Lost Ski Areas of Southern Vermont

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Description

Hidden amongst the hills and mountains of southern Vermont are the remnants of sixty former ski areas, their slopes returning to forest and their lifts decaying. These days, only fourteen remain open and active in southern Vermont. Regardless that they offer some fantastic skiing, most lack the intimate, local feel of these lost ski trails. Jeremy Davis, author of the New England Lost Ski Areas Project, looks into the over-investment, local competition, weather variation, changing skier habits, insurance costs and just plain bad luck that caused these ski areas to succumb and melt back into the landscape. From the circle of relatives-operated Hogback in Windham County to Clinton Gilbert’s farm in Woodstock, where the first actual rope tow started operation within the winter of 1934, these once popular ski areas left an indelible trace at the hearts in their ski communities and the history of southern Vermont.

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