Ski Section

Poor ski conditions are prevalent throughout New England this week-end, latest reports indicate. Mount Mansfield at Stowe, Vermont, provides the only hopeful signs.

Stowe, with a temperature of nine below zero, has 18 inches of snow ranging to 45 inches at the summit of the mountain, and fair weather is expected.

Lancaster, Lincoln, North Woodstock, Warren, and Whitefield all report fair skiing, but the rest of the well known trails are either poor or unusable.

The Boston and Maine railroad, will run one ski train Sunday through Crawford Notch to Fabyan, New Hampshire, leaving Boston at 8 o'clock in the morning and returning the same evening. Crawford Notch has ten inches of snow, while Fabyan has six.

Lancaster's temperature is four below with seven inches of dry snow, while Lincoln, with cloudy weather, reports eight inches and a breakable crust.