NY Lost Ski Areas

[Warp daddy]

It's a great read iha e

Lost ski areas of the Southern Adirondacks is a great read. Wanted a couple years ago really enjoyed it I also have the northern Adirondack version too. I also bought a book last year which is a history of Snow ridge which was the closest hill to where I grew up as a kid in New Hartford New York . Really cool book can't remember the title now .

White Magic : by Bronny Davis very cool read with lots o pics

 

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[Peter Minde]

The first or second year I was skiing, my friends and I drove to Cortina. My friends talked them into letting us ski on the nordic skis we brought. I fell every 50 feet or so.

Too bad Cortina couldn't co-exist as a feeder hill. In Saranac Lake, we have Mount Pisgah, a municipally owned hill that's a perfect alpine starter hill. 330 feet of vert; a day pass is $25.00. I might have to take a lesson there.

Dewey Mt nordic, also municipally owned. Season pass is a whopping $55.00.

 

[jasonwx]

I remember skiing there after Hunter got 3'.. Everyone and their grandmother was going to Hunter. The line to get in started by the nightclub/Chinese restaurant.. We turned around and went to Cortina...They didn't get 3ft but we still had a great time with no crowds... Sheep will be sheep.. I'm glad i saw the light..

 

[Harvey]

I might have to take a lesson there.

That would be a great story.

 

[SayvilleSteve]

I skied there once in 93 or 94. Reminded me a bit of the southern side of West Mountain. Especially the way you came off the lift and skied to the right and then looped back to the base.

 

[Deez]

Anybody skied Alpine Meadows in Greenfield NY in the 80's ?

 

[Green light]

Anybody skied Alpine Meadows in Greenfield NY in the 80's ?

We used to race there in high school. Nice little local hill.

 

[Green light]

That was in the early 70s

 

[Nor'easter Love]

Anybody skied Alpine Meadows in Greenfield NY in the 80's ?

Skied it once as a little kid, barely remember. Not very steeps, lots of t-bars. Went under because they didn't own all the land. They wanted to buy it all up and modernize, but it never happened. Too bad, it would've been a good family mountain. Also, the summit warming hut had a wooden cutout of Snoopy as flying ace on the top. That I did remember!