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Like your Winter fun
on the exhilarating side?
Then you're a perfect candidate
for a skiing holiday.
Call of the
Snow Country
by Jerry Klein
Let it snow! Jack Frost needn't put a chill on
your desire to "get away from it all."
Wherever you live, you're not far from an
area that offers holiday fun in the snow and sun.
Maybe your idea of a Winter vacation is a quiet
cabin in the woods with a sizzling fire and some
books, to be tasted three times a day after meals,
while the snow sifts silently down. If a bit more
activity is what you crave, you can go sleigh
riding, snowshoeing, dog sledding, or ice fishing.
And if you're positively explosive with energy,
there's ice boating, ice skating, bobsledding, tobog
ganing, and skiing.
Skiing, the ancient "sport of the Vikings," is the
fastest-growing of all the snow-time sports. In
fact, it bids to become to Winter what baseball is
to Summer: clean, healthful relaxation and big
business, already some $300 million a year.
Even if you've never dreamed of sliding over the
snow on a couple of slices of wood, you'll be
tempted to try. Many resort areas offer learn-to-ski
package tours, and equipment usually can
be bought or rented right on the spot.
Now, where to go?
Reading from left to right on the map, there are
scads of ski spots in California and the Pacific
Northwest. Across the Canadian border, there's
the Forbidden Plateau on Vancouver Island, Banff
with its two-mile slope dipping 2,800 feet, the
rolling hills around Prince Albert, and Snow
Valley near Winnipeg.
In Idaho's Sawtooth Mountains lies famous Sun
Valley with its Dollar Mountain, which has been
called the finest skiing instruction slope in the
world. Here sun and snow form an exhilarating
combination, and to relax tired muscles there's
outdoor swimming in heated water.
Neighboring Nevada has been identified with
skiing since the early Western days when the
legendary John (Snowshoe) Thompson first
packed mail over the Sierras. There's Winter sport
aplenty at Lake Tahoe, in Reno's Ski Bowl, and
on Mount Charleston, 30 miles from year-round
swimming at Las Vegas.
Colorado has many excellent ski areas, as does
New Mexico, particularly the 7,000-foot peaks
around Santa Fe. The Mount Telemark Ski area
named after the Norwegian province where
modern skiing began is in Wisconsin, some parts
of which have an annual 100-inch snowfall.
Skiing starts around mid-December on Cabin
Mountain and Weiss Knob in West Virginia. New
York's Lake Placid area is world-famous not only
for skiing, but for bobsledding as well.
The Green Mountains of Vermont also are a
favorite Winter holiday haunt. And New Hamp
shire boasts areas such as Mount Washington
which can be skied right up into June!
Whether you go along to ski or just to sit and
sun snow-time merrymaking can be loads of fun.
Family Wrrkly, October , 1957