Ski enthusiasts will be watching the slopes at Big Bromley, Vermont, this weekend as the Crimson's first post-war ski team takes on a field of seven eastern colleges in an invitation slalom meet.

Lod by Captain George Shedd, the schussmen will field a group which has raced together all season with increasing success. Rising from next-to-last places in the Dartmouth Carnival and intercollegiate Ski Union meets, the team finished fifth in the Appalachian Mountain Club Downhill contest last weekend.

"We've got plenty of good material coming all the time." Shedd stated, "but we need snow around Boston to practice; then we'll be up with the best half-dozen teams in the East." The skimen have been hampered this season by an almost complete lack of snow on local practice slopes, but under the able guidance of Coach Bill Halsey 3G, former Dartmouth star, the team has gained enough importance to be granted recognition as a regular Varsity by the H.A.A.

Shedd, best downhill man on the team and sixth in the individual standings in the Easterns last Saturday, will be backed up by an able group of Freshmen and Sophomores. Jerry Genn, with a long and varied ski background, is the leading slalom man, and also competes in jumping and downhill events. Larry Griffin of Seattle, the only four-event man on the team, has been consistently entered in downhill, slalom, cross-country, and jumping.

Graham Taylor of New York is the outstanding cross-country man and also jumps, while Sewell Faulkner, Rod Norblom, Dee Bogert, Dick Rich, Frank Seabury, and Don Justus fill out the listings. Bogert, a transfer student, and Justus, a first-term Freshman, are not eligible for intercollegiate competition but are allowed to participate in meets under Ski Club auspices.

In spite of balmy Cambridge weather, the skiers will continue to race well into April. Next week will see the Edson Memorial Trophy race at Franconia and the Schussverein Downhill at Bear Mountain; the following weekend, the team will revisit Bear Mountain for the Drifters Ski Club's downhill team races.

The final and most spectacular event of the year is slated for April, when possible resumption of the famous Inferno Race, discontinued during the war, may give the Crimson racers a chance to compete individually over a break-neck four-mile course which drops some 4000 feet from the summit of Mt. Washington to Pinkham Notch. The Harvard-Dartmouth Slalom Races, scheduled for Tuckerman's Ravine, may not be held unless the plans for the Inferno Race fall through, as the two groups will help manage the race at Pinkham.