Skiing: then and now

North Country School was founded in 1938, and ever since then learning to ski and climb have been considered formal graduation requirements. Thus the headmasters of this small, boarding middle school have been more outdoorsy than most. Walter Clark was the founder, and the enclosed picture from the late 1940s shows him nattily dressed, heading out to our ski hill and rope tow. The 2011 picture of me is from the 25k Loppet ... the lycra suit which just barely fits is from the 1980s when I skied on a Karhu race team.