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The area off Rynex Corner Road in Pattersonville, about nine miles west of Schenectady, appears in early-1970s ski guides as Homestead Ski Area; it also went by Fox Hollow and Eagle Mountain. It faced north and ran on weekends and holidays, with night skiing a couple of times a week.1,2,3
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Lost near Eagle Mountain
The closest other lost ski areas, as the crow flies.
- Years not yet collected · 4 mi away · New YorkA private, members-only ski club on Johnson Road in Glenville, across the road from Ski Venture, with two rope tows on about 100 feet of vertical.
- Closed 1981 · 4.3 mi away · New YorkA two-rope-tow ski hill off Ridge Road in Glenville, beside Ski Venture, that ran on leased land from about the 1950s until 1981.
- 1944–1993 · 22.9 mi away · New YorkA ski area at Porters Corners in Greenfield, north of Saratoga Springs, that ran from the 1940s into the early 1990s, for two decades as Adirondack Ski Center.
History
Written by aurora.ski from the 3 pages below, each sentence numbered to its sources.
The area off Rynex Corner Road in Pattersonville, about nine miles west of Schenectady, appears in early-1970s ski guides as Homestead Ski Area; it also went by Fox Hollow and Eagle Mountain. It faced north and ran on weekends and holidays, with night skiing a couple of times a week. Snowmaking came after two poor snow winters in a row.1,2,3
Two T-bars and a 400-foot rope tow served nine trails on 350 feet of vertical; the guides give 325 to 450 feet and 10 to 12 trails. NELSAP holds brochures from the 1987–88 season, and both NELSAP and Lost NY say it closed around 1988.1,2,3
Sources for this history (3)
- 1New England Lost Ski Areas Project · Eagle Mountain/Fox Hollow/Homestead
- 2Skikabbalah · Homestead (Eagle Mt., Fox Hollow)
- 3Skikabbalah · Homestead, guidebook references
Photos
No photographs of Eagle Mountain we may republish yet
Its old photos and trail maps live on the sites that collected them, and Google finds the rest.
Memories
What skiers remember of Eagle Mountain, in their own words.
Facts
Location
42.8740° N · 74.0817° W · New York
OpenStreetMap still maps 5 lifts and 21 downhill runs here; OpenSkiMap lists it as abandoned.
Years operated
not yet collected
Closed for good; the year it closed is not yet collected. It stays here as part of the record of U.S. ski areas.
Its numbers
all 3all 3, in one list
Terrain contours: USGS 3D Elevation Program, public domain