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Ascutney Outdoors a Community-Built Resort
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scutney Outdoors, in Brownsville, Vermont, continues its revitalization of the fourseason mountain resort with the opening of its 1,800-foot Doppelmayr T-bar lift in the 2019–2020 winter season. This new transport system up the mountain, joining the tubing lift and rope tow, started conveying skiers just after Christmas 2019, with a formal dedication event occurring January 18, 2020.
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BREWVIEW Vermont 2020 Issue 1
HISTORY OF THE ORGANIZATION Mount Ascutney has drawn wintertime enthusiasts for nearly a century. The Civilian Conservation Corps and the Windsor Outing Club opened a 5,400foot ski trail in the mid-1930s, and by the mid-1940s, rope tows pulled more than 800 skiers up the slopes over the Christmas holidays. The following decades saw some snow-filled seasons
of growth but many more snowless seasons of decline, resulting in multiple changes in ownership and several bankruptcies filed. By the 2010–2011 season, the ski resort had closed, with its remaining equipment shipped off to other New England mountains. Seeking to rebuild both the economic base and quality of life the mountain offered, the West Windsor community banded together to create a diversified