Mittersill, Chalet and Crest — c. 1960s

A vintage Mittersill ski patch, probably 1960s, featuring the whole resort rendered in miniature below the horned crest: a timbered chalet, a snowy bowl, a lift line climbing past evergreens, and trail markers each about the size of a grain of rice. A tall red-bordered shield in two pieces.

Mittersill advertised the highest-elevation rope tow in the East. In 1946–47 it put in the second T-bar in New Hampshire. Snowmaking came in 1957, and in 1966 a double chair pushed the vertical to 1,500 feet. Baron's Run was cut two years later. The Baron collected firsts and near-firsts the way some people collect patches.

For all that, snow was the Baron's running argument with the world. So was the state, which ran Cannon right next door. In 1963 he said that if the state didn't want to cooperate with private enterprise, it might as well buy him out.

Eventually it did, more or less. It took about forty-five years.

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