With the D. 0. C.

DARTMOUTH HOST AT MT. MOOSILAUK.E TO 80 MEMBERS OF 1.0.C.A.

SKI BOOTS stamped across the floorboards of the bunkhouse of the new Ravine Camp. The last contingent had arrived for the night. All evening groups of 1.0.C.A. weekenders from Connecticut College, Yale, Mt. Holyoke, Radcliffe, Brown, Bowdoin, Williams, Smith, and other New England colleges had trudged in over the entrance trail, some on skis and some on foot. The Dartmouth hosts had arrived early in the afternoon, bringing with them toboggan loads of extra blankets and duffle. Now, at an hour well past midnight, and after an evening of singing and welcome, Ken Mac Donald rolled out of his blankets to yell, "Quiet!" to the incoming Smith Outing Club as his sleep was broken. For the dozenth time.

Saturday morning dawned clear and cold with sunshine glistening on the snow of Moosilauke. Skiers streamed forth from the Ravine Camp after a hearty breakfast and criss-crossed the new snow of Hell's Highway, and the nearby trails. A party of six, three Dartmouth boys and three Smith girls, survived the exertion of winter climbing and reached the summit of the mountain. Others, not so energetic, had fallen out of the climbing party to ski the lower stretches of the Highway. The carriage road offered another surface of unbroken snow for one party. Before midmorning the turns of the trail were echoing the calls of "track" and the rasp of steel edges, and the practice slope was sounding with friendly advice or the crunch of bodies doing nosedives into the deep snow.

BOUCHARD WINS DOWNHILL

Downhill races were held on the Highway from the Kindergarten down to the foot of the trail. Adrian Bouchard, coming down from the summit with a pack on his back, was just in time to enter and win the race, taking the pitches and turns wide open and poling on the level spots. Sylvia Holmes of Smith won the girls' race with a perfect display of form. However, many of the skiers who had attempted the Highway in the morning, spent the afternoon on the practice slope brushing up on forgotten technique.

A full eighty, 42 girls and 38 boys, were gathered for supper. More Yale boys and a large group from M.I.T. had pulled in during the day. The fire was started in the huge fireplace, and as the dishes were cleared away Will Brown and the amateur orchestra from Dartmouth, "the Moosilauke Mountaineers," started the dance. Reels, square dances, waltzes, and Shoo Fly were danced until the skiers' legs were too weary to stand the strain. The finale of the evening was a songfest in the main living room, lighted only by the glow of the fire.

Sunday morning found the 1.0.C.A. party up and out early for final runs on the Highway and practice slope, then down the road through a light misty rain to cars and home.

As we go to press the Eastern competitive ski season is fast drawing to a close. The varsity's feat of successfully defending both its Carnival and Intercollegiate Ski Uuion titles has been fully reported in the metropolitan papers and needs little review here. Certainly this year's team under the co-captaincy of Dick Durrance and Howie Chivers has proved itself a worthy successor to the squad of last season which captured both the Carnival and I.S.U. championships with perfect scores of 500 points.

The I.S.U. championships, held this year at Ste. Marguerite's, saw the Green come from behind to win. The McGill Red Birds went into the cross-country, on the final day of the competition, with a substantial lead over the defending titleholders, notwithstanding Dick Durrance's double win in the slalom and downhill. With such veteran langlaufers as their Captain Bobby Johannsen and Chris Mamen, the Canadians appeared a sure shot for the title; however, Howard Chivers, Percy Rideout, and Charles McLane gave great exhibitions under pressure over an extremely long and difficult cross-country course, placing first, second, and fourth respectively. This coupled with Rideout's victory in the combined, gave Dartmouth the victory with 486.28 points to McGill's 471-°5-

At present Coach Walter Prager, Durrance, and Bob Skinner, members of this year's A squad, and ex-Dartmouth skiers Ed Meservey and Harry Hillman Jr. are on their way to Mt. Hood, Oregon, for the National Slalom and Downhill Championships and the F.I.S. tryouts for the 1940 United States team, to compete in the World Championships in Norway. Meservey is defending his National Slalom title. Prager and Durrance will stop off to compete in the first National Four Event meet at Sun Valley.