Could you ever imagine skiing behind a Tucker snowcat through Smugglers Notch and then dragged up Smugglersâ Notch Ski Resortâs Sterling Mountain for a party? Well, to do that, weâll have to go back in time.
It was the late 1970s, and from Sepp Ruschp Ski Schoolâs Austrian wedeln ski style to Hal Wilhelmâs â army veteran and director of the Mt. Mansfield Ski Patrol â American can-do spirit, we became a kind of blend of both worlds. No beards or moustaches and a seven-day workweek were standard practices on the Mt. Mansfield Ski Patrol back then. We were considered 4WD skiers, sporting black parkas with a pronounced red cross on the back. We became known as the Black Knights.