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The run has been argued about ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEvery spring the same thing happens. The snow in the bowl holds long after everything else in New England has gone, the parking lot fills before dawn, and several thousand people make the walk because this is the place you are supposed to go at least once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the closest thing American skiing has to a pilgrimage, and the only equipment required is a willingness to carry your own gear uphill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered. 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A mountain built for January was now selling August too, and somebody had to fit both seasons onto three inches of cloth. They did it with one curve.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt's the same trail either way. Wet or frozen, you come down it sitting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWoven, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ropetow Vintage Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57109894627633,"sku":"RV-NH-134","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/attitash-01.jpg?v=1792925851"},{"product_id":"attitash-bear-peak-sunburst-bear-c-1990s","title":"Attitash Bear Peak, Sunburst Bear — c. 1990s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Attitash Bear Peak ski patch, estimated to date from the 1990s, featuring a big orange bear lying across two purple peaks with a white eye like a porthole, orange sunrays behind him. “Attitash Bear Peak” in purple below. Arched top, white merrowed edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBear Peak opened for the 1994–95 season, built out of a never-finished project called Big Bear. The new owners put the bear in the name. In 2004 the resort quietly took it back out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe peak stayed. Only the word left. This is from the ten years when the bear got top billing, and he looks like he knows it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. 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He knew exactly where he wanted it, and he didn't wait.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA few small spots on the cream. The red has held.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ropetow Vintage Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57109894693169,"sku":"RV-NH-136","price":65.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/attitash-03.jpg?v=1792925841"},{"product_id":"attitash-bear-peak-experience-new-hampshire-c-1990s","title":"Attitash Bear Peak, Experience New Hampshire — c. 1990s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Attitash Bear Peak ski patch, estimated to date from the 1990s, featuring a yellow sun throwing stitched rays across a silver peak. “Attitash Bear Peak” in red on a silver band, “Experience” over the top, “New Hampshire” underneath. Black arch, blue sky, crisp merrowed edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the patch of a resort with a marketing department. After the 1995–96 season Attitash was folded into American Skiing Company, alongside a string of mountains across the East, and everything got a tagline.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe sun is doing a lot of work here. So is the word \"Experience.\" Somebody still drove up Route 302 in February to buy it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered, merrowed edge. 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By the time a ski area trademarks its own name, the lawyers have arrived and the hand-drawn era is over.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince 1996 Attitash has answered to three corporate owners: American Skiing Company, Peak Resorts in 2007, and Vail in 2019. The logo is clean enough to have survived all of them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. 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Red-bordered shield.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBelknap was the Belknap Mountains Recreation Area in Gilford, built in the mid-1930s with federal relief money and Works Progress Administration labor. In 1937–38 it put a single chairlift on Mt. Rowe, the first chairlift in the East. Every ski area from Vermont to Maine spent the next twenty years catching up. The lift was built with federal money in the Depression, which means the first chair in the East was, in a sense, a public works project.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1962 a double chair went to the summit of Gunstock Mountain, and the whole area took the summit's name. Belknap stopped appearing on patches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo this is a record of a name that isn't used anymore. Nobody seems to have written down why the hare is there. He's winning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. 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Belknap was the name of the park around it until 1962.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSomebody wore this until it frayed. That's not damage. That's a review.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge, fraying at lower right. Photos are the condition report.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ropetow Vintage Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57109894857009,"sku":"RV-NH-141","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/gunstock-belknap-15.jpg?v=1792925850"},{"product_id":"belknap-area-laconia-ski-jumper-c-1950s","title":"Belknap Area, Laconia, Ski Jumper — c. 1950s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Belknap Area ski patch from Laconia, New Hampshire, estimated to date from the 1950s — the name Gunstock carried before 1962 — featuring a jumper in full flight over two spruces, skis flat and parallel. BELKNAP AREA across a stitched sky, red-bordered shield in green and pale blue. Somebody chose dark green for every line of the drawing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe jumper is the point. The Belknap Mountains Recreation Area opened on February 28, 1937, with an Eastern amateur ski jumping meet. By 1949 its 40-meter hill was hosting a competition in August, and about 8,000 people came to watch men fly off a hill in summer.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBefore chairlifts were common and snowmaking was a word, this is what a ski area sold: spectacle, a long drive, and a cold seat in the stands. The patch was the souvenir. Jumping was the sport that drew crowds before downhill did.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe area is in Gilford; the patch gives the bigger town next door. The name changed to Gunstock in 1962. This patch didn't.