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About The Oregon state employee. (Salem, Oregon.) 1944-195? | View Entire Issue (Jan. 1, 1948)
13 Mt. Hood Skiers Start Out Young ¿ '(Cover Picture) I By E. AA^Qstell Up in« the Mt. Hpod area youngsters may not be born with skis,- but they do start learning how to use the lightn ing boards at tender ages. This young fellow ¿S’ h a r d l y o l d and he may know- more about the; sport than m.any ,p6ople\fwt times, his years. Some times this particular ’young skier ’ tires"1, evtn a t' his earlys age and presses into-service one of the Timber- line St. Berhards for anf uphill pull. Howevefj, it seems that* the dog-power tow causes him more spills; than when he . is gliding down the slopes, . pho tographer Ted Rosin reported. Less than 20 years ago snow sjpprts enthusiasts w,ere few and far'between and just now and then some one would know the difference between? a sitz- mark and a gelandesprung. Now skiing and kindred sports are I sweeping the nation. Young America has taken I to* skis'and that goes-for many oldsters, too. More than 300,000 snow .sports fol lowers' visited the Mt. Hood area— at Timberline and 'Government Camp alone. A t least 1f I snow playgrounds were available during the past, winter in national forests throughout the state, plus Crater Lake national park in south ern Oregon. Oregon’s snow sports have been in the national eye for7 a number of years but never so much as-during the past winter when; nationalmagazines, news papers and trade journals featured Mt. Hood’s Timber line and' other areas: E vena's t aid encyclopedias have made requests for Oregon - skiing pictures' to ilustrate their tomes. Just like the automobile and the air plane, skiing is' here to stay! I Always speak well of your enemies, remember you made them. Volcanic activity of long ago be- queathed Oregon a number of snow capped mountain peaks, led by . Mt. Hood near the Columbia river gorge. It towers into the heavens for 11,245 feet, closely followed by Mt. Jeffer- sbn, the Three Sistefs,' Mt. McLaughlin and others. ^Modern trails make ascents to the summit of Mt. Hood popular during the summer vacation season,'.the Oregon state highway commission tray- el information department reports. The staff is' indebted to the public press mlea'ses of the Travel Informa tion Department, Oregon State H igh way Commission, for the following in teresting briefs on some of Oregon’s scenic attractions’ 'and historic back!-; ground. I ' I * * * ■ ^©nfe* of the I first governors of' thei Oregon territory; would have been Abraham Lincoln had he accepted that appointment in 1848 from the presi dent of the United States. Territorial: establishment' Came in 1848, the cen-- tennial of which being observed in «Oregon* this ,year, with celebrations and ceremonies scheduled for different parts of the,/stateip^; Oregon has the shortest river in the wprld; Only; 400 feet long. Territorial centennial year visitors can see I this? unique stream along the, northern Ore gon coast highway near Oceanlake. In cid en tally ,.also has the shortest name: The D river flows from Devil’s Lake into the Pacific ocean. | «■ When pioneers Came to the Oregon territory a century ago,, it- was covered with the greatest® abundance of forests in the nation. This territorial centennial year finds Oregon with still about one- fourth of the merchantable, timber in the nation, which it J^d last year with a harvest of more than six billion:' board feet.
