This is awesome. I learned to ski at Winter Park when I was 15 in late 1994. We drove all the way from SE Arkansas right after Christmas that year. Back then, the only way you could get to the top of Parsen Bowl (ie, the highest point at Winter Park) was to take the Timberline Lift. That lift was slow as molasses and could easily throw you off when you tried to get on it, but it made for a lot fewer people at the top. 😀
I learned to ski at Winter Park with the Eskimo Ski Club starting in 1967 while I was in junior high.. I took the train up from Union Station. The train ticket cost $10 and the lift ticket was $5. In 1968 I bought Head skis , Lange boots with Marker bindings. Oh god the girls were hot!
I didn't know Eskimo Club had been around that long, I did it from 2004-2009! Loved every second, but the train wasn't going then so we greyhound bus from Denver. I learned to snowboard there!
Bless you for making this video. Lot's of great memories of Winter Park - first trip there was in the late 60's when I was about 6 years old, before there was a Mary Jane. Our family, along with 3 or 4 others went there every year until the mud 80's. Never forget!
@IndigoVisuals Back in the mid 50's, my father was in the USAF, and stationed in Germany. Being from Dallas, neither he nor my Mother had ever skied but learned and loved it. When they returned to the States and he left active duty, they returned to Dallas, but had the ski bug! They initially went to New Mexico, but when I was 5 or 6, we made the trek to Winter Park, circa 1968/1969. We had several families from Dallas that would make that 1000-mile drive and, whether the snow was good or not so good, we always had fun. One year, mid 70's, we had crossed over Berthoud Pass and were making the final short leg to Winter Park. I noticed that my Dad's knuckles were white on the steering wheel, and the veins around his temples were bulging, and he had this fixed stare. I asked, "Dad, what's wrong?" , only to be greeted by silence. My older sister leaned over and whispered quietly that "There's no snow." This was a year or so before Mary Jane opened: Out of all the runs the original WP had to offer, only 9 were open and they were a mixture of ice, big patches of grass and rocks, with something white here and there but, we still had fun. Last time I got to go there with my folks was Christmas 85/86. Again, I will cherish those memories always, and really appreciate your excellent video! William C Maples Major. USMC (RETIRED)
@WilliamMaples-te5fi Wow!!!! Would love to hear more!! I've been to Wiesbaden and Frankfurt, Germany as a kid. We're you on those bases possibly? I also drive that Berthoud Pass every day for a local airport shuttle company, tons of snow up there right now! I completely understand the white knuckles lol..
@IndigoVisuals l wasn't born until after my parents came back to the states, but did go to Germany later on. Took leave right after Desert Storm and my wife and I took a MAC flight that took us to Ramstein. Caught a bus from there to Frankfurt, rented a car, and drove down to Garmisch, where we spent the next several days. We got to go skiing up on the Zugspitze - all open terrain up there on top. When we used to go to Winter Park, there were usually the same 4 families. Most of the kids were 6 years older or so, my sister's age group. There was always some kind of drama! One year, maybe 75, one of the girls brought her boyfriend. He was about 6 foot five and a football player. He may have been the terror of the gridiron, but was clumsy and didn't know how to ski. They put him on little short skis that weren't much longer than his huge feet! He was in ski school, and looked like Herman Munster compared to everyone else. I used to ski up and spray him with snow and he'd get really mad, and I would just ski off, laughing at him because there was no way he could catch me - at least on skis. Back then, we all stayed at Park Meadows there by Fraser. He caught me one afternoon there and got his revenge by sticking my head into a snowbank! Oh well, I played a stupid game and won a stupid prize!
This Vid what a gem. I had the good fortune to work at a nearby resort called Beavers in ‘76 and skied Mary Jane over 100 times that year. Magical time and place. Thanks for the upload!
