Michigan snow not Snow. Michigan's title as Winter endless ribbons of paths, Michigan is snow. Wonderland comes from more From the icy tip of its parkways and forests; fitting than just a plethora of snow thumb to the ice cragged edges - stomping, or running, grounds mounds, however, and both for hunting, snowmobiling, of its coastline, the state serves peninsulas showcase enough ski hiking, trapping, dogsled racing as a reminder to geography lodges and winter playgrounds and other less memorable, but buffs that the hand inside to house the Russian army. nonetheless admired, sports. Michigan's mitten is best kept Such names as Iron For there. example, there is Mountain, Caberfae and Schuss demolition bobsledding. Still, the cold is as much a Mountain roll from the tongues part of the state as sunshine is Although there are no major of skiing aficionados as quickly to Florida and one of the best professional courses in this as an NFL fan could name the area, there are places sport ways to tell a true Michigan 196 2 Green native is to see whether the Bay Packers' lovers can go to test their backfield. Few know that person stays home courage, dexterity and staying during the Henry Hall, who later winter months. power in this coming sport. gravitated to the anonymity of It operates simply. Each Because it is in winter that Steamboat Springs, Colo., bobsledder lines much of Michigan's beauty up on made the first 200 foot ski blossoms. Curves of snow - opposite hills of a steep ravine. bloom along mountain trails, jump at Iron Mountain a few At a given signal, they start decades ago. downward, with the intent of brooks chugging with salmon wind through pine - encased Beyond skiing, there seem (continued on page 11) forests. That is when Michigan's state animal really struts its stuff. The sportsman. There .is no way to tell for sure, but rough estimates suggest that 75 per cent of the state residents have broken at least one limb on a ski slope; 65 per cent can say they have had the Bohemian experience of wafting a beer can skyward from the seat of a snowmobile going full throttle, and less than 1 per cent can say they haven't spent the better part of a morning pushing themselves and others out of snow banks. cover, John Russell page 2, John Russell page 3, Dave Schmier PHOTO page 4, Dale Atkins page 6, Dave Schmier page 6, John Dickson page 7, C. L. 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Bending down to buckle on When this trend became the narrow ski for the first pronounced, the rustic, time, as the snow crunches simplistic and inexpensive ways under your redistributed of doing things began to be weight, you might have second idealized. Franklin stoves, thoughts about the journey home canning and even ahead. walking "caught on." It may seem foolhardy to In conjunction with expect the narrow boards, this newfound which are overlapped on both philosophy of thrift many people asked "Why SKI SNOW LESSONS LANSING SKI sdes by the toes of your ski spend $5 or $10 to spend CLUB FUN IN THE SNOW SKI CLUB FUN O shoes, to support you for a several hours standing in line three or five or 10 mle trek. 1 for the tow, and a few minutes But an hour or two after a few initial spills, this later, zipping down the same old hill? Why not take off into the JOIN f early fear have flown seems absurd. forged through forests, over fields and You glided woods, exploring?" And so and do a the exodus from the little i THE LANSING SKI CLUB I Mt. Joys and Mt. Pleasants — gifts of the earthmover — In a dense forest the began. Soon the bails of state 2 bare trees loom like parks and forests sported as many skiers in the winter as bristles on a chin, and hikers in the summertime. tangle riddles the skier in At the same time, in what * of time and may turn out to have been one of the last gasps — before the space as he or she glides rude awakening of the across the face — of the American earth. Dream, the snowmobile craze swept across another segment of the public. On some wintry days two years photo taken across glistening snow - covered ago, snowmobilies nearly at lakes. You are now a cross - Lansing outnumbered cars on the Ski Club by country skier. northbound lanes of Michigan S/N photographer Cross - country skiing has expressways, as many families David Schmier been a coming thing in the towed two or three of the United States for several years. machines in their wake. Though American children's The conflict between the stories have painted snowmobile and the skier still stereotyped images of Scandanavian exists, at least in the minds of people skiing some skiers. One pragmatic into town from their homes in reason