Suicide Six

Suicide Six

Suicide Six is the name of a ski resort in Woodstock, Vermont. It has some claim to historical fame as a very early ski resort and in 1934, an improvised rope tow, said to be the first ski lift in the Eastern United States. The rope tow was set up by Bunny Bertram on Gilbert's Hill, and powered with a Ford Model T engine. Bertram once joked that to ski down the nearby Hill No. 6 would be suicide. Two years later the resort was opened using this name and photos of Bertram can be seen in the resort museum in the base lodge. Devotees of ski mountaineering and backcountry skiing mark this as the beginning of the divergence of resort skiing and traditional backcountry skiing.

External links

* [http://www.woodstockinn.com/vermont-ski-resort.php Suicide Six home page]


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