NELSAP areas you have skied.

[riverc0il]

Watatic
Snow Valley
Mittersill
Haystack
Sea View (Rowley, MA)
Tenney (Reopening it seems)
Timberside at Magic (Partial Credit)

 

[stomachdoc]

Brodie
Mt. Tom
Powder Ridge
Mohonk Mountain House (New York)
Grossinger's Resort Rope Tow
Host Farm (PA) Rope Tow

 

[gymnast46]

NELSAP areas you once skied...

I learned to ski in Bavaria in 1956 and quit the sport in 1962 while living in western MA when I took up sky diving. 2000+ jumps later I hung it up in that sport. I returned to skiing and took up snowboarding in the winter of '96-97. In that earlier stretch I visited a few areas that no longer exist. I suspect some of you could compile a lengthy list of NELSAP ski areas where you once skied. For those unfamiliar with the New England Lost Ski Areas Project, it's a marvelous site that lists 588 now defunct ski areas in New England.

Here's my short list:

Jug End Barn - Egremont, MA
Jericho Hill - Marlboro, MA
Mt. Tom - Holyoke, MA. It opened the last season I skied - 1962
Ohoho - Woodstock, CT

I recall skiing a number of times at a place called Belknap near Laconia, NH but I'm told it still exists as Gunstock.

 

[ckofer]

Even though we have the other thread, I should respond here. These are the pix of Indian Head in Pepperell MA that I just happened to take today while in the area. I skied there in the 70's as a kid.

 

[arik]

Just Haystack for me NELSAP'd

Cottage Springs in California is now closed, seems like yesterday

 

[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)

-- Crotched East (NH)

-- does Vernon Valley (NJ) count? Did it ever close or simply turn into Mountain Creek? First place I ever skied.


earned turns after closing:

-- Big Red (MA)

 

[twinplanx]

Brodie...still pissed I left that cap behind at K

Some funky place in CT. I recall they had a "half-pipe"(a joke really) complete w/ hay bale walls and deep ruts. Not sure if this place is actually on NELSAP, but I doubt it is still operating. I was about 14-15 when skied there w/ my uncle(who may recall the name) but I recall the place was hurtin. Halfway through our evening session the top operator (lifty) had abandoned ship, and the place seemed to of had some resident skunks...or a handball court nearby???

 

[shadyjay]

Sounds like Powder Ridge... definetely some skunks were kickin around there. I worked there and had to deal with all that... I was a lift op for a year and a snowmaker for a year. And everyone always said I was the #1 liftee.. since I actually gave two (hoots) about my job and the fact that lives were in my hands.

 

[twinplanx]

Sounds like Powder Ridge... definetely some skunks were kickin around there. I worked there and had to deal with all that... I was a lift op for a year and a snowmaker for a year. And everyone always said I was the #1 liftee.. since I actually gave two (hoots) about my job and the fact that lives were in my hands.

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

 

[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]

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]

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!:sad:

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

 

[MrMagic]

Brodie...still pissed I left that cap behind at K

Some funky place in CT. I recall they had a "half-pipe"(a joke really) complete w/ hay bale walls and deep ruts. Not sure if this place is actually on NELSAP, but I doubt it is still operating. I was about 14-15 when skied there w/ my uncle(who may recall the name) but I recall the place was hurtin. Halfway through our evening session the top operator (lifty) had abandoned ship, and the place seemed to of had some resident skunks...or a handball court nearby???

that would be woodbury ski area, which use to be know as woodbury ski and raquet. the area is still open, and in no better shape, i skied there with my brother a few times over the past few years, we went this year as they had night skiing on a sunday night, we were the only ones there, and there was no liftie to load you on the chair, it was self service. needless to say no one yeld at us when we took a run down the tube park with our skis.