Chapter 9
3. Soft breakable crust will usually be found on slopes with a southerly exposure just after the sun has struck them or just before the sun leaves them.
FIRST CLASS TEST (CROSS COUNTRY SKI-ING).
The First Class Test consists of three parts, which must all be passed in the same season and should, if possible, be passed by the same Judges. If this is impracticable, Judges must indicate on the Test forms which parts they have judged. Not more than two parts shall be judged on the same day.
Part (a).--_A descent of not less than 2,500 feet, which should, if possible, be continuous without any intervening stretches of level or uphill. The course selected must provide ample opportunity for fast, straight running, and must also include a fair proportion of steep and difficult ground_.
Part (b).--_A descent of not less than 1,000 feet on really difficult snow, such as hard, wind-swept, unbreakable crust, on which Lifted Stemming turns are practicable but Telemarks impossible, varied by breakable crust in which only Jump turns are practicable_.
Part (c).--_A descent of not less than 500 feet of difficult woodrunning in which continuous turns are just possible for a first-class runner._.
The above represents a minimum, rather than a maximum. If Judges can devote sufficient time to the Test, each section may well be repeated on different days in order that the Judges may have ample opportunity of coming to a decision.
For a descent of about 500 feet, the candidate should lead in order to test his capacity for choosing a good line. During the rest of the Test one of the Judges must lead and must set a first-class speed. The other Judge must remain behind the candidate in order to compare his speed and steadiness with that of the leading Judge.
A First Class runner turns as little as possible and slows up as little as possible before each turn. His turns are done at a high speed on all but very steep ground.
_The candidate must satisfy the Judges that his running combines high speed, thorough steadiness on difficult ground and difficult snow, and an easy, effortless control of his ski_.
SKI-JUMPING TESTS.
GENERAL REGULATIONS.
1. The length of a jump shall be measured with a taut tape from the edge of the take-off to that point at which the hindermost ski touches the alighting track with the part immediately below the binding.
2. To constitute a standing jump the runner must not fall within a distance of 40 metres from the edge of the take-off or within a distance of 60 metres where the jump, as in the First Class Test, exceeds 30 metres. If the runner comes to a standstill without falling within this distance he will be held to have stood.
3. If a runner saves himself from falling by supporting himself with his hands, he shall be considered to have fallen.
THIRD CLASS TEST (JUMPING).
1. Every Candidate is required to make two standing jumps of not less than 10 metres. Four attempts are allowed on the same day.
2. Any two Judges appointed by the Council for the Cross Country Ski-ing Tests are qualified to judge this Test.
SECOND CLASS TEST (JUMPING).
1. Every Candidate is required to make two standing jumps of not less than 20 metres. Four attempts are allowed on any one day.
2. Any two Second Class Judges appointed by the Federal Council for Cross Country Ski-ing Tests may judge this Test. Any Candidate who has passed this Test may replace one of the Second Class Judges.
FIRST CLASS TEST (JUMPING).
1. Every Candidate is required to make two standing jumps of not less than 30 metres. Four attempts are allowed on any one day.
2. Two Second Class Judges appointed by the Federal Council for Cross Country Ski-ing may judge this Test. Any Candidate who has passed the Second Class Jumping Test may act in place of one of the Second Class Judges.
INDEX
Accidents Adelboden Alpine Club Huts Ambulance Sledge Andermatt Aneroid Arosa Attractions of Ski-ing Avalanches
Bergun Bernese Oberland Bernina Bindings Boots
Campfer Cap Care of Equipment Celerina Clothing Clubs Coats Compass Cost of Ski-ing Holiday Crampons Cutting the Track
Dangerous tracks Davos Diablerets Discarded Skis, disposal of
Elements of Ski-ing Engadine Engelberg Equipment Equipment List Etiquette
Falls Fex Thal Finding the Way First Aid Equipment Foot plates
Gloves Gradients Graubunden or Grisons Grindelwald Gstaad Guides
Hat Heights History of Ski-ing
Inn Valley Instructors Iron for waxing
Julier Pass Jungfrau Joch
Kandersteg Kesch Klosters Knife
Lantern Lap Thong Lauterbrunnen Lenzerheide Light Lifting a Ski
Maloja Maps Mending Outfit Montana Morgins Muottas Muraigl Murren
Nursery Slopes
Oiling Skis Boots Bindings
Para Iron Parsenn Pockets Pontresina Puttees Putting on Skis
Rettungs Chef Rhone Valley Right of Way Rucksack Runaway Skis
Saanenmoser Samaden Scheidegg Schuls Scraper Search Parties Side Slipping Side Stepping Signals of Distress Silvaplana Sils-Maria Ski-ing Centres Skins (Seal) Skis Snow Soft Hard Crust Sticky Socks Spare Binding Spare Clothing Spare Ski Tip Spectacles Splugen Sticks St. Moritz Stockings Straight Running Summer Ski-ing Sweaters
Tests Elementary Third Class Second Class First Class Regulations Jumping Toe Irons Traversing
Uphill Work
Villars
Wax Wengen Wind Jacket
Zuoz