for this antipathy is the the mountains to work, and go to school, most shop fact that snowmobiles may For the 1974-75 Ski Season! denude the earth of a shallow Americans used to # snowfall, making it difficult for $40 membership fee - good weekdays until 6 P.M. automatically link skiing with a skier to T - bars and tow ropes. cross a snowmobile path. On the other hand, when * However, as the '60s waned, the snow is deep many skiers Friday and Saturday night Dormitory, Fraternity it began to dawn on many find easy going by following a or Sorority parties - by prior arrangement Americans that the seemingly unlimited growth of their continued on page 11 - Fill out the form below and mail to: CONGRATULATIONS Lansing Ski Club Box 1314 East Lansing, SPARTANS Michigan ON YOUR WIN AGAINST Student No. OHIO STATE! Phone I 1 $40 Membership NOW 1 .... I $10 Associate Membership (lesson plan) A WINNER for you sport fans I J Interested in Dorm, Frat or Sorority Parties. read Fri. 7:00 l~ "DUFFY fln Lesson Sat 7:00 CJ - Autobiography" Time Night 8:00 0 Night 8:00 □ Enclose check with form, Please! 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Almost do? every year a flotilla of fishing Folks whose forte is shanties heads down Lake St. haunting lakes and streams in Clair when the ice suddenly search of mobile edibles might breaks up in early spring. consider ice fishing. Methods of ice There are two schools of ice fishing are spearing, tipups and jigging. fishing. The "Dr. Zhivagoites" Spearing usually done in a relish the frigid wrath of frozen air and swirling snow as shanty, which is dark, because they visibility through the hole is stoicly squat over holes in the much better. Tlie sports person ice. Haughtily ignoring these waits with spear poised for a lunatics are the elitist "Shanty pike, muskie or sturgeon to MSU scuba divers per pare for an Clans," who fish from cozy icy underwater plunge. and come sniffing around the bait, sometimes opulently usually a small sucker or furnished shanties. shiner. Each faction has its boons Minimum size limits are 20 and banes. The pedestrian inches for pike, 30 inches for Warm up to Zhivagos can impatience — a common exercise malady among fisherpeopie, their muskies, and 50 inches for sturgeon. Last winter a spear fisherperson on Mullet Lake in despite legend — by roving the northern Lower Peninsula By DALE ATKINS First, one must be around, restlessly chopping State News Staff Writer a equipment, including a good spotted a log, looked again and certified new and more by an accredited wet suit to promising holes. then speared. He eventually What better way to relate to keep warm. Unfortunately, this mania can program, such as the MSU's chib generally travels landed a sturgeon over seven the environment of winter than and often does lead to their fall Professional Assn. of Diving feet with a cold shower, or better two or three times a winter to long, weighing 193 Instructors, the National Assn. an old through the ice when they pounds. yet, an underwater dive with of Diving gravel quarry near retrace their path. the MSU Scuba Ciub? Instructors, or the Williamston. Jigging is done inside or YMCA. Using saws, a The Shanty people The requirments are painstaking hole - cutting stay high outside a shanty. A tasty little fairly Once the license is in and dry while ample. hand, process begins. The result is a watching TV and corn borer is dangled together all it takes is the basic generally carrying on as they (continued on page 11) (continued on page 11) mini ski week package plan! 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Adams said that they are relatively easy to Skiers schuss, snowshoers snowshoeing organizations are make yourself. poofcrunch. about as plentiful in Europe as "I made a Or pair once and just plain cninch, hiking groups are here. used them for seven or eight depending on the consistency days," Adams said. of the snow. But Michiganders who wish But the basic idea behind to explore the wonders of Stan Adams, vho has done snowshoeing, as a sport, is the his share of snowshoeing need not fret, as a same as that of poofcrunching and ticket to Europe is not a cross - country is also an MSU student, said skiing. Snowshoeing is a low - prerequisite to enjoy a keyed, slowed snowshoeing is "just like snowshoe trek - down, non - walking down the street" once through the gas - burning way of enjoying woods. you get used to it, which takes the unique winter scenery of about 10 minutes. All you need is at least two the woodlands. "The hardest part is learning other people (for safety's sake) Adams said, however, that how to put your bindings on and about $15 