Black Mountain, Jackson New Hampshire, T-Bar — c. 1960s

A vintage Black Mountain ski patch, estimated to date from the 1960s, featuring two skiers — one in red, one in blue — riding a yellow T-bar up a cream slope past a wooden lift tower and five white spruces. JACKSON NEW HAMPSHIRE curves around the bottom of an arched pale blue shield.

Black Mountain is the oldest lift-served ski area in New Hampshire, skiing since 1935–36. Its first rope tow existed to get guests of Moody's Inn up the hill. Around 1937 Bill Whitney swapped the hanging ropes for shovel handles bought from Sears, and the shovel handle tow was born.

The T-bar on this patch came later, in 1948, and a newer one in 1960. A triple chair replaced it in 1984. By then Black also had a chair. The T-bar kept running anyway, because people kept riding it.

Two people, one bar, nobody falling off. It's the most optimistic thing ever stitched in Jackson.

Embroidered on twill, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.