Brickyard Mountain, Laconia, Oval — c. 1970s

A 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.

Brickyard 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.

For 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.

It 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.

Woven, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.