Skiing in the Winter Wilderness: Page 19

Lightness of pack can also make ski-mountaineering co-educational, as we proved during one Easter week in Little Lakes Valley in the High Sierra. Our party of twenty-two included four women. A little more distaff over the hot kitchen Primus could do a world of good. Anything would help. Ski-mountaineering menus are wide open for pioneering and whatever I would like to say about the blending of foodstuffs that were never intended to be mixed in the light of day, and the resulting mayhem-in-the-pantry, is privileged information. I swiftly change the subject and claim merely that no ski mountaineer has ever starved or even gone hungry, and that