for a pair of snowshoeing does not have the snowshoes. No organizations, potential to develop as a property," he said. no lessons and just a minimal popular pasttime in Michigan Some people may believe, amount of coordination. If because of the specific snow you however, that the hardest part can walk, you can poofcrunch. conditions required. is finding the snow to excercise But if you happen to be one's poofcrunching ability. Adams said the best pair of schussing along on your cross - The shoes for Michigan are Porcupine Mountains in called, country skis near the Michigan's Upper Peninsula are logically, Michigan shoes. They Porcupine Mountains and you are more rounded than the about the only place in the hear a rhythmic basic poofcrunching state where there is enough oblong showshoe. Unlike echoing in the distance, stop snow to make snowshoeing skis, which are designed for for a minute. Look at those various Early snowfalls bring out the creative instincts of worthwhile, Adams said. uses, snowshoes are expensive skis attached to your MSU students. Anyone with some free time, a few designed for various types of feet. Look at those expensive "In Michigan there's really snow. And snowshoes are also shoes attached to those friends, and dry gloves can participate and snow no need for snowshoes in the not as "scary" as skis, since expensive skis. artists cofess their projects often end in smowball Lower Peninsula," Adams said. they are not directly related to Snowshoes cost about 115. fights, or a late - afternoon jaunt to a local hostelry "Across the Atlantic however, broken legs, Adams said. Poofcrunch. for refreshments. OR CLIMB IT . . . now Residents of being discouraged. Michigan who Because a climber has to drive enjoy mountain climbing have the pins into the rock somewhat of surface, a problem. pitons leave scars when There are no real mountains removed. in the state. "And rock scars don't heal, "The Porcupines are the Linfield said. closest things to mountains in The more modem method is Michigan," Roger Linfield, to use hexagonals, president of the MSU Outing a type of grasping device that can be Club and mountaineer, said. hooked into cracks in the But in the true because rock, - and leaves no scars when it's- there spirit of mountain removed. climbers, the Outing Club has When cavorting around on not let Michigan's flatness glaciers, mountaineers will rope hinder its dreams of summits, each other together and carry cliffs and cloud - touching. an ice axe. If a person falls into They are off to Mt. a crevasse, the rest of the group Popocateptl in Mexico, to can stop his fall by driving their confer that 18,000 foot ice axes into the ice and extinct volcano during holding on. Christmas break. When on ice, as will be the Meanwhile, the frightening case at Mt. cliffs of Grand Popocateptl, Ledge will climbers will also wear continue to serve as a practice area for the mountaineers. crampons on the bottom of their boots. Crampons are a During the practice sessions, type of spike, with about 10 the group uses most of the points. special equipment required in Linfield also said that extra "technical rock - climbing," protection must be taken which is actually what against the cold when climbing. nonmountaineers envision "At high altitudes, it's very when fantasizing about Mt. cold, with very strong winds," Everest. he said Most climbers will eat Rock The faces of these merry climbing requires a a lot to keep up a high energy good pair of stiff boots, such as level, and wear a lot of pranksters goes a long those used for towards hiking, clothing, especially of wool or showing who according to linfield. Special down. gets the most out of climbing ropes, which have a Physical condition is also a winter. breaking point of about 6,000 Though kids factor, but its importance often doubt the pounds yet are still lightweight, varies with the difficulty of the are also necessary. mountain, Linfield said. validity of Santa Claus The third integral part of "For Mt. by the time they are Everest, the rock climbing is the equipment five training is for months, but here or six, it seems used as protection against (training for Mt. Popocateptl) they go right on falling great distances. The you just have to be in traditional metal pins, called believing in snow. reasonably good shape," pitons, are used widely but are Linfield said. MUNN ARENA A NEWCOMER Skating havens grow The building of MSU's new Dem Hall, which was built the popularity of college Munn Ice Arena has not only in 1928, has been praised by hockey phis the inadequate benefited the Spartan hockey many for its ice surface. team. seating facilities at Dem