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Show Wednesday, Nov. 24, 1976 STAY Page 9 IKS. WbrtdCup 77 Debut at S. V. I with Craig Altschul S By Peter Najar Wolfe's Repair Shop j In writing this, I am assuming that we will be skiing eg by the time this article finds its way into the paper pgfooops! ). At this time of year the slopes have a fair , g amount of rocks on them. Rocks and skis don't quite get along. As a result, skis have a tendency to take a jybeating. The damage is oftentimes repaired with a jp simple P-tex base patch. v The art of base patching is an easy one to learn. Only a few tools are required: a Stanley Surform and I ia P-tex candle matching the color of the skis. The P-tex candle is.like a welder's torch: it supplies the P heat to weld the new P-tex material to the damaged sSarea 3 The area to be repaired must be free of dirt and gswax. To remove wax, a wax remover or lacquer t thinner may be used. Make sure you let the thinner sgdry completely: its quite flameable. Pick out any sf debris left in the ski, i.e., rocks and dirt, and cut g away any loose fibers of base that may be in the 3 gouge. Those of you that have used colored P-tex have noticed black spotches on the burning candle or on the patched area. To prevent discoloration, light the candle by holding a match far enough below the P-tex candle so that the flame does not touch the : candle. Once it is lit, hold the candle so that it almost touches the area to be repaired. The idea is to maintain a flame that is as blue as possible, that is, a flame giving off almost no yellow. A deep gouge must be filled in layers. Each layer must be allowed to cool completely before the next layer is applied. If too much P-tex is dripped into one area, it will overheat the area and begin to boil. The bubbles of P-tex will prevent the bond from attaining maximum strength. With all the gouges filled, remove the excess with a Stanley Surform. The Surform will 'cut 'the excess . P-tex flush with.tbe.syrxQundijigaxea.Care must be taken not to scratch the undamags4cAr- The world's best skiers make their 1977 debut racing for the coveted Harriman Cup in downhill and giant slalom competition at Sun Valley March 4-6. Next to the last downhill in the 76-77 World Cup series, the Harriman downhill and giant slalom races, (for men . and women), will be held on the Warm Springs side of Baldy Mountain. Race course for the downhill, already has been ranked by Hank Tauber, Alpine Team Director as, "one of the most modern in the world." Men's downhill course i begins at an elevation of 9,020 feet on the top of Baldy. The course will demand constant high speeds to the finish, a vertical drop of 3,022 feet. Actual ski distance will be nearly two miles with speeds downhill competitors will be tested on a course 6,416 feet in length which starts at an elevation of $100 feet and finishes at 5998 feet, Have you noticed all the new gimmicks the resorts are using to "get us" this season? They'll try anything. I kind of got the hint (I'm only a little thick) when I .ttC D nM J n ... 1 11 4. vertical drop on the women's 7 vuiui-uu e.u wuru inree reborib -course will be 2,102 feet and :Kevstone, Breckenndge, and Copper Mountain -ski surface will be ,6,415 feet. were offering a 10-day season pass. -Because this race wM bring imagine that.. ..a 10-day season. Olympic teams to the United ; I read with interest as she explained the pass would States for the first time after enable we skiers to sample three totally different the Winter Olympics, resorts at a moderate cost. The regular season pass, dignitaries from throughout Lois explained, enables skiers to ski only one area the world are expected to and s much more exDensive. That Dart I knew. Now, I'm always impressed with innovation, but somehow when our ski industry gets an idea, they only carry it out halfway. Consider the other possibilities. There could be time-sharing plans for chairlifts. about 100 racers will travel ima aoiu K. reggi ana i couia ouy a cnair lor a from Furano, Japan to Sun week at Mammouth Mountain, Calif., Killington, Valley the first week in Vermont; Vail Colorado, and Crystal Mountain in March for this race, which the Pacific Northwest. could easily be the most Then, you folks out there (our beloved and dear challenging of the 76-77 readers and friends) could buy similar chairs at wona Lup series, oun attend this most prestigious of U.S. ski races, among them the founder of Sun Valley resort, and this race, Averell Harriman. Fourteen