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Stuckagain Heights Rope Tow Early 1970's |
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This 2002 aerial view of Anchorage shows where the Stuckagain Heights neighborhood is located. (click on view to expand it)
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In the "old days", seen on this topo map of 1963, the end of Basher Drive was a very quiet place. The dwellings at the end of the road would have been Roger Cremo's homestead. (click on map to expand it)
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This 2002 aerial view shows how much the end of Basher Drive has developed in about the last 40 years. The rope tow was located in the northeast corner of this neighborhood. (click on this view to expand it) |
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This aerial photo from 1996 shows the approximate location of the Stuckagain Heights rope tow. (click on this view to expand it) |
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A zoomed in 2002 aerial photo shows the recent development in the area of Basher Drive. Much has changed around the area of the old neighborhood rope tow. (click on this view to expand it) |
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[Don Conrad & George "Joe" Hanson - 10 September 2006 phone conversations] Don Conrad built the Stuckagain Heights Rope Tow in the early 1970’s. Don had come up from Utah and ran this little ski area for one year before he became the mountain manager at Alyeska. In Utah Don had built and operated a couple of rope tows for the Timphaven Ski Area. This ski area was bought up by Robert Redford and became the Sundance Ski Area. The year that Redford bought this ski area, and land surrounding it from a number of sheepherders, is the year that Don moved to Alaska. Don leased a small strip of land from the Stuckagain Heights restaurant folks. The ski hill was partially cleared, but he used the restaurant’s cat to clear the rest. Don welded the rope tow poles with car wheel rope guides. The lift was powered by and old Lincoln car. Two lights on lift poles allowed night skiing here. A small warm-up hut was built at the top of the ski hill. Don said that he had no recollection of the octagonal metal fire-pit, so that apparently came later when the neighborhood took over running the rope tow. Don remembered that a number of Catholic nuns were regulars at the ski hill. They would come up to ski, but they really liked to lie down on inner tubes and bomb the hill. Don mentioned that he went to Stuckagain Heights a few years ago and couldn't discern where the ski hill used to be as there had been massive changes in the area due to new development. George "Joe" Hanson, a former Denali Ski Patrol senior, said that he used to ski patrol at the Stuckagain Heights rope tow when Don Conrad was running it. |
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