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50 Years Sledding Crowfoot joints and aching muscles. By Fran Lewis One had to stand up and rock that sled March 29, 1969, George and I, riding from side to side in order to get through double on an Alpine Ski Doo with a twin the next meter of snow, jump agilely from track and a single ski, with neighbor Ron one running board to the other to keep it Prigmore on a similar sled, left our home balanced and upright on the trail, lean all on Garland Road hoping to get to the top one’s body of Crowfoot weight on the Mountain. uphill side when The day becrossing a steep fore George and slope, keeping Ron had fought both feet on the their way up the upper running sheep trail as far board, steering as the pinnacle with both hands making a rough on the handletrail to follow bars, keeping that far. Today just the right our goal was to thumb pressure make it to the on the throttle alpine meadows and fingers at and hopefully all George Lewis at the Mobley Mountain Fire Lookout 1969, the ready on the the way across still sledding Crowfoot 50 years later. Photo credit: Fran Lewis brake handles. to the old ForToo little gas, one was stuck; too much estry lookout. The snowmobiles of that time were the gas, one was either stuck again deeper than before, or shot out of that hole into a tree “model A’s” of the sport. Small, underwell or some other hole arranged by nature powered machines with a seat, running to entrap. Getting stuck meant working up boards, handlebars and a windshield. If you have a picture in your mind of sitting a real sweat trying to dig or lift one’s sled on the seat gliding smoothly over the snow out of some impossible, often self-induced with the greatest of ease, not so. More of- situation, before suffering the humiliation ten than not it was a personal struggle from of being rescued, yet again, by one’s trail trail’s bottom to top. A day sledding was a mates. Getting stuck was a given. A really (Continued on page 3) workout remembered all week by sore
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