Suicide Six Ski Trail Map - Layered Wood Wall Art
by Mountaincut
Home of America's first ski lift, now on your wall. Mountaincut's Suicide Six Ski Trail Map is a layered wooden wall art piece featuring hand-traced ski trails expertly laser cut from premium birch and/or walnut plywood, a handcrafted tribute to the historic Woodstock, Vermont mountain that helped launch the American ski industry nearly 90 years ago.
Vermont's Ski Innovation Pioneer, Captured in Wood
Set in South Pomfret, Vermont, a short drive north of the picturesque town of Woodstock, this mountain holds a foundational place in American ski history. In the mid-1930s, U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame honoree Wallace "Bunny" Bertram installed a rope tow on the mountain's Hill No. 6, one of the very first ski lifts ever built in the United States and the innovation that gave the area its longtime name, since Bertram joked that skiing down that steep hill would be suicide. In 2022, the resort's owner, the Woodstock Inn and Resort, retired that name in favor of Saskadena Six, an Abenaki word meaning "standing mountain," chosen in consultation with Chief Don Stevens of the Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk-Abenaki Nation to honor the region's original inhabitants and to reflect growing awareness around mental health. Today the mountain offers three lifts, including a modern quad, and 23 to 24 trails across a compact, historic footprint. This handcrafted map preserves the mountain's storied original name and every trail on it, in beautiful layered wood relief.
Every Trail, Every Turn, Every Memory
This is a small, classically New England mountain, and that is exactly its charm. The trails wind down a genuinely historic hill, the same slope where the American rope tow was born, with terrain suited to families and skiers of every level looking for an authentic, low-key day on snow. As part of the Woodstock Inn and Resort, the mountain has long been a beloved community fixture, a place where generations of Vermonters and Woodstock visitors have taken their first turns and returned year after year. Summer brings mountain biking and continued four-season investment, but it is winter, and the mountain's deep roots in the earliest days of American skiing, that keeps this map close to the hearts of everyone who has skied its slopes.
Exceptional Craftsmanship, Made in the USA
All Mountaincut wooden trail maps are precision laser cut and etched, hand-stained, and finished in the United States using birch and/or walnut plywood. The two-layer construction creates a rich, dimensional look where the mountain's ridgeline and trail network stand out in beautiful relief. Hanging hardware comes preinstalled, so your new trail map will be on display in minutes.
Because each piece is crafted from real wood, no two maps are exactly alike, with natural variations in the grain and stain giving every piece its own character, just like a crisp winter morning above Woodstock.
The Perfect Gift for Devotees of This Historic Mountain
Whether you learned to ski here as a kid, spent countless family weekends at the Woodstock Inn, appreciate the mountain's place at the very beginning of American ski history, or simply love this corner of Vermont, this map is a lasting reminder of one of the birthplaces of the sport. Mountaincut products are made to order and most items ship within 2 to 3 days. Larger sizes (30" and above) may take 5 to 8 days before shipping.
Available in multiple sizes. Where American skiing began, on your wall every day of the year.
