1965_12 The Daily Collegian December 1965

              Toe Dally CoUeglan
Wednesday, December 8. 1965
National Patrol Helps  Injured Skiiers
By JOE ROSSATO
They  are  called  the   "Good
Samaritans of the Snows," and
rightfully so becauae the mem¬
bera of the National Ski Patrol
System have attended an estimat¬
ed 20,000 injuries annually.
The concept of the National SM
Patrol had Its beginnings on
Jan. 2, 1936 on a cold slope In
Vermont when a young skier, C.
Mlnot Dole, fractured a leg and
Lay alone and In pain aa a friend,
Frank Edson, went tor help. Ed-
son returned and helped Doleona
long, painful Journey to a doctor.
Dole wondered tor months the fact
that there waa no organized,
trained help within a reasonable
range of an Injured aider.
Dole later learned of the tragic
death of his friend Edson. He had
been killed In a ski race. After a
high-speed collision with a tree,
"helping" people had walked him
about and a broken rib had punc¬
tured a lung. Dole and other mem¬
bers of the New York Amateur
Ski club reacted to this news by
forming a committee to study
skiing safety and spent months
writing a report on the subject.
They were ready to try out
their Ideas In March, 1938 at
Stowe,   Vt.,  before the National
Downhill     and   Slalom   Races.
placed strategically about the
alopea. During the races, when¬
ever a man feU, be found himself
almost Instantly In helpful, cap-
The Idea worked so well, the
group was asked to "do It on a
national scale "by Roger Langley,
9 New Lifts Start
At Squaw Valley
Squaw Valley Is keeping up with
the tremendous growth In skiing
and will present nine new lifts to
the skiing public this coming sea¬
son. Three new double chairlLfts
and six new Bunny Platters will
be ready tor operation. Squaw
Valley, with a total of 21 lifts,
wUI have an uphill capacity of
15,000 skiers an hour.
At the Gold Coast station the
deck and lounge area will be
tripled In size and feature a new
exit on the second floor. This wlU
eliminate the uso of stairways for
skiers who are not planning to use
the restaurant and bar faculties
when they alight from their cable
The first new double chalrUft
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will replace the old porno lift and
la being built next to the Olympic
slalom course on tower KT-22.
The new exhibition double chair-
lift will be 2,300 feet long and has
a vortical rise of 800 feet, with a
capacity of 1,200 skiers an hour.
Opening up new terrain tor ad¬
vanced skiers is the main purpose
of the Headwall double chalrUft.
This 3,650-foot long lift will
start next to Tower 20 on the
Squaw No. 1 chalrUft and has a
vertical rise of 1,200 feet, Not
only wlU the new Headwall lift
service the Squaw Peak Headwall
and popular North Bowl, but will
also allow aiders to schuss down
into the Sun Bowl, south of Squaw
Peak.
The ever-Increasing popular¬
ity of the high altitude slopes In
the Gold Coast and Emigrant re¬
gion, especially tor beginners,
made it necessary to Install
another beginner lift In that area.
The new East Broadway double
chalrUft will start behind the Gold
Coast Terminal and will wind up
near the upper Shirley Lake lift
tower. This easy, new double
chair wiu be 2,150 feet long and
has only a vertical rise of 325
feet. One thousand beginners per
hour wlU beabletouse this chair.
The Squaw Valley beginners
area has been completely re¬
modeled and all rope tows have
been replaced by six new platter
lifts. These Bunny Platters wUI
range between 450 and 700 feet
In length with a vertical rise from
60 feet to 135 feet. Two thousand
two hundred beginning skiers will
be able to use these new Lifts
within one hour.
The outside porch in front of
the Gold Coast Terminal has been
doubled In sLze and a new Indoor
lounge tor box lunch skiers will
be available this coming season.
A new sundock wlU be construct¬
ed on top of the new lounge wing
adjacent to the terminal. Skiers
departing from the gondola cars,
at the upper station, will now be
able to reach the slopes directly
from the second floor without us¬
ing the Indoor stairway.
New parking faculties have
been added and paved In the large
parking lot next to the Squaw Val¬
ley Lodge.
to key Ski Association
throughout the United States urg¬
ing them to recruit young, strong,
intelligent, experienced skiers
who were willing to spend their
leisure time "playing guardian
angel" to others.
The Ski Patrol Idea spread
rapidly. By 1941, there were
more than 4,000 Patrolmen, who
aided 4,837 ski-accident victims.
