And changed its "Bunny Slope" to “Retard Hill”, to please feminist beginner skiers

Oldest ski area in U.S. drops the name Suicide Six for fear of offending the mentally ill.

Saskadena Six is Suicide Six’s new politically correct name. Suicide Six hired creative agency Origin Designs to spin their new brand. Saskadena means “standing mountain” in Abenaki, The Abenaki are an Indigenous peoples of the Northeastern Woodlands of Canada and the United States.

“It’s a win, win”, exulted Mortimer Peacock, chief [that’s waaacist!] head of operations for the ski bowl. “We make the name more attractive to our condo-owners, raising the value of their NYC retreats, and by ‘honoring’ an extinct tribe of people we drove out of here during King Phillip’s War, we can avoid all that nonsense about opening each season with some bogus ‘acknowledgment ceremony’ that’s been attracting a swarm of freaks in feathers and body paint, who show up and demand free firewater”.

Suicide Six’s claim to historical fame as the earliest ski resort derives from the installation, in January 1934, of an improvised rope tow, the first ski lift (uphill conveyance) in the United States, on a hill located on Clinton Gilbert’s farm. The rope tow was originally powered with a Ford Model T engine. By the following month, Wallace “Bunny” Bertram (a former ski coach at Dartmouth College who had helped build the original rope lift) took over the operation, and installed a more reliable electric motor. A few years later he moved his operation to a steeper hill nearby, shown on the map as “Hill 6”. Bertram once joked that to ski down the nearby Hill No. 6 would be suicide. Two years later the resort was opened using this name and photos of Bertram can be seen in the resort museum in the base lodge. Devotees of ski mountaineering and backcountry skiing mark this as the beginning of the divergence of resort skiing and traditional backcountry skiing.