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PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT

From left, Wade Slaney, 9, of Pack 39 and his brother, George, 10; Eric Fowler, 8, of Pack 23; and Mark Caputo, 8, also of Pack 23 learn to “step into” their snowshoes in January 1976 for the second Glacier Ridge Cub Scouts’ Yukon Gold Rush at Butler County Community College. In Diamond Park showing the boys how to practice for the snowshoe race are George Slaney, left, Pack 39 cubmaster, and Stan Hull, assistant cubmaster of Pack 23. The scouts made their own snowshoes.

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