EAST MADISON — While King Pine celebrates its 60th season this year, it’s worth noting that skiing in what Hoyt family members call “the valley” actually predates the installation of a double chair and three trails that were feted at the Dec. 29, 1962, opening of the East Madison ski area.

In December 1938, late King Pine founder Milt Hoyt installed a rope tow below Bald Ledge behind the site of the Millbrook Lodge that once was the Hoyt family home and then Purity Spring Resort’s main office before it was taken down in 2020.

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