"Shirtsleeve Skiing"

January 10, 1930—Each year more people find that here some of the best skiing of the year comes in March. In the city when merchants ar featuring Easter hats, it is difficult to realize that in the Adirondaks snow lies at greater depth than at any time of the year. Days ar longer, permitting more miles on skis before sundown, and sun is so bryt that a tropical tan is swiftly acquired. In March, one skis along comfortably in scanty attire. Indeed, bathing suits and ski boots ar not altogether out of order. Why the snow doesn't melt as fast as one's collar does is just another of nature's riddles. However, it doesn't, and, without sticking skis, the spring mountaineer glides thru such balmy sunshine he forgets that snow is cold, and needs a tumble now and then to recall reality.

Spring skiing is even better at Adirondak loj than it is at the Club, and the informal atmosfere of this mountain camp and its small size promoting conjeniality hav led to its selection as base for 10 days of ski trips up the surrounding mountain peaks and passes and along the easy trails to be led by Bjorn Blix, assistant sports director, in March. The loj is 200 feet hyer than the Club and snow conditions there ar just that much better and last proportionately later in the season. It is safe to leav your car in front of the Club with non-freeze draind from its radiator long before the pipes at the loj ar free from low temperatures. The shelterd position of trails thru thickly wooded winding mountain passes keeps them from melting sun and from destructiv wind.

Norway and Sweden took 8 or 10 years to realize that the season's best skiing was in spring. Know they know. It was the same in Switzerland, tho the Swiss took only 5 years to appreciate the advantajes of March skiing. Americans, never slow to grasp a point, ar finding the joys of spring skiing before some of their brothers learn that snow is for sports and not for the broom. Reservations for the spring skiing at Adirondack Loj ar alredy being made, and indications ar that those who wish to join the fun had best enter their names now, for only 35 can be accomidated even with bunk rooms ful.

Lake Placid Club News

*The Lake Placid Club used "simpler spelling" in their publications.  I have copied the article as it was published.

Aurora Ramsay works in the Brewster Research Library at the Adirondack History Center Museum in Elizabethtown.

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