Brodie Mountain pics

[loafer89]

I took these two pictures of Brodie Mountain when we stopped there to cater to my son's facination with lost ski areas:

Dot's 6000' double chair:

Snow Tubing:

 

[Dr Skimeister]

I took a similar walk down memory lane this winter with a stop at Brodie. Now called "Snow Owl Resort", the same buildings/lodges/hotel that I remember from 25 years ago exist as do those old lifts. The only signs of life I detected was the snow tubing on what used to be the beginner slope. I still wish that the original plan for the property to be bought and used as part of Jininey Peak resort had worked out.

 

[Newpylong]

Here are some pictures from early Fall that I took...

http://s106.photobucket.com/albums/m248/newpylong/

 

[MRGisevil]

Back in the day I'd head up to Brodie every chance I could after school to get my runs in... It was such a nice little mountain... relatively cheap, less than an hour away, great vibe... really miss that place :'(

 

[cbcbd]

My first years of skiing in HS were spent mostly on Brodie... The green snow on St Paddy's...
thanks for the pics

 

[skiadikt]

thanks for the trip down memory lane. went there a few times maybe late 70's early 80's. sad to see a place that was once so alive now a ghost town. kelly's irish alps indeed ...

 

[Newpylong]

Yeah, dunno if the pictures are good for memories or sad... I still remember every nook and cranny of the place like it was yesterday.

I was at Jiminy this Saturday having lunch outside Christiansen's and one guy next to me heard us talking about Brodie and came into the conversation. When we left he yelled, "IRISH ALPS FOREVER".

 

[millerm277]

Cool pics, I know pretty much nothing about the place....why'd it close?

 

[madskier6]

Cool pics, I know pretty much nothing about the place....why'd it close?

I think it closed because the current owner(s) of nearby Jiminy Peak bought it and turned it into a place to go tubing. Probably did so to eliminate the local competition. It also may have been that once they bought Brodie, they didn't want to spread their resources too thin by operating 2 nearby ski mountains and watching neither of them succeed.

 

[loafer89]

Here is a scan from their brochure from the late 1990's, it's large so I scanned what I could of it:

 

[loafer89]

A more managable trail map from the 2001-2002 Jiminy Peak/Brodie Mountain brochure:

 

[FRITOLAYGUY]

Wow from looking at that trail map i was surprised how high the vertical was, a full 200 more than Jiminy..

 

[knuckledraggin516]

A few years ago at killington, my brother and I stopped for lunch. It was spring skiing and we were shedding a layer or so. As we skied off someone yelled out something inaudiable... later after looking into my basckpack I relized that someone was calling out to me.. I had left behind my red corduroy Brode hat. I wish this story had a happy ending but like the ski area the hats gone ... and I have not skied w/ a backpack since

 

[twinplanx]

Yeah if anyone's wondering why a snowboarder said he was skiing in the above post It was me .. just quick posted w/o checking who was looged on ...dought

 

[Newpylong]

Brodie always claimed 1250, about a hundred more than Jiminy. The reality is it was just over a 1,000 if you looked at a topo or Goodle earth, etc. yourself but we won't tell anyone : )

The newer maps are interesting. It looks like they pretty much made each 50 foot connector into a trail.... and put some glades on there. When I left the area for high school in '94 they hadf 24 trails, so they added 9 without cutting down one tree. Pretty good, ha. A few of those tree runs we used to ski way back, like the one to the right off Dot's..... the one that comes off Mickey's down to Harp's Hump, I would bet they never made that one work... you would have needed to do some serious cleaning in those trees.

 

[FRITOLAYGUY]

Well it sounded like a cool mtn for SNE with a good vibe, wish i got the chance to ski there..

 

[Dr Skimeister]

To paraphrase an article in SKI in mid-to-late 80's..."A small ski area attached to a large bar". And they used to do Catholic Mass in the upstairs of the lodge (one floor down from the bar) on Sunday afternoon.

 

[Newpylong]

So goes the local saying..

Jiminy Peak: A ski area with a bar attached

Brodie: A bar with a ski area attached


Classic... lol.

 

[Warp Daddy]

Nice shots guys . Never skied Brodie but cartainly heard of its rep
TOO bad it can't be re-opened as a SKI area