A friend of mine Invited me to take the Ski Train to Winter Park Many years ago. He was going with the Battle Creek Michigan Ski Club. I never took the train, but have skied Winter Park. Seems I remember a run called Outhouse. I lived in Dillion for Two winters in the early 1980's and worked at Copper Mountain . R.I.P. to me friend he was a Viet Nam Veteran. He had white hair and at times a very thick White Beard and he Played Santa Clause at a Local Ski Hill in MI "Timber Ridge"
Wow. Lots of memories there. I was on the original Jane Gang the first winter the Jane was open. A group of six instructors picked to give upper level lessons in the bumps and steeps. I recognize so many faces in this video but it's hard to recall names. Ageing is a b*&ch. Bob Singley is the skier in the yellow jacket in many of the scenes. He was inducted into the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in 2015 if I remember correctly. Nice find! Props to the OP.
This was my after high school Ski Bum year. (Coming from PA.) Chose Winter Park cause I heard an all bump MT was just opening. It was gonna be Steamboat before I heard about this. Best 4 months of my life. Season pass for both areas was only $230 !! That cain't even buy ya a weekend now. Better to be 18 then than now.
Hey Sean, you gave me a ride to DIA on Monday, and suggested I checkout this video on your channel. Very cool. I'll be back up there in February for Presidents Day Week. 🙂
@RealEstateNWAtlanta Yes sir!! We had a fun ride! Singing Sixto Rodriguez songs! I enjoyed that run for sure!! See you again on Presidents weekend, let's grab a beer!!
Awesome video. My first trip there was 1978 and no there were no helmets or snowboards. And no one cared what you wore or equiptment you used. A much kinder, more enjoyable blink in time of this universe.
It was fun when you went through the Moffat tunnel it was completely dark and a food fight would break out every time. Yep rode that train when I was younger ride Jane smoke Jane 🔥😊
I was there 90-92 seasons and I lived next to the railway line on the old post house. We spent many nights in The Crooked Creek Saloon! Lots of great memories in one of the best ski resorts ever! 🙌🏻💯🎿
I have looked for this video for years. I remember sitting in the Beaver Lodge as a child and watching this movie before we went out skiing. Thank you so much for finding it and posting it. So many memories.
@@westonbaur7294 I had the good fortune to work at Beavers in 75-76. My job title was Chore Boy which meant we did most anything around the resort including driving guests to the mountain. Maybe I chauffeured you back then!
Oh my goodness. I totally remember the shuttle!! I grew up in Florida and our annual ski trips were a highlight from childhood. I now have the good fortune to live in Denver and ski WP regularly
I was a lifty on the Iron Horse lift in 77/78, the second year of operation. I was 22, lived in a crappy motel in Granby, no money, but one of the best years of my life!
Woooowser!! I grew up on the slopes of Snowmass, Highlands and sometimes even Buttermilk and this is like my childhood coming back to visit. Thank You!
Ski bummed there in the early 80 for 2 ski seasons, bartended at Winter Haven Ski Lodge, it's not there anymore sadly, it was on the northwest side of Vasquez Creek (bridge) and 40. Live in a 1 bedroom cabin behind the lodge on the creek, good times.
This is incredible. The editing. The cosmic sound effects. The fact they actually named their expansion after the devils lettuce, the ganga, weed, herb, pot, grass, the MaryJane. Hilarious. I love it. The hair, the outfits, the dudes, the babes.
My brother and I were there when it opened. I don't remember so many lesbians. "want to fly?" better have good insurance. Knees ain't cheap. At first, MJ and WP were only connected by "Drunken Frenchman"... A cliff with moguls, about a quarter mile of hell. Now, keep in mind, when we started skiing, the skis were wooden, the boots were leather, the bindings were cable, and the Piz were Buin.
Ski bummed there in '76 / '77 This was truly a "blast from the past" with several familiar faces. Mary Jane was a 'lady of the evening' that held forth while they were building the Moffat Tunnel. Yes, there was some of the whacky tobaccy consumed...
Who is the band near the end? Looks and sounds like Commander Cody but I'm not 100% sure. Whole lot of friends who skied there from 70s on to today....my buddy worked with the handicapped ski program for 25 years....