Hall Spartan hockey coach Amo prompted the building of the MSU students, faculty and Bessone and other coaches new ice arena, which was staff members, and people in from around the Western named after former MSU the community who enjoy Collegiate Hockey Assn. football coach and athletic The time - worn theory that skaters are often their skating activities have also been (WCHA) always had good director, Biggie Munn. own worst enemy is proven given a big boost by the new things to say about playing For area figure skating fans, by this budding facility. conditions at the old hockey star, who seems unable to get a grip on the Now that the facility. Munn Arena, along with the situation. University has Lansing Ice Arena, will be host two indoor skating rinks, the The tremendous growth (continued man who on page 9) manages both ice palaces thinks everybody's needs have been fulfilled. Shuddering south that "We even have vacant time we Bain bridge said. can use," Red The rinks are currently used By PAT FAR NAN students who are traveling for open skating, MSU classes, State News Staff Writer home for Christmas. After the Great Lakes Amateur As bone chilling winter Christmas business will pick up Hockey Assn. (GLAHA) and creeps into the MSU again for students interested in other groups who which wish community, gaggles of geese, traveling some place for spring to buy ice time for an activity. flocks of ducks and shivering break. These flights will also be The Men's Intramural Dept. students migrate south to booked early." is sponsoring a hockey league Florida in search of sizzling sun Smart classfied the student and bikini - blazoned beaches. again this winter and is traveler as the athletic and It's the annual mass exodus expected to use Munn Arena nonathletic type. for its contests. to America's favorite tourist "The more athletic type will "Right now, they only plan trap, the Sunshine State, be heading for Colorado or on using Munn Arena," complete with parched and Utah to ski," he said. "For the Bainbridge said. "If they have a peeling bodies of most part, 1 find that students real overflow, we would move sun worshippers from parts who prefer Florida prefer sun some north. games into and relaxation to exercise." Demonstration Hall. But I The cold thumbs of doubt very much if we would hitchhikers have long served as Domestic plane fares are have to do that." a free ticket to the snowless uniformly priced by the Civil Only Demonstration Hall is solariums of Fort Lauderdale, Aeronautics Board and student being used now for open Daytona and Vero Beach. rates are more or less But more practical students skating sessions. nonexistent. Most students Gene Kenney, asst. athletic have taken to car pools or the who choose to fly pick the director in charge of facilities, more burgeois pleasure of air regular coach fare (second explained that the reason for travel. class) or the night coach fare this policy is that there is no Several local travel agencies offer attractive plane and train (third class). For students who prefer the area can in Munn Arena now which be used as a skate rental Not a bad fares, the chief concern of water route, there's always the area. students who opt to make the Delta Queen. journey. Travel agent Dorothy "The Delta Queen more to the older traveler than caters "But we hope in the near future to have it put in," them yahoos Kenney said. Johnson said that the a student," Smart said. "It runs Washburn Travel Center, 228 Open skating at Dem Hall is By RANGER BOB the shores of the lake hopin' to from Cincinnati to as far south held Abbott as New Orleans, That's about a every night except State News Wildlife Writer club, or see clubbed, the Road, receives an Sunday, from 8:30 to 10 and This here is a fish story average of 25 calls daily from nine day trip which ranges in biggest turquoise goldfish of Friday, Saturday and - also interested students from early price from $500 to $700. originally told by a person, the year. Sunday afternoons from 3:30 now deceased, who was the Though clubfishing could December until late March. For the most practical to 5. damndest liar I ever met, 'cept probly happen in any lake, it "About half of them decide student, though, the cheapest For MSU students maybe. seems it not to go when they learn of alternative is a strong will, me StiU, in a happens only in the cost," she said. "Students stout thumb and presenting their ID cards, roundabout way, it might even Picayune, accordin' to a a fur - lined mitten. skating is only 50 cents and be true. lifelong resident of this here are looking for the most skate rental fee is 30 cents. The settin' here is a little