“Then for four miles downhill running, carefree and as happy as the winds that flew with us. Not even the beasts of the forests trespassed upon this ground we were skimming. Forgotten were all the petty, sordid things that surround one in this greedy rush to exist among the smokestacks of the city. For here, in the covert of the towering, unchanging mountains, we lived.”
-“In The Northwest,” American Ski Annual, 1934.
That's a great quote. It is from an article called "Skiing America First" by Veida Morrow of Seattle. It turns out that she was describing the descent from Red Mountain to Goldmyer Hot Springs on the Snoqualmie River. I got copy of the article a few years ago from the New England Ski Museum. Here are some notes:
www.alpenglow.org/ski-history/notes/peri...34.html#esa-1934-p11
Veida Morrow still has relatives in the Seattle area.
