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A Rising Belleayre Mountain Embraces a Summer of Advances

Four skiers in all, including two youth skiers in the foreground looking at the camera, all on the slope with the gondola and the summit in the background.

(The second article in a series on summer projects at Olympic Authority mountains) In 1949, Belleayre Mountain in the Catskills boasted five trails and the first chair lift ever in the State of New York. Though its facilities were austere, such as the dirt floor in the cafeteria, the mountain’s management continually upgraded and refined… Read more »