{"product_id":"vintage-carinthia-ski-area-embroidered-patch-1","title":"Carinthia Patch (Star Emblem) — c. 1970s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Carinthia Ski Area patch from Wilmington, Vermont, estimated to date from the 1970s, featuring the name in heavy red serif lettering with a four-pointed star burst set against the last letter. Cream twill, rounded corners, SKI AREA in small block caps underneath, the whole thing ringed in a red merrowed border.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCarinthia is a province in southern Austria, and in the 1960s somebody in Wilmington, Vermont decided that was the right name for a small independent ski area on the shoulder of a hill in the Deerfield Valley. The whole period worked like that. If you wanted skiing to sound serious, you borrowed a word from somewhere with real mountains.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt ran on its own for roughly two decades — modest, separate, with its own lifts, its own ticket and its own patches. Mount Snow bought it in 1986.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe name survived the sale, which is the part that makes this strange. There is still a Carinthia at Mount Snow. It is the terrain park. Teenagers ride there on a thing named after an Austrian province by way of an independent ski area none of them has heard of, and the chain of custody runs straight through this patch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is the only case in this catalog of a lost ski area's name outliving the ski area by forty years and counting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on twill, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ropetow Vintage Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56978782945585,"sku":"RV-VT-034","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/ropetow-vintage-co-carinthia-ski-patch_4fd1f8ec-5270-412f-95c4-bec32f4d5a67.webp?v=1792339604","url":"https:\/\/ropetowvintage.com\/products\/vintage-carinthia-ski-area-embroidered-patch-1","provider":"Ropetow Vintage","version":"1.0","type":"link"}