The Rope Tow Years, 1938–1951

In the fall of 1938, Arne Lindqvist and eleven members of the Harlow Ski Club cut a run through the timber on the lower slopes of Tincup Mountain. The rope tow ran for the first time on December 18, 1938, and about sixty people came up the logging road to ride it. Tickets were fifty cents, the warming hut had one stove, and the only way to the summit was on foot.

The club asked Hal Brenner, the Main Street sign painter, to make its first poster, and Lindqvist drew a trail map by hand in 1946. After the war, returning ski troops joined the ski school. In January 1949 the Big Snow closed the road to Harlow for a week, and the tow kept running for skiers who came up on the lumber company's train.