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The museum was designed to preserve the history of commercial and recreational skiing, both alpine and cross-country, in the northeastern United States. It is one of four ski museums in the United States that are recognized by the United States Ski and Snowboard Association .
The site has grown over the years to list 605 closed New England ski areas and 82 outside the region (as of 2022). [1] [2] The project's data is collected from a variety of sources, including old brochures, ski area guides, personal stories, and recent visits. NELSAP has an alliance with the New England Ski Museum.
The ravine is named after botanist Edward Tuckerman who studied alpine plants and lichens in the area in the 1830s and 1840s. According to the New England Ski Museum, the first recorded use of skis on Mount Washington was by a Dr. Wiskott of Breslau, Germany, who skied on the mountain in 1899, while the first skier in Tuckerman Ravine was John S. Apperson of Schenectady, New York, in April 1914.
New Hampshire spots ranked in best apres-ski bar, best snow tubing place, best ski resort and best cross-sountry ski resort.
Eight peaks, 139 trails, a network of 19 lifts and 884 acres of skiable terrain make up Sunday River Resort in Maine’s mountainous Newry, including the new-for-2023, high-speed Barker 6 ski lift ...
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Cranmore was founded by local businessman Harvey Gibson and opened for the 1937–1938 season with a single rope tow. [1] For the 1938–1939 season, a new lift, dubbed the Skimobile, which consisted of small cars traveling on a wooden track and was designed by area mechanic George Morton, was installed, rising from the base to about halfway up the mountain. [1]
No major winter storms are on the horizon for the Northeast or New England into the first week of February, but with a solid snowpack already in place across interior New England, ski resorts will ...