Rare 1967 Gant Gamet Genoski Canvas Ski Helmet by Mont Blanc France ~ Size 7 1/4

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Rare 1967 Gant Gamet Genoski Canvas Ski Helmet by Mont Blanc France ~ Size 7 1/4:
$39.99

Up for sale is this Rare 1967 Gant Gamet Genoski Canvas Ski Helmet by Mont Blanc France ~ Size 7 1/4. This is Brand New Old Stock. This is a very Rare helmet from France. I searched the Internet and could only find one thing on this helmet.Here is link to the article from a UK magazine The helmet is on page 22. The inside tag reads \"Gant Gamet Genoki MADE IN FRANCE\". There are2 stickers on the inside foam \"58\" and \"7 1/4.

This helmet came from a well known Mt. Hood ski shop. It has been closed for many years and I have many items from the shop I will be listing soon, including Vintage ski posters from the U.S. and Europe. This is an Amazing piece of snow skiing History and probably belongs in a museum. It would make a great addition to anybody that collects Vintage ski items. The helmet does have a little dirt and would great cleaned up, but since I don\'t know how to clean it properly I will leave it up to the new owner.

If you have any questions feel free to ask.

Here are a couple of artices of the person and shop that they came from:

MT HOOD PERSONALITIESMeet Joie SmithTimes with Wooden Skis, Horses & Hitches in Rhododendron

Sometime or other in your adventures on Mt. Hood you might find yourself in need of a tow. If you call Alpine Towing in Rhododendron and Joie Smith\'s on duty, you\'ll get to meet someone whose years of adventure and work have given her a peerless knowledge of and respect for the mountain.

Joie Smith grew up in Southeast Portland on what was then family fields ranging from Mt. Tabor to Laurelhurst. A pony barn at SE 47th and Stark housed some four-legged friends of her childhood; she\'s been fond of horses ever since.

Skiing was another childhood pleasure that has shaped the life she\'s built in The Villages of Mt Hood. A child when Timberline opened in 1937, she learned to ski by following her father on his visits there. She skied a bit in high school, and at Hoodoo when she attended college at the University of Oregon. She transferred home to attend Vanport College, majoring in Mechanical Engineering, and earned an Upper Division Certificate in Engineering in the late forties.

During these years of movement and achievement, Joie headed to the mountain more and more. She joined the local ski patrol, then became a member of the historic Oregon National Ski Patrol before she earned her college certificate.

She also raced, but in 1955 misfortune struck. During that year\'s Golden Rose race, Joie came around a corner to find the previous skier downed and surrounded by onlookers directly in her path. This was right before the advent of plastic and metal skis; Joie was wearing wooden ones. Rather than risk running into the crowd and harming someone with the splinters, she skied off the course at speed. The resulting crash compound fractured her leg.

Though this did make her move a bit slower for a while - \"I was down for a year,\" she says - Joie had things to do. She had opened her own ski shop in 1954, making a business out of something she loved, and it was that which cut into her ski time most. After all, everyone wants to ski on weekends, and if she had a weekday off, not every service was open then. She had to take time to move the business once, in the 1959-1960 season, to the building that now houses Alpine Towing in Rhododendron. In 1960, she was one of 5 women selected nationwide for the 85-strong National Ski Patrol for that year\'s Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley, California.

Last but not least, in the early 60\'s Joie drove other people\'s tow trucks and realized the area needed more of that service. She closed the ski shop, bought her first truck, and opened Alpine Towing in 1967. She\'s got six trucks now to ensure there\'s a truck working for every tow. She brings in help when workload demands, but otherwise it\'s all Joie.

If she\'s not towing, she\'s riding a horse whenever possible. She\'s had up to ten head at a time in her adult life. Some served as tough terrain haulers for Portland General Electric. Smart and hardy as her horses are, she notes that they do need certain things from the folks they meet on the trail. Horses have right-of-way, so when hiking or mountain biking, keep an eye out for horse tracks, take care on downgrades and curves, and say something friendly so the horse knows you\'re coming and doesn\'t spook!

Joie remembers a time when people were more used to horses. This brings to her mind what\'s changed most on the mountain: new sports such as mountain biking and snowboarding, more people having more impact, but not as much emotional investment. She regrets seeing campgrounds closed after vandalization, and too little government revenue available to keep public lands open and groomed for everyone\'s enjoyment. She wishes young people could grow up knowing how to care for nature through courteous use and informed policies.