This is amazing. Thank you so much for posting this. I am a Grand County native, literally, and this video is really nice to see. Where were you able to source this from?
@colinlewis8275 There are credits at the beginning of the video that have the artists name. Dale Menton is his name. Haven't had luck finding the song just yet myself.
Lived here for almost 20 years. It's slowly turning into Breckenridge. Less housing for locals, more second home owners. City market doesn't even have enough turkeys for the demand since we've grown 7x in the last year. Stay home and don't make my home yours!
I remember back when a Chair LIFT ticket was $6.00 and so many years went by and then the price went up to $8.00 which was unheard of, EVERYONE went into Shock, totally appalled!!! Now day's, it's a joke, there would have to be a min of 4' or more to get me to pay that amount of money 💰 🤑 to get me on the Mountain ⛰️. Washington state, 2024.
Back in the day of Jetsticks. Before there was a single lift built on Mary Jane, we would ski the Mary Jane creek and exit past the Arlberg.
How nice the runs and bumps looked before snowboarding
Incredible find -- thank you so much for sharing. Colorado in the '70s was pretty special!
This is awesome. I learned to ski at Winter Park when I was 15 in late 1994. We drove all the way from SE Arkansas right after Christmas that year. Back then, the only way you could get to the top of Parsen Bowl (ie, the highest point at Winter Park) was to take the Timberline Lift. That lift was slow as molasses and could easily throw you off when you tried to get on it, but it made for a lot fewer people at the top. 😀
I learned to ski at Winter Park with the Eskimo Ski Club starting in 1967 while I was in junior high.. I took the train up from Union Station. The train ticket cost $10 and the lift ticket was $5. In 1968 I bought Head skis , Lange boots with Marker bindings. Oh god the girls were hot!
me too
I didn't know Eskimo Club had been around that long, I did it from 2004-2009! Loved every second, but the train wasn't going then so we greyhound bus from Denver. I learned to snowboard there!
Amazing to hear
Bless you for making this video. Lot's of great memories of Winter Park - first trip there was in the late 60's when I was about 6 years old, before there was a Mary Jane. Our family, along with 3 or 4 others went there every year until the mud 80's. Never forget!
@@WilliamMaples-te5fi What an amazing childhood you had!!
@IndigoVisuals Back in the mid 50's, my father was in the USAF, and stationed in Germany. Being from Dallas, neither he nor my Mother had ever skied but learned and loved it. When they returned to the States and he left active duty, they returned to Dallas, but had the ski bug! They initially went to New Mexico, but when I was 5 or 6, we made the trek to Winter Park, circa 1968/1969. We had several families from Dallas that would make that 1000-mile drive and, whether the snow was good or not so good, we always had fun. One year, mid 70's, we had crossed over Berthoud Pass and were making the final short leg to Winter Park. I noticed that my Dad's knuckles were white on the steering wheel, and the veins around his temples were bulging, and he had this fixed stare. I asked, "Dad, what's wrong?" , only to be greeted by silence. My older sister leaned over and whispered quietly that "There's no snow." This was a year or so before Mary Jane opened: Out of all the runs the original WP had to offer, only 9 were open and they were a mixture of ice, big patches of grass and rocks, with something white here and there but, we still had fun. Last time I got to go there with my folks was Christmas 85/86. Again, I will cherish those memories always, and really appreciate your excellent video!
William C Maples
Major. USMC (RETIRED)
@WilliamMaples-te5fi Wow!!!! Would love to hear more!! I've been to Wiesbaden and Frankfurt, Germany as a kid. We're you on those bases possibly? I also drive that Berthoud Pass every day for a local airport shuttle company, tons of snow up there right now! I completely understand the white knuckles lol..
