Franconia N.H., Cannon and Mittersill Split Shield — c. 1960s

A vintage Franconia, New Hampshire ski patch, estimated to date from the 1960s, showing two mountains on one shield: Cannon on the left with a red tram car on its cable over green woods, Mittersill on the right with the horned crest in green above a white M. A stitched red line runs straight down the border between them.

Two ski areas on one mountainside, drawn as neighbors who share a fence. That's about right. 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.

Mittersill'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.

The patch had them together fifty years early.

Woven, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.