The cover description for the Sugarloaf Irregular April 1972 issue, volume 4, number 15, began, "We usually capture skiers in motion on our bold face of the Irregular, but we thought it might be a refreshing change to capture a few bold faces of skiers, not so in motion." The photo below was actually taken in 1963 by the "Old Mountain photographer himself, Dick Bell." The men, attired in funereal clothing to symbolize the last days of winter and the beginning of spring, were (left to right) Brud Folger, Gordy Eaton, Sandy Bill and H. Norton "Icky" Webber.

The first article in the issue dealt with other resorts' deceptive snow reporting practices and how, at the time, Sugarloaf was right on the money in reporting actual accumulation. The writer was unidentified, unless the photo of "Rags" O'Regan in new powder on Winter's Way preceding the story indicated authorship.

"As near as can be figured, the

Sugarloaf Schuss began somewhere in a fog in 1951," began another article documenting the famous race's history. According to the article, the temperatures were in the high thirties and the few spectators who did arrive to watch could see neither the downhill poles nor the racers "whisking by in the phantomlike setting." At one point, the writer, unidentified here as well, calls the race a "temperamental old lady" due to the wide variety of weather conditions it had been held in. The article was accompanied by a number of photos —many from the 1950s.

The issue's history lessons did not, however, stop with the Schuss. Further on in the paper and continuing for five additional pages was "The Sugarloaf Story." This article was taken from the "dusty archives" of Sugarloaf Mountain Board of Directors member Dick Bell of Farmington. He starts it out in 1948 with a meeting in Augusta of the Maine Development Commission and its decision to promote skiing by starting the Maine Ski Council, with Robert Bass of Wilton as its first president. The commission created a committee to discover which of Maine's ski mountains would most feasibly be made into a ski resort. Meanwhile, a Kingfield storekeeper, Amos Winter, and some of his friends had cut a ski trail on Bigelow and were experiencing difficulties with the Great Northern Paper Company which was beginning to cut flowage around the base of Bigelow for the construction of Flagstaff Lake. At this point, both groups begin looking at Sugarloaf, and the rest is history.

Miss Cindy Luce, of Cape Elizabeth and Spring Farm in Sugarloaf was Maine's candidate for the Miss USA Pageant planned for Puerto Rico, that issue noted.

Among the advertisers was the Red Stallion Inn with the following accompanied by a drawing of a rather rotund and apparently satisfied diner, "Where a full meal means you can wiggle your toes under the table!" Three radio stations were advertising: WGHM, AM 1150 & FM 107; WKTJ, 1380; and WPNO, 1430. Central Main Septic Services in Farmington noted: "Can't Flush — Don't Cuss — Call Us." And the Bag offered this alliterative one-liner: "For full fresh frothy foam—find fine friends, families for fun."