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Date Posted: 10:28:33 08/16/08 Sat
Author: Bill
Author Host/IP: 70.21.198.231
Subject: C Zab ?
In reply to: Dow Boy 's message, "Re: Rope tow....Working just fine during my era" on 09:22:43 08/16/08 Sat

Charlie Zablotsky was one of the locals who went to FC during that time and was an excellent skier.
His " accident " on the slopes was having a newbie cross his skies while coming down the slope which pretty much stopped his forward mootion abruptly and split his ski pants down the center seam from crotch to ankle.
This would have been more embarrasing than dangerous except that on that particular day it was about 60 below and he had most of the slope to negotiate before him. So by the time he made the bottom he had severe frostbite on the inside of his leg and had to go to the hospital for treatment. They of course told him not to ski any mor3e and he of course did ski and as far as I know is still skiing. He was also drafted and went through the military as a MP and so had unarmed combat training that made him the equivalent of a top ranked kung fu or whatever expert with a few extras they don't train people to do because they are killing moves needed to stop overtrained soldiers who might go ballistic in a war zone.

Then there was Tony Booth who lived in Franconia proper and who was an olympic hopeful until he went down the slalom run left in place by the people who ran the trials the winter of the year just before I came to FC. they had cut saplings from the woods for the poles instead of bamboo or whatever they usually used back then and overnite the poles had frozen into the snow which had softened then turned to mostly ice over nite. That was the year Jean Claud Killy came to cannon mt of course. Tony caught an edge on one of the poles and the ski stopped dead while the rest of him kept going. so he fractured and broke almost every bone in his leg into rather small or long split pieces. Fortunately for him the worlds top bone specialist who was on call at Mary Hitchcock for the trials had not yet left the area so they put his leg back together almost perfectly with the best technology that was available at the time. He still had a few scews in the leg but for the most part the fix was excellent. They also told Tony he would never ski again but by the time he recovered from the accident ( I think he was at FC with first a full body cast, then half, then full leg then half for an entire semester ) and had done the necessary workouts and rehab to get back in shape he decided to take a year and chase the snow around the globe from one ski area to another much as the sufrers in that movie ( the endless summer I think ) had chased the best surf.
Tony had the Pontiac firebird HO that was silver and black and his mom lived in the villiage over toward the Hillwinds side near Dow.
There were certainly enough top flight skiers though but these are the only ones I remember having accidents that took them off of the slopes.

Bruce Dieghl ( sp ) was on the ski team and often by his admission skied in a non sober condition. He said he was coming down the mountain once on his way toward the woods at near sixty MPH in a meet when he had a sudden epiphany thinking he might get himself killed doing this and when he got to the bottom of the slopes he claimed he resigned from the team and never competed after that.
I met Bruce first on LBI in the summer of 66 before I attended college than again while he was hanging out at Fairleigh Dickenson Madison campus when I went there. then I found him at FC when I transferred in in 67. Great guy good skier and like many of us a bit nuts if you klow what I mean....

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