\"Wouldn\'t it be great if children could have classes about outdoor usage, and how to treat it?\" she asks. Yet she also readily invites everyone, whatever age, to start that great learning when she says, \"It\'s beautiful country, big country, and very unforgiving if you don\'t respect it. Come and appreciate it - it really is all here to be appreciated and enjoyed.\" And Joie Smith would know.

A crown jewel of the mountain dies

Few people are described as a “crown jewel on the mountain,” but that is exactly how Joie Smith was thought of by Hoodland Fire Chief Mic Eby.

“She was one of the most unselfish people I’ve ever known,” he said. “She probably thought about taking care of herself last.”

Smith died Saturday, March 29, at her home in Rhododendron. She was 85.

by: CONTRIBUTED PHOTO - Joie Smith with her favorite horses, Floyd and Sam. A couple months before her passing, Smith rode in a truck into the area to see them. Sam stuck his head through the window to say goodbye.

Smith’s half sister, Gayle Kosel, remembers growing up with Smith as someone who took care of the family. Smith was 12 years older than Kosel, making her the often-designated babysitter, Kosel said.

“I think that’s why she didn’t really want a family,” she said, “because she had already done that.”

Kosel remembers that Smith used to buy, fix up and resell cars out of their garage when Smith was in high school, eventually saving enough money to buy a brand new 1949 Ford convertible. “There wasn’t anything she couldn’t do if she put her mind to it,” Kosel said.

Smith took pride in being independent, and was always self-employed, said Kosel, who saw her sister as having her own notions on how to do things.

Bill White, who met Smith in 1993 during an Oregon Trail reenactment, also noticed her pride in earning her own money. “She never took a dime from the government,” he said.

Born in Portland, Smith eventually ended up on Mount Hood, getting involved with Timberline stables in the 1950s. Smith had a love of horses and a love of the mountain.

by: CONTRIBUTED PHOTO - Always a lover of skiing, Smith ran her own ski shop on the mountain for a time.

“She considered this to be her home up here,” said Kosel, also a resident of Rhododendron.

Smith, who had a background in engineering — she attended the University of Oregon, though she never earned a degree — eventually started her own business, Alpine Towing, where she helped many people on the mountain.

“She saw a need for it,” Kosel said, “and talked it over with my dad.”

by: CONTRIBUTED PHOTO - Smiths business, Alpine Towing, ran for more than 50 years. The trucks are still parked on her property in Rhododendron.

Kosel said Smith had a mind for looking at a wreck and knowing the best way to clean it up with the least damage to what was around it.

Eby met Smith through her role at Alpine Towing.

When he began working at Timberline, Eby said, he parked his car at Government Camp and took the bus up to the ski area. When he returned from his first day, he found his car on the other side of the street from where he had left it. The next day, he parked in the same place and came back to find it moved once more.

“The street I had parked on was on the snow plow route. (Smith) had seen my Hoodland Fire sticker and towed it across the street both times,” Eby said. “Finally she left me a note saying, ‘I can’t do this much longer. Learn to read.’”

by: CONTRIBUTED PHOTO - With her engineers mind, Smith was instrumental in helping with rescues during floods in 1964. A memorial for Smith, who died March 29, will be held Sunday, April 27, at the Mt. Hood Lions Club.

Eby said Smith was a big help to Hoodland Fire over the years, eventually becoming a sort of “den mother.”

Smith was on call 24 hours a day and was devoted to her business, Kosel said.

“She was always there, day or night, and always smiling,” Eby said. “Sometimes because she knew we were doing something stupid and knew the outcome before we did.”

He added that Smith used to provide safety for the fire department, doing everything from towing their vehicles to holding classes at the department.

by: CONTRIBUTED PHOTO - Smith was the first woman to participate in the Squaw Valley Ski Patrol Olympics in 1960.

“She’s going to be missed,” Eby said.

Friends and family will hold a memorial for Smith at 2 p.m. Sunday, April 27, at the Mt. Hood Lions Club, at the corner of Highway 26 and Woodsey Way in Zigzag.

White suggests getting to the memorial early, as he expects to have as many as 500 people to attend.

I have looked and can\'t find this poster for sale anywhere on the Internet.

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