Stowe Spruce Peak Patch (Two Skiers) — c. 1960s-70s

A vintage Stowe ski patch, estimated to date from the 1960s or 70s, featuring two skiers riding a double chair above a white snowfield — one in red with an arm up, one in white — with grey peaks behind them. Arched shield, red merrowed border, Stowe in white script with VERMONT beside it, SPRUCE PEAK in black block caps at the base.

Spruce was always the other mountain — lower, gentler, less weather, and about a third as famous as the hill across the road. It is where Stowe taught people. Whole generations made their first linked turns over there while their parents were busy getting beaten up on Mansfield.

Nobody puts the beginner hill on a patch anymore. Somebody did here, and did it without apologising for it, which is the correct attitude toward the place where everybody starts.

The chair in the picture is long gone. The job it did is still being done, a few hundred yards away, by something faster.

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