New England Lost Ski Areas Project

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Post by craigcannon » Tue, Apr 25, 2017, 8:49 PM UTC

New England Lost Ski Areas Project
nelsap.org

Re: New England Lost Ski Areas Project

#2

Post by chmaynard » Tue, Apr 25, 2017, 9:06 PM UTC

Nice! A blast from the past. This is a classic "old internet" site that still works fine and appears to be maintained by someone.

Re: New England Lost Ski Areas Project

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Post by craigcannon » Tue, Apr 25, 2017, 9:12 PM UTC

chmaynard wrote: post #2

Nice! A blast from the past. This is a classic "old internet" site that still works fine and appears to be maintained by someone.

Totally!

http://www.nelsap.org/whatsnew.html

Re: New England Lost Ski Areas Project

#4

Post by Neliquat » Tue, Apr 25, 2017, 10:12 PM UTC

A friend is working on providing access to abandoned ski areas in the rockies, how timely, and what a relic!

Re: New England Lost Ski Areas Project

#5

Post by craigcannon » Tue, Apr 25, 2017, 10:24 PM UTC

Neliquat wrote: post #4

A friend is working on providing access to abandoned ski areas in the rockies, how timely, and what a relic!

Neat :)

Re: New England Lost Ski Areas Project

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Post by chadgeidel » Tue, Apr 25, 2017, 10:27 PM UTC

Neliquat wrote: post #4

A friend is working on providing access to abandoned ski areas in the rockies, how timely, and what a relic!

Does he/she have a website or a forum? I think I know folks who would be interested in this.

Unless they don't want the publicity. I'm not that popular though. :-)

Re: New England Lost Ski Areas Project

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Post by theklub » Tue, Apr 25, 2017, 10:51 PM UTC

Crazy, I never would have guess some of these I live very near. thanks for this.

Re: New England Lost Ski Areas Project

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Post by planteen » Tue, Apr 25, 2017, 11:26 PM UTC

chadgeidel wrote: post #6

Neliquat wrote: post #4

A friend is working on providing access to abandoned ski areas in the rockies, how timely, and what a relic!

Does he/she have a website or a forum? I think I know folks who would be interested in this. Unless they don't want the publicity. I'm not that popular though. :-)

Here are some in Colorado. Most ski resorts (open and closed) in Colorado are on public land.

http://www.coloradoskihistory.com/lostresorts.html

Re: New England Lost Ski Areas Project

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Post by nateburke » Tue, Apr 25, 2017, 11:35 PM UTC

This is one of my favorite sites on the internet. Having grown up skiing at Ascutney, one of the largest ski areas to ever die, seeing it and other CT river valley areas such as Mt Tom memorialized here is very meaningful to me.

Re: New England Lost Ski Areas Project

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Post by ghaff » Tue, Apr 25, 2017, 11:36 PM UTC

theklub wrote: post #7

Crazy, I never would have guess some of these I live very near. thanks for this.

There used to be a huge number of these rope tow and a hill or maybe a chairlift and a small mountain areas in New England. But the business really became go big or go home given factors like snowmaking and modern chairlifts. There are a few survivors but not many.