Name that area in 3 clues

ski_it

Can’t wait to hear the wider definition! They had World Cup races during the war?
Wait that’s a lot more than 3 clues

rickbolger

ski_it;c-69205 wroteCan’t wait to hear the wider definition! They had World Cup races during the war?
Wait that’s a lot more than 3 clues

I assure you this has turned out to be more frustrating for me than it is for you.

JMaul

OK. With rickbolger emphasizing "river" in the latest posts/hints, I will guess Sunday River.

Initial design By Sel.
There is a covered bridge over the Sunday River which drains to the Adroscoggin, then the Kennebec into the Atlantic.
Wildcat is upstream of the Adroscoggin, not sure what WC is downstream.
Can't figure the lake though.

rickbolger

JMaul is correct. Sunday River.

I believe Sel was also a stockholder

ceo actually listed the rivers correctly -- in order (!) but neglected to offer Sunday River as a guess. I almost gave it to him for that.

NES13 correctly points out that the Androscoggin is one of five rivers that flow into Merrymeeting Bay, however that is considered part of the Kennebec -- which I personally find to be very insulting to the Andro -- and it is the Kennebec that continues and flows into the Atlantic. Wikipedia gives an overview of this if you really care, and the USGS map of the Kennebec drainage system shows it.

the upstream World Cup was first held at New Hampshire's Nansen Ski Jump in 1939 or 1940 (sources don't agree) and the downstream was the Nordie World Cup held at Black Mountain of Maine in 1950. Both drain into the Androscoggin. The snowmelt from the old Sugarloaf world cup Alpine events went into the Kennebec as ceo pointed out.

I believe Sunday River has also hosted some sort of WC competition, moguls or something.

The lost lake is explained on signage at the top of Locke Mountain:

Glacial Lake Bethel.

the two New England ski areas with the river relation are Sunday River and Mad River Glen, which I believe are the only two with "river" in their names. I could be wrong about that.

Thanks all who participated or looked in on this madness!

JMaul, take it away....please

justkeepmovingne

Ha! Here I was thinking you meant a lake that disappeared recently... not 13,000 years ago! Good one.

As an aside back on the loon bit: I actually was not referring to an old sewage pond earlier. There used to be a small pond/lake that Pollard Brook drained into before exiting to enter the East Branch of the Pemi.

It's since been filled in.

See here for screenshots. Sewage ponds shown in a separate location: https://imgur.com/a/d4T9pdj

rickbolger

that's the one I saw when you mentioned it, now wondering if that was related to logging operations perhaps?

ceo

I ruled out Sunday River because it didn't seem to match the "one upstream, one downstream, one way downstream" qualifier, and didn't know about the BMOM and Hansen's events. But, what counts as "upstream" vs. "downstream"? Both Hansen's and Wildcat's runoff get to the Androscoggin upstream of where the Sunday River flows into it, but that's downstream on the Sunday River of its eponymous ski resort.

ski_it

I bow to the new master JMaul.
IDK even the Nansen website says it was a FIS World Championship not a World Cup. Doesn’t fit the current FIS narrow definition. The FIS probably sued everyone to change all before 1967 to Championship not cup.
Not part of ur 3 but 1950 isn’t a few years after 1939.
I was thinking glacial dam but only know of Lake Hitchcock which didn’t work.

JMaul

ski_it;c-69216 wroteI bow to the new master JMaul.

Please. Don't.
Big Valley was because someone else mentioned Pinnacle Rock.
SR was heavily based on rickbolger stressing 'river'.

@ceo should post the next 3 clues.

ski_it

Ok a slap on the back then. As plain as the nose on your face. Once you hear the answer.

rickbolger

ceo;c-69213 wroteBoth Hansen's and Wildcat's runoff get to the Androscoggin upstream of where the Sunday River flows into it, but that's downstream on the Sunday River of its eponymous ski resort.

I'm going to mentally file that one with the chicken or the egg :D

JMaul sez you're up, I second that

ceo

OK. Y'all have set the bar pretty high, I'll see what I can come up with.

ceo

1. This currently-operating ski area was originally named for a nonexistent mountain.
2. The base lodge was at one time an elementary school.
3. One of the main lifts came from a then-defunct ski area that has since reopened. That lift was later moved to yet another ski area.

joshua_segal

ceo;c-69224 wrote1. This currently-operating ski area was originally named for a nonexistent mountain.
2. The base lodge was at one time an elementary school.
3. One of the main lifts came from a then-defunct ski area that has since reopened. That lift was later moved to yet another ski area.

Jiminy Peak?

lotsoskiing

Berkshire East?
1) Thunder Mt
2) local school moved in during renovations or something like that
3) Summit Triple: Magic then Catamount

ceo

Berkshire East it is. I'm glad someone guessed wrong first, so it wasn't a complete gimme. :-) The actual name of the mountain it's on is Mount Institute, and, per NewEnglandSkiHistory.com, in 2001 the base lodge was used as temporary classroom space while Hawlemont Regional Elementary School was undergoing renovations (I'm having a hard time envisioning this).
I also considered something like "The name of the area was changed in the early 1970s for a silly marketing reason even by ski industry standards", but thought that was too much of a giveaway. (They wanted it to come first in radio station ski reports.)

lotsoskiing

1) one of the few closed areas in the northeast not absorbed by and incorporated into an abutting open area...yet
2) single-pole double. Still standing
3) view includes the backside of a mountain that once had a ski operation on it.

joshua_segal

lotsoskiing;c-69229 wrote1) one of the few closed areas in the northeast not absorbed by and incorporated into an abutting open area...yet
2) single-pole double. Still standing
3) view includes the backside of a mountain that once had a ski operation on it.

Highmount, NY?

ski_it

Btw Alta still has a school

joshua_segal

ceo;c-69228 wroteBerkshire East it is. I'm glad someone guessed wrong first, so it wasn't a complete gimme. :-) ...

I thought I had that one for sure.
1) Jiminy was a made-up name and not the name of the mountain
2) This is the one I wasn't sure of.
3) CM's quad chair went to Jiminy when CM closed in 1990.

« Previous Page Next Page »