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This is a cool map from the ride up ski down days at Gore. I'd heard that in a good day you could get 4 runs in. But they were long ones that ended up at the river. I guess that's why you needed a ski patrol. To find all those stragglers. Folks were on free heels too....the good old days:



A couple more cool old Gore maps.

Not sure if Harvey Mtn lore qualifies as "Gore History." There were some who considered this small, family run ski area as competition to Gore and the Skibowl. Total vertical was about 400' and it was served by a single Tbar:



Harvey Mtn Ski Area was actually on South Mountain in North River - off Barton's Road just downhill from the hairpin turn. I first noticed it one time long ago. I was skiing and exploring the summit and cliffs of Harvey itself....you could faintly see the old runs illuminated by the difference between the newer and the older growth.

I never knew what I was looking at until I connected with Jeremy Davis of NELSAP a few years ago.

With Jeremy's permission I excerpted a piece on Harvey Road last fall...it's here:

http://nyskiblog.com/2005/01/harvey-mtn-ski-area.html

There's more on Harvey Mtn at nelsap.org too.

Conditions look good:



If anyone can help with the year on this photo can you post it here or at HR:

http://nyskiblog.com/search/label/gore%20mtn%20history

(Not sure why but all my images are getting sized down to thumbnails. Anyone else having the same issue?)

[quote="Harvey44"]From 70s Gore Kid, a regular at Harvey Road:

"The Old Red Gondola was just "The Gondola" during the 1970s, 80s, and early 90s. Red was never in its name.

The ride from my timing, on dozens of rides over the years, was 20 minutes. I see Harv posted 19, which might be more accurate, but it was universally known among Gore regulars at the time as a "20 minute ride with a 30 minute wait."

You could NEVER disembark at midstation, unless you were personally friends with a lift attendant. The reason -- is that the doors were locked from the outside with a key. The attendant at the base locked you in, one at the top unlocked the door. The midstation had two attendants who manually dragged your car from the track of the first stage to the second stage. They would have needed to unlock your car for a skier to get out.

It was served by a cat track trail that made its way down to Lower Tannery (now a cross country trail since it was too flat for downhill skiing), which brings the question: why on earth would anyone want to disembark at midstation?