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Yosemite National Park heads the list of most frequented California ski re-Dome stems the five-mile Bishop Creek run, five shorter trails, and an excellent slope downhill run descending 700 feet in little over a half mile. Badger Pass sports a ski life and three rope tows...
Robert the Second. Bob the Second had been preparing for the job since the age of four, when he rode his first horse. He learned to rope, cut out cattle and shoot a pistol with either hand. As a boy, he used to rise before dawn, and with brother Dick and their three sisters ride 25 miles to a roundup. After dark they would ride back. Sometimes Sarah, the youngest girl, would go to sleep and fall off her horse. The others would put her back in the saddle, then wake her up to race the last mile home...
Arthur Vandenberg was furious. "I know of no advantage," he snapped, "in throwing a 15-foot rope to a man who is drowning 20 feet from the shore...
...Mildred together joined the underground. Then in 1942 Mildred's family in the U.S. received a hastily scrawled postcard. "Don't write," it said. "Never forget me." Soon afterward Harnack was executed by strangulation at the end of a foot-long rope...
Although the Mountaineering Club's rolls include a lengthy list of graduate members, most of the active climbers are still in the College. In preparation for their yearly altitude tests, the Club spends its summers polishing up rock climbing and rope techniques, and teaching the fundamentals to newcomers...