city. inexpensive route to Florida." northern Michigan village — "Five years ago we got this Johnson said regular coach population 17 — built on the here good write - up in this fares from Detroit to Fort shores of a deep lake national magazine called the Lauderdale (round trip) cost the student about $200. Night supposedly filled with Lamp Hune, and ever since legendary monsters and five -i then we've had the orneriest, coach fare for the same trip pound turquoise and black most cussedist bunch of runs about $160. spotted goldfish. outsiders here I ever did see for Bob Smart, of Harrinton How the goldfish got there the start of the derby. Why, Travel Agency, 220 M.A.C. is another story altogether, but you know, even Peggy Flemin' Ave., said that students I can tell you this much: one showed up with that French interested in riding a train to day the town's head doctor feller." and from their destination was seen mysteriously runnin' "Fll bet you wanna know would pay about the same down to the lake, throwin' how we do it, eh? Well, you price with less convenience. somethin' in and then hoofin' need a pair o' skates, a hatchet, "They're not always too back to his waterfront office. a layer o' clear, thin ice and concerned about getting back," "Die next day, his clients — Smart said. "Probably 60 per some goldies hanging 'round all three of them — reported to the shallow water. You gotta cent of the students that fly By MICHAEL McCONNELL fire, genial conversation, and a the town paper, The Daily skate out to where it's 'bout down to Florida return by State News Staff Writer good still drink to obliterate Picayune, that the goldfish had two, three feet deep and start train. In the spring that Winter sports devotees have their troubles. disappeared, and they figgered stalkin' the goldies by changes considerably because a vision that sustains them that the doctor flushed the of the weather." Chestnuts parallellin' the shore." during long and possibly roasting on an little buggers down the john. "Once you spot one you Mrs. Cynthia Dibello of perilous days of competition. open fire, Jack Daniels nipping The result of that secret fish start chasin' it towards College Travel, 130 W. Grand It is not the thrill of victory, at your nose... But not just any bibulous concoction will do. plantin' is the annual Picayune shallower water. You might River Ave., said that the really. Or even the hope of The true connoisseur of winter Clubfishing Derby, a one - have to go six, mebbe seven phones are flooded with calls escaping the ski slopes with at day event that starts as soon as hunnert yards afore the fish of traveling students. least two legs intact. sports has a collection of some darn fool dares to skate "Most flights that a student winter drinks that will gets good and tired and stops Honest winter sportspersons warm the season's first ice, which swimmin'. Then you would be interested in, going the toes and titillate the on jus'chop a •will admit that deep in their spine hole to Florida or that general area, of even the most frostbitten usually comes 'bout mid - in the ice and clobber heart of hearts, the vision that 'em." December. are already booked," she said. crony. keeps them going through the Tourists and clubfishermen The town chamber of "For the most part, these are day is the thought of a warm (continued on page 9) and college perfessors flock to (continued on page 11) Lansing import curling By STEVE ORR stones closest to the center of State News Staff Writer the house win points for their Ask someone about teams. Canadian sports, and they will undoubtably shoot "hockey Curling is a tradition-laden pucks!" back at you. sport, and a good deal more Well, they would be wrong. friendly than many athletic For in that land to the events. Handshakes are the north, curling is the sport more standard beginning and end to Canadians spend their leisure every match, which may last as time playing. long as the opposing teams want it to. It has also become Curling is a sport in which team members attempt to slide customary for curlers to retire a 42-pound to the nearest bar stone across an ice following a surface into the middle of a game to melt away the frost target painted on the ice. with a drink or two. On the In this country, too, curling winners, of course. has long been a favorite pastime of thousands. It is only in the last year, though, that curling has arrived in Lansing. Okemos resident Robert Peacock had been curling for 14 years. Last fall, he commuted back and forth to curling facilities in Detroit. He Anally decided that the life of a gypsy curler was not for him and, along with several fellow curling