PINKHAM NOTCH — Top to bottom, like the old days?
Weather and conditions permitting, a reformatted Tuckerman Inferno is scheduled for March 21, and the big news is that the top-to-bottom format of the 1930s will be part of this year’s event, said race coordinator Jake Risch of Madison.
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