Name that area in 3 clues

ski_it

Ok, back to mine, this canton means a collection of territories or towns.

To my mind, Horace’s exhortation means to travel a long way in one direction.

Back to Mapnut’s: 2. Is it? Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo. Or one of mine?

mapnut

Nothing incoherent about Buffalo buffalo etc. It means buffalo, right?Quebec has cantons.

joshua_segal

<blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“mapnut”>Nothing incoherent about Buffalo buffalo etc. It means buffalo, right?Quebec has cantons.</blockquote>

Well, near Buffalo is the collection of “Glenwood Areas”.  Have we determined what state this is in?

mapnut

Joshua is one of the people who might have had some idea about Clue 2, but it has nothing to do with buffalo. Or bison.I think the lack of guesses is more due to lack of interest than difficulty, but anyway here’s Clue 3: Surrounded by 5 substantial lost areas, all within 20 miles.

ski_it

<blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“mapnut”>Nothing incoherent about Buffalo buffalo etc. It means buffalo, right?Quebec has cantons.</blockquote> I’m buffaloed on that one.Mine - farther west than that city, err whoops  I mean that other direction. And see signature below

Lostskier

Still interested, love this thread, but this one is difficult for sure..

joshua_segal

OK: There are two active groupings of clues:

ski_it’s clues - which may imply QC and maybe not.

and mapnut has me baffled

mapnut

Thought I’d bump this up again with a recap, since there’s nothing much to say about actual skiing!  <blockquote class=“UserQuote”>

ski_it said:

1. This canton only had surface lifts.2. Take Horace Greeley’s advice but at 90°s.3. 15 mins from another “resort” with surface lifts.Not Canton, NY (St. Lawrence Ski Bowl); not Canton Ski Club, CT, not Prospect, MA. The second resort is open. There’s a town of Canton, MA, near Blue Hill but Blue has a chairlift and I can’t find a NELSAP area there.Mapnut said:1: The mountain the ski area is on shares a name with a stream and valley on the opposite side of  the mountain range.2: (Only a few of you will get this.) It has an indirect connection with some of the least coherent sentences ever written in the English language.3: Surrounded by 5 substantial lost areas, all within 20 miles.No guesses yet on this one. Joshua is one of the class of Snowjournalists, maybe 10%, who might have got Clue 2, but he didn’t. You shouldn’t focus on Clue 2 though, there’s plenty of information in 1 and 3.

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ski_it

Ski_it says - I think you missed some new clues, so I added/adjusted them in bold. ski_it said:

This canton only had surface lifts. 1a. This canton means a collection of towns.
Take Horace Greeley’s advice but at 90°s. 2a. So it is either north or south. 2b.To my incoherent mind, Horace’s exhortation means to travel a long way in one direction. 2c & d. Quebec has cantons, but mine is farther west than that city, err whoops sorry.. I mean further in that other direction.

2e. And see the 1st ¾ of my signature below.

15 mins from another “resort” with surface lifts. 3a & b. The 2nd “resort” is open. 3b is implied in Mapnut’s summary below.
I’ll add a new clue that won’t help. Both “resorts” have or had(that right there is the same as 3b) the same # of “lifts”.

Not Canton, NY (St. Lawrence Ski Bowl); not Canton Ski Club, CT, not Prospect, MA. The second resort is open. There’s a town of Canton, MA, near Blue Hill but Blue has a chairlift and I can’t find a NELSAP area there.

Mapnut said:

1: The mountain the ski area is on shares a name with a stream and valley on the opposite side of the mountain range.

2: (Only a few of you will get this.) It has an indirect connection with some of the least coherent sentences ever written in the English language.

3: Surrounded by 5 substantial lost areas, all within 20 miles.

No guesses yet on this one. Joshua is one of the class of Snowjournalists, maybe 10%, who might have got Clue 2, but he didn’t. You shouldn’t focus on Clue 2 though, there’s plenty of information in 1 and 3.

ski_it

Mad River Glen? edit: Doh! you said mountain…never mind

joshua_segal

So ski_it: Can we conclude that it is in the Laurentians.

Now mapnut’s clue would also lead me to the Laurentians.

There are many lost areas in the Laurentians and many with only surface lifts.

Still have no clue on the grammar clue, but my guess is “Station Mont Tremblant.”

mapnut

Thanks for keeping this going Joshua, but you’re cold. Quebec is cold.

joshua_segal

<blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“mapnut”>Thanks for keeping this going Joshua, but you’re cold. Quebec is cold.</blockquote>

Good fun.

So can we try to get the state (or at least the region)? New England, NY, other mid-Atlantic or somewhere else?

ski_it

<blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“joshua_segal”><blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“mapnut”>Thanks for keeping this going Joshua, but you’re cold. Quebec is cold.</blockquote>

Good fun.

So can we try to get the state (or at least the region)? New England, NY, other mid-Atlantic or somewhere else?

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For ski_it’s NTAI3Cs: Mapnut is right you are cold. I think you need to reread my incoherent summary. I already gave you the region. And if you have read SJ today I practically gave YOU the answer.

mapnut

(Answering Joshua):  Nope. It shouldn’t be that hard. Where are there five substantial lost areas within a 20-mile radius? Maybe six depending on the definition of substantial.

bmwskier

The man the professor the student has studies Rome.The complex houses married and single soldiers and their families.One morning I shot an elephant in my pajamas. How he got into my pajamas I’ll never know.All the faith he had had had had no effect on the outcome of his life.

mapnut

Those sentences are marvels of clarity compared to the fellow I have in mind.Ski_it definitely narrowed his down to New England. I think he narrowed it down to Maine.Ski_it said there were answers in the PBS Video on Maine. There was a segment on little Spruce Mountain and its rope tows. There’s the little town of Canton within 15 minutes of Spruce, but I can’t find any ski area near there, lost or otherwise. Warm or cold?

joshua_segal

<blockquote class=“Quote” rel=“mapnut”>(Answering Joshua):  Nope. It shouldn’t be that hard. Where are there five substantial lost areas within a 20-mile radius? Maybe six depending on the definition of substantial.</blockquote>

The closest I can do is 4: Tyrol, Thorn, Whittier, Evergreen, where I define substantial as 1K or more vertical and at least one aerial lift.  What are your criteria for substantial?  If I don’t get an attaboy for those, perhaps you can give me an Attitash.

ski_it

Mapnut you are getting warmer but on the other hand you are still cold.

To JS’s answer to Mapnut’s NTAI3Cs: And that ain’t no stream across from Attitash, that’s a river. The Saco.

mapnut

Let’s say over 600 vertical feet. That also means at least T-bars. That’s why the 6th area was a “depends”.

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