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Harvey Mountain Ski Area

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Harvey Mountain is in our back yard (front yard really) and we’ve spent a lot of time skiing on her flanks and summit. Zelda had her first winter camping experience up there.

We’ve known for years that from the southeast facing cliffs on Harvey, you can see the faint remains of an old ski area over at the base of South Mountain. It wasn’t until I found NELSAP did I realize that what we were seeing was called the Harvey Mountain Ski Area.

The following is excerpted from the work of Jeremy Davis of NELSAP – the New England Lost Ski Areas Project.

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Ski Gear Lust: Winter 08-09

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Skis: I’d love to check out something a little stiffer and floatier than my K2 World Piste’s. Those Atomics above – the RT 86 – to me, looks like the next step. I thinking they will be a little harder to handle in the trees, but better on hardpack and in powder. This ski will challenge the intermediate skier that is still left in me.

Atomic RT-86

Measurements are 176 cm in length and cut at 128-86-114. I’m a quiver-of-one kind of guy. I don’t want to have to think about what ski I am taking to the mountain. I want “my skis” to mean that one pair I’ve always got with me. I guess if I go to these RTs, I could run on a quiver of 1.5…bringing out the World Pistes when the trees are still good, but beaten out. Maybe. If I like these new skis, I’ll probably use them all the time.

K2 Dawn Patrol

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Copperfield Inn in North Creek Reopens

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Copperfield Inn North CreekAccording to sources in town and an article that ran in The Chronicle, Albany Times Union, and other outlets, the Copperfield Inn will reopen. The hotel is North Creek’s largest accommodation and had a great, casual restaurant and bar which had been called Trappers. It is expected that the hotel and restaurant will retain their original names.

In addition, “the Gardens restaurant will open as an Italian themed restaurant, currently unnamed.” Sources say that the hotel and restaurant are targeting year-end for a closing date and Feb 1, 2009 as the date for re-opening.

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