CAPTAIN CARTER BEGAN WITH "SKI SMASHERS"

Captain Adams Carter of the ski team started his racing career with the "Ski Smashers," an organization started by enthusiasts around Boston before there was such a thing as a ski team in college.

In his Freshman and Sophomore years he raced with this group. It was only last year that the team had reached a high enough position to collect together a third class team. He was made captain, but had to leave in the middle of the season, when he went with H. Bradford Washburn, Jr. '33, to the Yukon Territory on a mapping expedition, under the auspices of the National Geographic Society.

Had Been in Alaska Before

Carter had been in Alaska before, mostly climbing Mt. Crillon, but also skiing.

His skiing record is a good one. Two years in succession he was asked to run the "Inferno," a trail that starts on the top of Mt. Washington and runs down close to five miles, dropping about 4000 feet. In this race, one of the longest in the country, he finished in the first ten both times.

Last year in the University race, Carter set a new record and in the Dartmouth Carnival he took fourth in the downhill and eighth in the slalom.

His most recent achievement was at Conway last Sunday where he took third in the jumping, never having competed in that event before. He had just had a few practice jumps the week before.