUT

1252
00:47:22,033 --> 00:47:24,433
REALLY DIDN'T KNOW WHAT IT WAS

1253
00:47:24,433 --> 00:47:28,400
ALL ABOUT.  THREE OR FOUR OF US

1254
00:47:28,400 --> 00:47:29,966
COACHES WERE STANDING AROUND.

1255
00:47:29,966 --> 00:47:31,933
THE ATHLETES WERE DOING MULTIPLE

1256
00:47:31,933 --> 00:47:33,333
SPRINTS UP THE WEST STADIUM, AND

1257
00:47:33,333 --> 00:47:34,433
THIS GAL CAME HOPPING ACROSS THE

1258
00:47:34,433 --> 00:47:36,400
FIELD ON CRUTCHES, AND SHE SAID,

1259
00:47:36,400 --> 00:47:39,466
"IS THIS THE SKI TEAM PRACTICE?

1260
00:47:39,466 --> 00:47:41,433
AND, I'M GONNA GET CHOKED UP. WE

1261
00:47:41,433 --> 00:47:45,300
SAID, ""YEAH."  AND SHE SAID, "I

1262
00:47:45,300 --> 00:47:47,933
WANT TO GO OUT FOR SKIING." SO

1263
00:47:47,933 --> 00:47:51,933
WE SAID, "WELL, OKAY." TOOK HER

1264
00:47:51,933 --> 00:47:55,733
CRUTCHES OFF AND WENT UP WITH

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00:47:55,733 --> 00:47:58,166
EVERYBODY ELSE, HOPPING ON ONE

1266
00:47:58,166 --> 00:47:59,566
LEG.  IT WAS DIANA GOLDEN. SHE

1267
00:47:59,566 --> 00:48:00,166
WAS THE FIRST DARTMOUTH SKIER

1268
00:48:00,166 --> 00:48:05,200
TO WIN A GOLD MEDAL IN THE

1269
00:48:05,200 --> 00:48:05,800
OLYMPICS.  IN CALGARY.  IT WAS

1270
00:48:05,800 --> 00:48:39,333
A PROFOUND MOMENT. BOY, IF IT

1271
00:48:39,333 --> 00:48:40,766
STAYS LIKE THIS, IT'S JUST LIKE

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00:48:40,766 --> 00:48:42,100
PLAYING IN HEAVEN. YOU CAN'T

1273
00:48:42,100 --> 00:48:43,233
BEAT IT! DARTMOUTH SKIERS HAVE

1274
00:48:43,233 --> 00:48:51,000
BEEN AMONG THE MOST INFLUENTIAL

1275
00:48:51,000 --> 00:48:53,200
WHEN IT COMES TO BRINGING THE

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00:48:53,200 --> 00:48:55,000
BEST POWDER, THE MOST

