What was the original name of what is now the Smugglers Notch Ski Area?
AIG founder C.V. Starr was a successful business executive who got hooked on skiing and hooked on Stowe! But he wasn’t the only successful executive to get hooked on skiing and Stowe. Thomas J. Watson Jr. was the son of… Continue Reading →
A Stowe-related trivia question to start this season off: Long before the new Spruce development began, there was a house located in the woods between the Easy Street slope and the Big Spruce access road. By the way, the house… Continue Reading →
A little over a month ago IBM announced that it was selling its Semiconductor division to Global Foundries – well actually IBM is paying Global Foundries to take the semiconductor division. This includes the IBM Burlington facility which as we… Continue Reading →
Cold weather has arrived and the snow has begun to fall! Skiing can’t be too far off. And neither can RetroSki. I plan to start columns Thanksgiving week in concert with when most Eastern (and some Western) resorts will be… Continue Reading →
It’s 4:30 in the morning as I load my skis and get in the gondola. I join a group of non-skiers already in the car. I ask them where they’re from and they tell me they’re from Fairfax, Vermont. That… Continue Reading →
When was the first Easter sunrise service held atop Mount Mansfield?
Spring skiing always brings back memories from past springs. Last week’s trivia question took us back to a warm day of spring skiing in the early 1970s in some huge bumps on Liftline. One of the first skiers in our… Continue Reading →
It’s a warm spring day in the early 1970s and by the afternoon the spring bumps on Liftline have gotten huge! One of the first skiers in our group does a spectacular face plant on the back side of one… Continue Reading →
Where did you first learn to ski? Not the first place you skied, but the place where you really learned. For a majority of Retro-Skiers the answer will be some small, family-friendly area that probably no longer is in business…. Continue Reading →
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