. Winter sports at Huntington Lake Lodge in the High Sierras; the story of the first annual ice and snow carnival of the Commercial Club of Fresno, California . Riding Belly-Bumper Down the Toboggan, First Ice and SnowCarnival, Huntington Lake Lodge. The Start of the Standing Race Down the Toboggan, at HuntingtonLake, in the Sierras of the San Joaquin and, joyful triumph! I went over without losing mybalance, slid a quarter of a mile, and felt prouderthan did Napoleon after he had crossed the Rubicon,,the Alps, the Pyramids or whichever or whatever itwas he did cross. I now began to feel reckl
. Winter sports at Huntington Lake Lodge in the High Sierras; the story of the first annual ice and snow carnival of the Commercial Club of Fresno, California . Riding Belly-Bumper Down the Toboggan, First Ice and SnowCarnival, Huntington Lake Lodge. The Start of the Standing Race Down the Toboggan, at HuntingtonLake, in the Sierras of the San Joaquin and, joyful triumph! I went over without losing mybalance, slid a quarter of a mile, and felt prouderthan did Napoleon after he had crossed the Rubicon,,the Alps, the Pyramids or whichever or whatever itwas he did cross. I now began to feel reckless, and just about thistime Mr. Clendenning, the snow-sports expert ofHuntington Lodge, came along, and induced me toclimb a real mountain on the other side of the tell me now it was only a goodly hill—buttruth demands that I record my own me it looked like a mountain; my legs and lungssaid it was a mountain when I spiraled around it its summit; and my eyes confirmed their judg-ment when they gazed upon that awfully long andsteep slope which led the eye down to the flat anddeeply snow-covered surface of the lake beneath. Would I dare venture to slide down there? ItSeemed like a rude courting of death! But
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