fans, established the Lansing curling dub. Survival Kit The club meets every Monday night at 9 p.m. in the Tansing Ice Arena and all are welcome. For those who decide to take the club up on their offer of an evening of curling fun, there are a few things one should know. Your bask curling team consists of four people. There is a skip, who directs play and generally is the one who delivers the stone. To do so, he assumes a squatting position, aims the stone in the direction of a large bullseye painted in the ice 126 feet away and slides the stone down the ice. The other three team members handle the brooms. Hiey slap the brooms in front of the stone as it swishes down the ice, with the object of speeding up the stone by melting any bumps there are on the ice in the stone's path. Sooner or later, the stone arrives in the general vicinity of the bullseye, or "house." The closer the stone stops to the middle of the house, the better. Teams alternate shots, and after each team has delivered four stones, the four ONE BIG MAC - LARGE FRENCH FRIES, AND HOT FRESH COFFEE TO OR FROM THE SLOPES . . STOP AT 2040 E. Grand River - OKEMOS 234 West Grand River *1024 East Grand River East Lansing, McDonald's Michigan u LU ■ |l|liillj.ilj««f .1 ... in I I. . I ■ ..I.,. I ill' sjjocfs 6uisuoj Skating (continued Though backliners Minnesota from page 7) (dark to the Eastern Great Lakes jerseys) seern to be figure skating competition Dec. ganging up on Spartan 4 through 7. icer Darryl Rice, MSU Sponsored by the United States stole much of the Figure Skating Assn., the event is a regional thunder from the qualifying competition which defending national leads to the sectional and champs when they eventually the national recently split a pair championships and a place on with the U.S. Olympic Team. the Golden Individual free skating, pairs Gophers in Munn Ice and dance events will be held Arena. Hockey at Munn Arena those Thursday currently dominates ice and Friday evenings and - time at the new Saturday morning and afternoon. structure, but it will For those who would rauier not be long before skate outdoors, when the cold open skating is allowed weather finally sets in for good at MSU, the area of the Red Cedar River east of the rapids freezes over. Ice skating and hockey games go on nearly 24 hours a day there in the crisp winter air. Othraar Schneider says, "Come spend ynnr ski-week vacation Warm-ups with me at Boyne Country and (continued from page 7) and beat in the milk. Slowly stir in the liquor. Then beat the leant to ski — A few suggestions: egg whites until stiff, and lay Hot Toddy This old standby lends a them in clouds on top of the The new GLM way!" winter touch to whatever egg nog and sprinkle with 'GRADUATED LENGTH METHOD booze you have on hand. nutmeg. To serve, cut a hole in the topping, ladle out the 1 tsp. sugar liquid from this hole. Break off 2 oz. liquor of your a spoonful of the choice topping for 2 oz. boiling water each cup of egg nog. Simply mix ingredients, stir, hope for the best A Showshoe favorite of the Carribean Hot Swizzle A hint of the warmer world in the midst of snowbound Bonne Countra IS MID - AMERICA'S GREATEST skiing crowd. Michigan. 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Saginaw I t-— SuiiMS Ajiunoo SSOJQ Ice-covered to rush of he For those who wear spiked speeds are attainable on the double as ice race courses lumberjack boots to walk to iceboats and a number of because their cars, ice may seem an they tend to freeze competitive events come up quicker and stay that unnecessary commodity. way each year. longer. But to many Michigan For sports car Frozen streets provide an sports enthusiasts, ice as the owners who cannot afford to travel even more elemental thrill to greatest invention since the elsewhere to drive when snow the pedestrian, Coleman stove. And one of the especially if he more covers their favorite or she is between the ages of 6 popular and less courses, there is ice and 18. Street hockey, publicized winter sports is ice racing. Less played prohibitive a few years back with thick soled boots rather sailing. when high speeds were not than skates, is in season during Ice attainable, ice racing demands this time, and hundreds of sailing is done similar to fresh water sailing, with the only a sense of direction and Michigan youths look fondly main difference faith in the sturdiness of the back to the time they checked being the ice surface. their best friend into a runners mounted underneath Chevy the craft. An ice boat, or Nova or lost the puck down a Several smaller inland lakes sewer during schooner, pilot sits much like an overtime one of the Wright brothers