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More relevantly, we also knew that California has gone a fair distance in making a sport of the best of what the Donners and Thompson learned—how to survive in snow and how to ski safely through rugged, untracked terrain. The ice-edged wind found us looking at the very peaks upon which that new sport, ski mountaineering, had been adapted to California terrain by the Sierra Club and then exported to help the armed forces in World War II. I was exported too, and saw how our ski-mountaineering technique and equipment aided the troops, myself included, giving them combat mobility and esprit that should be recorded better than it has been before it is forgotten. |
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