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Mt. (Ludlow, Vt.) ski school
assembly area circa 1964; Walter
Foeger second from R. |
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Photo courtesy Fred Diette,
Ski School Director |
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Camelback
Mt. (Pa.), ski school assembly
area in 1965; L. to R., Don
Rohrbach,
Judy Pover, Chipper Casperson,
Joey Amato, Leo Smith, Ellsworth
Moore,
Pam Conklin, Marilyn Hertz and
Fred Diette |
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Photo courtesy Marilyn Hertz,
Ski School Director |
From 1957 to 1966 Jay Peak
had undergone great changes, and offered more and more to the customer. But
skiing is a tough business and to entice skiers a successful management has
to offer something more than the area down the road (or across the border).
An aerial tramway would be something grand, a touch of Alpine Europe, that would
make Jay Peak stand out from the crowd. Always dreaming in color, and with a
flair for the dramatic, Walter felt that Jay Peak could be the premier all-season
recreational area on this coast with the right, timely, investment - but investment
was lacking - BIG investment. It may have been here that Walter unwittingly
sowed the seeds of his own destruction (with the good of the area, not his own,
foremost in his thoughts).
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