countries and want people to think you skied like me. There are other marketing possibilities too. I remember John David Rose, one of the ski world's more ingenious marketing types, hopping into a. Mount Snow gondolawith me one day a few winters back. "What an idea I have, Tips, old buddy," he said. I waited. "Let's put a coumpter by the gondola station and sell lift tickets by the ride " "Huh?" I asked, rememberiipt our industry is so technologically bankrupt it took 40 years to discover boots could be semi-comfortable. "Seriously," he laughed. Dave does that. "We'll give a skier a card worth, say. 12 lift rides on a given Saturday. If the all-day regular lift ticket is $12 and the skier gets 12 rides, that's a buck a ride. If he or she gets in only six rides because of the crowds, the skier simply would stop by the cashier's window at the end of the day, turn in the lift pass and get a $6 refund. What you get is what you pay for. Like it?" I once again considered the possibilities. The lift operator could become a technician. Just as we got to the gondola, he could hand us a printout to read on the way up. . , : "Hello, skier," it would read. "We have computed series, ouu Snow Summit. Southern California- Mt Snow reaching up to 70 miles per Valley's World Cup will be Vermont; Breckenridge, Colorado, and Sun Valley, the snow dePth on toP of 01d Baldy at exactly 5.344 mm. uu....g ..u ..w...v Idaho. centimeters witn a cumulus velocity of 67.8 mph on a half minute race. Women's . March. Depending on how manv weeks we could eet off scale of 45.7 vectors. This means, our calculation during a given season (and we have our ways, don't t we?), all of us could ski four different areas a year with our very own chairs. x When we got tired of an area, I could call you and Waterville Valley Picked As X-C Training Site indicate a bare rock at 0.9 megameters of the Toll Line Run. Avoid it, please." Helpful, Huh? There's a little Connecticut ski area that tells us we say,"Peggi's new outfit will look nicer at Vail than' can try the snow free before 9 a.m. and then make up the nation's finest Nordic skiers to train on the nation's finest facilities in a spirit of 6 nee again, your bottoms are as good as nei HAVE A HAPPY THANKSGIVING! John Bower, Nordic. Dir-. ector of the U.S. Ski Team has announced the selection ; of Waterville Valley, NH as the official Eastern training site for the Cross-Country ski team. "Athletes of Ski Team caliber require a facility with extensive and ; varied trail conditions, dependable snowfall snow-fall and a staff with the know-how to groom the trails ,i.hft.wav the .Team Jikes . it. ItiWtwmltanYsruiiti tbeg pwblie' interestln the raftMly rbill'-in -weryrespt,,fi said eQ(p"n&rigpor?mef' We look forward to country skiing. Mammoth next week, so let's switch chairs."" Or, I could call you and say, "Listen, I have a hangover from last week and my mood feels the need . n , for a boiler plate and some ice, so I'll trade you a stage. Bower forsees success . ., , .. ... for the idea since it enables Breckenndge for a Killing on " .'. we could all decorate our chairs the way we wanted them, couldn't we? ; I'd paint a big pair of Ski Tips on the back of mine. mutual exchange. The Well, on second thought, that wouldn't be good. You courses and terrain of the might have to borrow my chair and you wouldn't regional training center offer the necessary challenges to , the skiers while the presence of Team members contributes1 contrib-utes1 added exposure to a given-area and increases our minds about buying a lift ticket. I considered the possibilities of expanding that idea. . If we started early enough, we could ski 10 areas before having to buy a ticket, right? Well, I never promised you practicality . Remember the good old days? Full year passes. Long lift lines. No skiing until 9 a.m. Boots that hurt. Who needs progress? Keep your SKI TIPS up. Bower. our association with former Olympian Joe McNulty and his highly qualified staff because we believe they have Hankermas s.. '.'.-.;-...- - :') t&fflhtit ,.trl!Cf )f'" .1-01 ftT "The Cross-Country ski Team 1 will be training in Waterville Valley January 1521, and will join the the expertise so vital to the Center's staff in conducting a SKIOUTFIfJERS THANKSGIVING SKI SALE FRI.-SAT.