Pleasant Mt. Ski School Patch, Bridgton — c. 1960s

A vintage Pleasant Mt. Ski School patch from Bridgton, Maine, estimated to date from the 1960s, featuring a brown eagle with its wings spread, riding a single white ski across the snow. Arched shield, red merrowed border, PLEASANT MT. in navy across a blue sky, SKI and SCHOOL in red either side of the bird, BRIDGTON, MAINE arched along the bottom.

An eagle. On a ski. Not above a skier, not beside one — ripping arcs, wings out. Somebody drew this on a deadline in the early sixties and then went home, and nobody at the mountain ever asked them to explain it.

This one came with the job: instructors got it when they were hired and wore it every working day of the season, outdoors, in Maine, in winter. The ones that survive are the ones somebody kept in a drawer after they stopped teaching.

Pleasant Mountain has been running above Moose Pond since the thirties, and in that time it has been called Pleasant Mountain, then Shawnee Peak, then Pleasant Mountain again. This patch is from the first stretch, before any of that started.

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