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. 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Nobody seems to have asked what he planned to do with it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eGunstock is owned by Belknap County, the only county-owned and county-run ski area in New England. Presumably the mascot answers to the commissioners too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWoven, merrowed edge. 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A ski area that no longer had to wait on the weather got a logo to match.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe g holds up. It is still a good mark.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ropetow Vintage Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57109894955313,"sku":"RV-NH-144","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/gunstock-belknap-18.jpg?v=1792925850"},{"product_id":"gunstock-g-logo-woven-c-1970s","title":"Gunstock \"g\" Logo, Woven — c. 1970s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Gunstock ski patch, probably 1970s: the woven version of the lowercase g mark, in a lighter blue on cream with a green dot. Flatter and finer than the embroidered one, with the counter of the g left open to the cloth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCounty ownership means the ski area is also a line item, argued over in public every year. In 2022 a dispute between the county delegation and the commission that oversees the mountain ended with most of senior management resigning at once.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe lifts kept running. The g kept its cool. It has never looked like it was in a fight.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWoven, merrowed edge. 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Somebody in the marketing office looked at the word Gunstock and drew the obvious thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe rifle shows up on Gunstock patches for years after, through the decades when most ski areas were busy making themselves softer. Logos came and went around it. The rifle had a long run, longer than most ski area mascots get.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe chair here has a roof. Very few chairs in New Hampshire ever did. The artist was being kind to the riders.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. 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Plenty of American ski clubs borrowed it anyway. Club patches went to members, and this one was worn hard: frayed at the top, soiled all over, still standing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge, frayed at top. Photos are the condition report.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ropetow Vintage Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57109895053617,"sku":"RV-NH-147","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/gunstock-belknap-21.jpg?v=1792925848"},{"product_id":"gunstock-gilford-rifle-arch-c-1960s","title":"Gunstock! Gilford, Rifle Arch — c. 1960s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Gunstock ski patch from Gilford, New Hampshire, estimated to date from the 1960s, with a long rifle laid diagonally across the entire face of it. GUNSTOCK! in red outlined letters, GILFORD, H. beneath in blue, gray-green hills over a tan field. A half-round patch with a blue border.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe exclamation point is the most 1960s thing on the patch. Gunstock didn't just want you to know the name. It wanted you to say it out loud.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEarlier patches from the same hill say Laconia. This one says Gilford, which is where the mountain actually is. And the rifle runs edge to edge, longer than the hills behind it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. 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Different patch, same mountain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn October 2023 the mountain announced it was closing. A week later it wasn't. Indy Pass bought it in 2024 with a plan to run it as a cooperative. Ninety years in, it still survives on whoever shows up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWoven, merrowed edge. 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One ticket, three mountains, one long valley between them, and a week of deciding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEach brought its best lift to the patch. Wildcat's gondola opened in January 1958, billed as the first of its kind in the country. Cranmore's Skimobile had been hauling skiers up on little cars since 1938. Black brought a chair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThree competitors who decided the valley was the product. Ski areas still don't do that very often. This patch is the paperwork for the deal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWoven, merrowed edge. 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A family could buy one ticket and spend a week arguing about which mountain to ski.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe lifts are drawn in black thread, about as detailed as a road sign. Green fuzz from some other garment is caught in the left edge. It has spent time in a drawer with company.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWoven, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ropetow Vintage Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57109895250225,"sku":"RV-NH-153","price":75.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/black-wildcat-cranmore-02.jpg?v=1792925849"},{"product_id":"ski-bretton-woods-wordmark-c-1970s","title":"Ski Bretton Woods, Wordmark — c. 1970s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Bretton Woods ski patch, estimated to date from the 1970s, with “Ski Bretton Woods” stacked in black serif type and a small green cluster of stick-figure spruces off to the right. A white rectangle with a white merrowed edge. The trees are barely an inch tall.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBretton Woods opened on December 29, 1973, the newest major ski area in New England, with 1,100 feet of vertical in sight of the Presidential Range. Governor Meldrim Thomson reportedly learned to ski there the following month.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is the patch from the first winters, when the mountain was new enough to have to tell you what to do there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. 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The company behind it went bankrupt in 1975, barely a year after the first chair turned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis patch belongs to the village, the part of the dream that made it off the drawing board and into a gift shop.