For as long as I can remember my family has been coming up to Vermont to go skiing, at least once a year, at Bromley Mountain in Peru, Vermont. Bromley was never the largest, most difficult, or most expensive. It has always been a family-centric and cheap ticket, as ski resorts go in this part of New England, and thus the least snobbish. This is aimed at Stratton.
The resort was originally owned by the Pabst family of Milwaukee, makers of the hipster favorite Blue Ribbon. The trails were designed by Fred Pabst, jr. and still retain some obvious names on the black diamonds, such as Blue Ribbon, Pabst Peril, and Pabst Panic. Pabst, aside from ski trail design was an inventor responsible for advances in chairlifts and snow production, which is necessary for a ski resort with its slopes facing south and the sun. The mountain trails were cleared by workers from the CCC (Civilian Conservation Corps) during the Depression. Big Bromley is now celebrating 75 years.
The difficulty in answering the question is because I am basing my argument on that it is not hipster because there is no irony. Vermont, cheapness (aka vintage or thrift) with exception to tech and PBR may be hipster Fred Pabst was not a pretender, he loved his mountain and the sport of skiing without a misguided sense of his self. Drinking PBR has become an event, like cosby sweater nights for the hipster and those in the periphery, the rest of us can never drink it again for fear of being labeled to cool for school. Any group that prevents drinking is pure evil.
So is Bromley hipster? NO! Hipsters are allergic to skiing and families, and Pabst in this context is completely without an ironic sense of being blue collar or urban.
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vault/article/magazine/MAG1074335/1/index.htm
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