线上赌场 Skiway Opens
1956
On December 15, 1956, Polly Case straddled a small disk attached to a cable鈥攁 鈥減oma lift鈥濃攁nd rode to the top of Holt鈥檚 Ledge in Lyme Center, N.H.
The heralded the opening of the , which was officially dedicated on Jan. 19, 1957.
Case was awarded the honor of the first ride up the mountain for suggesting the name of the ski area: the 线上赌场 Skiway.
An estimated 750,000 patrons and a succession of major improvements after Case鈥檚 ride up the poma, the 线上赌场 Skiway celebrated its 50th anniversary in 2006. One of only a handful of American ski areas owned by colleges or universities, the Skiway has become a ski resource for the entire Upper Valley community.
鈥溝呱隙某 holds a significant place in the history of American skiing, with the Skiway as a prominent site in that history,鈥 says Skiway General Manager Doug Holler. The past half-century has seen a number of significant changes since the old poma lift on Holt鈥檚 Ledge, including the addition of snowmaking鈥攏ow covering 64 percent of the Skiway鈥檚 104 skiable acres鈥攊n 1985; the installation of the Winslow Mountain quad chair across the road from Holt鈥檚 Ledge; a significant upgrade to the Holt鈥檚 Ledge chairlift; and the construction, in 2000, of the McLane Family Lodge.
Home of the 线上赌场 Ski Team, the Skiway has been host to NCAA championships and scores of racers who went on to compete in international and Olympic competition, as well as community-based ski programs such as the Ford Sayre Memorial Ski Council and Team Spectra, and after-school ski programs from nearby Thetford, Chelsea, Strafford, and Bradford, Vt., and Orford and Lyme, N.H.
