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LATE-SEASON SKIING HOLDS CENTER OF INTEREST IN FULL CLUB PROGRAM
OLD MAN WINTER STAGED a real comeback after his Carnival let-down with good snow conditions prevailing until midMarch. The die-hard skiers are now wearing the snow on popular Oak Hill into the grass roots while planning spring skiing trips to Mount Moosilauke's high slopes or the race courses in the White Mountain National Forest. Their fellow members are also busy, preparing for white-water canoe trips and tying trout flies.
The eight-man varsity ski team concluded its regular intercollegiate season on February 27-29 at Middlebury where the host team won the Intercollegiate Ski Union Championship, defeating second- place Dartmouth (575 to 572.5) and nine other college ski teams. Tor Arneberg '50 gathered the highest total points in all events and was declared the 1948 ISU Skimeister, duplicating his all-around performance in December at Sun Valley, where he earned the Bradley Plate for his versatile showing.
With the arrival of March and the numerous late-winter slalom and downhill races sponsored chiefly by White Mountain ski clubs, Dartmouth skiers came into their own, as they usually do in this season and location. On March 6 the freshman team beat Rutland Junior College in a slalom and downhill dual meet at Moose Mountain.
On the same week-end Brooks Dodge, freshman star, who has not been competing with the varsity because of our three-year rule, retained his combined downhill and slalom title in the Ski Club Hochgebirge's 15th Annual Meet on Cannon Mountain, defeating 62 other aspirants for the coveted Joel S. Coffin IX Memorial Trophy, of which the 18-year-old "veteran" skier now holds two legs. The D.O.C. "A" team won the combined event over 13 other club teams, thanks to Dodge's performance and high scoring by Captain Malcolm Mclane '46 and Donald Page '47.
On the same week-end Wilbur Bull '46 finished third and John Caldwell '50 fifth in the Class B Eastern jumping and crosscountry combined championship at Gilford, New Hampshire, while Tor Arneberg '50 placed sixth in the Class B Eastern title jumping with leaps of 150 and 156 feet. Seward Brewster '49 finished third in the Class B cross-country.
While the Club's competitive skiers were thus engaged, the social skiers entertained 68 guests from 15 other colleges at the winter meeting of the Intercollegiate Outing Club Association at the Moosilauke Ravine Camp and 14 bush-whacking ski-mountaineers bivouacked in Tunnel Ravine on the opposite slope of Mount Moosilauke.
Came the second week-end in March and Brooks Dodge '51 set a new record on the Wildcat Trail in Pinkham Notch at the 14th annual Appalachian Mountain Club invitation downhill race, leading the Club's "A" team to first place over six other teams. On his first scoring run, Dodge clipped 1.2 seconds from the previous mark of two minutes, 12.8 seconds set by Toni Matt in 1939.
Meanwhile the Dartmouth varsity team again finished in its seemingly inevitable second place to Middlebury at Harvard's invitational giant slalom race at Bromley Mountain in Vermont's Green Mountain National Forest. The freshman team defeated formerly untoppled Kimball Union Academy, 97.7 to 89.7, in a giant slalom on Woodstock's Suicide Six with Brooks Dodge, John Boardman, Dick Dutton, and Ed Post finishing in first, second, fourth and sixth positions. And on the same week-end D.O.C. skiers, exploring the upper slopes of Mount Moosilauke from their popular base at the Undergraduate Cabin, returned to Hanover with glowing reports of lateseason skiing prospects on "Dartmouth's own mountain."
