SKIING OVER THE NEW HAMPSHIRE HILLS 



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sends a team of jumpers to the carnival, 

 when the struggle for supremacy assumes 

 an intercollegiate and an international 

 flavor. 



EXECUTING A SOMERSAULT ON SKIS 



Every jump brings a thrill to spectator 

 as well as to participant, but the supreme 

 moment of the carnival comes when a 

 master of the skis executes some such 

 spectacular antic in the air as a forward 

 somersault. 



As the stellar performer prepares for 

 the jump, a hush sweeps over the spec- 

 tators, for every one knows that unless 

 his timing is accurate to the fraction of 

 a second and his spring from the plat- 

 form is perfect, contusions and broken 

 bones will be his reward. 



Down he rushes to the platform. A 

 sudden contraction of all the muscles of 

 the body, a magnificent leap into the air, 

 a somersault completed at the instant of 

 landing — all in the time of a held breath ! 

 There is wild applause from the relieved 

 spectators, as they realize that the sensa- 

 tional "stunt" is successfully accom- 

 plished. 



In many respects ski jumping is an 

 even more exhilarating sport than flying. 

 As one shoots out and down through the 

 keen, bracing air with no windshield to 

 protect him, the sensation is beyond de- 

 scription. Unlike the aviator, the ski 

 jumper has no ailerons, no rudder, no 

 "flippers" to aid him. The whole success 

 of the venture depends solely upon the 

 human machine, upon the proper co- 

 ordination of the muscles and upon the 

 ability of the jumper to judge with abso- 

 lute accuracy the precise moment for the 

 spring. 



SKIING UP AND DOWN MT. WASHINGTON 



When the snows begin to melt around 

 Hanover in the spring the Outing Club 

 gives its final winter party — a three days' 

 trip into the White Mountains. From 

 headquarters at the foot of Mount Wash- 

 ington, the sportsmen climb the moun- 

 tain, plunge into Tuckerman's Ravine, 

 and see aspects of the outdoors which 

 are never revealed to summer visitors. 

 The snows have begun to disappear in 

 the southern portion of the State, but 

 drifts to a depth of 100 feet in the ravines 

 are still to be found here. 



Photograph by Kenneth D. Smith 



FRONT VIEW OE A SKI JUMPER IN EEIGHT 



Not even aviation can provide more thrilling 

 sport than that afforded the expert on skis. 



