NELSAP areas you have skied.

[skiadikt]

note sure if all these are listed but:

Craigmeur, NJ the journey started here.

Big Vanilla, NY before we knew any better it was an early favorite.
Scotch Valley, NY later called Deer Run.
Cortina Valley, NY
Highmount, NY
Bobcat, NY someone should reopen this place.

Brodie, MA

Powder Ridge, CT

Tanglewood Ski Area, PA

[shadyjay]

Originally Posted by twinplanx

Could be?..What town is(was) that in?

Middlefield, between Middletown and Meriden. About 20 mins or so outside of Hartford, to the south.

[drjeff]

Originally Posted by polski

skied while open:

-- "Beautiful" Mount Airy Lodge (PA) (not on NELSAP site yet but definitely had lift-served skiing in the past and doesn't anymore)

That place had to have one of the corniest jingles for a TV commercial ever! Now I'm going to have it running through my head for the rest of the day! Argghh

[jerryg]

Mass:
Mt. Tom

NH:
Mittersill

Maine:
Evergreen Valley
Agamenticus

I often enjoy riding the Hall double that was once the centerpiece of Bald Mountain in Dedham. It was sold to Camden Snow Bowl and has been there for over 30 years now. I don't think it's been painted since.

[Geoff]

What's the deal about Crotched? I skied there as a little kid and have no real memory of the place. Is that now defunct and the new Crotched on a different part of the hill?

[thebigo]

i skied the old crotched east before they closed, also moose and temple; possible more dont remember too much of my first decade on skiis

What's the deal about Crotched? I skied there as a little kid and have no real memory of the place. Is that now defunct and the new Crotched on a different part of the hill?

At one point crotched was two separate areas; the new crotched is on the old crotched west. The original crotched east is still closed.

full story is on nelsap, map from nelsap:



I have only skied there a few times but i hike it mulitple times each summer, both the back side and the ski trails, its nice piece of the state and good sized hike to get some exercise when you dont have an entire day

[Mapnut]

I just skimmed through the whole thread to verify that I am the only person who ever skied Enchanted Mt., ME! (along with my sister and two friends who were the only customers on a cloudy midweek January day in, I think, 1972). Conditions were lovely; it probably wasn't the operators' fault that they closed.

Interesting to see quite a few people skied Colby. I skied there 3 or 4 times in 1968-69, but after I started going to Sugarloaf I never went back to Colby. The only slope was flat on the top half and steepish on the bottom half, too steep for me, a beginner, though it made me learn fast. Breeze, I also crashed at the bottom but managed to miss the lift corral and hit some bushes. They laughed at me!

I should say, there was a beginner slope with a rope tow, but it didn't have snowmaking and wasn't open any of the times I was there. The T-bar was fast and smooth.

[Angus]

i think the only places I've skied are Temple where I probably went once per season in the last couple of years of operation and King Ridge which was our family day-trip ski area - probably 20 times. I've run up the Colby ski hill a few times but never skied down!

Just realized that I've played golf - very poorly - at Bedford (MA) Little's Tow!

[Stache]

Since I grew up and live in NY and really started skiing in the late '60s I'll start there:
Big Rock Candy Mountain (outside Troy)
Easton Valley (kinda other side of Willard)
Petersburg Pass
Alpine Meadows (Saratoga)
Hickory Hill (Warrensburg)
Dynamite Hill (Chestertown still open)
North Creek Snow Bowl (~original Gore)
Big Tupper
Mt. Whitney Club Lake Placid '88-'89 the year I taught at Whiteface
Eagle Mt.
Shoemaker Mt. (Not on NELSAP list but seen from Thruway I-90 west of Fonda/Fultonville)
Scotch Valley
Highmount
Nevele - Resort near Ellenville - Not on NELSAP list, resort is open but I don't think they ski anymore. EDIT - I just searched and found their golf site, called and confirmed they do still ski there in the winter.

Massaschusetts
Brodie (Jiminy was/is a ski area with a bar, Brodie was the BAR with the ski area out back)
Jug End

CT-
Powder Ridge - I remember their radio commercial from the snowless winter of '79-'80 or '80-'81 a little boy asking his father "Daddy, What's snow?" Dad replies "Well son, Snow is this white stuff that falls out of the sky." Son asks "You mean like a DC-10?"

Vermont
Prospect Mountain (had a ~40M? ski jump)
Dutch Hill
Haystack & Corinthia (which one had the tunnel to get from the main mt back to the base of the beginner slopes?)
Magic (When Simon Oren ran it)
Maple Valley (won Gold in a CDSC race there)

Boy do I wish I had saved a brochue/trail mapo from all of them.

Note to self and daughter: Take an extra brochure and trail map from every ski area you visit and keep them, and your lift ticket in a scrap book or other safe place. Forty years from now you will be glad you did.

[playoutside]

Craigmeur (NJ)

Haystack