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A List: Oddball facilities or Buildings at Ski Areas - Northeast

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joshua segal
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Posted: Jun 29, 2008 - 12:04 PM GMT

Stowe, VT: Chapel, TV and radio transmission towers
Middlebury, VT: Library
Mad River Glen, VT: Plaques on lift towers and chairs saying "presented by ...", "in memory of ...", etc. (i.e more like a college campus or religious establishment)
Blue Hills, MA: Weather Station

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Posted: Jun 29, 2008 - 12:37 PM GMT

Memorials on top of Hunter.

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Posted: Jun 29, 2008 - 2:08 PM GMT

Bromley - Long Trail Hut

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Posted: Jun 29, 2008 - 2:10 PM GMT

Speaking of Bromley - what is that ... well... don't know what it is... that "thing" right on their summit? You get off the chairlift and can either go sharp left or sharp right, or straight across left or kinda straight across right. And kind of in the middle of it all is this big... thing. I wish I had a picture to show you, but I don't.

Anyone know what that... thing... is?

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Posted: Jun 29, 2008 - 2:13 PM GMT

Back on-topic, oddball buildings or facilities...

I'd have to say at Wachusett, near the bottom of Smith Walton, beside the trail (visible mostly from the ski lift, which is how I noticed it first) is what for all the world looks like a small outhouse with no door. I have no idea what it actually is used for, that just is what it looks like. I find that kind of odd.

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Posted: Jun 29, 2008 - 2:16 PM GMT

outhouse for the bullock lodge, which is also out of place?

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Posted: Jun 29, 2008 - 2:20 PM GMT

might of said this somewhere else, but there is an empty shack at the top of white cap at sunday river. I think it was used for either the bust'n burn competion or Heat harvest.

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Posted: Jun 29, 2008 - 3:23 PM GMT

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Speaking of Bromley - what is that ... well... don't know what it is... that "thing" right on their summit? You get off the chairlift and can either go sharp left or sharp right, or straight across left or kinda straight across right. And kind of in the middle of it all is this big... thing. I wish I had a picture to show you, but I don't.

Anyone know what that... thing... is?

Are you talking about the cement block with the arrow pointing north.
I believe that was the old counter weight.

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Posted: Jun 29, 2008 - 7:12 PM GMT

not immediately there, but a short walk off of the ski area summit is the stratton mountain fire tower.

whiteface castle?

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Posted: Jun 29, 2008 - 11:53 PM GMT

Yes that would be true. the old double chair used to go a little further back than the new quad.

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Posted: Jun 29, 2008 - 11:55 PM GMT

I was talking about Bromley just hit a wrong key.

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Posted: Jun 30, 2008 - 12:54 AM GMT

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might of said this somewhere else, but there is an empty shack at the top of white cap at sunday river. I think it was used for either the bust'n burn competion or Heat harvest.

Aside from the patroller's shack and liftie's shacks, the only other two small structures are a small pumphouse at about eleven o'clock as you get off the lift and from time to time there is a potable race starting shack that is on runners and is used for NorAm races on Obsession.

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Posted: Jun 30, 2008 - 1:39 AM GMT

Bradford has an abandoned City of Haverhill reservoir at the top.

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Posted: Jun 30, 2008 - 2:04 AM GMT

Edited: Jun 30, 2008 - 2:14 AM GMT

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Speaking of Bromley - what is that ... well... don't know what it is... that "thing" right on their summit?

Anyone know what that... thing... is?

I've always called it Bromley's Long Trail monolith. When you touch it, it imparts you with great wisdom.

And while I'm thinking of the L.T. and ski areas I'll mention Cooper Lodge on Killington Peak

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Posted: Jun 30, 2008 - 10:39 AM GMT

Summary of inputs to date:

MA
Blue Hills: Weather Station
Bradford: Water Tower
NELSAP: Prospect Hill: Water Tower

VT
Bromley: Long Trail Hut
Mad River Glen: Plaques on lift towers and chairs saying "presented by ...", "in memory of ...", etc. (i.e more like a college campus or religious establishment)
Middlebury: Library
Stowe: Chapel, TV and radio transmission towers

A variety of suggestions that I rejected as normal or leftover junk:
- Outhouses
- Pumphouses
- Abandoned pieces of lifts (there is a thread on that http://www.snowjournal.com/page.php?cid=topic11645&start=4)

To skirick: What kind of memorials on Hunter? Are these buildings or just plaques?

To telemechanic: Where is the "Cooper Lodge". I've spent a fair amount of time at Killington and never encountered it and what is (was) it used for? And the Bromley monolith: Is that the abandoned counterwieight suggested by another poster?

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Posted: Jun 30, 2008 - 1:08 PM GMT

Joshua, I,m not sure but I seem to remember a stone memorial, almost like a head stone that pays tribute to a patroller or someone else that made a big impact at the mountain.
It's been a few years since I've been there, so I'm having a hard time remembering.

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Posted: Jun 30, 2008 - 1:11 PM GMT

The train at Loon. Yes, I get the connection with the logging theme, but it is unusual for a NE ski area.

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Posted: Jun 30, 2008 - 1:20 PM GMT

Edited: Jun 30, 2008 - 9:07 PM GMT

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To telemechanic: Where is the "Cooper Lodge". I've spent a fair amount of time at Killington and never encountered it and what is (was) it used for? And the Bromley monolith: Is that the abandoned counterwieight suggested by another poster?

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The Bromley monolith is an old counterweight, you can see the old pulley assembly on top of it in the picture I shared.

Cooper Lodge is a Appalachian Trail shelter near Killington Peak. I've only been to it in Summer and Fall but I've heard skiers visit it. I know you can get to it from the true summit of Killington 0.2 of a mile down a spur trail to the A.T. but I also think you can reach it from the North Ridge Triple area.

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Posted: Jun 30, 2008 - 2:27 PM GMT

Magic has a wierd summit building at thwe top of the Black Chair that looks like a defunct snack bar.

Wildcat has the old Gondola buildings with the remains od the old 'Top Cat' snack bar.

Sugarloaf had/has(?) the old gondola mid station and top station.

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Posted: Jun 30, 2008 - 2:36 PM GMT

Bullock Lodge at Wachusett, no windows, no doors 1/4 to 1/3 the way up the hill (not used)

10th Mountain memorial plaque on stone at the top of Mt. Wachusett

Fire tower at the top of Wachusett(slightly up from the top of the summit lift).

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