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Show RC, v ' ' yrY -' ( mk SOARING IN THE SKY ... Ski enthusiasts flock to the nation's snow fields this winter, with resorts primed for their first big season since the war. Upper left photo shows one of the open slopes of Yosemite National Na-tional park, a skijoring haven. At the npper right is a fast action shot made at Alta, Utah. Center, an instructor in-structor demonstrates for class at Sun Valley, Idaho. Lower left photo shows a skier doing a "galende sprung" off a cornice on the side of Mt. Hood, Oregon. At the lower right, Crater Lake National park, also in Oregon, affords the double thrill of excellent skiing and novel scenic effects. FULL FLIGHT Winter Sports Areas Primed For Influx of Ski Enthusiasts WNU Features Skiing will dominate the American outdoor sports scene this winter as most of the famous ski areas of the West and Middlewest resume operation for the first time since Pearl Harbor. This winter ski fans will find old favorite lodges and chalets cha-lets improved and in full operation again after the war, while many new and interesting spots are$ & : Casper mountain, nine miles from Casper, and Tepee lodge In the remote re-mote Big Horns near Sheridan also are being recognized by sport fans because of their great natural advantages. ad-vantages. Montana boasts of Red Lodge, elevation ele-vation 12,610 feet, where there are 30 acres of practice slopes, ski lifts, downhill, cross country and slalom runs. Unique Nevada Site. With a typical western setting above the desert. Mount Charleston, Nev., only an hour's drive from Las Vegas, provides a unique site for winter sports. More than 60 winter sports areas are found in the High Sierras of California, Cali-fornia, a state where winter sports fans abound. Among the state's best known resorts are Lake Arrowhead, Big Bear and Big Pines, all in Southern South-ern California; Yosemitfi National park, and the Donner Pass region. Winter sports, however, are not confined to the Far West. Nature has endowed Minnesota, Wisconsin and upper Michigan with the topography and weather weath-er necessary to make them among the best winter sports areas in the nation. The "regular run" of sports enthusiasts enthu-siasts from the Midwest will head for Wisconsin and Michigan's upper peninsula, which offers all winter sports, including long ski runs, toboggan to-boggan slides, towering ski jumps, ice skating and ice boating. Plan Annual Carnival. ' For spectator pleasure, one of the best winter sports programs is presented pre-sented every February at the Win-! Win-! ter Carnival in St. Paul, Minn., when the entire city takes on the air of a northern Mardi Gras. In the New England states, too, there is a revival of interest in winter win-ter sports. Special ski trains to White mountain resorts are being resumed this winter. With expanded airline schedules and increasing use of air transportation transporta-tion to winter sports areas, many fans will invade the Canadian Rockies Rock-ies area this winter. Most popular sites there are in the Banff area and Jasper National park. 000-foot level and finishes at 7,000 feet near the head of a mile-long ski lift. At mid-winter the snow Is from 8 to 20 feet deep, averag- lug about 12 feet, with a tern--perature around 24 degrees. Generous sunshine often permits skiing in shorts. Few places in America offer such marvelous skiing opportunities as Alta, famous resort in Little Cottonwood Cotton-wood canyon of the Wasatch mountains moun-tains near Salt Lake City. Runs vary from a half mile to two miles for all, classes of skiers, plus slalom sla-lom courses and practice slopes. Brighton in nearby Big Cottonwood Cotton-wood canyon is a year-around mountain moun-tain resort. Near here is Ecker hill, where world record leaps have been made by skiing stars of international internation-al fame. Many Sports Areas. Colorado's majestic mountain ranges abound with winter sports sites. Among the leading skiing resorts re-sorts is Aspen, where the ski runs range in elevation from 7,900 to 11,-500 11,-500 feet. Roch run, the outstanding run for experts, is 9,750 feet with a 2,700-foot drop. Berthoud pass, where local interests inter-ests are expending considerable money in development of sport facilities, fa-cilities, Grand Mesa and Glenwood Springs are other Colorado spots luring lur-ing an Increasing number of winter sport enthusiasts. Long known as a dude ranch country, coun-try, Wyoming now is coming into the forefront as a skiers' paradise in winter. Jackson Hole in the scenic j Teton country just south of Yellowstone Yellow-stone park is among the most popu-I popu-I lar spots. j Skiers may drive by automo-! automo-! bile up the Teton Pass road and ski down numerous runs six to seven miles long with drops ranging from 1,000 to 3,200 feet. primed for a mass recreational Invasion. In-vasion. , Although most of the ski resorts open their season in December, snow will be in its best dry, powdery pow-dery state during January, Febru-ry Febru-ry and March. This year the "regular ran" of sports enthusiasts who head for the snow fields will be supplemented sup-plemented by a new groupformer groupfor-mer G.I.s who learned the art of skiing during the war as a matter of military necessity and now are converting that knowledge knowl-edge into personal enjoyment. Major jumping and slalom tournaments tourna-ments have been scheduled at every ski basin from Michigan to famed Sun Valley, Idaho, and the slopes of the Pacific Northwest. Olympics Scheduled. Major attraction of the season will be the Olympic tryouts in March on Sun Valley's Bald mountain. The nationals are booked at Ishpeming, Mich., February 22-23. Ski enthusiasts will And the new air age In full flight over the great frozen spaces, most of the ski J areas now being linked together for ; the first time by fast airline serv- ice. The slalom slopes of Banff and ; the Canadian Rockies with almost startling suddenness have become , only 14 flying hours from ski fans j in Southern California, seven hours ! from Salt Lake City, nine hours from Denver. The luxurious chalet and championship course at Sun Valley are only a seven-hour hop from Los Angeles. Colorado's 30 winter sportlands have been j brought within a mere four and i a half hours of the Pacific coast. Western Air Lines even is inaugurating in-augurating a "ski special" from Los Angeles to popular resorts. After serving as a naval rehabili- tation center during the war, Sun Valley was reopened as a resort December 21. All types of winter sports are available, including ski-Joring, ski-Joring, ice skating, sleighing, dog sledding and swimming in natural ; hot springs water. Install Ski Lifts. Four electric ski lifts, serve four skiing areas on Dollar, Ruud, Proc-I Proc-I tor and Baldy mountains. The lift on Baldy is 11,500 feet long and, is divided into three sections to carry skiers to the 9,200-foot summit in 20 minutes. In Oregon 15 areas will be in operation op-eration in national forests. At Tim-berline, Tim-berline, 63 miles from Portland, is found one of the nation's longest ski seasons, offering ski slopes until mid-July. The race starts at a 10,- |