Today, each la an unpaid, highly-
trained member ot the National
Ski Patrol System, a non-profit
organization devoted to the pro¬
motion of skiing safety and to the
immediate, competent careof In¬
jured skiers. There are in the I
this v
n 10,00
Patrolmen who watch
three million Americans now on
the ski slopes.
Membership Into theSkl Patrol
Is not easUy won. The candidate
must first prove himself to be a
capable skier, then spend 26
hours earning both the Standard
and Advanced Flrst-Ald Cards of
the American Red Cross. When
his first-aid training is com¬
pleted, the candidate begins on-
the-hUl training. The trainee
works with an experienced Pa¬
trolmen and arrives at his ski
area before dawn to check the
condition of every slope, mark
dangerous areas with flags, test
emergency telephones and lines,
and see that all rescue and first-
aid gear is In good repair.
The trainee accompanies the
Patrolman on all calls, assists
In flrst-ald, learns how to lift an
Injured alder safely onto a rescue
toboggan, how to select the quick¬
est, safest route to shelter and
how to ski steep slopes with a
toboggan. His day ends when the
lifts close and he makes a sweep
When a Ski Patrolman believes
his trainee Is ready, ho nominates
him for his final exam—an eight-
hour, on-skls demonstration of
skiing, compass and map work,
flrst-ald and toboggan-handling.
The candidate must rapidly climb
a mountainside, then, without
pausing, make a long nonstop
cross-country descent in full
control. Although the test Is rug¬
ged, more than half tho applicants
usually pass.
Making the grade, the new Pa¬
trolman pays an annual member¬
ship fee and, at his own expense,
outfits himself with the Ski Pa¬
trol's rust-colored parka with the
gold cross on the back, the royal-
blue first-aid belt, many of the
the belt and his own ski equlp-
Because ot Dole and the thou¬
sands who through the years have
eagerly answered the summons to
Ski Patrol service, skiers every¬
where know that whenever they
get In trouble, the'Good Samari¬
tans of the Snows* wlU be along
soon to help them.
Note; Portions of this article
were taken from a recent Issue of
"Reader's Digest."
American Technique Has
Easy, Simple Movements
Ski S
It Is my strong opinion that the
skiing public needs a better un¬
derstanding of the American
technique.
The American ski technique Is
not new; It Is pretty much the
way It was presented some 20
years   ago.  It  has,  of course,
And the American technique was
of course derived from a system
developed and promoted by the
Austrtans since 1928. The Amer¬
ican   technique Is easy to teach
to s
phUosophy  o
.J to hi
The
skiing
New skiers naturally adapt their
technique to the conditions of
slope and snow. Because of ski
competition national feelings and
ultimate commercialism of ski
techniques have come about dl-
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Is many of the ski techniques
which appear different on the sur¬
face   remain   mechanlcaUy   the
Why Is there so much con¬
fusion over and misinterpretation
of ski technique? Bad translation
Is responsible and the personality
cult of some schools, coupled with
bad publicity and promotion,
hasn't helped a bit. Too many
people not qualified In ski theory'
have written about ski technique.
And too much experimental
theory has been passed off as
legitimate technique.
What we aim for -- our ideal —
is the American technique in
finished form. This is how we
hope our students ski at the end
of a class. In modern teaching
we consider our first classes
as merely stepplngstones. We no
longer Insist on prolonged basic
maneuvers as we used to. Our
goal for our new students Is good
final forms.
The American technique made
Wednesday. December 8, 1965
Its
it the
1 (International Ski School
Congress) held In Badgasteln,
Austria, which I was fortunate to
attend as a demonstrator of our
The PSIA (Professional Ski In¬
structors of America) wlU see to
It that the American technique
wUl be kept up to date. The Ust
of member schools and Individual
members Is steadUy growing.
June Mountain Ski School Is a
member school of the PSIA.
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$15 Million
Ski Village
Is Scheduled
Major expansion plana tor
contemplated $15 million resoi
and recreational complex ad¬
jacent to Mammoth Mountain Inn,
Mammoth Lakes, In California's
High Sierra, were announced by
Andrew J. Hurley, president of
the company, which Is headquar¬
tered In Sherman Oaks.
