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May 1954 Professor Handy

Me .... 57 years ago !!!!

Mount Washington, NH

With everyone doing self portraits on Pbase, I decided to use the work of someone else. This image was taken by my English professor when I was in college. I went with him and two other students to Mount Washington, NH from school in VT in May of 1954 to ski Tuckerman's Ravine. But the snow and skiing was better on "Hillman's Highway" (a narrow ravine to the left of Tuckerman's). My legs got so sun burned I ended up in the hospital back in VT for about a week. This shot looking down does not give a true picture of just how very steep this slope was. In the upper part, with your skis across the fall line, you could reach out with your uphill arm and touch the slope. If you fell, you tumbled into the rocks below.

Kodak Ektachrome 64
Guessing on film - camara 35 rangefinder of some type full exif

other sizes: small medium large original auto
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Rick Bricker23-Feb-2012 07:03
Wonderful detail in this old image of you Fred.Hell I can even make out the old bear trap bindings on your skis!Oh to be young again huh?
Fred Parsons07-Jul-2006 21:50
Don't I wish - all that is the same is that I get sun burned just as fast !
Ron Horloff07-Jul-2006 21:12
You've hardly changed!
Ron
Cliff03-Jun-2006 04:22
Fabulous ! You looked more than a little proficient and the quality of this photograph is so good it's hard to believe it's 52 years old.
Sure does go quick eh ! ;o)
Guest 24-May-2006 08:46
OMG...a very dashing yound lad you were. :)
weren't you cold (you don't look rugged up for the snow)?
Fred Parsons24-May-2006 08:11
Oh God. I should have never posted this :-{
Susan T24-May-2006 05:48
Fred!!! How cute you are! Is that Studley Du right?
Gordon W23-May-2006 22:05
Skiing! Your talents are endless, Fred.