in a throughout western Michigan period. cockpit and steers the craft by Frozen waters won't manipulating the sail. stop this ice schooner from sailing over the winter waters of his favorite lake. Schooner captains say high Welcome Students to Clubs offer Mount Holly Ski Area 13536 S. Dixie Highway winter fans Holly, Michigan (313) 634 - 8269 special Rates for student! alternatives MSU is home base for a number of winter - oriented If your favorite sporting clubs and at least one, the Moosuski Club, has its own winter spor newspaper to featurize campus club sports. is SAVING Other on campus poups include the MSU Scuba Club OVER EXPOSURE which sponsors under - the ice dives during the winter and the - MONEY MSU ski team. Glaring sun. Bright reflections off the sparkling snow. Does over exposure to the sun make your Numbers for listed sports eyes uncomfortable? If so, protect them with dubs are: sunglasses. Stop by Co-Optical Services in Moosuski Club, John Munn, Brookfield Plaza. We've got a large selection of . . . check out 351-4471 or Moosuski office, piano and prescription sunglasses to help you avoid 3-5199. over exposure this winter. our line-up SCUBA Club, Sally Kirleis, 5-8092; John Narcy, 3-0632 Gordon Jones, 332-8374. or MON & THURS of warm 3d) and 11 AM - 4 PM, 5 PM - 8:30 PM Ski Team, Rondi Wefel, 351-5330 Tues., Wed., Frl. 9 AM - 1 PM, 2 - 5 PM stylish 5-3620. SAT 9 AM to NOON winter boots. Outing Club, Roger Linfeld, EYE EXAMINATIONS BY APPOINTMENT ONLY. 3-6011 CO-OPTICAL SERVICES 5-1028. or Bruce Bright, Lots of sizes DR. R. C. MINOR. OPTOMETRIST Now in Brookfield Plaza and styles still available PofcWHoW NEWSCENTERS, INC. , In addition to having a large selection of American Indian books, we also have some special items on 20 & by American Indians: * Posters Record OFF * Prints Navajo Sandpaintings * Stationary Sioux Pottery We also carry Akwesasne Notes. 537 E. Grand River East Lansing, Michigan 48823 Open 7 AM to 11 PM everyday Across from the Union SHOES Cross country skiing trail. (continued from page 3) firmly - packed snowmobile couples themselves afternoon can for in entertain an facing entire the northeast of MSU. from the rolling hills left Anything by Winter sports (continued from page 2) points in upper reserve forest land. Contestants | Skiers also glaciers to snow - covered putting their opponent out of may execrate challenge of completing a cross must make it back to the snowmobiles on aestetical swampland can provide a commission via a sideswipe, - country circuit at their Mackinac Bridge, without their fitting site for hearty winter sidearm or straight - ahead grounds. Like the hiker who favorite park. A knapsack filled exercise. opponents. curses the crunch. This is, of course, if intruding noise of with hot cocoa, a sandwich and And when you are each sledder reaches the center. There are other less - known trail bikes, the cross - country virtually an apple can provide skiers skating on skis across the Another popular sport — sports that may soon reach skier may be upset when the with a chance to rest weary headline proportions acros the frozen landscape, opening the one that is hard to find roar of a snowmobile cuts muscles brushed off on a - log. pores and feeling real good participants for — is green state. Under - the - ice water across the white stillness. While a cross - country trip inside, you just might wind up polo is catching on near Grand For the solitary cross - beret cross - country skiing. may leave the first - time skier on the summit of a Traverse Bay; karate - hockey country skier, the stillness of with some sore muscles, most personal First, blizzard conditions Everest in your battle to be is making a comeback in the the must exist. When they do, 10 wintry wonderland is snow enthusiasts will be ready reconciled with the Upper Peninsula and bear - perhaps the greatest allurement to hit the trail by the next contestants, armed to the environment. teeth, are dropped at various baiting will get its own season, of field and forest skiing. weekend. And once one has beginning next November. Winding up small rises and learned the rudiments of ski Tbe growth of these sports, coasting own through mildly control, the chance of breaking and the continued popularity threatening tree trunks, the a leg or cracking ribs — which of skiing, hunting and skier's horizon is on white, with a stark black the relative can downhill haunt the skier nonexpert — are Ice fishing prow, once comes to skating again, that when it winter, Michigaa has brightness depending on tree comparatively remote. the nst of the nation teat density. In a dense forest the Michigan residents are (continued from page 3) with most of the action from cold. bare trees loom like bristles on fortunate in having small pan fish and northern a great with a flashing lure and jiggled a chin, and tangle the skier in amount of government - owned up and down to whet to a pike. For Michigan residents over Yahoos riddles of time and space as she land available for cross - bluegill or perch's appetitie. or he slides across the face of country skiing, including the Sometimes this works 17 a fishing license is required. and the earth. 