The project, which calls tor
commencement of construction
June, 1966, wlU be a Joint
Mammoth's Designer
Plans More Ski Runs
By SIDNEY CORNWALL
When poet Sam Walter Foss
said, 'Bring me men to match
my mountains,* he could have
had Mammoth Mountain In mind,
At   t
f the  h
,   tho
truly majestic mountain. Owner
Dave McCoy might well be the
fulfillment of poet Foss'
Idealistic wish for a man of
stature, vision and courage to
bring about the affinity between
man and mountain. The magnifi¬
cent ski facilities of Mammoth
Mountain are the realization of
many years of study, devotion
and work on the part of Dave
McCoy, a former city of Los
Angeles haydrographer at Crow-
Dave pioneered siding at near¬
by McGee Mountain, starting
about 1936. He moved up the road
to Mammoth In 1938, where his
original Installation was two rope
tows. In the beginning, and for
several years, McCoy's lease
with the Forest Service was on a
yearly basis. As though, fearful
that the area might be withdrawn
and that these fine slopes might
large warming hut-cafeterta-
servlce building has been expand¬
ed extensively this summer, and
wUI be In full operation by the
time the snow falls. The excel¬
lent ski shop, managed by FWSIA
Instructor Bob Cooper, has ex¬
panded with It. The warming hut
at the mid-way point is also com¬
pleted and wUI be In fuU opera¬
tion this season.
As each faculty becomes a
reality, others are developing In
the creative mind of Dave McCoy.
Expansion will probably never
stop. A gondola Is being con¬
structed and will be completed by
the season of 66-67, which wlU
carry skiers half way up the to¬
tal mountain. The following
season there are hopes and ex¬
pectations   of lifting  skiers up
o the o
slopes might be lost to the skiers
he operated the rope tows to the
utmost of their capacity. In 1955,
McCoy was successful In ne¬
gotiating a longer lease and Im¬
mediately constructed chair
number 1, which was followed by
chair number 2 In* 1957. These
two chairs have serviced the
lower slopes of 1,000 vertical
feet, of nearly always perfect
packed powder conditions.
From there, he has put In a
total oftwoT-bars and six chairs,
the sixth being inaugurated this
season. This chair wLU be a be-
-inners chair, and will serve as
an access to chair number 2, and
will enable skiers to get to the
top easier. It will be Included for
the T-bar dcket price.
His facilities service over
2,000 feet of exceUent vertical
drop terrain, which Includes end¬
less mUes of runs of Infinite va¬
rieties. Many of these runs are
very suitable for serious race
training. Under the guidance of
McCoy, young skiers have taken
advantage of this, and be may
well be proud of developing many
fine Olympic caliber alders,
among them Linda Myers, Wendy
and Cathy Allen, and Robin Morn¬
ing, plus contributing heavUy to
many FWSA Junior National
teams. Ills own children, six In
all, are outstanding racers In
their own right.
i Meadows on the back side.
In the blueprint stage are more
service chairs, which would dou¬
ble the size of the present sklable
Forest Service figures show
that skiers' use of Mammoth
Mountain has doubled since 1964,
and an estimated million and a
half people visited Mammoth last
Corp.   and Mini
Co., Ltd., an investment group.
William lUrsch, aia, haa been
signed as project architect. Pre¬
liminary planning and over-all
design has already been complet¬
ed In conjunction with the design
firm of Allen-sW, Inc. Otto
Lang, native of Salzburg, Austria,
Is technical adviser to the group.
Included in the scheduled con¬
struction will bo 500 additional
hotel rooms built Into an atmos¬
phere of an authentic Bavarian
village. The faculties for rec¬
reation and convention use wUI
be extensive, Including a theater,
concert hall and specialty shops.
Plans call for an Olympic-size
indoor swimming pool, artificial
Ice rink, health spa, bowling
alleys and billiard rooms.
Plans also include development
of two lakes for water skiing and
fishing, as weU as Mono County's
first 18-hole championship golf
course. Trap and
ranges will also be Incorporated
for full summer activities.
Trevor Goodman, spokesman
for Minaret Investment Co., Ltd.,
stated that the Mammoth Lakes
area la experiencing a phenomen¬
al growth and Is already
Ing one of the foremost winter
and summer recreational areas
In the West.
Goodman cited official Forest
Service figures showing that win¬
ter sports use at Mammoth Moun¬
tain doubled . between 1957 and
1964, and over 1 1/2
people used the Mammoth area
for overall recreational purposes
last year.
As a result of this popularity,
property values at the Mammoth
area, he said, have more than
quadrupled   In
The Minaret Investment group
beUeves that this recreation and
convention complex will be the
most complete resort facility
In California.
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starts, poorer road conditlone and low driving vlsibUlty.
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checkup.
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