NEW HEIGHTS MOHAWK MOUNTAIN IS BACK, THANKS TO FUNDING FOR STATE FOREST STATEWIDE Edition

There is a commercial ski area on the mountain, leasing its site from the state. On weekend days, especially, the ski area is alive with the sounds of skiers and the mechanical ski lifts carrying them uphill. By Vermont resort standards it is small, but it is accessible, the lines for the lifts are...

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Published inThe Hartford courant
Main Authors Grant, Steve, COURANT STAFF WRITER, Steve Grant can be reached by e- mail at grant@courant.com
Format Newspaper Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Hartford, Conn Tribune Interactive, LLC 18.01.2001
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Summary:There is a commercial ski area on the mountain, leasing its site from the state. On weekend days, especially, the ski area is alive with the sounds of skiers and the mechanical ski lifts carrying them uphill. By Vermont resort standards it is small, but it is accessible, the lines for the lifts are not excessive, and it has terrain for almost everyone. Anyone who has skied in a snow-starved winter will be interested to learn that it was here that ski-area snow-making machinery was invented. Birdseye Brook, which comes off the mountain, holds wild, native brook trout, which tend to run small but are beautifully colored. It also is stocked with 7- to 10-inch hatchery trout. Mohawk Pond, a small pond on the east side of the mountain, is stocked with brook, brown and rainbow trout. In winter, it is fished through the ice. A CROSS-COUNTRY SKIER negotiates a narrow passageway in Mohawk State Forest in Cornwall. Below, the cones on a hemlock along a ski trail. JOHN WOODRUFF of West Hartford makes a 180-degree turn while cross- country-skiing in a meadow in Mohawk State Forest.
ISSN:1047-4153