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SKI TOGS Freiman's New "Ski Trail" Presents to Sports Enthusiasts What We Believe Is the Finest Assortment of Ski Togs the Market Affords

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SKI TOGS Freiman's New 1etJtuJ-eJ 1~e ~tntJJ-teJ t c( SKI TOGS Freiman's new "Ski Trail" presents to sports enthusiasts what we believe is the finest assortment of ski togs the market affords. Here are Slacks and Jackets and accessories that will lend zest and grace to your very best slalom. "Warmth without weight" is the idea behind comfortable ski-ing. Freiman's translates this into tenns of "Downhill" gabardine Slacks, contrast­ ing .Jackets of specially processed cloths, with matching Caps or Parkas and Mitts, plain or embroidered. Ski­ ing starts at Freiman's. Visit Ottawa's smart Ski Trail for your greater sports pleasure. SKI EQUIPMENT From Our Sporting Goods Dept. The finest Hitkory, Ash and Maple Ski•, the famous Zugg and Palmer McLellan Ski Boots; Ski Poles in all colours ~ craek!.uoof; Ski Fittings - from the Hagen to an imported bind­ ing . and in a range of price~ 1hat challenge comparison. OtttLwiL ~ki Clu6 1/ewJ VOL. 20, NO. 2 JANUARY 15, 1940 Published by the SEASON 1939-40 Ottawa Ski Club The Great Tangle of 1939.-"If it is warm sun melts the ice". But when? not one thing, it is another" said Se­ We have not seen or felt any warmth cretary Jim Leslie as he emerged from in the sun since last summer, and a mile long crawl under a maze of certainly not for weeks. It takes a tangled alder-bushes. "You spend whole lot of sunshine to melt ice with a whole season fighting the brambles the thermometer at 20 below, and and barberry bushes, and when your "soon" might mean June at that rate. trails are clean the whole forest So macheteers and axe men are at tumbles into them. all at once. First work again, after spending the whole the skiers want snow and when they fall on the trails. Dunlop's is clear get it they clamour for rain to pack and others will soon be. Have a little it down, because it is too light, they patience. Remember that nothing like say, too fluffy. They actually pray for it ever happened since Indian wigwams rain ! And then the rain comes, turns straddled the knoll of Camp Fortune. to ice and breaks or flattens down The Editor's Diary.-The following every blooming tree in the bush. Not notes, taken from the Editor's Diary, that I think their prayers had much may help you to ascertain if you are to do with it, but they asked for it. getting as much fun out of your skiing Why could they not leave well enough as you should. If you think you are alone ?" doing better than the ·Editor, kindly And what a frightful tangle it was ! let him know. Never had anything like it ever oc­ On Christmas Eve, the condition of curred in the Gatineau hills, in the the higher trails being bad on account memory of the oldest skiers. Very of the ice storms, it was decided to pretty to look at from a distance or reopen at once the Lady Willingdon's _ from the air perhaps; aviators, hun­ trail, across the fields from Old dreds of feet up, raved about it, but Chelsea to Dunlop's, and this was skiers who crawled under it, flat on done under the leadership of Herbert their tummies, were not so enthusias­ Marshall, Mrs Marshall and a girl tic. Some people took hours to fight from Vancouver, who had not seen a their way through to the lodge from white Christmas for many years. The Dunlop's, other have not been seen trip by moonlight, over the rolling since New Year's eve and may still be fields was extremely enjoyable. crawling somewhere in the bush, for On December 30th, same trip in the all we know. company of Jim Leslie, who grumbled Order is fast being restored out of all the way because there was not. chaos however with the assistance of enough trees on the fields and grumbled macheteers and axe men. Our trail­ again, from Dunlop's to Fortune, be­ maker-philosopher, George Brittain, cause there were too many. Some was at first inclined to let nature fol­ people are never satisfied ! The retu.rn low her course "Don't worry, trees trip was by way of Kingsmere over will straighten up again soon, when a the Ridge road and down Murphy's HOSPITJILIZJITION for MEN -WOMEN CHILDREN as uuze as l ~c a Day DEPENDENTS will provide for 3 MONTHS IN ANY HOSPITAL Now you can pay your bills for Hospital, Surgeon, Nurse and Doctor this New, Euy, Modern Way! SPECIAL GROUP COVERAGE FOR MEMBERS A. L. O'NEILL, Insurance