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CJUb C hampio HOKDKA ,-• VJnTr^'T f7f, iOOK • MMfttt /&£3 W £555! 7ir ##11 A /toa ^vfoiif^mz LOOKH Further details and colour brochure available from EUROPA SPORT Ann Street Kendal Cumbria LA9 6AB CONTENTS Page AGM and President's Report 24—25 Annual Junior Training Programme 19 Cartoon by Sir G Pollock 9 Centre Page Colour Spread by Freddie Whitelaw .. 28—29 Club Notes 35 DHO Spring Tour 38-39 Editorial 7—9 Membership List 49—56 Obituary 18 Officers & Committees 41 Racing and Training 10 Racing Results 43—47 Sketches by Antonia Armstrong-Maas 26, 31 Ski Bobbing 11 The Silberhorn — Yet Another Legend 14—15 Sixty Downhill Years 12—13 Sixtieth Anniversary Jottings 16—17 Thirty Years Unbroken 36—37 Too Many Cooks 32-34 Wengen Curling Club 22-23 Wengen Mail 20-21 Wengen Season 25 CONTRIBUTIONS our letters, articles, photographs and drawings are needed to keep the Editor employed and the DHO mrnal in business. If you have something to contribute or complain about, please send it NOT LATER HAN 25th July 1986, to Hon Editor, DHO Journal, Lodwick, Monxton, Hants SP11 8AW. holographs by Daily Express, Paddy Hollington, Photo Fritz, Frank Garnham, Sally Ireland, John Latimer id Freddy Whitelaw INDEX TO ADVERTISERS Page jok Review 46 Mills and Co 3 antonal Bank 23 Molitor 23 entral Sport 50 Nordica ii lements 5 Saloman iv harlie Brown's 34 Schlaefli Press AG 48 an Air iii Thos Zyrd 48 lmen Cotton 42 Union Bank of Switzerland 11 einhurst Books 40 mgfrau Railways 2 Hotels ilia 46 Bellevue 50 W Hicks 48 Eiger 8 Lannlichen Ropeway 6 Imperial 44 lade to Measure 4 Appartments, Mrs Staeger 48 lesserli et Cie . 50 Victoria Lauberhorn 50 LDVERTISEMENTS: For rates and other details of trade advertisements, please contact the Hon. Ldvertising Secretary, whose address appears on page 41. Page one aw «* :OY .V'"' stfl''" .t©1at f V#S atl' ^e- .»« -<^^' „e ^^^!^V' 0 6^ •fcv ^\o^-«^N# „e^ .^ ae< .c« ;»° \e^ ^Ir^' ^ al ,<xs„ ^ °<^!>-!:>:> ,*'<* 9* >^t^;><v» e < ,\e* 5V.H ,A<N<v 3 «\ ^ u,\* tf® n^ ,<\° o*°B ^ ^ Page two Luxury in the IMIOW Treat yourself to a little luxury with an apartment in either Belle Plagne or Plagne Montalbert, two of the La Plagne villages. Luxury apartments, superb skiing, certain snow, a sound investment and all for much less than you probably dreamed possible. Prices start at £20,000* and 70% mortgages are readily available with no additional security. In Belle Plagne there are also apartments available for Time Ownership from £1650* per week. Finance is available and each new Time Owner will be given two FREE 7 day Lift Passes for each of the first 4 years of ownership. g-a SAVUIt FRANCE For more details, Owners Apartments in Belle Plagne available for rental. please write Telephone O.I.P (010 33 79.09.00 58] SKIINaG 125Plagn0 3250m e or telephone or Mills & Co (06846 39211 SKIING 1250 1750m W——— Mills & Co. Dept.DOJ.85 Ryall Mead, Holly Green, Atills Upton-Upon-Severn, Worcester. WR8 0PG Telephone (06846) 3921 to 9.00 p.m. *Basedon 11.50 FF to £ WW Page three Made-to-Measure Holidays off-piste again this year! As always we offer our usual services to DHO members with flights to Berne; coach transfers, and ski pass and ski hire discounts. Our reserwations serwice includes: Gatwick—Berne flights Hotel Reservations £102-113 (Child reductions avail- For any hotel in Wengen able) 5 days a week. You can be at the top of the Lauberhorn by 2.00pm at weekends having left Gatwick at 9.00am. Connecting Coach Service Daily Schedule From Berne to Lauterbrunnen Flights to Zurich, Geneva and Basle. This year we are also offering Off-Piste courses and tours with Martin Epp. Powder course: Wengen Feb 9 — Feb 15. Telemark course: Andermatt Jan 5 — Jan 11 Traverse - Davos to Andermatt March 2 — March 8 Dolomite Haute Route March 9 — March 15 Uri Haute Route April 27 — May3 Rotondo area May 4 — May 10 We've managed to get Julia back from China and Australia and tie her down to a desk for a while, so she will still be looking after all your Wengen and Martin Epp bookings. MADE-TO-MEASURE HOLIDAYS LTD PO Box 40 CHICHESTER WEST SUSSEX P018 8HA Telephone 0243-574333 ATOL1006B Telex 869205 MTMHOL-G Page four Nobody Understands Customers... M ™3 " • #«, Si'i"DfitT i *^ <® • M 'J nhe store for all the family! Clements ^Word's Depaftinerit Store Page five Weng Mannlichen Aei Ropeway f.'t- < " / { Hi 1 I' - I the starting point of one of the most beautiful ski runs in the Alps and