1277
00:48:55,000 --> 00:48:55,566
SPECTACULAR SCENERY AND THE

1278
00:48:55,566 --> 00:48:56,266
MOST DRAMATIC LINES TO THE REST

1279
00:48:56,266 --> 00:48:59,666
OF THE SKIING WORLD, BEGINNING

1280
00:48:59,666 --> 00:49:02,200
WITH THE LEGENDARY DICK

1281
00:49:02,200 --> 00:49:03,700
DURRANCE. DURRANCE MAY HAVE

1282
00:49:03,700 --> 00:49:05,433
SKIED FAST, HELPED TRAIN THE

1283
00:49:05,433 --> 00:49:07,300
MOUNTAIN TROOPS AND BUILT SKI

1284
00:49:07,300 --> 00:49:09,900
AREAS, BUT HIS SKI FILMS BECAME

1285
00:49:09,900 --> 00:49:11,666
AS MUCH A PASSION FOR HIM AS THE

1286
00:49:11,666 --> 00:49:13,600
ACT OF SKIING ITSELF. IN 1940,

1287
00:49:13,600 --> 00:49:16,966
DICK DURRANCE CREATED "SUN

1288
00:49:16,966 --> 00:49:20,166
VALLEY SKI CHASE", IN WHICH HE

1289
00:49:20,166 --> 00:49:22,066
PARODIED THE LANDMARK GERMAN

1290
00:49:22,066 --> 00:49:23,700
MOUNTAIN FILM OF THE EARLY

1291
00:49:23,700 --> 00:49:25,566
1930'S, "DER WEISS RAUSCH",

1292
00:49:25,566 --> 00:49:28,300
"WHITE ECSTACY", BY ARNOLD

1293
00:49:28,300 --> 00:49:29,733
FANCK.SUN VALLEY SKI CHASE

1294
00:49:29,733 --> 00:49:35,666
FEATURED MANY DARTMOUTH SKIERS

1295
00:49:35,666 --> 00:49:37,766
WHO WERE IN SUN VALLEY AT THE

1296
00:49:37,766 --> 00:49:39,500
TIME DUE TO THE CANCELATION OF

1297
00:49:39,500 --> 00:49:40,533
THE OLYMPICS THAT YEAR. THREE

1298
00:49:40,533 --> 00:49:45,466
DECADES LATER, ROGER BROWN AND

1299
00:49:45,466 --> 00:49:46,033
BARRY CORBET WERE AMONG THE

1300
00:49:46,033 --> 00:49:47,633
MANY GENERATIONS OF DARTMOUTH

1301
00:49:47,633 --> 00:49:49,100
SKIERS TO CONTRIBUTE IN

1302
00:49:49,100 --> 00:49:50,866
SIGNIFICANT WAYS TO THE VISUAL

1303
00:49:50,866 --> 00:49:52,800
PORTRAYAL OF SKIING WITH FILMS

1304
00:49:52,800 --> 00:49:56,500
SUCH AS "MOEBIUS FLIP" AND "SKI

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00:49:56,500 --> 00:49:57,500
THE OUTER LIMITS". SOUNDTRACK

1306
00:49:57,500 --> 00:50:05,033
FROM "MOEBIUS FLIP" MIXES INTO

1307
00:50:05,033 --> 00:50:05,600
OPENING SOUNDTRACK FROM "SKI

1308
00:50:05,600 --> 00:50:08,100
THE OUTER LIMITS". YOU WANT THE

1309
00:50:08,100 --> 00:50:09,833
SLOW MOTION STORY. OH, THAT'S A

1310
00:50:09,833 --> 00:50:10,766
GREAT STORY  FILM SOUNDTRACK AS

1311
00:50:10,766 --> 00:50:17,900
SKIER DOES A FLIP INTO

1312
00:50:17,900 --> 00:50:20,500
CORBETT'S COULOIR. AS WE GOT

1313
00:50:20,500 --> 00:50:22,266
INTO SHOOTING STUFF WITH THE

1314
00:50:22,266 --> 00:50:23,633
FREESTYLE GUYS, PARTICULARLY

1315
00:50:23,633 --> 00:50:24,833
AERIAL ACROBATICS, THEN IT WAS

1316
00:50:24,833 --> 00:50:26,000
PERFECT 'CAUSE WE COULD HANG 'EM

1317
00:50:26,000 --> 00:50:27,366
UP IN THE AIR FOREVER, 16

1318
00:50:27,366 --> 00:50:29,633
SECONDS OF SCREEN TIME FOR 1

1319
00:50:29,633 --> 00:50:31,800
SECOND OF ACTION. SO WE

1320
00:50:31,800 --> 00:50:33,000
INTRODUCED THAT. NARRATION FROM

1321
00:50:33,000 --> 00:50:35,633
MOEBIUS FLIP, "THE FORMS ARE

1322
00:50:35,633 --> 00:50:37,300
MANY AND VARIED " WITHOUT THE

1323
00:50:37,300 --> 00:50:40,966
IMAGERY TO INTRIGUE OTHERS WITH

1324
00:50:40,966 --> 00:50:41,533
THE MAJESTY OF THE MOUNTAINS

1325
00:50:41,533 --> 00:50:50,600
AND THE ZEN OF GLIDING DOWN

1326
00:50:50,600 --> 00:50:53,800
UNTRACKED SNOW, PERHAPS SKIING

1327
00:50:53,800 --> 00:50:55,233
WOULD NOT HAVE STRUCK THE CORD

1328
00:50:55,233 --> 00:50:57,333
WITH THE PUBLIC THAT IT HAS.