@IndigoVisuals l wasn't born until after my parents came back to the states, but did go to Germany later on. Took leave right after Desert Storm and my wife and I took a MAC flight that took us to Ramstein. Caught a bus from there to Frankfurt, rented a car, and drove down to Garmisch, where we spent the next several days. We got to go skiing up on the Zugspitze - all open terrain up there on top. When we used to go to Winter Park, there were usually the same 4 families. Most of the kids were 6 years older or so, my sister's age group. There was always some kind of drama! One year, maybe 75, one of the girls brought her boyfriend. He was about 6 foot five and a football player. He may have been the terror of the gridiron, but was clumsy and didn't know how to ski. They put him on little short skis that weren't much longer than his huge feet! He was in ski school, and looked like Herman Munster compared to everyone else. I used to ski up and spray him with snow and he'd get really mad, and I would just ski off, laughing at him because there was no way he could catch me - at least on skis. Back then, we all stayed at Park Meadows there by Fraser. He caught me one afternoon there and got his revenge by sticking my head into a snowbank! Oh well, I played a stupid game and won a stupid prize!
This Vid what a gem. I had the good fortune to work at a nearby resort called Beavers in ‘76 and skied Mary Jane over 100 times that year. Magical time and place. Thanks for the upload!
@@lmaoadl9723 100 days is incredible!
An ounce of Mary Jane is worth a pound of Aspen.
Not in 1976.
I had that t-shirt! Great memories. If you could ski "Outhouse" you were gooood!
@@keepers9360 Outhouse is a tough one
A friend of mine Invited me to take the Ski Train to Winter Park Many years ago. He was going with the Battle Creek Michigan Ski Club. I never took the train, but have skied Winter Park. Seems I remember a run called Outhouse. I lived in Dillion for Two winters in the early 1980's and worked at Copper Mountain . R.I.P. to me friend he was a Viet Nam Veteran. He had white hair and at times a very thick White Beard and he Played Santa Clause at a Local Ski Hill in MI "Timber Ridge"
Wow. Lots of memories there. I was on the original Jane Gang the first winter the Jane was open. A group of six instructors picked to give upper level lessons in the bumps and steeps. I recognize so many faces in this video but it's hard to recall names. Ageing is a b*&ch. Bob Singley is the skier in the yellow jacket in many of the scenes. He was inducted into the Colorado Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame in 2015 if I remember correctly. Nice find! Props to the OP.
nice!!!! 10 years before my time!!! she aint no lady
Thanks for the background and insight! Skiing was so much different and mostly better then.
I actually met Bob Singley the other night here in Winter Park. A very youthful 83 year old these days!!
This was my after high school Ski Bum year.
(Coming from PA.)
Chose Winter Park cause I heard an all bump MT was just opening.
It was gonna be Steamboat before I heard about this.
Best 4 months of my life.
Season pass for both areas was only $230 !!
That cain't even buy ya a weekend now.
Better to be 18 then than now.
That was my Ski Bum season.
Roomed with several full and PT instructors.
Two were Steve Keltch and his GF Leslie.
Loved the Jane.
The most ‘70’s thing I’ve ever seen.
Hey Sean, you gave me a ride to DIA on Monday, and suggested I checkout this video on your channel. Very cool. I'll be back up there in February for Presidents Day Week. 🙂
@RealEstateNWAtlanta Yes sir!! We had a fun ride! Singing Sixto Rodriguez songs! I enjoyed that run for sure!! See you again on Presidents weekend, let's grab a beer!!
@@IndigoVisuals Sure thing!
This interaction made me smile!
@deecee7042 Happy to make you smile my friend!!
@ going snowboarding tomorrow. Great pump up video
My parents thought Mary Jane was a place where we all went to smoke pot up in the mountains. They were right!
Hahahah
Awesome video. My first trip there was 1978 and no there were no helmets or snowboards. And no one cared what you wore or equiptment you used. A much kinder, more enjoyable blink in time of this universe.
@@aqhakansas I was very blessed to have stumbled on this jewel
It was fun when you went through the Moffat tunnel it was completely dark and a food fight would break out every time. Yep rode that train when I was younger ride Jane smoke Jane 🔥😊
70's and 80's at Jane did not suck!!!!
@LB-fw6uq Whats your favorite memory from those days?