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWoven, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ropetow Vintage Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57109895315761,"sku":"RV-NH-155","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/bretton-woods-02.jpg?v=1792925844"},{"product_id":"bretton-woods-green-spruce-square-c-1970s","title":"Bretton Woods, Green Spruce Square — c. 1970s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Bretton Woods ski patch, probably 1970s, featuring a forest drawn with nothing but arrows pointing up, under the green spruce mark and “Bretton Woods” in soft rounded type. Square, white field, heavy green border — wider than it needs to be, which makes it look like a badge you earned.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe developer behind the mountain, Mt. Washington Development Co., went bankrupt in 1975, a year after opening day. At the time it was the largest bankruptcy New Hampshire had ever seen.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe lifts kept turning anyway. The arrows on the trees still point up. Somebody believed that.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. 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Split in 1988, back together in 1997, sold together in 2006, then to Omni in 2015.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe trees on the patch never had to sign anything.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ropetow Vintage Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57109895381297,"sku":"RV-NH-157","price":60.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/bretton-woods-04.jpg?v=1792925843"},{"product_id":"brickyard-mountain-laconia-oval-c-1970s","title":"Brickyard Mountain, Laconia, Oval — c. 1970s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Brickyard Mountain ski patch, probably 1970s, featuring an olive arch rising out of a red brick wall with three spruces on top and a small red skier tucked inside it. BRICKYARD MOUNTAIN, LACONIA H. in olive below. A woven oval in red; the olive and red is a strange pairing that works.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBrickyard began in the 1960s as a lighted rope tow behind the Shangri-La Resort Motel at Weirs Beach, on the shore of Lake Winnipesaukee. In 1970 the motel was sold and renamed the Brickyard Mountain Inn, and the hill took the name too.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor the 1976–77 season it got a double chair, 1,357 feet long, serving 392 feet of vertical. A weekend lift ticket was six dollars. Night skiing under lights, snowmaking, a ski school and rentals, all at the end of a motel parking lot.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt closed sometime in the early 1980s. A housing development went in on the site in the 2000s, and little of the ski area is left. The brick wall on the patch has outlasted it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWoven, merrowed edge. 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Ski areas have always lived on each other's parts. Terry Tyler, who had founded Maple Valley in Vermont, ran the place in its first years as a ski area.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe next season it raised tickets from six dollars to ten and capped sales at 500 people a day. A second chairlift was proposed. Nobody has found proof it was ever built.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou learned to ski here if your parents happened to pick the right motel on Lake Winnipesaukee. Not a bad way to start.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. 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We're listing it as the record it is.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBrookline skied on Potanipo Hill, just over the Massachusetts line, from the winter of 1935–36, when a gas-powered rope tow made it one of the first lift-served ski areas in New England. It added a T-bar in 1962, became Big Bear in 1973 and Musket Mountain in 1982, and closed after the 1983–84 season. Vertical was about 600 feet, plenty for a weekend out of Nashua or Lowell.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSince 1996 the old slopes have held the Andres Institute of Art. Dozens of sculptures stand where the trails were. Art on the old fall line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWoven, merrowed edge. 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It never came. The vertical was about 600 feet, enough to teach a town to ski.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1976 the snowmaking system burned, and the area fell behind on its property taxes through the rest of the decade. Two new names and several owners later, it closed for good after the 1983–84 season.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe skier here is going faster than 600 feet of vertical ever let anyone go. That's what patches were for.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge, fraying at right. 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It carried riders for forty-two years before a second tram replaced it in 1980. Before the tram, Cannon's skiers climbed. After it, they rode to the top of a 4,080-foot mountain in a few minutes and looked down on Franconia Notch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIf this patch is from the 1960s, the car in the middle is the original. The clouds are two stitches of blue each, which is all a cloud needs.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhoever designed it left out the skiers, the trails and the mountain itself. They knew which part people drove up from Boston to see.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. 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It sits inside Franconia Notch State Park, and every lift on it is public property, which makes it a rare thing in American skiing: a big mountain owned by the people who ski it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe patch spells out the state like a license plate. Fair enough. It's their tram.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. 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The Richard Taft Race Course was cut in 1931–32, when getting to the top meant walking.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe silver thread across the cliffs is the best detail here. Somebody tried to stitch granite and nearly got away with it. The skier hasn't looked up at the tram once. Racers never do.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. 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CANNON MT. \/ FRANCONIA \/ NEW HAMPSHIRE in red on a black-bordered woven shield.