Life has gotten in the way of updating sense of face lately, for which I apologize.  I had planned on posting this series of photographs while I was out of town last week in a snowy locale, but forgot about the software limitations of the computer I had with me.

At any rate, I would still like to share these images, albeit with a shortened essay, because, well, they are worth sharing.

My grandfather Frank was an avid skiier all his life, as I have already mentioned many times before.  He and his friends, in their youths in Austria, were also big fans of sunbathing on the slopes in nothing but underwear. 

(From inscriptions on photograph versos)

At top: Whitsunday 1932.  W. Zlohn, Hoffer, Merinsky, Rudi Hollaus.

Directly above: Easter 1930 at Tauplitzalm, Austria.  F. Hoffer, J. Bohm, A. Merinsky, Karl Munzel, Gretl Kankoosky

Franz Markus Hoffer (1909-1991)