Smugglers’ Notch Patch (Three Peaks) — c. 1980s

A vintage Smugglers' Notch ski patch, estimated to date from the 1980s, featuring the same three triangles with the red swapped for pink — green, blue, pink — over SMUGGLERS' NOTCH in blue with a rule either side and V-E-R-M-O-N-T letterspaced underneath. Rectangular, cream ground, blue merrowed border. The pink dates it to within about four years.

Pink on a ski patch dates the thing to within about four years. The eighties got everywhere, including to the far side of a notch that closes under snow every winter and leaves the mountain at the end of a road to nowhere.

Smugglers' has never been the easiest place in Vermont to reach, and for a long stretch its clientele was exactly the sort of family that considered that a feature.

By the time this was made the mountain had been running for roughly thirty years and had settled firmly into being what it still is.

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