Fallen Alpinist

 Every generation produces a great alpine ski racer. 

I deferred to Jean Claude Killy.

Me & Killy killed that winter, back in '67. We owned that Mountain (Cannon). We ruled that trail (Avalanche)!

There was not just 5 mind-boggling, jaw-dropping, head-scratching race runs, but 7 mind-boggling, jaw-dropping, head-scratching runs. I sprang onto the scene in Jan. with youthful exuberance (16) and back-to-back slalom victories, well padded, I may say! One, a test race or the up-coming, first ever, World Cup Race, in March. Perfect platform to display my "advanced physique" and pioneer the parabolic "shaped ski"-->Vr-17/Dynamic, custom designed for Killy. (how I got my hands on some o those, I'll never know). The other: Baxter Whitman (who-ever he was?) Blew everyone away! second weekend in a row!

But it didn't last. My stars and Planets, Luminaries, moved on. 

The Legend o Billy Kenney

Crazy mo-fo fired the shot heard 'round the World!

 

Direct Descendent

 I come across the French Channel (formerly English) ensconced deep in the gonads o William the Conqueror, 1000 years ago. Direct descendent through great great grandmother Lovonia Hale, daughter o Ezra Hale-->deHale-->DeHales--> Henry III-->William the Conqueror/ol' bastard. So that makes it twice I thumped the Brits: Battle o

Hastings and American Revolutionary War.

Wild Man from the Boreal Forest

Me and Killy killed that winter, back in '67! That's Jean Claude Killy! We owned that Mountain! (Cannon) I sprang on to the scene middle o January, 16 yers old. Killy was at the top o his game (sport), came prancing into town (Franconia) with his French Team cohorts: Guy Perrillat, Georges Maudit, Leo Lacroix more or less dominating. The first "world cup" races ever staged in North America, and the most brilliantly executed, by Killy. Winning the three events, five runs, the downhill by almost a second! A once in a generation ski racer riding up with me on the "tram"  for our 'training" runs, spying on his "equipment", namely VR-17/Dynamic, 220 (+) cm French downhill racing skis. I was on "Heads". How I got my hands on a pair o "Dynamic" slalom skis, those "cuttin edge" (pardon the pun) racing skis: one guy, Quint Boyle/Skimeister Ski Shop.

    What we was doing? pioneering the "carve o the turn", that is, taking full advantage o the parabolic shape o the ski

Totem Tree

Totem Tree (sugar maple)

Marks the spot where Abenaki Women discovered Maple Sugar

A long and torturous story

I fired the "shot heard 'round the World"! 

Valley Forge?

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