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...clammy fog began to blow off the harbor, grizzled old colliers and young shavers, eager to put pick to coal again, tramped to the mine mouth. There they stepped aboard the "cage," a rickety elevator which dropped them 700 feet to the mine-deep, starting point of the sloping shaft which runs out under the sea. To reach their diggings the miners boarded a "rake," a string of small narrow, flat cars fitted with wooden benches, which are let down the ten-degree slope by a wrist-thick steel cable...
...first 200 miners to reach the mine-deep were lowered to the end of the shaft and the cars were reeled back to the starting point. Some 250 more miners scrambled on the 26 little cars and started down the slope. Suddenly there came a cannon-like crack-the cable had snapped off about 1,000 feet behind the last car. "She's running away!" shouted one collier...
Inexperienced skiers should stay off the steep slopes, Niles advised. They should not go out with much better skiers unless the experienced ones are willing to spend the day on a gentle slope teaching them...
Northern White Ski Slope--four inches of new powder snow with one inch base. Temperature...
Twin Mt.--Four inches of new snow on a three inch base. Good open slope skiing...