1329
00:50:57,333 --> 00:50:59,500
MANY DARTMOUTH SKIERS HAVE

1330
00:50:59,500 --> 00:51:00,066
HELPED POPULARIZE THE SPORT

1331
00:51:00,066 --> 00:51:01,233
WITH THEIR WRITTEN WORDS,

1332
00:51:01,233 --> 00:51:02,266
PHOTOGRAPHS AND FILMS.

1333
00:51:02,266 --> 00:51:04,466
PHOTOGRAPHERS SUCH AS JOHN

1334
00:51:04,466 --> 00:51:07,566
RUSSELL DEFINED SKI PHOTOGRAPHY

1335
00:51:07,566 --> 00:51:09,200
IN THE 1970S AND 80S. ANYONE WHO

1336
00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:11,400
PICKED UP A COPY OF SKI

1337
00:51:11,400 --> 00:51:14,266
MAGAZINE, SKI RACING, OR AN AD

1338
00:51:14,266 --> 00:51:16,733
FOR A MAJOR SKI BRAND SAW THE

1339
00:51:16,733 --> 00:51:19,033
ACTION THROUGH RUSSELL'S IMAGES.

1340
00:51:19,033 --> 00:51:21,700
DOZENS OF DARTMOUTH SKIERS HAVE

1341
00:51:21,700 --> 00:51:23,133
ALSO APPEARED ON THE PAGES OF

1342
00:51:23,133 --> 00:51:25,133
VARIOUS SKIING PUBLICATIONS AND

1343
00:51:25,133 --> 00:51:26,866
IN BOOKS TEACHING PEOPLE HOW TO

1344
00:51:26,866 --> 00:51:29,600
SKI BETTER, BOTH IN ALPINE AND

1345
00:51:29,600 --> 00:51:31,500
CROSS-COUNTRY. FOR EXAMPLE JOHN

1346
00:51:31,500 --> 00:51:33,600
CALDWELL, A MEMBER OF THE

1347
00:51:33,600 --> 00:51:35,200
DARTMOUTH SKI TEAM AND THE 1952

1348
00:51:35,200 --> 00:51:37,500
OLYMPIC TEAM, WROTE A BOOK,

1349
00:51:37,500 --> 00:51:39,233
CALLED SIMPLY, "THE CROSS-

1350
00:51:39,233 --> 00:51:41,200
COUNTRY SKI BOOK". IT SOLD OVER

1351
00:51:41,200 --> 00:51:43,466
A HALF-MILLION COPIES AND IS

1352
00:51:43,466 --> 00:51:45,400
CREDITED WITH FUELING THE

1353
00:51:45,400 --> 00:51:47,066
EXPLOSIVE GROWTH OF NORDIC

1354
00:51:47,066 --> 00:51:48,766
SKIING IN THE 1970'S. SOME

1355
00:51:48,766 --> 00:51:52,133
DARTMOUTH SKIERS OBTAINED A

1356
00:51:52,133 --> 00:51:53,466
CELEBRITY STATUS FOR AN AMAZING

1357
00:51:53,466 --> 00:51:55,200
FEAT ON SKIS, SUCH AS BILL

1358
00:51:55,200 --> 00:51:55,733
BRIGGS WHO MADE THE FIRST

1359
00:51:55,733 --> 00:51:59,500
SKIING DESCENT DOWN THE GRAND

1360
00:51:59,500 --> 00:52:01,100
TETON, LAUNCHING THE MODERN ERA

1361
00:52:01,100 --> 00:52:02,533
OF EXTREME SKIING. LISA

1362
00:52:02,533 --> 00:52:09,900
DENSMORE SKI TIP. TELEVISION

1363
00:52:09,900 --> 00:52:11,866
PRODUCERS AND HOSTS SUCH AS LISA

1364
00:52:11,866 --> 00:52:14,533
DENSMORE AND PAUL HOCHMAN, ;

