{"product_id":"vintage-stratton-mountain-embroidered-patch","title":"Stratton Mountain Patch (Trail Map) — c. 1970s","description":"\u003cp\u003eA vintage Stratton Mountain ski patch, estimated to date from the 1970s, featuring the mountain drawn as its own trail map — white runs fanning down a grey face into a row of green firs, under a maroon band and a black one carrying STRATTON in white letterspaced caps, the A doubling as a summit. Pointed shield, black merrowed border, a small TM at the shoulder.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePutting the trail network on the merchandise is a particular kind of confidence. Most mountains sold you a snowflake or a skier or a nice idea about winter. This one sold you the terrain, on the assumption that you had skied it and would recognize it, which in 1975 at Stratton was a reasonable assumption to make.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThose are not playful colors. They are the colors of an institution, and Stratton has always carried itself a notch more formally than the mountains around it — the ski academy opened here in 1972, and the place has produced competitive skiers in volume ever since.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eYou can read the whole posture off three thread colors and a shield outline. Nobody at Mad River Glen was picking maroon.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eSki academies were a new idea then and a slightly controversial one — the notion that a teenager might arrange their whole education around a sport with no professional league worth speaking of. It worked out for a surprising number of them.\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":56978828624177,"sku":"RV-VT-003","price":40.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0996\/2048\/7473\/files\/ropetow-vintage-co-stratton-mountain-patch.webp?v=1792340300","url":"https:\/\/ropetowvintage.com\/products\/vintage-stratton-mountain-embroidered-patch","provider":"Ropetow Vintage","version":"1.0","type":"link"}