News Notes from NEW ENGLAND SKI MUSEUM Issue No. 14 Arthur F. March, Jr. Editor April 1985 MUSEUM COMES ALIVE AT WATERVILLE VALLEY Tom Corcoran and Nature cooperated to provide as nearly perfect conditions as any skier could want this side of the Great Snowfields in the Sky for the Museum's FIRST ANNUAL SKI OUTING at Waterville Valley on March 23rd. " A thousand years of ski experience" was the way Malcolm McLane ( or was it Al Sise or Sel Hannah?) described a group of senior skiers as they drew up briefly at the top of Sel's Choice before opting for the direct route down. But read about it in the words of Eastern Ski Writer Allen Adler of Barton, Vermont and look for photos and race results elsewhere in this issue: You missed it? Shame on you. Missed what? small American flag, following an instructor Why, the First Annual NESM Ski Outing, that's with a large flag. Very pretty. what. All of you people who were gallivanting around Europe or the Caribbean or other places Following which began distillation of the of minor interest blew the opportunity to be essence of the day: old ski technique, old with us at Waterville Valley on March 23rd. clothes, old equipment. A beautiful, precise exhibition of telemark turns on skinny skis Some fifty of our members gathered together by an "old Norwegian" using a single, long pole on a warm, spring day with ideal snow conditions was followed by a demonstration of Arlberg and had a real o1d-fashioned ball. (Someone snowplows, stem turns (with and without abstem) remarked the only hazard of the day was of fal- stem christies and christies, then some Allais ling asleep on the chairlift.) Exhibition and a short-swing show by the Waterville Valley Slope, renamed Memory Lane for the day, set instructors in ensemble. Nice. And a wind-up the scene with an opening Parade of Flags, a of modern style by a young duo from the Valar snaking line of small children, each with a family. (cont'd next p.) 1