Crotched Mountain Ski Area, Signboard — c. 1970s

A vintage Crotched Mountain Ski Area patch, probably 1970s, built around a cream signboard notched at the top — the sign at the end of the access road, stitched in miniature. “Crotched Mountain Ski Area” in red inside it, on a red field cut as a stretched octagon with a cream border.

"Ski Area" is doing honest work there. Not a resort, not a mountain experience. It had lifts, trails and a lodge, and it said so.

Skier 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.

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