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A WEEK IN PURGATORY
..... ' 4:
BY SCOTT DANIELS
Photographs by Mike Roytek
EVEN THOUGH IT was his birth-
day and he had the day off from work,
"Dirty" Don Hinkley stood at the top
of the Pitchfork race course handing
out free advice to a small group of
Explorer skiers.
"Everybody wants to know the
same thing," said the former pro racer
and now head of the ski patrol at
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Colorado's Purgatory Ski Resort.
"They all want to know how to get
the fastest start out of the gate, keep
their turns tight, and make a strong
finish."
Hinkley's impromptu racing clinic
was an unexpected plus for skiers
attending the 1982 National Explorer
Ski Week. The veteran of four NCAA
championship ski teams was more
than happy to share his knowledge,
for he, too, had been an Explorer
while growing up in Manchester, Vt.
Purgatory is located high in the
Needle Mountains of southwestern
Colorado, about 28 miles north of
Durango. This was the resort's
second year to host Explorer Ski
Week, and a 65-inch snow base at
mid-mountain promised fine skiing
conditions for early April.
Racing events—the slalom, giant
slalom, and downhill—attracted
nearly a quarter of the 400 Explorers
as competitors. The rest of the
predominately California group scat-
tered across Purgatory's 510 acres of
slopes for five fun days of recreational
skiing.
First-timers studied their trail maps
and stuck close to the green-coded
beginner paths such as "Walk-a-lot,"
"Mercy," and "Yellow Brick Road."
The more experienced skiers headed
for the blue intermediate trails with
names like "Air Mail," "Dead Spike,"
and "Limbo."
"I just about bought it on Air
Mail," said Jennifer Breeden. "I got a
little too much air on a mogul jump
and wound up flat on my back."
Don Hinkley, left,
director of Purga-
tory's ski patrol,
gives Explorers
some racing advice
at the top of Pitch-
fork race course.
Above left, J oh an
Zethraeus shows the
form that won him
the gold medal as
the men's overall
champion.
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