1365
00:52:14,533 --> 00:52:16,800
JAMIE MEISELMAN, FOUNDING EDITOR

1366
00:52:16,800 --> 00:52:20,133
OF TRANSWORLD SNOWBOARDING

1367
00:52:20,133 --> 00:52:22,766
MAGAZINE; RICK KAHL, EDITOR IN

1368
00:52:22,766 --> 00:52:25,633
CHIEF OF SKIING MAGAZINE; AND

1369
00:52:25,633 --> 00:52:27,966
JOHN DOSTAL, SENIOR EDITOR OF

1370
00:52:27,966 --> 00:52:28,500
BACKCOUNTRY MAGAZINE AND A

1371
00:52:28,500 --> 00:52:30,900
LONG-TIME CONTRIBUTOR TO A

1372
00:52:30,900 --> 00:52:32,233
NUMBER OF OTHER SKIING

1373
00:52:32,233 --> 00:52:33,266
PUBLICATIONS, ARE AMONG A NUMBER

1374
00:52:33,266 --> 00:52:35,066
OF DARTMOUTH ALUMNI WHO HAVE

1375
00:52:35,066 --> 00:52:36,833
PLAYED PROMINENTLY IN THE SKI

1376
00:52:36,833 --> 00:52:41,100
AND SNOWBOARDING MEDIA, NOT TO

1377
00:52:41,100 --> 00:52:42,400
MENTION CHARLOTTE MOATS, ONE OF

1378
00:52:42,400 --> 00:52:42,933
THE STARS OF BIG MOUNTAIN

1379
00:52:42,933 --> 00:52:44,800
SKIING IN FILMS BY TETON

1380
00:52:44,800 --> 00:52:47,533
GRAVITY RESEARCH AND WARREN

1381
00:52:47,533 --> 00:52:50,100
MILLER. THEIR WORDS AND EYE

1382
00:52:50,100 --> 00:52:53,100
CANDY HAVE CONTINUED TO NUTURE A

1383
00:52:53,100 --> 00:52:54,000
PASSION FOR SNOW AMONG THE

1384
00:52:54,000 --> 00:52:55,333
GENERAL PUBLIC IN THE 1980S, 90S

1385
00:52:55,333 --> 00:52:56,700
AND INTO THE 21ST CENTURY.

1386
00:52:56,700 --> 00:53:04,333
ROBERT FROST, ONE OF AMERICA'S

1387
00:53:04,333 --> 00:53:05,600
GREATEST POETS, WAS A MEMBER OF

1388
00:53:05,600 --> 00:53:08,000
THE DARTMOUTH CLASS OF 1896,

1389
00:53:08,000 --> 00:53:08,800
ABOUT THE TIME THE FIRST SKIS

1390
00:53:08,800 --> 00:53:12,600
SHOWED UP AT THE COLLEGE.

1391
00:53:12,600 --> 00:53:14,900
FROST INCLUDED THE WORD "SNOW"

