Loon Mountain, Octagon, Brown and Orange — c. 1970s

A vintage Loon Mountain ski patch, probably 1970s, built as a chocolate-brown octagon with a woven loon flying across an orange sky over a white hill. LOON MOUNTAIN in brown block letters beneath it. The octagon has a hand-cut look, not quite symmetrical.

Loon was built by Sherman Adams, former governor of New Hampshire and former chief of staff to President Eisenhower, who opened it in December 1966 and worked on the mountain himself during construction. A man who had run the White House decided his next job was cutting trails in Lincoln.

Brown and orange is the 1970s talking. Woven, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.