Had 2 bump lessons there when I was a teenager. Absolutely awesome moguls!
Been there, done that when we were kids. Awesome find of the video and outstanding memories!! Think Snow!!
@BrokenPaddleAdventures That's awesome!! Yes! Always think snow! I have a fist hand view of the area that I love sharing here!!
2 of my genuinely happy moments of 2024: Skiing & post bar Winter Park and watching this video
@@MrVnick1 I'm glad I could contribute ❤️
Those Dudes are skiing on 210’s doing those tricks
Little before my time there ('92-97) but still tickled some great memories. No pain no Jane!
I was there 90-92 seasons and I lived next to the railway line on the old post house. We spent many nights in The Crooked Creek Saloon! Lots of great memories in one of the best ski resorts ever! 🙌🏻💯🎿
@JamesRowell-r7f Crooked Creek is now Fishers. WP/Fraser has blown up in the past decade, I'll keep sharing more on my channel.
Took a year off to ski bum around the West in the winter of 79 and found my way to Mary Jane for a couple of days. Outhouse!
I’ve taken many dump on outhouse
I have looked for this video for years. I remember sitting in the Beaver Lodge as a child and watching this movie before we went out skiing. Thank you so much for finding it and posting it. So many memories.
@westonbaur7294 So glad I was able to find it and share it with the world!
@@westonbaur7294 I had the good fortune to work at Beavers in 75-76. My job title was Chore Boy which meant we did most anything around the resort including driving guests to the mountain. Maybe I chauffeured you back then!
Oh my goodness. I totally remember the shuttle!! I grew up in Florida and our annual ski trips were a highlight from childhood. I now have the good fortune to live in Denver and ski WP regularly
I learned to ski at Winter Park in 1972 when I was 15. Great memories!
@@brianslota4861 That's wonderful!! Any pics from then?
That's the Mary Jane I remember. What an overwhelming wave of nostalgia. Thank you for posting this gem.
It's my pleasure ⛷️
Back in the days when skiing in blue jeans wasn’t out of place. Also broken legs vs. knee injuries 😮
This makes me extremely excited to be a lifty this winter
@richemoreno196 Its a fun mountain and community
I was a lifty on the Iron Horse lift in 77/78, the second year of operation. I was 22, lived in a crappy motel in Granby, no money, but one of the best years of my life!
@richemoreno196 Enjoying being a lifting my fellow local? Are you on Park side or Jane?
Woooowser!! I grew up on the slopes of Snowmass, Highlands and sometimes even Buttermilk and this is like my childhood coming back to visit. Thank You!
Glad you enjoy the trip down memory lane my friend!
No pain no Jane
Man, I miss the 1970s. The times were so much more colorful and poetic.
@andrewdiamond2697 You described that decade perfectly, my friend ❤️
I remember when you stepped on a scale and the price of your lift ticket on the last day was based on your weight.
Haha@ How cool was that? Lol
The algorithm has this now
Ski bummed there in the early 80 for 2 ski seasons, bartended at Winter Haven Ski Lodge, it's not there anymore sadly, it was on the northwest side of Vasquez Creek (bridge) and 40. Live in a 1 bedroom cabin behind the lodge on the creek, good times.
This is great!
@@azbacnikorange Like a time machine
Good old days of hotdogging.
Didn’t know they had steeze in 76
@@wetsockoutdoors8538 Absolutely
No helmets, just mullets! 😂 And long heavy skis mostly that were hard in the bumps...
@@RLDavis-h2h It was a completely different world!
Only snowboarders wear helmets.
@@LaughDragon Fellas is it gay to avoid brain damage
This is incredible. The editing. The cosmic sound effects. The fact they actually named their expansion after the devils lettuce, the ganga, weed, herb, pot, grass, the MaryJane. Hilarious. I love it. The hair, the outfits, the dudes, the babes.
All those babes are older ladies now. I hope they are still skiing.
The guy at 11:40… Gold!
Amazing!!
Thank you! Cheers!