-SUN. EVERYTHING IN STORE 10 to 50 off SKIS BOOTS PARKAS SWEATERS it. ! success 01 . mis program," Bower added. , Exclusively a Ski Team activity, the official training ; center concept was introduced introduc-ed this year and can be considered to be in the research and development series of clinics available to the public," continued Bower. Bow-er. "If you're interested in our training methods, we'd be glad to share our knowledge and have you join us at Waterville Valley in January." A. We were up early and standing half -awake with the small crowd waiting on the curb in front of the Post Office. An equal size pack of dogs waited with us, growling, playing, running into the street. It was plenty cold out but everything around us was cement dry. There was also plenty of talk. Where is it? I don't ' ' ' , , . . ., .' know. Shoud be here soon, though. Where's it gonna we gQt UP 80 early and cold for? To "de a Free Bus take us? Around the block. I don't know. Around you could ride any time you wanted after that? town. D'ya see it yet? Where'd it go? Around the Thls was.the f'rst ro"te for the st ParTk block. I don't know. There it is up at the turn around. Transportation, and was the same route Get On It Alrieht took last year. It was quiet except for champagne i : ' . . giggles and the Free Bus had fine shocks. A 11m ii was, cumioB unwu m 0ui, We cruised down the remainder of Main, cut over to COntini JP AS and starting, coming toward us. It was the new Free park . flnd crui d the , ft of , before WUI I UI IUC; rVO -PWl Jfc turning at Moana and wide-left swinging up to the wuiui .iu uecu u4 ww" 7 7-"7 7" Resort. We rested there waiting for skiers who transportation system But Get On It hadn t been wouldn,t come wag & d run You modern at all, m fact had been downright . . . t lpoiHmatpIw independent double systems dilapidated. But there coming toward us was a big we ed each and condQ com r v"c a':'"s ,D1S-Cy nnum ouS, u a uiB .uu beginmng with xhree Kings onwar(j and upwar(j b Omega Timekeeper SKI TUNE-UP SPECIAL rag. $12.00 NOW $7.56 ALL C.B. SPORTS PARKAS & SHELLS 25 off Omega of Switzerland will continue as t he H;. liir-"-for World Pro Skiing in ! 1976-77, according to Bob Beattie, presidrnl of World Wide Ski Corporation, which administers the World Pro Skiing tour. "Omega joined the tour last season," Beattie explained, "and provided the circuit with outstanding timing services. Because our head-; head-; to-head races are timed to one thousandth of a second, precision is critical. Omega assures us of that kind of accuracy." ';. - Last season, Omega's first with the 'World Pro Skiing tour, the company introduc ed double-beam photo cells at the finish line. ThK Omega will install totally logo that said 1st Park Pay Day to Crescent Ridge, splitting the front and I ALL LAST j YEAR RENTALS v FOR SALE! . COME IN AND SEE THIS YEARS LINES OF fl EQUIPMENT CLOTHING LAYAWAYS jj ROFFE POWDERHORN ROSSIGNOL KASTLE fl 0 , NORDCASOCTT i- ' 1 240 PARK AVENUE 649-91 23 1 hink Snnwl SI So when it stopped we got on it. Some of the people back nines of the u course over to Homestake and with us got on it with champagne They didnt have claimjumperi then by Snow Country and finally me nean 10 oreaK me ouuie uu ui .cw .uuj, backtracking a bit to Park Avenue. Bus, so instead they christened the ride by drinking Wfi went faack up tQ tne Resort and ftig Ume jugt it empty. hesitated there and then came the same way we'd After we got on the Free Bus we rumaged through gone to where we'd got on it. the Free T-shirts to find our, right size. The Free Which is where we got off it and went to work, our insure against a timing error resulting from an unlikely mechanical malfunction. ; Applying new technology developed' for the Montreal Olympics, Omega will also . introduce the newest computers compu-ters available, accurate to within one-hundreth of a T-shirts didn't come as any shock. What do you think Free 1st Park T-shirts under our arms second per day, and ten !' t times smaller than those ; Park CRy's Fret Bus Began Operating Last Monday. used on the 1976 World Pro , , Skiing tour. These compu- I - ters, which actually measure j the elapsed time difference ' - . , . ; , between racers to .0001 i : secondswill display the time ! , ! . : ' to .001 second's Im-I N - 1 1 . the timing house ano out 5 . , , . ; ? . side, to spectators in the i finish-line area. ; CHRISTMAS CARD WORKSHOP ; LEARN WOOD BLOCK PR9NTMQ& MAKE YOUR -OWN CARDS. 20 CARDS FOR $15 MCLUDES ALL MATERIALS u?7UES.,NOV.30.7-9 PM: ' v ri DESONCARD v THUR8,DEC.2,7-9 PM:. , Mh I CUT WOOD BLOCK i; v: TUES,DEC.7,7-0PM:s! PRINT CARDS i; Instructor: Marlanm Cont . Phone: Kbnbtl Art Cwtor; " ' S49-SI82,ton9lt h O OCT () CD( v rwT"i l 4 4 f iii)iia 'CD'S A, |