Broker ~IioW:f~-~I4 4 Ottawa Sk i Club N ews girl skiers have come into their own and their show is every bit as good as a men's show. Dazzling skill in hand­ ling the blades, gorgeous costumes, pretty faces, the beautiful surroundings Men's and Women's of Valley Farm, the dance at the Sei­ gniory Club house before the event and the Pow-Wow afterwards, every­ App111*el thing combines to make this competi­ tion one of the most attractive -of the Advantageously Priced. season. It will also mark the inaugu­ ration of a new Slalom hill, designed by Louis Grimes, the new Sports Direc­ tor. All the members of the Ottawa Ski Club are invited as usual, and many of lmfi».lJ us should be there, at least a thousand strong. There are special excursion rates sitated by this service - transportation ($1.75 return to Montebello by train of staff, purchase of supplies, building and 50c return to Valley Farm by busl of rescue sleds, etc., - our members and special hotel rates ($5.50 a day will be asked to purchase a button for American plan, two in· a room, with the nominal sum of 25c, as a gesture of bath). If you watch your step and good will to the St. John Ambulance keep away from the tavern, the Sou­ and for self protection. Remember no venir Shop and other such places, the matter how expert you may be on your sum of $8.75 should provide train and blades it may be your turn next to bus fare, hotel expenses and an addi­ limp home with a sprained ankle, a tiona! meal on Sunday night, thus dislocated shoulder or a broken rib, keeping body and soul together over a and you will be glad enough to have short week-end (Saturday afternoon to some one attend to you on the spot, Sunday night). One day, stripped of all without any charge - Buy a St. John frills, leaving .Ottawa Sunday morning Ambulance button ! A sta tement of and returning at night, should come to the conditions under which the service $4.25. Roads are still fair for motoring is supplied will be found elsewhere in but conditions may change over night. this issue. Inquire before starting. If you are going, 'please call Kay La­ rocque who is in charge of the arrange­ Lost and Found-Lost, on Sunday, ments for the Club (4-0944), after 6 December 31st, a right fitting (Chalet) p.m. on Mica Mine Trail. Finder please phone 7-1481-W. St. John Ambulance Button.-It will Found - On Canyon, Cigarette lighter, doubtless be a great relief to skiers in with crest. Apply McGifiln's, 80 Sparks general and to their parents and St. families in particular to know that a Trail checkers wanted for Ottawa Ski First-aid station provided by the St. Club. Good pay. Apply Bob McGiffin, John Ambulance Brigade and including Assistant Secretary-Treasurer 0 . s. c., the services of two experts and a nurse McGiffin's, 80 Sparks .st. phone 2-3388. will be found at Camp Fortune every For sale - Wooden Ski Rack for back Sunday. of the season, until the snow of car. Tel. 7-2146J. is off the ground. There have never For Sale - Hickory skis, steel edges been any very distressing accidents in length 6'7". Tel. 7-4265J. · the past, but some were serious enough The Canadian Ski Year Book- We have to cause a good deal of pain and dis­ not seen it yet but we understand it comfort until medical aid could be pro­ will be on sale at McGiffin's, 80 Sparks cured, and sometimes that was only Street, when you receive. this issue. after a long wait. The majority of The price is still an unknown quantity, these accidents happen near the lodge but secretary Jim Leslie who has an of Camp Fortune where the hills are advance copy says it would be cheap the steepest and bumpiest, and this is at five dollars. why the First-aid staff is stationed Trail Ma~If you have not got your there, but provision will also be made trail guide yet, better hurry as there to rescue disabled skiers from any part a.re only a few left at McGiffin's. They of bush. To cover the expenses neces- east 10 cents. Ottawa Ski Club News 5 Please put on your skis on the racks, where they belong.-When you take off your blades at Camp Fortune, please THE stand them up against the racks provided for the purpose, not against the walls of the building because wax Mountain .Lodge - and white paint don't go well to­ Kingsmere, Que. gether. - Thank you. P.S.-If you leave ·them against the • building, the caretaker will take them VVeek-ends or by the VVeek. off and put them on the racks, and you might have a lot of trouble finding • them.
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