Nick Adams came up past George, big back and blond head still faintly
snowy, then his skis started slipping at the edge and he swooped down,
hissing in the crystalline powder snow and seeming to float up and drop
down as he went up and down the billowing khuds. He held to his left and
at the end, as he rushed toward the fence, keeping his knees locked
tight together and turning his body like tightening a screw brought his
skis sharply around to the right in a smother of snow and slowed into a
loss of speed parallel to the hillside and the wire fence. He looked up
the hill. George was coming down in telemark position, kneeling; one leg
forward and bent, the other trailing; his sticks hanging like some
insect’s thin legs, kicking up puffs of snow as they touched the surface
and finally the whole kneeling, trailing figure coming around in a
beautiful right curve, crouching, the legs shot forward and back, the
body leaning out against the swing, the sticks accenting the curve like
points of light, all in a wild cloud of snow.
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