Crimson Ski Team Hits Green, White Mountains for Mid-Season Practices

Released from exam pressure, the Crimson ski team shouldered its boards and hit for the magic north Wednesday for the most intensive week of slalom, jumping, downhill and cross country practice and competition that it has been this season.

Team members knocked away at their tendencies toward over-specialization, working out of their Jackson Cabin for the first few days of the mid-term break. The practice session then officially broke up, as the entire team fanned through the Green and White Mountains to take cracks at the bevy of individual competitions that the season offers.

Cross country and jumping, weak thus far, drew many members to Lobanon and Hanover. The Dartmouth jump at Hanover, a 50 meter flight, was ridden hard in preparation for the Big Green's carnival scheduled for next week.

The team copped a good recent at the Lobanon, slalom, Coach Bill Halscy, unpaid and so still retaining his amateur standing, taking first in a large, but not too exceptional field. Captain Graham Taylor ran ninth over the rough nine mile course, one minute behind Halsey, with newcomers Rod Norblom and Skiddy Lund sweating out eleventh and twelfth.

The 52 entries Lebanon jumping competition was packed with the best intercollegiate competitors of the East. Laurrie Griffin flapped his way into the number 26 position for Harvard.

In the paper event, decided by combining the top individuals' scores in both the jumping and cross country, Halsey once more walked into an easy first, followed closely in fifth place by Taylor.

Slalom, another hole in the ski teams' over-pointed offense, drew on the ski team vacationers. In a field of 70, Gerry Genn switched his way into the only impressive Crimson time for eighteenth place at an average speed of a little below $0 m.p.b.