I pulled out this old - but definitive - history book on the mountain sports of the Northeast. I have been dipping into the chapters on the growth of ski mountaineering over the past 120+ years. I had forgotten the entire snowshoe v. skiing debate, which of course then reminded me of my first trip to the south side of Denali ... two of us on skis and two on snowshoes ... a disaster for many reasons, including the obvious mismatch in speed of ascent and descent.
Fred Harris was the student who played the pivotal role in founding the Dartmouth Outdoor Club (1910) and Dartmouth Winter Carnival (1911) ...
"If snowshoeing be the prose, then skiing is the poetry of winter sports."
