Vintage trail maps/mountain advertisements.

[DoublePlanker]

Upper, middle and lower is stupid unless difficulty changes from expert, intermediate, novice. My favorite trail map is Les Grands Montets where there are only 15 named pistes. Who needs names?

 

[Bene288]

Not sure how old this one is. Judging by the phone number I'm guessing early 60's? My grandfather actually had this poster or one very similar to this one in his basement.

29 trails between three ski areas? Couldn't even imagine that today. Magic, Bromely and Stratton must have been owned by one family back then?

 

[Huck_It_Baby]

I was collecting these things for a while. I'm sure I could post quite a few.

 

[Mapnut]

29 trails between three ski areas? Couldn't even imagine that today.

Not just 29 trails, but 17 slopes. Back then these statistics always differentiated between trails and slopes. If it was wide, it was a slope.

Here are some nice old aerials and maps:
http://www.snowjournal.com/page.php?cid=galimg19883 Sugarloaf 1980
http://www.snowjournal.com/page.php?cid=galimg23286 A not-so-great Sugarloaf trail map from around 1972
http://www.snowjournal.com/page.php?cid=galimg23419 Okemo ad from 1968
http://www.snowjournal.com/page.php?cid=galimg23249 Whiteface ad from around 1968 - the vertical really impressed me at the time.

 

[SIKSKIER]

OK,I'll bust my mt.Cannon is the only place I know that counts trails with the same name twice.There are 2 Lower Cannons,2 Gremlins and 2 Redballs.Huh?
http://www.cannonmt.com/trail_lift.html

 

[4aprice]

I'll never forget being at Killington the year they decided to up the trail count. It went from 107 to whatever. I remember Stowe at 45 trails for a long period of time.

Alex

Lake Hopatcong, NJ

 

[Huck_It_Baby]

I like this old K map. It's actually overlayed onto a topographical which makes more sense to me than most trails maps which are very representational of the landscape.

 

[Powderhound]

I like this old K map. It's actually overlayed onto a topographical which makes more sense to me than most trails maps which are very representational of the landscape.

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I agree. Plus, those old topo maps were so big they could double as blankets on the looong ride up the old Killington double chair.

 

[kcyanks1]

We've had this discussion before. To me it makes a lot of sense to name trails upper, middle & lower at a lot of ski areas. For example upper Superstar at Killington opened over 3 weeks ago, middle Superstar opened last week, lower Superstar opened today. Would it have been right for K to say that Superstar was open 3 weeks ago when only the upper section was open at that time? Same thing applies on trails at a lot of other ski areas.

Agree 100%. I said the same thing in older threads. With a little effort, no one is fooled by counting a single trail as 3, but it does make it a lot easier to provide useful information on what is open.

 

[steamboat1]

 

[Huck_It_Baby]

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Wow! Wish I was around to have experienced this.

 

[twinplanx]

Wow! Wish I was around to have experienced this.

Killington?

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[steamboat1]

Killington?

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Yes, circa 1960

 

[twinplanx]

Yes, circa 1960

Nice. I wonder what there woods policy was back then ;-)

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[steamboat1]

Nice. I wonder what there woods policy was back then ;-)

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Don't know if it was thinned out yet in that pic but Downdraft was originally a gladed trail.

 

[twinplanx]

Don't know if it was thinned out yet in that pic but Downdraft was originally a gladed trail.

Somehow I doubt it was thinned out... Interesting note about downdraft!

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