SKI-ING AT PORTER’S PASS
Sir.—What are all these complaints about ski-ing down Porter’s Pass? The roads are just the place for ski-ing—-no bumps and easy turns. Man has been ski-ing down roads and tracks for 5000 years, and this new fangled four-wheeled juggernaut does not constitute a sufficient reason for the expulsion of the ski-ier. As free citizens anyone is entitled to use the roads, and personally I think these motorists have a confounded cheek making the snow unfit for ski-ing. Why don’t they fasten skids to their wheels and get enjoyment out of driving? It is preposterous for car-drivers, with their four great rubber wheels, to complain of the ski-ers on their twigs; and I hope Messrs Hawkes and Pedersen will send their patrolman up to prosecute those inhuman beasts who ruin the courses of the world’s most exhilarating sport.—Yours, etc., PEG LEG JACK. July 21. 1948.
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Press, Volume LXXXIV, Issue 25553, 22 July 1948, Page 8
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