Guess a ski area in three clues

[mister moose]

Mittersill?

No, and be warned, I tried to make this Google proof.

 

[skiNEwhere]

Let's see if anyone gets this one:

1) Opened with a Dopplemeyer T-bar, double chair and rope tow.
2) Miracle Mile
3) Midstation

Timberline (Mt.Hood)

 

[Quietman]

No, and be warned, I tried to make this Google proof.

All of my previously successful google tricks failed. You are strong with the force, young Luke.

 

[skiNEwhere]

What about askjeeves? He knows everything

 

[soposkier]

Not only does Powderhouse have snowmaking (as soposkier pointed out), they also have twice the vertical you suggested as per SnoCountry!

I wonder how "soposkier" got the right answer with 2 of 3 wrong clues?

The secondary clue of being in the same state as spruce mtn led me to the guess of powderhouse.

 

[joshua segal]

Timberline (Mt.Hood)

Interesting: I knew the "Miracle Mile" as the "Palmer Mile"; but I guess that was a conflation of the "Miracle Mile" being in the "Palmer Snowfield".

 

[mister moose]

Timberline (Mt.Hood)

No, Eastern ski area.

 

[Mapnut]

http://www.newenglandskihistory.com/Maine/powderhousehill.php

This article says 175. Wikipedia says 120: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Powderhouse_Hill_(ski_area)

I pulled the info from wiki and I think 120 is accurate. No way it's 240. Wiki also said no snowmaking. Of course Wiki can be full of errors and thus it hadn't been updated to list the addition of some equipment just last year.

According to New England Ski History they "experimented" with a snowmaking system last year. It must not have been to extensive. I asked my BIL if he ever has seen snow made there in the past 10 years living down the street and he said no - mother nature only.

I always wonder why people will argue vertical drops without consulting topo maps or Google Earth. If you don't have Google Earth you can use Acme Mapper. First use the satellite view of South Berwick to find the top of the ski area, then switch to the topo. It supports 120 feet. Note that the top of the ski area (el. 240) is nowhere near the top of the hill (el. 294).

 

[mister moose]

1) Opened with a Dopplemeyer T-bar, double chair and rope tow.
2) Miracle Mile
3) Midstation

4) You cross a brook from the parking lot to get to the skiing.

 

[deadheadskier]

Suicide Six

 

[skiNEwhere]

No, Eastern ski area.

Dammit. I was thinking of the Magic Mike

 

[castleman003]

Cannon?

 

[mister moose]

Not Suicide Six or Cannon.

1) Opened with a Dopplemeyer T-bar, double chair and rope tow.
2) Miracle Mile
3) Midstation
4) You cross a brook from the parking lot to get to the skiing.

5) Faces west.

 

[BBMF]

Would it have been Satan's Ridge Ski Area?? Now known as Ski Sundown??

 

[mister moose]

Would it have been Satan's Ridge Ski Area?? Now known as Ski Sundown??

Yes.

I thought it would be fun with all the Sundown folks here.

Miracle Mile was the original name for Canyon Run.
The original Mueller double chair had a midstation so intermediates could ski lower Gunbarrel.

 

[BBMF]

Onto the next.
So this "WAS" a Family ski area.
Opened in 1960
Had Two tow ropes one which was 800 ft long and had a mid station
Had night skiing and a skating pond

 

[canobie#1]

^ Carinthia?

 

[bluebird]

Hemlock Hill?

 

[BBMF]

No and no. But it was just barely in your state bluebird

 

[603Skier]

Onto the next.
So this "WAS" a Family ski area.
Opened in 1960
Had Two tow ropes one which was 800 ft long and had a mid station
Had night skiing and a skating pond

Cardigan! Ahhhhh, a many of times. should return very soon though.