{"product_id":"vintage-mad-river-glen-embroidered-ski-patch-1","title":"Mad River Glen Round Patch, Felt — c. 1960s-70s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Mad River Glen ski patch from Fayston, Vermont, estimated to date from the 1960s or 70s, cut from a round of green felt with no border at all — the edge simply where the felt stops. The snowflake and fir worked in cream, MAD RIVER GLEN in red across the middle.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn 1995 the skiers bought the mountain. Not a corporation, not a holding company — the people who skied there, organized into a cooperative, several thousand of them holding shares in a ski area that was never going to make any of them a cent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt is still the arrangement. Which means the decisions get made by vote, and the votes have come out, over and over, in favor of leaving things alone. Keep the 1948 lift. Keep the natural snow. Keep the trails narrow. A corporate owner would have bulldozed half of it by 1998 and put in a quad.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThere is no other ski area in America that works this way. This patch is from a place that is, structurally, a protest.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIt should not work. A cooperative owning a capital-intensive business with weather risk and an aging lift is, on paper, a terrible idea, and every consultant who has ever looked at it has said so. It has now outlasted most of the professionally managed ski areas that were operating in Vermont when it started.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eEmbroidered on felt, cut edge, no applied border. Photos are the condition report.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ropetow Vintage Co.","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55920382869809,"sku":"RV-VT-063","price":45.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/ropetow-vintage-co-mad-river-glen-ski-patch_2fa2ea3a-f1dc-4052-8521-23d07dae391e.webp?v=1787703309","url":"https:\/\/ropetowvintage.com\/products\/vintage-mad-river-glen-embroidered-ski-patch-1","provider":"Ropetow Vintage","version":"1.0","type":"link"}