Sunday's upset ski win over the Indians in the first post-war Crimson-Dartmouth slalom race marked the climax of "a good year of experience," Graham R. Taylor '50, captain-elect of the University Ski Team, asserted last night, adding that "since no one on the team graduates in June, we should do even better next year."

Admitting that "we didn't think we had much of a chance to win the Dartmouth meet," Taylor declared that "the season wound up on a good note," and pointed to the win over the Indians and a triumph in a triangular meet with Amherst and Yale during the spring vacation as proof that the schussmen have come a long way since the beginning of the year.

Taylor attributed the victory against Dartmouth to "consistent Crimson strength in the lower brackets." Since the winner in Harvard-Dartmouth contests is always determined by the total time each team takes in covering the course rather than by the relative positions of the few leaders, all around strength is essential for victory. Thus, though the Green took first place and captured six of the ten top slots, the Crimson skiers gained fifteen of the places between tenth and thirtieth, and thereby underscored the Indians, 1744.8 to 2207.

Though an avalanche that obliterated the prepared course caused a postponement of the contest from Saturday to Sunday, it "put a couple of feet of powder snow on the slope and thus improved racing conditions," Taylor asserted.

Skiing was not the only exercise required of the schussmen over the weekend, as they were compelled to chop down trees to replace the guide flags buried by the avalanche.