Bromley Sun Mountain skylift foliage
— — a slow chair, over the colour.
Not only on a wall.
“The Sun Mountain skyride runs up the south face of Bromley in summer and fall. Four-person chairs, no bar overhead, a fifteen-minute ride over open ski trails the foliage takes back in October. The colour comes earliest here because the slope is south-facing, so the maples turn before the rest of the Green Mountain ridges have started. Families ride up and walk down. Photographers wait for the chair to be the only thing moving in the frame. from the studio
Bromley Sun Mountain skylift foliage, on ceramic.
Each tile is finished by hand in our Knoxville studio. Artwork is slowly infused into the ceramic surface under high heat and pressure, and rests beneath a thin glossy finish. The colour lives in the surface, not on top of it.
Pick any four 4-inch tiles — National Parks you've been to, a Smokies set, the four seasons of one place. $ for a set of , cork-backed, ready to live on the table.
The place, in three passes.
The Sun Mountain skyride is the summer and foliage operation at Bromley Mountain in Peru, Vermont. The chairlift rises about 1,300 vertical feet from the base lodge to the 3,260-foot summit, carrying riders over the south-facing ski trails the mountain has used since Fred Pabst Jr. opened it in 1936. Sun Mountain is also Vermont's longest alpine slide, running parallel to the lift line on the lower mountain. The skyride and adventure park typically operate on selected summer weekends and daily through the autumn foliage window.
Bromley's south-facing slopes turn first. Sugar maples on the lower mountain begin shifting in the last week of September, with peak colour usually arriving the first or second week of October, a few days ahead of the surrounding north-facing ridges. The skyride runs through both windows. Frost in the early morning, sun by ten, the chair moving steadily through orange and red. By the third week of October the leaves are down and the lift shuts until ski season.
The skyride loads at the Bromley base lodge off Vermont Route 11, about 9 kilometres east of Manchester Center. Tickets are sold at the base; foliage weekends often sell out by mid-afternoon. The ride takes roughly fifteen minutes one way, and most riders walk down the service road or the cleared trails rather than ride back. The summit has a small observation point and access to the Long Trail and Appalachian Trail crossing.