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Black Mountain Resort
Jackson, New Hampshire
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Black Mountain Resort: South Peak | Upper Mountain
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| Upper Mountain - 1965 - Open |
The 1972 trail map showing the double and T-Bar |
With other areas in the Eastern Slope region quickly growing and modernizing, Black ran the risk of getting left behind in the dust. While it had enjoyed years of being a top ski area in the region, new upstarts such as Wildcat, Tyrol, and Attitash were sprouting up.
In 1965 Black installed its first chairlift. A Mueller double, the new lift would climb 1,100 vertical feet over the course of running 4,360 feet. A unloading station would be installed adjacent to the top of the T-Bar at the Knoll, above which the new chair climbed about 200 more vertical feet. New trails were opened, including some very steep, short expert chutes.
After a fire decades later, much of the lift was replaced with Riblet parts.
The bottom terminal of the Summit Double (2008)
A Riblet grip (2008)
Approaching the unloading station (2008)
The unloading station at the top of the present day triple chairlift (2007)
The Summit Double (2008)
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| South Peak - Proposed |
A 1980s USGS topographic map of Black Mountain |
While Black Mountain has been operating as an 1,100 vertical foot ski area since 1965, it has the ability to expand upward.
An uphill expansion from the current top terminal of the double chairlift to the 2,575 foot southern subpeak of Black Mountain would increase the ski area's vertical drop by about 300 feet to about 1,400 feet. It is thought that a separate lift would be used to access the peak, rather than extending one of the existing chairlifts.
It is not known when this project may come to fruition.
Black Mountain ski area and the subpeak as seen from South Doublehead (2008)
The top of the summit double (2008)
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Black Mountain - NewEnglandSkiHistory.com
Black Mountain Resort - official site
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Last updated: November 27, 2010
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