Little is known about Viking Mountain ski area which operated in the early 1970’s in Greenville, Tennessee. The area was believed to have been serviced by rope tows. Viking Mountain is also known as Camp Creek Bald and is one of the highest mountains in eastern Tennessee at over 4,844 feet above sea level.
Viking Mountain now serves hunters, mountain, bikers, hikers, and has an abundant bear population.
Update: 11/16/2010: Brad Moretz just called and related an interesting story. He shared, "Dad (Grady Moretz) sold Viking one of our Headco snowguns and we heard a little later that when they were putting it on the ski hill that they didn't secure it properly and the story goes on that the thing started rolling down the hill, picking up speed as it went and the darn thing rolled all the way down the slope and right into the lodge at the bottom."
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The messageboard is now in read-only mode and no new posts or topics can be created. We will leave the messageboard up for historical purposes, but you will not be able to make new posts or comment on existing ones.
We have started a Discord server and hope that you all will join us on there. Technology has changed over the years and maintaining the messageboard has become somewhat of a pain in the butt and Discord offers many features for users, the main one being a very polished mobile app.
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Viking Mountain - Greenville, Tennessee
Brad Moretz just called and related:
"Dad (Grady Moretz) sold Viking one of our Headco snowguns and we heard a little later that when they were putting it on the ski hill that they didn't secure it properly and the story goes on that the thing started rolling down the hill, picking up speed as it went and the darn thing rolled all the way down the slope and right into the lodge at the bottom."
"Dad (Grady Moretz) sold Viking one of our Headco snowguns and we heard a little later that when they were putting it on the ski hill that they didn't secure it properly and the story goes on that the thing started rolling down the hill, picking up speed as it went and the darn thing rolled all the way down the slope and right into the lodge at the bottom."
I lived in Greeneville from 85-90 and from what I read there their downfall was the access road.They auctioned off all the roundette condos and base lodge around 1988 or 89 for a pittance and the winners had to remove the structure within a designated time. I lived just below the Mtn....figures!
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RoamingChad
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Does anyone know any current locations of any of the relocated roundette cabins?
