Grandview Commerce High School - Annual Yearbook (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada)

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COMMERCE ANNUAL SKI SKILL Q xx To the north of Vancouver, just FW across the Inlet, lies a range of s mountains that are unsurpassed for winter sports. In the early winter, . i .elx when the lakes are frozen, outdoor -- ,ZZA skating is popularg but with the T '- ,. coming of snow, skiing is the su- ' X , preme sport. . The skiing camps open to the public are Westlake, Holiyburn, Grouse Mountain, and Mount Seymour. These camps are within easy reach by roads and trails, although the novice doesn't think so, Grouse Mountain being reached by automobile when the road is open. Now for the sport ol skiing itself, The idea of this sport is to amuse oneseli by travelling here and there with a pair of board-like contraptions, with turned up noses, fastened to one's feet. A pair of too slender looking poles aids in keeping balance while travelling. When the novice decides that he can at last go down certain hills without doing a sitzrnark ffalling down, rear first , and mussing up the snowj he then starts to copy the expert skier. Through many diligent hours of practice, he learns that skiing is most tascinating. The ability to manipulate the skis in the correct manner is the final result. The execution of such things as a telemark turn, christiannia turn, stem turn, jump turn, snow plow, gelandesprung, fobstacle jumpj etc., is a great thrill. Although these take practice, and despite the humilation of being called a whizbum fone who does a sitzmark and doesn't fill in the holej, the reward is worth it. Perhaps a dormant desire will awake, and you will become a famed jumper. Who knows? I, Pickeri ll EDUCATION faccording to Sir Joshia Stampj is the inculcation of the incom- prehensible into the ignorant by the incompetent.

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N0 Pictures t twilight the cliffs partly circling the lake seemed very close, and my companion, Jack, thought what an excellent place the top of the cliffs would be for some moonlight photography. As darkness fell, Jack got out his camera and we set out for the high rocky bluffs on the far edge of the lake. As we walked along the vague trail through the scant shrivelled grass, and the perched tumbleweed, .lack talked photographyg and I, ignorant of what he was saying, tried to imagine what a blazing inferno the same scene had been millions of years back. For the high, now dim, cliffs we were approaching were once molton lava, and what soil there was in the district was volcanic ash. What was now a lake below us, hundreds of feet deep, was at one time a seething mass of bubbling lava. My thoughts, however, were soon drawn to an end for it was getting quite dark and the trail was becoming hard to follow. When we reached the bare rock, the path disappeared, so we climbed about seventy feet up a rock slide to a narrow ledge By getting a firm hold on the rock with our hands and putting each foot forward carefully, we crept along the ledge to the top of the cliff. It was pitch dark by now and Jack, realizing the irregularity of the cliff, tossed rocks ahead to determine the exact location of the cliff. One by one, six of the rocks clattered along ahead of us and we followed them, but the seventh and eighth made no noise at all. We stopped, looked at each other. and I suggested sitting down and waiting for the bright new moon. The darkness and weirdness ol our position, combined with the death- like silence broken only by our own voices, soon had our nerves on edge. We both jumped at any sound that was made, calling ourselves all sorts of names, and being twice as startled at the next sound. Jack, consulting his luminous watch and finding that we had been wait- ing an hour and a half, decided the calendar was wrong and there would be no moon, so we started to pick our way back from the edge of the cliff, and to search for the iedge by which we had come. After considerable difficulty, we found it and slowly followed it back to the slide, and so on to the foot of the cliff. I didn't breathe easily 'til we reached the trail, and Jack, too, ad- mitted be wouldn't have gone back for any picture . Don Jeffs

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COMMERCE ANNUAL THE LIONS' GATE BRIDGE ,- ' .. . t ' - ' - ' - , 'x-4-iff' 'N ,Nh ,iff-?Z'?i i-X--lx 2-.gf -N A 'ff -33''15-f-l7,,k1hQ 1's-.,,qil ?' 'J N 8 ' Mobi iuhifi I 'Ss-.. I1, ' '- ff ? even Q333,ffw 'K 4 if ' , yi ictihgt lfijfelvfa 1 -K -- -e 5 5 gi p --'---2 2 sits., 01- H-'wifi y ,. ' E. 3-gg. ,W .:5',, i-Q' 4 , V - A- rr, --2' ft' 4 , ' 'auf 5 er' - .-r-sf.: -Q JT ',,-,..,f.,, M Wi-i .5 ' 7 ,,,, W, Hwnzgw Y v 1 Rising as the largest suspension bridge of its kind in the British Empire, the Lions' Gate Bridge will he a mighty monument to Vancouvefs ever-growing progressiveness. Spanning the First Narrows at the entrance to Vancouver har- bor, it will give direct connection between Vancouver, and North and West Van- COUVCI' . 15,000 tons of concrete have been poured into each ol the anchors which run back from the two main piers, and from which a greater proportion of the weight of the bridge is suspended. Each anchor is buried 60 feet deep. 20 feet square on IOD, and is as heavy as the combined weight of every man, woman and child, in Vancouver-300,000 people! This block of concrete, resembling a big hoe with two handles, one for each cable, is 614 feet away from the pier in front of it. The sinking and placing of the main piers at each end of the span was one of the most interesting operations. Two caissons or shells Q feet in diameter and 40 feet high, were made oi steel, wood, and concrete on the beach. They were floated off at high tide while they were still light enough, but while these were still being made, two holes inthe sloping rock were made by drilling, blasting, and the dredging away of loose rock. The caissons were then floated into place and ballasted with sufficient concrete to sink them. 10,000 tons of steel are involved in the construction of the bridge-about 8,000 tons in the structure of the span, towers, and viadncts, and about 2,000 tons in the making of the wire rope for the main cables and Suspenders. There will be approximately 850 tons, or about 5,000 feet, of steel in each of the main towers resting on the piers, The towers are erected with the help of a steel creeper which is attached to the permanent structure, hoisted. as