doubtless the most perfect one in the Bernesi Oberland is reached from Wengen in 7 minutes. Beside the easy wide open slopes with plenty of powder snow, well cared runs for courses are always kept open. Drop of altitude 4,500ft. over a distance of about 7 miles. Ski-lift Laeger-Mannlichen, good snow conditions even ir April. SPECIAL AEROPLANE SERVICE FOR SKI-ING IN THE HIGH MOUNTAINS Many starting points for the longest and most beautiful ski-runs in the high mountains of the Jungfrau area, which before could only be approached by long and toilsome ascents on ski reached now with aeroplanes taking off frorr Mannlichen with trained glacier pilots. Some of these beautiful glacier runs are: Petersgrat-Stechelberg (Lauterbrunnen Valley), Ebnefluh - Hollandia Hut - Blatten, Fiescherhorn - Finsteraarhorr Hut — Fiesch, Rosenegg — Rosenlaui — Meiringen. Page six BEING THE ANNUAL JOURNAL OF THE DOWNHILL ONLY CLUB WHICH WAS FOUNDED IN WENGEN ON 7™ FEBRUARY 1925. HON. EDITOR : BRIGADIER D. F. RYAN, LODWICK, MONXTON, HAMPSHIRE JbfTOWiAL &lpen — Elixir For those who have benefitted from my mention of Theraflu, the all-purpose cure for coughs and colds, .n last year's Journal, but who now wish to try a more traditional cure, may I recommend Messerli & Cie's own mixture called simply, Alpen-Elixir, developed from a prescription by Paracelsus whom, some nay not immediatley recall, lived from 1494—1541. This mediaeval classic has ten ingredients, I think, md seems to have been the fore-runner of what was known in m'y wife's family as 'Uncle Charley's Mixture', a nostrum that was reputed to do as much good taken internally as applied to the seat of the rouble as they used to say. However, that is another story. 3ptimism Wc are by nature and training an optimistic bunch. A day never dawns, if dawn is the right description br the clinging valley clouds swirling round Wengen Station, without someone plunging past the Eiger it 8.15 saying 'It's alright: it will be brilliant sunshine on the Lauberhorn'. We're right of course: it usually s. But perhaps the quintessence of DHO optimism was the single man on Danair's DA 850 flight from jatwick to Berne on Saturday 2nd February; he was filling-in his Portfolio in the morning's Times. For hose of you who don't take the Times or who do but have given up doing the Portfolio competition )ecause you never seem to come within 20 points of the right total never mind winning £2000, Portfolio s an up-market lottery whose function in lesser papers is carried out by Bingo. The optimism arises from he conviction that if you find a winning total you could get through by telephone from Berne Ariport to he Times with your winning answer before the Competition closes at 3 pm. It's probably less wearing to brecast sun on the Lauberhorn. Page seven THE MEETING PLACE FOR THE MEMBERS OF THE D.H.O. CLUB, THE SKI CLUB OF GREAT BRITAIN AND THE WENGEN SKI CLUB HOTEL EIGEH RESTAURANT AND GRILLROOM NEAR THE RAILWAY STATION EXCELLENT LAGER BEER LOCAL SPECIAL DISHES Page eight A case of mistaken identity When I was a subaltern and indeed Assistant Adjutant of a Horse Artillery Regiment, my principal duty was the production of the Orderly Officers' Roster. This document appeared, and my memory is a little hazy here, weekly on Fridays in what were known as Regimental Part I Orders. The first paragraph of those orders listed the officers for duty during the coming week. Being a gunner regiment accuracy was everything, after all a shell fired at a range of 10,000 yards landing 100 yards short by accident was no big thing back in the gun-lines but to the anxious OP officer seeking to bring fire down on an enemy counter-attack in front of his position to find the explosion of an HE shell behind him or even on him rather than in the desired location, was a matter of some moment and if he survived there were usually harsh words uttered on the radio net. I tell you all this to show that we young officers prided ourselves on our accuracy, and that this was carried forward to the list, or nominal roll as it is called, of Orderly Officers. When Part I Orders were posted in Battery Offices the officers named would keenly scrutinise the list to see if there had been a spelling or typographical error in the reproduction of their names. If there was it was accepted practice for the officer concerned to claim to the Assistant Adjutant that the officer so mis-named was not him.

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