A New Ski Venture
Two Dartmouth men - Brooks Dodge '51 and Malcolm McLane '46 - and two other New Englanders prominent in the skiing world are the leading figures in a new project to establish a year-round skiing and recreational development on the north side of Wildcat Mountain at Pinkham Notch, New Hampshire.
The Wildcat Mountain Corporation, of which Dodge is vice president and McLane clerk, has announced plans for a million-dollar development that will boast the first multi-cabin gondola-type aerial lift in America. A 30-year lease on the Wildcat Mountain area, facing Mt. Washington, has been obtained from the U. S. Forest Service, which will supervise all installations and operating facilities. Two intermediate trails, 1½ and 2¼ miles long, similar to the Zoomer on Cannon Mt., are planned for the first year, and also a 3,000-foot T-bar lift for a novice area. Target date for the opening is December 1957.
Summer operation for tourists is also planned. The aerial lift, with gondola cabins smaller and more numerous than those on the Cannon Mt. lift, will take visitors to the top of Wildcat Mountain in ten minutes for a spectacular view of the entire Presidential Range.
George Macomber, former U. S. Olympic skier, is president of the newly formed corporation, and William D. Neal Jr. of Jackson, N. H., is treasurer. McLane is a former Dartmouth ski team captain and Dodge was on the U. S. Olympic ski teams of 1952 and 1956.
