“Euphoria is reaching dry pavement after 2-1/2 days of snow and ice.”
—Me
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Maroosh
A Flashback Friday Edition:
With the college football season underway, and the hockey season a month off, here’s a photo of John Mariucci. Mariucci was an All-American and AAU National Champion on the ice in 1940, and he was also a National Champion on the gridiron in the same year for the Golden Gophers.
“Every day you’re playing worse than the day before, and today you’re playing like tomorrow.”
— John Mariuuci from his coaching days…
Photo courtesy of Golden Gopher Football
First Overland
Cambridge
The Oxford & Cambridge Far Eastern Expedition left London on September 1, 1955 on their way overland to Singapore. Traveling in a pair of Series I vehicles provided by Land Rover, the expedition was the first to make the drive from the English Channel to Singapore.
Oxford
Cambridge & Oxford, along with the Land Rovers’ six man crew, took 6 months and six days, traveling 18,000 miles through France, Monaco, Germany, Austria, Jugoslavia (Slovenia, Croatia and Macedonia), Greece, Turkey, Syria, Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Burma, Thailand, Malaya to reach Singapore.
“First Overland” the book on the adventure written by Tim Slessor was originally published in 1957. The film donated by the BBC thanks to David Attenborough to chronicle the trek, was broadcast originally on BBC for their “Traveller’s Tales” series. It has been remastered and edited and is available in documentary form on DVD.
“…one might reasonably claim that both the journey and its telling are now regarded as classics of their kind…”
—David Attenborough
Aldo Leopold Week
The state of Iowa declared this week, March 1-7, Aldo Leopold Week. Winneshiek County, in a partnership with Luther College, has had events going all week.
Leopold was born in Burlington, IA in 1887.
Photo with quote comes courtesy of Winneshiek County Conservation
35th Anniversary
It was 35 years ago, when the United States Olympic hockey team beat the Soviets 4-3 in the 1980 semi-finals. The Soviet team was heavily favored, in fact they had pummeled the U.S. team 10-3 just two weeks earlier. Dave Anderson wrote of the U.S. chances in the New York Times the day before the big game: “Unless the ice melts, or unless the United States team or another team performs a miracle, as did the American squad in 1960, the Russians are expected to easily win the Olympic gold medal for the sixth time in the last seven tournaments.”
The Soviets were the best team of that entire era, and arguably, by a large margin, but it would be a mistake to categorize the U.S. team as lacking talent. Of the 20 players suiting up for Team U.S.A., 13 would go on to play in the NHL, with three of those playing in over 1000 professional games: Neal Broten (1099); Mike Ramsey (1070); and Dave Christian (1009).
At least five members of the Soviet team would also go on to play in the NHL.
Team U.S.A. would meet Finland for the gold medal. Without a win in the finals, the U.S. would not have medaled at all. The U.S. would beat Finland 4-2 for the gold.
The Soviets would crush Sweden 9-2 for the silver.
Surviving members of the 1980 Olympic hockey team were in Lake Placid this weekend to commemorate the victory 35 years ago.
Two members of the team are no longer with us: coach Herb Brooks who died in 2003, and defenseman Bob Suter who died this past September. Suter’s jersey was raised to the roof of the Lake Placid ice rink, now named the Herb Brooks Arena, where it all happened.
I think we may have a disconnect
“The low for the day is forecast to be -17, and we should see temps climb up to -11. The current temperature is forty degrees below zero…”
Say what?! I don’t know about you, but in my world that makes the low a chilly -40.
“You know how to whistle, don’t you, Steve?”
“You just put your lips together and blow.”
Screen legend Lauren Bacall has passed away at the age of 89. She made her film debut with Humphrey Bogart in “To Have and Have Not” Personally, my favorite film with the soon to be couple, was “The Big Sleep”, which was written by Raymond Chandler. Oddly enough, I started to read that very book just two nights ago.
“That’s All Right” at 60
Sun Records released “That’s All Right”, July 19, 1954.
The Sun Records Studio, Memphis 1954. The legendary Sam Phillips is in front, with guitarist Scotty Moore, bassist Bill Black, and some singer named Elvis in the back.
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Blues Legend Johnny Winter passes
B.B. King once described the albino from Texas as, “Extra white”. Johnny Winter was known for his lightning fast electric slide playing. Muddy Waters said of Winter, “…that guy… He plays eight notes to my one.”
Winter was 70. RIP.
Leave it to the Sourdoughs
I love the sourdough reference:
“In the spring and summer of 1910, as (Hiram) Bingham sat in New Haven sifting through the evidence about Vilcabamba (Peru) … the newly self-described explorer would have found it almost impossible to pick up a newspaper without reading about one expedition or another. (Dr. Frederick) Cook and (Robert) Peary were feuding publicly over who had reached the North Pole first. Norway’s (Roald) Amundsen sent England’s (Robert Falcon) Scott a telegram announcing that he planned to beat him to the South Pole. And a group of amateur “sourdoughs” shocked the mountaineering world with their claim to have climbed the north summit of Mount McKinley, fueled by doughnuts and hot chocolate.”
from: “Turn Right at Machu Picchu” by Mark Adams
Alaska Sidenote:
Frederick Cook claimed, in 1906, to have been the first to summit Mt McKinley. His claim has since been discredited.
Noted explorer and photographer (among other trades) Bradford Washburn, later proved that none of the photographs that Cook took on his 1906 McKinley Expedition had been taken anywhere near the summit. In fact, the peak in the photo above, which Cook claimed was Denali’s summit, is now known as Fake Peak.
The four locals, Tom Lloyd, Peter Anderson, Billy Taylor, and Charles McGonagall, which became known as “The Sourdough Expedition”, attempted the North Summit in 1910, while carrying a spruce pole. Two of the Sourdoughs did make the summit. Their claim was not believed until 1913, when another team climbed the North Summit, and found the spruce pole that the Sourdoughs had erected near the top. The team of sourdoughs had absolutely no climbing experience whatsoever.
A special shoutout to Mr Mark Adams. Love the book so far. Don’t forget your second pair of socks.
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