Lament all you want over Pay-parking, three figure lift ticket prices, faux mountain villages, and the $50 burger (and yes, that actually exists). For me, the demise of ski culture as we know if can be summed up with a five-inch piece of aluminum. The wicket: created for one purpose but serving so many functions. For more than 40 years after a Killington employee named Martin Hanley invented it in 1963, the wicket was the preferred method for fastening lift tickets to clothing.
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