Winter Sports in the White Mountain National Forest

Date1934

Can DescriptionsRecreational sports including skiing, sledding and snowshoeing in New Hampshire. Opens with map of New England including Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, New York, Massachusetts, Connecticut. Highlights location of White Mountain National Forest. Mount Washington. Traffic on mountain road. Skiers. Train carrying skiers. Parking lot of ski lodge. People with skis along railroad tracks. Truckfuls of skiers riding past Forest sign. Snowplow plowing downhill towards camera. Cars passing Forest sign. View of valley with buildings from mountain. Pinkham Notch Camp. Sign listing trails and their lengths. Downhill ski contest including one or two skiers falling down. Title 'Of course, the women race, too,' appears before a shot of women standing around, then a woman crossing finish line. Children skiing and MCU of child skiers posing. Tuckerman Ravine. Rear view of shirtless skier. Aerial shots of skiers. Snowshoer. Crew shoveling, removing rocks from trail and man using pickaxe. Logging roads that have been converted into trails. Woman choosing safe foot bridge over unsafe one. Rear view of man wearing backpack walking across bridge. Bridge construction. Man walking across rocky high peak trail. 'Reel 2 Follows' title at end of tape. SEE ALSO ACC. 0814: In December 1990 NHF received another more complete VHS copy of this film from David Huntley. Complete length is 28:14, meaning that NHF first copy was just first of three reels, probably. Huntley copy is Acc. 0814.