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Pike National Forests of Colorado. Cross coun- 

 try ski races and ski-joring contests are also held. 

 In the Truckee National Forest of California, 

 dog-team races over courses of 25 to 50 miles are 

 held each winter. 



About eighty per cent, of the 5,500,000 people 

 who visit the National Forests are automobile 

 tourists. The other twenty per cent, consists of 

 sportsmen interested in hunting, fishing, canoe- 

 ing, boating, mountain climbing, bathing, riding 

 and hiking. In the Pacific Coast States there are 

 a number of mountain climbing clubs whose mem- 

 bers compete with each other in making difficult 

 ascents. The mountaineering clubs of Portland, 

 Oregon, for example, stage an interesting contest 

 each summer in climbing Mount Hood, one of the 

 highest peaks in the country. 



