Illinois Valley News, Cave Junction, Ore. Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Page A-9
Winding Trails: by Al Hobart
Thursday, March 31, 1966
Illinois Valley News
March x-c skiing
If March continues much longer trying
to maintain the image it created when it came
roaring in like a lion, either a popular legend
of long standing will be violated or the month
will wind up looking more like a bedraggled,
frightened old ewe than a happy, innocent little
lamb, the way it should.
Something has happened to our weather
that fails to meet with the approval of anybody
in his right mind, and no one seems to be able
to make up his mind which of the two popular
villains is responsible, those “mad rooshins”
or the atom bomb, both of which are still held
accountable for any and all evils that beset the
harried human race.
Outdoor winter sports are being interfered
with at a time when, from past experience, we
would expect to be still performing in high
gear. We take to the mountains for a day of
cross-country skiing and run into wet snow,
rain, and gushing torrents everywhere. This
time of year we should still be getting some
cold nights, firm snow and acceptable winter
conditions. These things we have a right to
expect, and inasmuch as summer will soon
be here, we refuse to submit calmly to having
those rights interfered with. Everybody likes
nice warm weather, in its place, and some of us
even like weather that is admittedly nasty; but
when the weather, even the seasons, become
unpredictable, then the situation has become
intolerable, and doggoned if we’ll stand for it.
Saturday was a day of varied and valued
pleasures. First a nice home dinner with the
Dotys, then to a wild animal show with the
Pruitts, followed by a home slide show–and
homemade berry pie. Intermingled with all this
was the happy anticipation of a x-c ski tour the
following day, this time in the Siskiyous to the
west instead of the high Cascades to the east.
I spent the night at Dean’s house, having
brought all my x-c gear from home. Early
Sunday morning we picked up Joe and Charles
and the four of us went Volkswagening down
the Rogue River Road, all set for a day of
skiing, hiking, exploring – anything that might
turn up to give us some exercise and fun.
We turned south into the mountains near
Galice, following the Taylor Creek Road and
climbing in the direction of Onion Mountain.
We took to our skis when the Volkswagen
refused to budge another foot either forward
or back. Leaving the indignant little beetle
bogged down in the snow we waxed up and
skied merrily up the road toward the peak of
Onion Mt. The snow was wet, but satisfactory–
what there was of it. On the northslope we
skied; when the road crossed to the south side
we walked on dirt.
From up on the side of Onion Mountain
we looked across to high Chrome Ridge,
solidly covered with snow. So back we went
to the car, rassled it out of the snowbank
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and headed for Chrome Ridge. Remarkably,
with a few more gray hairs but still intact,
we drove to the very edge of the solid snow-
pack–which was beautiful but still wet, and
getting wetter by the minute as the occasional
precipitation was rain instead of snow.
However, we got in enough good exhilarating
ski fun to compensate for our earlier mild
disappointment.
Before we went back down Taylor Creek
to the Rogue we decided to explore some of
the higher roads to see how far we could get.
In high Brigg’s Valley who should we run
into but Bill and Claudette with Bob and Mrs.
Huff, out in the same area looking for a good
ski-tour.
It beats all what a wonderfully vicious
appetite and thirst one works up on these
invigorating ski tours. At Galice, a few
miles down the Rogue from where our
road debouched from the hills, we knew of
a small establishment where such painful
contingencies could be nicely taken care of.
So we went there and had our contingencies
looked after.
Back at Dean’s, after depositing Charles
and Joe at their respective igloos, we were
further fortified with hamburgers, potato
chips, cookies, and cold milk. After which, all
aglow: with good exercise, good food and ditto
companionship, Little Toot and I hit the trail
for home sweet home.
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