SUNY Cobleskill had a decent sized tbar/rope tow ski area. I believe all the facilities still exists, it just has not operated as a ski hill in many years.
Word Of Life Bible Institute up in the Adirondacks had and may still have a rope tow for student use.
Tell me about that one. I don't even have that listed on my NY lost & open list.
I just looked at the topo and aerial photo of the site and there's a possible slope on the southeast face of the hill just north of the campus. It shows as a clearing on the topo with possibly 100 vertical feet. The clearing looks smaller on the aerial; if it's a slope it's most likely overgrown.
I respectively say again, the Cardigan Mountain School. NELSAP was there 14 years ago, so his linkies aren't as up to date as mine.
That last link sure looks like an operating rope tow in 2017. Looks like fun! And before you say it, there is a snowboard in one pic...even though no one is wearing it.
Friend of mine learned to ski on a plastic slope at Kean College in NJ. If you're going to count the synthetic slopes, perhaps it was more common than we might've thought -- especially in the NJ area as one of the leading manufacturers was located in the state.
None of these NJ slopes were nearly as fully realized as Mt Aggie or Liberty Snowflex
Friend of mine learned to ski on a plastic slope at Kean College in NJ. If you're going to count the synthetic slopes, perhaps it was more common than we might've thought -- especially in the NJ area as one of the leading manufacturers was located in the state.
None of these NJ slopes were nearly as fully realized as Mt Aggie or Liberty Snowflex
Friend of mine learned to ski on a plastic slope at Kean College in NJ. If you're going to count the synthetic slopes, perhaps it was more common than we might've thought -- especially in the NJ area as one of the leading manufacturers was located in the state.
None of these NJ slopes were nearly as fully realized as Mt Aggie or Liberty Snowflex
At what school is Mt. Aggie?
Texas A&M. Skied it although it was not lift serviced.
The Gow School in South Wales (right next to Emery Park) had a small ski hill and rope tow for years. Our high and low ropes courses are next to it. They even built a half pipe on it after the rope tow went away.
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The Gow School in South Wales (right next to Emery Park) had a small ski hill and rope tow for years. Our high and low ropes courses are next to it. They even built a half pipe on it after the rope tow went away.
Is this different from the Emery Park Ski Area (Operated by Erie County Parks and Recreation)?
The Gow School in South Wales (right next to Emery Park) had a small ski hill and rope tow for years. Our high and low ropes courses are next to it. They even built a half pipe on it after the rope tow went away.
Is this different from the Emery Park Ski Area (Operated by Erie County Parks and Recreation)?
Yes it is. If you look on Google, you'll see the school at the end of Route 400. Move down Emery Road and it crosses a small creek and there's a straight cut going east-west with a narrow center. That's the old rope tow. The line ran along the southern side.
Emery Park is just to the north and the T-bar line is visible. As I recall it's lighted at night. Next time I get back that way I will take photos. I'll also email some friends who work there for more information. Dunno when the school stopped using it.
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I think it closed not long before i taught there---1992. We had just started to take the students to Kissing Bridge to ski and were working out the logistics of moving 160 teenagers and gear to and from the mountain twice a week.
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In New York, 2 separate locations in Oneonta, Cobbleskill
Russ: The Lostny site shows 2 locations in Oneonta, one operated by the City and one by the College. Is there another area with the college and if yes, what can you tell us about it??
For Cobleskill, all I have is Cobleskill College (Frederic Bennett Rec. Area). Is there another area and if so, what can you tell us about it?
St John's University in MN had one in the early 60s when I was in school there. Initially the rope tow was powered by a Model A and later an electric motor.
Not sure if NU had two hills. Lybrand is a trail off of skier's right that runs perpendicular to the main line of the chair. It tied back into the area through a long walking trail that brought skiers to a field north of the quarry. The actual trail was gnarly with a lot of natural mounds of dirt and rocks that were more or less natural moguls. Can't see how there would be a lift there and the access for the lift would not be served by vehicles.
My old patrol director there, Sam Robinson, passed on a while ago. If anyone knew, he would've had the scoop. I can reach out to the University to try and find out but they didn't preserve much of the areas history. They weren't even sure where all of the equipment went when the area closed down.
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Norwich University: It appears that there may have been 3 different ski areas on Paine mountain at different times in history. Definitely an early rope tow near where the chairlift was, and the Lybrand ski area on the North side, which was absorbed by the development of the Goodrich Ski Area, which had the Hall double and the Poma lift. I know for a fact that there were 2 separate ski jumps, one on the Lybrand side and the one parallel to the Poma lift on the front side. From this article it appears there was a third small hill with a rope tow.
Wow, that's wicked cool, Teigh! I think I need to skulk around the Guidon more often.
Your posting made me think about ski jumps in general. There seemed to have been a lot around for a while-- I know there was one even at Harwood Union High School in Duxbury as I've walked that hill. Was jumping that big of a deal back then?
Has anyone here actually gone off of those jumps either for the heck of it or trained to do so? Anyone seen the jumping competition in Brattleboro?
Oops-- I guess Harwood was not mentioned in lists of schools who had areas-- does a jump count? I think there was a tow as well.
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Has anyone here actually gone off of those jumps either for the heck of it or trained to do so? Anyone seen the jumping competition in Brattleboro?
Oops-- I guess Harwood was not mentioned in lists of schools who had areas-- does a jump count? I think there was a tow as well.
yes, the jump comp in Bratt is amazing, I try to get there every year! Yes, Harwood had a tow, remnants are still in the woods up there at the top of the hill. (or at least they were when I lived in the MRV 11 years ago!) D
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I respectively say again, the Cardigan Mountain School. NELSAP was there 14 years ago, so his linkies aren't as up to date as mine.
That last link sure looks like an operating rope tow in 2017. Looks like fun! And before you say it, there is a snowboard in one pic...even though no one is wearing it.
http://www.nelsap.org/nh/cardiganschool.html
http://www.nelsap.org/nh/pinnaclecanaan.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardigan_Mountain_School
https://cardigan.smugmug.com/January-2017/Sixth-Grade-Snow-Fun/
Indiana University of Pennsylvania had a ski slope with two rope tows. No snowmaking. Ran till the 90's
http://www.dcski.com/lostareas/viewlostprofile.php?id=24
In New York, 2 separate locations in Oneonta, Cobbleskill
My old patrol director there, Sam Robinson, passed on a while ago. If anyone knew, he would've had the scoop. I can reach out to the University to try and find out but they didn't preserve much of the areas history. They weren't even sure where all of the equipment went when the area closed down.
www.norwichguidon.com Paine-Mountain-before-and-after-
Your posting made me think about ski jumps in general. There seemed to have been a lot around for a while-- I know there was one even at Harwood Union High School in Duxbury as I've walked that hill. Was jumping that big of a deal back then?
Has anyone here actually gone off of those jumps either for the heck of it or trained to do so? Anyone seen the jumping competition in Brattleboro?
Yes, Harwood had a tow, remnants are still in the woods up there at the top of the hill. (or at least they were when I lived in the MRV 11 years ago!)
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