3,334 - acre Rose Lake Wildlife sometimes it doesn't. It costs about $5. Laws are Families and young or old Research Center 10 miles Some fisherpeople, in strictly enforced regarding size (continued from page 7) and total catch limits, and an attempt to keep warm in the tunerce says that anyone most fish can be taken only at interested in goin' cubfishin' process, get so drunk that they don't care about the cold specified times of the year. should think twice, and if that Take a dive anyway. Hp - up fishing for pike or Most sporting goods shops will advise would be anglers about - don't discourage the would - be clubber, then he or she should the laws so they won't get muskie is probably the most drop three ice cubes in his or (continued from page 4) At hooked by them. her undershorts. some point, the line should exciting way to ice fish. triangular shaped opening catch the lost diver and he or The tipup is a self approximately five feet long on she will be able to follow it, contained unit with a big reel each side. either to the exit triangle or to of line affixed to the cross Though the wet suit is an the rescue diver. braces that hold it over the aptly named piece of Following proper safety hole. When the bait fish is >«.v- eqipment, ice divers should precautions, ice diving is an grabbed the red flag tips up make sure suits are in good and the experience much different than excited fisherperson shape, since letting a bit of the 35 - degree water into a suit during summer months. The water is extremely dear and comes running. Because the law aDows two tipups per ryoti* ^ may be a bit too invigorating. Usually, divers take along a jug visibility is high as compared to summer conditions, when person, a lucky angler will spend much of his or her time j\ / CREDIT UNION of warm water and fill then- water is agitated by swimmers, running back and forth across I Ifwhere MSU-employees suits before the plunge. boaters and waves. the ice. Sometimes he she Once under the ice, each The water is also colder at or students are welcome even catches a fish. diver — ice divers should swim the surface, another difference Hp - up fishing is very MSU EMPLOYEES in pairs — has his or her arm from summer diving. popular on lakes with taverns 1 CREDIT UNION tied to a safety rope about 100 The Midwest diver, and nearby that have large picture feet in length. A dive tender windows 600 E. mostly the Michigan diver, are and binoculars for remains Ph. 353-2280 on surface, keeping a among the heartiest in the customer use. degree of tension on the line so United States. For than, diving Fishing is fairly good on as to know the situation of the is a year - round sport. many lakes in the Lansing area, divers. One pull usually means the diver needs more line. Two pulls means it is time to come up- One rare occasion when a diver would want to come up when a regulator freezes and the diver may find himself or herself being inflated with an unending influx of air. Fortunately, this seldom happens. If a diver should become lost or lose his or her lifeline, it is up to the dive tender above ice to recommend action. A third diver, equipped with a line twice as long as the lost diver, is sent into the water. Lost divers should drop to the bottom, or near it, and look up towards the surface. The triangle will appear to be a dark spot in the bright ice Plus the rugged wearability Red Wing Irish Setter ceiling. If, after a minute or so, a diver does not locate the exit Sport Boots are famous for. Come say "so long" hole, he or she should go to the to cold feet. surface. By inflating his or her life vest and keeping hands above the head, the lost diver will be RED WING in a position to receive the line being pulled by the rescue We Stock Over 40 Styles for Work, Sport, Leisure diver. Since the rescue diver 4216 West Saginaw Ph. 484-4968 has a longer line, he or she will One (1) Block West of Waverly on Saginaw swim out with the end of it, 2480 N. Cedar, Holt 649-0111 and circle near the ice surface. . . . that he and M their Christmas Shopp Bookstore and Spiritsho Join them there Christmas rush. OPEN ALL FOOTBALL