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Not too subtly, then, I was trying to expose my delegates to the new generation to the good things that could happen if they were to turn their skis to the wilderness for a few winter week ends at least. I hope the exposure will take. For one thing, it will really stretch their skiing budget—four ski week ends for the price of one!— and will simultaneously shorten the ski-lift lines. More important, they'll have new frontiers to explore every time there is a new fall of snow. They'll find country—especially the Western uplands—measured in millions of acres where skis have never penetrated. And they'll learn that there is need for all their new skill in inventing ways to achieve more mobility and safety with less weight. In the course of all this they'll also find out that in winter one of the finest methods of transportation ever invented is a man's own two feet—plus seven-foot skis. |
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