teighs
Hogback was built on Mt. Olga, hogback mountain is across the road to the north.
ADKskier
Whiteface and Gore were google searched, I can't find anything for any other New York areas. Toggenburgs info was in their About section.
Whiteface: "Before Europeans had arrived in the Adirondack area, Native Americans frequently passed Whiteface Mountain while traveling near the Lake Champlain Valley. This is evident from how the mountain got its English name. The Algonquins referred to it as Wa-ho-par-te-nie which translates to “it is white”
Gore Mountain: "Or sometimes the land was too rugged to survey. Under these circumstances, a surveyor would designate this odd-shaped piece of land between towns a “gore.” Similarly, in tailoring, a triangular or trapezoidal piece of cloth, used to make a pattern conform to a curved shape, is also called a “gore.”
Hunter Mountain- Sits on a ridge off of the actual summit of Hunter mountain. The actual summit of Hunter Mountain is 4150 feet, while the Summit of the ski area only tops out at 3200 feet.
Toggenburg Mountain: History of Toggenburg Mountain:
The area was founded by Eugene Hickey and Harry Ehle, Robert Kells and later, Frank Mueller replacing Ehle. It started with leasing a farm that raised goats. They named the ski center after the Toggenburg region of Switzerland, famous for originating the Toggenburg breed of milk goat.
ropetow
Anyone remember the origin of Ohohoh ski area in Ct? I do but I'll let some else answer Also, Suicide 6 was named for peak 6 because as someone said it would be suicide to ski it.
joshua_segal
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ropetow;c-49629 wroteAnyone remember the origin of Ohohoh ski area in Ct? I do but I'll let some else answer Also, Suicide 6 was named for peak 6 because as someone said it would be suicide to ski it.
Ohoho was all about Christmas as I remember.
ropetow
It's is all about Christmas. It's ho ho ho backwards. It wasn't just the Beatles that hid backwards messages.
conrad
Update Suicide Six to now be Saskadena Six. At some point this summer I would like to go through the rest of New England and get everything added.
hazlntskier
LaurelHillCrazie
When Adolph and Helen Dupre bought their first mountain acreage for what was intended to be a working farm, they counted seven springs on their property and so named their land Seven Springs Farms. The farm evolved into a private hunting and fishing club. Antarctic explorer Finn Ronne arrived one winter day and asked permission to ski the ridge behind the farm. In 1935 a rope tow was built, and so began the transformation of Seven Springs Farm into Seven Springs Mountain Resort.
Richard King Mellon, the heir to the Mellon banking and industrial fortune, decided to build his own ski area on his Rolling Rock Farms. For the 1940/41 winter, Laurel Mountain Slopes began operations. Although the prominence on which the ski area was built is named Ulery Hill on USGS maps, it is among the various high points along the western Appalachian Mountains known since colonial times as the Laurel Ridge or Hill, which was named after its abundance of Mountain Laurel, PA's state flower. After WW2, the name was shortened to Laurel Mountain.
George and Helen Parke owned some land on the Laurel Ridge near Seven Springs. For the 1958/59 winter, they opened their family-oriented ski area, which they named Hidden Valley. I don't know if the land was locally known as Hidden Valley or if the Parkes chose the name for marketing reasons.
In the early 1960s, Allegheny County began to establish regional parks. Boyce Park was the first of the new parks to join the already established North and South Park. In 1965 Boyce Park Ski Area was created. Boyce Park is named after William D. Boyce, best known as the founder of the Boy Scouts of America. Boyce was born in Plum Borough, where the park is located.
In 1987 Joesph Hardy, founder of 84 Lumber, bought the old hotel and hunting club built by Pittsburgh industrialist Willard Rockwell and named his new luxury resort Nemacolin Woodlands Resort. In 1995 Mystic Mountain at Nemacolin was opened. Most people refer to the ski area as Nemacolin, and on their current website, the ski area is now called The Peak. The name Nemacolin is from Chief Nemacolin of the Delaware people. In 1740 Cheif Nemacolin trailblazed a route through the Laurel Highlands mountains between what is now Cumberland, Maryland, and Brownsville, Pennsylvania.
conrad
Created a new category: "Named after a cause." Added Veterans Memorial Ski Area.
Also changed Shawnee Peak to Pleasant Mountain.
BergafSchaatsen
A few more in Southern VT:
I have definitely heard the mountain Okemo is on referred to as "Okemo Mountain", including in sources that predate any skiing there (though I think it's officially called Ludlow Mountain). There are claims that the name is of Native origin and means "All Come Home", but nobody has given any proof or even said which language it is supposed to be in.
(Some people have said it's actually Abenaki for "louse"!)
Magic is a marketing-based name, coming from a novel by Thomas Mann.
And further south in the greater DC area:
Liberty is a marketing-based name (originally it was Charnita, named after the owners, but was renamed when they sold it).
Whitetail and Timberline are also marketing.
Blue Knob, Roundtop, Bryce and Massanutten are named after the mountains they're on (Round Top is not the more famous, smaller Round Top nearby on the Gettysburg battlefield). Massanutten is of Native origin.
Canaan Valley is a geographical feature other than a mountain.
