Moosilauke Ski Race

When Guido Reuge, Swiss Inter-Univer- sity Ski champion and captain of the 1928 Swiss team in the English-Swiss games, began practicing at the base of Moosilauke for the annual Down-Mountain Race, the thirty-odd Dartmouth entries sat up and took notice. Captain Herm Sander '30 of the Green winter sports team, Charlie Proctor '28, former captain and Olympic skier and R. O. Baumrucker '81, one of Dartmouth's best skiers, decided they had better cut the corners of the tortuous three-mile trail and slow up when they reached the bottom. They did, in a blinding snow-storm, and the stopwatches at the bottom showed that all four had broken the previous record. Sander's winning time was 10 minutes, 23% seconds, remarkable to those of us who remember the corkscrew nature of the Moosilauke Carriage Road.

The Dartmouth Outing Club can, never seem to reach a satiation point in activities. Its latest development is a course in hiking and campcraft for instruction of students wishing to obtain summer counselor positions in New England camps. It will offer the rudiments of cooking and other routine camping and a thorough acquaintance with White and Green Mountain trails. The Outing Club, by virtue of its reputation as the country's leading college outdoor organization, is regarded by camp directors as a competent body to recommend men for outdoor work.

In spite of Hanover's recent mild winters we are still firmly convinced that Dartmouth is at heart the home of winter sports. The statistics of the recreational department show that skiing is far in the lead in popularity with more than 125 men from the two lower classes participating every day on the golf links, in various stages of proficiency. Furthermore, skating is second in ranking with over 100 students. A survey of the dormitories and fraternity houses, when there is snow about, shows as many pairs of skis as there are corduroy trousers, and certainly Dartmouth is the home of the latter.