1392
00:53:14,900 --> 00:53:16,333
IN MANY OF HIS POEMS, INCLUDING

1393
00:53:16,333 --> 00:53:18,866
ONE CALLED, "SNOW DUST": THE WAY

1394
00:53:18,866 --> 00:53:22,066
A CROW SHOOK DOWN ON ME THE

1395
00:53:22,066 --> 00:53:25,833
DUST OF SNOW FROM A HEMLOCK TREE

1396
00:53:25,833 --> 00:53:28,766
HAS GIVEN MY HEART A CHANGE OF

1397
00:53:28,766 --> 00:53:30,266
MOOD AND SAVED SOME PART OF A

1398
00:53:30,266 --> 00:53:34,633
DAY I HAD RUED. MOST STUDENTS

1399
00:53:34,633 --> 00:53:39,600
SPEND A MERE FOUR YEARS IN

1400
00:53:39,600 --> 00:53:42,366
COLLEGE, YET THOSE FOUR YEARS

1401
00:53:42,366 --> 00:53:43,366
OFTEN LEAD TO A LIFETIME

1402
00:53:43,366 --> 00:53:45,700
PURSUIT. IN THE CASE OF

1403
00:53:45,700 --> 00:53:46,266
DARTMOUTH COLLEGE, STUDENTS

1404
00:53:46,266 --> 00:53:47,333
HAVE MANY CHOICES OF CAREER

1405
00:53:47,333 --> 00:53:49,500
PATH. LUCKILY MANY HAVE TAKEN

1406
00:53:49,500 --> 00:53:52,666
ONE COVERED WITH SNOW. THE

1407
00:53:52,666 --> 00:53:59,100
THOUGHT OF DOING A BACK FLIP IS

1408
00:53:59,100 --> 00:54:00,466
STILL SLIGHTLY TERRIFYING.

1409
00:54:00,466 --> 00:54:02,866
THERE'S LIKE THIS WEIGHTLESSNESS

1410
00:54:02,866 --> 00:54:04,166
IN THE AIR, AND THEN YOU LAND

1411
00:54:04,166 --> 00:54:05,533
AGAIN, AND IT'S BACK TO THE

1412
00:54:05,533 --> 00:54:06,733
TURNS. SKIING'S A KIND OF HIGH

1413
00:54:06,733 --> 00:54:08,766
FORM OF DANCE. JUST STANDING IN

1414
00:54:08,766 --> 00:54:11,933
THE START KNOWING THAT YOU'LL

1415
00:54:11,933 --> 00:54:13,033
BE GOING 80 MILES AN HOUR,

1416
00:54:13,033 --> 00:54:14,266
THAT'S WHAT PUSHES THE

1417
00:54:14,266 --> 00:54:15,800
ADRENALIN. YOU KEEP GOING FASTER

1418
00:54:15,800 --> 00:54:18,733
AND FASTER AND FASTER, AND AFTER

1419
00:54:18,733 --> 00:54:20,100
A WHILE, YOU WONDER, "HOW IN THE

1420
00:54:20,100 --> 00:54:21,133
HELL AM I GOING TO STOP?" THE

1421
00:54:21,133 --> 00:54:22,166
PASSION IS WHAT YOU FEEL IN YOUR

1422
00:54:22,166 --> 00:54:26,200
HEART WHEN YOU SKI. IT SETS YOU

1423
00:54:26,200 --> 00:54:27,933
FREE. I JUST ABSOLUTELY LOVE

1424
00:54:27,933 --> 00:54:32,500
MOUNTAINS. I LOVE SNOW. I LOVE

1425
00:54:32,500 --> 00:54:44,500
TO SKI. DARTMOUTH AIRES

1426
00:54:44,500 --> 00:54:46,866
HUMMING. CONTINUE MUSIC TO END.

1427
00:54:46,866 --> 00:54:48,400
IT SEEMS THAT SKIERS AT

1428
00:54:48,400 --> 00:54:50,000
DARTMOUTH FEEL PART OF A BIGGER

1429
00:54:50,000 --> 00:54:51,866
FAMILY PROPELLED BY A FORCE, OR

1430
00:54:51,866 --> 00:54:53,433
MAYBE THEY ARE ALL JUST A LITTLE

1431
00:54:53,433 --> 00:54:54,666
BIT CRAZY. AFTERALL, SNOW WILL

1432
00:54:54,666 --> 00:54:56,433
DO THAT TO YOU AFTER A WHILE.