I was a patron back in the day. Snow skiing in the winter and the Alpine slide in the summer. Being from CT it was convenient and fun. Good times.

I used to be an instructor there. Now I just hike it with my Boxer. She loves it too

Mt Tom was a fun day/night trip. Living in CT it was easy to get to. I remember going night skiing every time it snowed and being exhausted after getting in as many runs as we could before the lifts stopped for the night!!

Learned to ski there, My Parents were both ski patrols there...too bad it closed down, Cool Video!

We used to go 4 wheeling up & down the slopes long ago.

I never learned to ski...but I did go to the water park at Mt. Tom with my parents in the 1980's. There were water slides and a pool,I remember it well. It was a fun time. Lived in Mass. for 52 years. Only been to Holyoke twice. On 2nd trip I saw as an adult that "Its a hell hole today!"sorry for those that have to live there....i mean that. really ...sorry

I learned to ski there in 1995 before heading out to Northern California.

Local here. The buildings were left intact. They caught fire s few years back. That's why all the nails left behind.

I learned to ski at Mt Tom in 1995 - 1997. I didn't realize that 1997 was its last year, but in 1998 I moved from Holyoke to CT and started skiing at Mt Southington. By the 1990s as far as I can remember the water parks and the amusement park were closed! I mountain biked there occassionally and I recall there being an old abandoned and overgrown amusement park or at least a couple rides. I also don't remember Mt Tom being all that large of a ski area and only remember 2 or maybe 3 lifts and a very basic lodge. More memorable to me was the ski shop on Rt 5 close to there. I boight my first and second pair of skis there, and much of my early ski gear, as well as 2 mountain bikes. I've lived and skied in VT since 2005, but still remember my first three years of skiing at Mt Tom. I was a transplant from the midwest and was in my 20s when I started skiing there

Holyoke Massachusetts is located in western Mass NOT central Massy said in your video @1:26 central Massachusetts

@martygod3755

8 ай бұрын

I was going to comment the same thing.👍

@averyzucco220

7 ай бұрын

Sorry. I'm not from around there so the distinctions aren't familiar to me!

@andrewday3206

Ай бұрын

@@averyzucco220 They had an Alpine Slide that ate many elbows and knees.

I hate seeing such dereliction out in an otherwise beautiful spot. Its sad that no matter what, these remains will outlast many generations.

Nice shot of the W1TOM repeater. I did a lot of skiing there and worked on the pool and some other things for the construction of the summer time features. Now enjoy the repeater as an ham radio enthusiast.

@Codyjrt

7 күн бұрын

I'm a regular user of that repeater too. We've probably talked before.

Seems to be a common thing, the man dies and the wife, sells off what he built for the money. I've watched it for clubs, apartments, malls, real estate hotels, restaurants and now Mt. Tom.

‘76 to maybe ‘82 or ‘83, taught for Adi Scheidl, fore’d the night crew for Dave Moore, worked the Alpine Slide summers, this place was a huge resource for the local community. Harry Craven, Jr even dug up a picture of me demo’ing grass skis when they were pitched to Dave as a summer business. What a gas! Shooting stars at night. Wild blueberries on the cliffs. The stuff young dreams are made of. Even a blizzard in an August thunderstorm! Working extra hours for Roger just below at Mountain Park when it was still operating. Gypsies. Playing air guitar to entertain customers with my crew-mates at the top. Walking the slide with a broom to clean out the toads and garter snakes. Dave handing me a broom to deal with the baby skunks caught on the slide with a nervous mom close by. Racing down with wheels pinned and beating Sully fair and square the night my girl-friend showed up just in time to see the crew-races. 3.5 days on and 3.5 days off. Spending half of what we earned at the Rusty Nail and the Aqua Vitae on days off. I could go on and on….

You should of seen it when it was operating. I remember as a kid doing the alpine sled . Was never a skier but had been up there a couple times in winter and saw it. And of coure there was mountain park not far away. The memories.

@mariemysticalforest617

Ай бұрын

I’m pretty sure it was called Riverside Park. I won a coloring contest at Big Boy and I got 4 tickets to enter and bracelets I believe for the rides. My family went there a lot and that’s where I learned to ski in the 80’s. I also got lost in the woods as a kid there on some field trip with girl scouts or something. They actually had a search party gathering to come find us. Memories…..

@Mr_BUSINESS_24_7

16 күн бұрын

​​@@mariemysticalforest617 Riverside Park was in Agawam, MA it's still there !! It's called Six Flags now.

Surprised it hung on past the late 70’s and 80’s with its high energy costs that killed the small ski areas dependent on artificial snow making and MT Tom had a terrible sun exposure directly east.

I skied here with my dad when I was in middle school

welcome back! it has been a long time

@averyzucco220

10 ай бұрын

Sure has been.

I got a credit from UMass for taking a weekly lesson here in the mid 90's. Fun little place, nothing steep but some nice blue terrain and night lighting on pretty much everything.

@averyzucco220

5 ай бұрын

I'd take that class.

Aww yeah! That's where I learned how to ski back in 1982... What a shame she gone now. 2:00 the pumphouse for the wave pool is gone too!?! That was all concrete! Hiked there a while back and it was still there. 3:13 yes, you are correct that was the lodge. If I remember right, those stairs went down to the bathrooms? and the Cafeteria was where the red tile was??? 7:55 yep, unload off the Bus, and into that building for your rentals...then up the stairs at 7:45 to go up to the lifts...that road sucked in ski boots..lol 8:55 nope, that was the shop for the trucks and grooming equipment, and maintenance crews 13:45 you are correct...the upper T-bar went a ways up into the woods away from the unload area before it turned around. Thanx for the memory flood fella! EDIT: Almost forgot...I think there's a memorial for a WW2 Plane crash up on the backside of it too?

Woburn attempted to start a ski area next to Horn Pond

mt tom is not in central mass , its in western mass

Ascutney is semi lost. They’ve done a good job turning it into a ski hill.

Just remember that the H in "Amherst" is silent.

1998

You should collab with skier 72.

Wow I've been there. Didn't know that it has closed.

I am from another country, and there are this abandoned ski resort. It's so sad... It was created in the 60s and was great till the mid 90s. It's been dismantled due to stupid "eco" activists who never give a fk for others' lives and jobs, a minority of people who don't even like the mountain or any kind of sport. Now there's all abandoned buildings and ugly debris all around because it's too expensive to celan it all. But I guess that a random frog species that wasn't endangered in the first place is more important. Now the area has got hand made trails and you can't step out from them, or even bring your dog. This is how you "enjoy" nature, thanks to the ecoidiots. It's really sad.

What a waste

snow. sICLE,, thats N.E.