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50 OTTAWA SKI CLUB HUGH M. GRANT LTD. -TO RENT- Gasoline Shovels • Compressors - Dump Trucks • Pole Trailers Winch Service - Carry-all and Low-bed Trailers - Bulldozers EXCAVATIONS · FILL FOR SALE • FREIGHT CAR UNLOADING 322 CATHERINE ST. OFFICE: 5-4262 OTTAWA ~ w.-----~~~~~~~~----~~~----~~~w. Compliments of CUZNER HARDWARE CO. LIMITED 521 SUSSEX STREET OTTAWA . . Compliments of THE PRODUCERS DAIRY LTD. MILK - CREAM - BUTTER - COTTAGE CHEESE ICE CREAM w.----~~----~~·------~~~--~~--~--~w. w. * ART WORK - ENGRAVING BLUEPRINTS - PHOTOSTATS CRABTREE GRAVURE LIMITED 317 QUEEN STREET DIAL 2-1587
YEAR BOOK 1951-52 51 WHY SKI? by FRANCES CARLISLE There's so r-much about skiing to dislike, how can anyon& pretend to · be enthusiastic about it? Those cold, dark, winter Sunday morningS! when happy people stay curled up under their blankets but zealous '.lkfers shiver through a bowl of porridge before forcing themselves to go out. The first few .week-end·S· when the snow looks solid and deep in the woods even though the hills are still bare, and you stream down the Hi~hland Fling tQ the accompaniment of th.e grating of •S•tones and sticks underfoot. Spring skiing when the su·n has failed to come out and the Slalom hill stays hard and fast, except for ~·e very slushy bottom which comes up and h~ts you. The heat of a jlarka that doesn't unzip down the front and that you can't get out of without undoing your ski slacks and doing a ·strip tease. The cold of fingers tha:t have to fusos with adjusting harness and tightening shoe laces i-n sub-zero weather. A wet, heavy tow rope and deep ruts under foot. The bumps at the top of Mort's, the rock in the middle of Alexander's. What joy is there in standing on top of a stark hill then plunging over into horrible white nothingness, pretending that you, too, will swing down in rhythmic, graceful turns., when all the. time you know that at the first hint of speed something will make your legs spread wide apart and your turns falter into the jerked snowplows that spell onl_y disaster. If you manage to keep or regain control, your slow progres·s will confound the more skilful .swooping down behind you and you will probably find yourself, in your anxiouS! effort to avoid everyone, right in the path of a schussboomer. All right. So you take to the trails and leave the hills for the (perish the thought) better skiers. What's so simple and pleasant about the Merry-go-round? All you need to do is keep your knees bent and lea:n well forward- ! once bruised my knees• when they met my jaw at tJ7e end of the Big Dipper. Think of that awful feeling in the pit of your stomach during those second·s when you start down Humdinger after seeing the three people ahead of you, all -crack skiers, fall on the icy patch. And those cold days coming around the Arctic Circle, your nose running fa•ster than you can take off your mit-t and find your handkerchief to blow it, your eyes weeping and a draft getting in around the back of your neck. Well, there are the pleasures of Nature, the beauty of the woods, the glories of the great out-of-doors. Here the print of a snowshoe rab~it, there the tiny pitter-pat marks of a nervous chipmunk. But what's the guod of marks in the snow? I notice that you never see any of the animals that make them. Birds? Not that I've observed beyond the odd h~lffiOzen but disgustingly plump chickadee. Views? Well, on a clear day you can see a long way if you're up high-I'll admit that-but most of what you s·ee is -gray and white- frozen river, snowy fields, nude trees, t.lLak hills. I've never been so cold and never beo3n so hot as when skiing. i'Ye never been so tired or so thirstJ. Y~o-t I suppose I'd rather ski than anything else. Aren't people c!azy?
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