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere's a twin to this patch in the catalog with a red tram and brighter green trees. Same layout, same skier. Woven patches came off the loom in long runs, and changing two colors of thread between runs made a different patch without redrawing a thing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWe don't know which ran first. This is the quieter one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWoven, merrowed edge. 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The weave is fine enough to show the beard hair by hair.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMittersill was named for a castle. Schloss Mittersill sits in the Austrian Alps, and in the mid-1930s it belonged to Baron Hubert von Pantz, a young heir to an iron fortune. He fled the Nazis at the end of the decade, came to New Hampshire, and in February 1942 opened a rope tow in Franconia under the castle's name.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eHe meant to rebuild an Austrian resort next to Cannon. The first advertisements called it Franconia Mittersill. The crest on his patches came out of that world, and the M under it is the ski area's own initial.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere's no name on this patch. Just the beast and the M. Mittersill's lifts went quiet in 1984, and in 2009 its terrain became part of Cannon, so the crest is Cannon's now. If you skied there, you knew.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWoven, merrowed edge. 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Baron's Run was cut two years later. The Baron collected firsts and near-firsts the way some people collect patches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor all that, snow was the Baron's running argument with the world. So was the state, which ran Cannon right next door. In 1963 he said that if the state didn't want to cooperate with private enterprise, it might as well buy him out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEventually it did, more or less. It took about forty-five years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. 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A trail connected Cannon's Peabody Slopes to Mittersill as early as 1956–57, but one was public and one was private, and they stayed that way for decades. Neighbors, then rivals, then one mountain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMittersill's National Forest permit ran out in 1984 and its lifts went quiet. In 2009 a land swap folded the terrain into Cannon, and a new double chair opened in January 2011. It's skiable again, part racing venue, part public terrain, with Baron's Run widened in 2014.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe patch had them together fifty years early.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWoven, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ropetow Vintage Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57109895807281,"sku":"RV-NH-170","price":125.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/cannon-mittersill-01.jpg?v=1792925848"},{"product_id":"mittersill-crossed-skis-franconia-n-h-c-1960s","title":"Mittersill, Crossed Skis, Franconia N.H. — c. 1960s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Mittersill ski patch, estimated to date from the 1960s, featuring a red heraldic shield holding a white bird over a white M, with yellow skis and poles crossed behind it. MITTERSILL in red across the top, FRANCONIA H. curving along the bottom, pale blue field. The yellow thread on the skis has kept its color better than anything else on the patch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMittersill was a serious place built by a man with a sense of occasion. In 1952 it hosted a tennis match on skates, Billy Talbert against Pancho Segura, two of the best players in the country. That was a Mittersill idea. Only a ski area run by a baron would have thought of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe heraldry is pure Austria. The crossed skis are pure postwar New England. Somebody wanted both on three inches of twill, and the embroiderer made it fit. It looks like a family crest a pair of skis wandered into.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe skiing stopped in 1984. The crest outlasted it, and so did this.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ropetow Vintage Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57109895840049,"sku":"RV-NH-171","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/mittersill-03.jpg?v=1792925849"},{"product_id":"crotched-mountain-cm-monogram-c-1980s","title":"Crotched Mountain, CM Monogram — c. 1980s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Crotched Mountain ski patch, estimated to date from the 1980s, featuring a big CM monogram — the C rounded, the M two hard peaks — over CROTCHED MOUNTAIN in slab serif. A square of white twill with a navy border. Navy on white and nothing else, which in the 1980s took restraint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis is a logo from the ambitious years. Through the 1980s Crotched ran both faces of the mountain, east and west, and from 1980–81 it marketed the result as the largest ski area in southern New Hampshire. Two base lodges, two sets of lifts, one name on the jacket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThen the bill came. In October 1989 the company filed for Chapter 11 with $13.9 million in debt against $7.5 million in assets. Local investors ran it one more season. Both sides closed in 1990. The debt was nearly double what the place was worth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe monogram looks built to last. It was right about the letters, anyway. The name came back in 2003, on the other side of the mountain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. 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It went to foreclosure, became Bobcat in 1977, and in 1979 was bought by the people who ran Crotched and renamed Crotched West.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe ski area running today is that west side, reopened in 2003. The Crotched on this patch is the other one. Same name, different face of the mountain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ropetow Vintage Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57109895905585,"sku":"RV-NH-173","price":85.