I think so also
I miss $12 lift tickets 😞
@@justinsane7128 Me too!!
And just like that, they became the Boomers we know today
If you frenchfry when you should pizza, you'll have a bad time!
My brother and I were there when it opened. I don't remember so many lesbians.
"want to fly?" better have good insurance. Knees ain't cheap.
At first, MJ and WP were only connected by "Drunken Frenchman"... A cliff with moguls, about a quarter mile of hell. Now, keep in mind, when we started skiing, the skis were wooden, the boots were leather, the bindings were cable, and the Piz were Buin.
178 kinds of awesome. 10 years before my time in the valley
13 years for me ☺ worked at West Portal first year, then got the night job 😉
Ski bummed there in '76 / '77 This was truly a "blast from the past" with several familiar faces. Mary Jane was a 'lady of the evening' that held forth while they were building the Moffat Tunnel. Yes, there was some of the whacky tobaccy consumed...
@@billcarley6222 Precisely the story!
...Ain't exactly a Warren Miller, but ...
Who is the band near the end? Looks and sounds like Commander Cody but I'm not 100% sure. Whole lot of friends who skied there from 70s on to today....my buddy worked with the handicapped ski program for 25 years....
It was named Mary Jane because the local gave Mary Jane the land that is now the Mary Jane!! For her services if ya know what I mean!!
smoked alot of Mary Jane on those lifts! accompanied by a bota bag
@brianslota4861 Hahaha!! That's the Jane way!
This is amazing. Thank you so much for posting this. I am a Grand County native, literally, and this video is really nice to see. Where were you able to source this from?
Glad you enjoyed it! I stumbled on this video online
Does this Mary Jane train song have a name?
Yeah I wanna know I can't seem to find it!
Let me know if you find it!!!!
Where the hell did you get this
@@richemoreno196 Stumbled on it online
epic!!!! who sings the mary jane song? Can we download it somewhere?
@@Floydfan2250 Haven't been able to locate it. May have to recreate
Dang! Yeah that's a killer song!
Is there anywhere to find the song? Gotta add it to the playlist.
Credits in the beginning show the music by Dale Menton. Haven't found the song anywhere just yet
What’s the song?
May have been made strictly for the video, I'm working on locating the artist or the song itself. Dale Menton is his name I believe
Anybody know the name of this song or where ro find it?
@colinlewis8275 There are credits at the beginning of the video that have the artists name. Dale Menton is his name. Haven't had luck finding the song just yet myself.
Lived here for almost 20 years. It's slowly turning into Breckenridge. Less housing for locals, more second home owners. City market doesn't even have enough turkeys for the demand since we've grown 7x in the last year. Stay home and don't make my home yours!
@@nomad4594 This is my 12th season here in Winter Park. I've watched the growth explode in recent years.
@@IndigoVisuals Clark is ruining the valley.
ha. i left when Denver sold. no regrets best time of my life (so far)
What are those skinny snowboards attached to their feet and why do they have two of them?
Mine were Olin Mark IV's.
180 cm.
Kastinger World Cup Boots.
What a year.
My knees gave out before
the shaped skis came along.
No one wore helmets back then I guess
@@azbacnikorange Not even a thought then
Not even until 2010ish really
Even in the late 1980s I was racing GS in a knit cap.
$30k back then = $150k today!
I remember back when a Chair LIFT ticket was $6.00 and so many years went by and then the price went up to $8.00 which was unheard of, EVERYONE went into Shock, totally appalled!!! Now day's, it's a joke, there would have to be a min of 4' or more to get me to pay that amount of money 💰 🤑 to get me on the Mountain ⛰️. Washington state, 2024.
@@craigbosko2229 My season pass that year was only $230 !
Skied almost every day.
Not a helmet in sight.
Not Marijuana silly!!!!
@@johntravelstead2986 We enjoy Marijuana and our beloved MaryJane story!! Local prostitute in the 1800s
Not a helmet in sight 😍
Girl on thumb nail looks like Jill Biden
@@notme1453 I can see it!