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/crotched-mountain-02.jpg?v=1792925850"},{"product_id":"ski-crotched-red-wave-embroidered-c-1960s","title":"Ski Crotched, Red Wave, Embroidered — c. 1960s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Crotched Mountain ski patch, estimated to date from the 1960s, featuring a red wave that is half ski slope and half pennant, wrapping around itself. SKI stitched in white down the curl, CROTCHED in white block letters along the base. A navy oval with a cream merrowed edge; the red is dense and raised, the white letters sitting on top of it like paint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eLift-served skiing on Crotched Mountain began in the winter of 1963–64, on the northeastern shoulder of a 2,066-foot mountain in southern New Hampshire. Close enough to Boston for a day trip, high enough to be worth the drive. That was the business plan for a lot of hills in the state.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis side, Crotched East, ran until 1990. Its trails and lifts haven't been used since. The ski area that opened in 2003 under the same name is around the other side.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo this is a patch from a ski area that is still open and also isn't. New Hampshire has a few of those.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ropetow Vintage Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57109895938353,"sku":"RV-NH-174","price":95.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/crotched-mountain-03.jpg?v=1792925850"},{"product_id":"ski-crotched-blue-wave-woven-c-1960s","title":"Ski Crotched, Blue Wave, Woven — c. 1960s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Crotched Mountain ski patch, estimated to date from the 1960s: the same SKI CROTCHED wave as the embroidered version, woven this time in two blues on cream inside a round light-blue border.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThis one has been through it. The cream carries heavy brown staining, the border has gone fuzzy, and the blues have faded toward gray. It looks like it rode on a hat for several winters and then sat in a damp garage for several more.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt costs less than its cleaner sibling. It has also skied more. The mark is from the Crotched East years, the side of the mountain where the lifts stopped in 1990.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWoven, merrowed edge, heavy staining. 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It had lifts, trails and a lodge, and it said so.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSkier visits peaked in 1987–88, at about 117,000. Two winters later the company was in bankruptcy. The sign on the patch never mentions any of that. Signs don't.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. 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Somebody sat with this one a while.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 2003 Peak Resorts spent a reported $10 million rebuilding the old west side and reopened it as Crotched Mountain on December 20. Vail bought Peak in 2019. The east side, the one this patch was made for, stayed closed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWoven, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ropetow Vintage Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57109896036657,"sku":"RV-NH-177","price":80.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/crotched-mountain-06.jpg?v=1792925850"},{"product_id":"the-highlands-northfield-gray-c-1970s","title":"The Highlands, Northfield, Gray — c. 1970s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage ski patch from The Highlands, Northfield, New Hampshire, probably 1970s, featuring a gold loop of thread hanging over the summit that looks like either a lasso or a halo. Two white embroidered peaks with a dark lift line between them, a blue trail snaking down to NORTHFIELD, , tall gold script. Round, cream merrowed edge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Highlands opened in late December 1968 on the north face of Bean Hill, southeast of Tilton, with two T-bars, two rope tows, night skiing and six miles of trail. The Elliott family built it and ran it, and they were early in aerial skiing, which is a strange résumé for a family hill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere was no snowmaking for years. In 1979–80 it reportedly didn't run at all. The power was cut in 1993. The last season was 1994–95.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eToday it's Highland Mountain Bike Park. The triple chair carries bikes now, and the trails have jumps on them. The family hill found a second life on two wheels.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. 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Most were sold, sewn on, washed and eventually thrown out. This one wasn't. The cellophane is clear, the header card is intact, and the hole at the top is where it hung on a peg behind a counter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe Highlands closed after the 1994–95 season. The hill is a bike park now.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSo this is the closest thing left to the counter at the base lodge: the patch exactly as it hung there, waiting for somebody who'd had a good day.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWoven, merrowed edge, unopened retail package. 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The Hoyt family had been running the place since long before anyone there skied.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWhen King Ridge went to auction in 1995, one of its triple chairs came here. Two kings, one chair. The pine is the one still standing.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ropetow Vintage Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57109896134961,"sku":"RV-NH-180","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/king-pine-01.jpg?v=1792925851"},{"product_id":"purity-spring-resort-hot-dogger-c-1970s","title":"Purity Spring Resort, Hot Dogger — c. 1970s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Purity Spring Resort ski patch, estimated to date from the 1970s, featuring a red-sweatered skier doing something athletic and slightly alarming: one ski kicked straight up over his head, both poles flung wide. Red block lettering fills a cream shield with a matching stitched border.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePurity Spring was a New Hampshire water business first. The Hoyt family was advertising cottages with \"the purest water in the world\" by 1902, and in 1938 they put a rope tow on the slope below Bald Ledge for their summer camp. The ski area grew from there.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe skier here is attempting a move that would have gotten a camper sent back to his cabin.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. 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