The Dartmouth Skiway, at Holt's Ledge, ten miles north of the campus, has one of the best terrains in the East, ranging from novice to expert.

The College also maintains the Dartmouth Skiway, a skiing facility located over two mountains near the Hanover campus in Lyme Center, New Hampshire that serves as the winter practice grounds for the nationally dominant Dartmouth ski team.

The Dartmouth Skiway is in the eastern part of town, near the village of Lyme Center.

Holts Ledge is a cliff that views east and is home to the Dartmouth Skiway.

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The McLane Family Lodge as viewed from the chairlift on Holt's LedgeThe Dartmouth Skiway is a ski area located about twenty minutes north of Dartmouth College in Lyme, New Hampshire.

The Dartmouth Skiway Ski and Snowboard School has a staff of over 35 instructors.

The Dartmouth Skiway is patrolled by the Dartmouth Ski Patrol, a joint community and student first aid volunteer organization, and is home to the Dartmouth Ski Team, which hosts the alpine skiing events of the Dartmouth Winter Carnival there annually.

The Dartmouth Skiway opened in 1957 and is now one of two college-owned ski areas in the northeast, along with the Middlebury College Snow Bowl.

Dartmouth Ski Patrol is a community service organization dedicated to providing first responder care at the Dartmouth Skiway.

The patrol has worked at various locations since it was founded, but now is primarily serving the Dartmouth Skiway.

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During his tenure academic and athletic facilities were improved ; the Rockefeller Center, Hood Museum, and boathouse were built ; classrooms were renovated ; the Dartmouth Skiway was improved ; and the Berry Sports Center was built.

The nearby climbing areas most frequented by members of the club are Winslow Cliffs near the Dartmouth Skiway ; Rumney, an East Coast sport climbing venue that attracts climbers from as far away as Montreal and Boston ; Cannon Cliff in Franconia Notch ; and Cathedral and Whitehorse Ledges near North Conway.

; Dartmouth Ski Patrol: Provides patrol and rescue on the Dartmouth Skiway and provides medical and safety support to the other member clubs.

But there has always been an outdoor air to Dartmouth.

Under the auspices of the Outing Club, Dartmouth also has the Mountaineering Club, which takes on tough climbs like Mount McKinley, and Bait & Bullet, whose interests are self-evident, and even sports a Woodman's Team, which competes with other New England colleges in wood sawing and chopping, canoe races, and the like.

However much football has been over-emphasized, the public likes to measure its collegiate favorites by the scoreboard, so, while Yale need never give its record a thought again since outscoring its opponents 694 to 0 in the season of 1888, Dartmouth had to wait until its championship team of 1925 for national recognition.

In 2004, Booz Allen Hamilton selected Dartmouth College as a model of institutional endurance " whose record of endurance has had implications and benefits for all American organizations, both academic and commercial ," citing Trustees of Dartmouth College v. Woodward and Dartmouth's successful self-reinvention in the late 19th century.

Since the election of a number of petition-nominated trustees to the Board of Trustees starting in 2004, the role of alumni in Dartmouth governance has been the subject of ongoing conflict.

Instead of ungrouped dormitories or residential colleges, Dartmouth has nine residential communities located throughout campus.

The Dartmouth Men's Rugby Team, founded in 1951, has also been ranked among the best collegiate teams in that sport over many years.

Technology plays an important role in student life, as Dartmouth has been ranked as one of the most technologically advanced colleges in the world ( as in Newsweeks 2004 ranking of " Hottest for the Tech-Savvy " and Yahoo!

" Since then, Dartmouth has graduated over 700 Native American students from over 200 different tribes, more than the other seven Ivy League universities combined.

The shield appears to have been used as the basis of the shield of Dartmouth Medical School, and it has been reproduced in sizes as small as 20 micrometers across.

Dartmouth has never had an official mascot.

" Some alumni and students, as well as the conservative student newspaper, The Dartmouth Review, have sought to return the Indian symbol to prominence, but no team has worn the symbol on its uniform in decades.

By 2008, Dartmouth had graduated 238 classes of students and has over 60, 000 living alumni in a variety of fields.

In literature and journalism, Dartmouth has produced nine Pulitzer Prize winners: Thomas M. Burton, Richard Eberhart, Robert Frost, Paul Gigot, Jake Hooker, Nigel Jaquiss, Martin J. Sherwin, David K. Shipler, and Joseph Rago.

Dartmouth has also graduated three Nobel Prize winners: Owen Chamberlain ( Physics, 1959 ), K. Barry Sharpless ( Chemistry, 2001 ), and George Davis Snell ( Physiology or Medicine, 1980 ).

Dartmouth has also produced a number of Olympic competitors.

Dartmouth College has appeared in or been referenced by a number of popular media.

Dartmouth College has been mentioned three times on the FOX animated sitcom, The Simpsons, with two of the three occurring on season 11 episodes and associating Dartmouth College with alcoholic consumption.

Dartmouth has served as the alma mater for a number of fictional characters, including:

No railway has ever run to Dartmouth, but the town does have a railway station, although it is now a restaurant.

Dartmouth has one secondary school — formerly ( Dartmouth Community College ) now Dartmouth Academy — an all-through school for those aged 3 – 18, and two primary schools: ( Dartmouth Primary school ( now part of Dartmouth Academy ) and St John the Baptist R. C.

A substantial portion of the town is part of the White Mountain National Forest, including Cherry Mountain (" Mount Martha ", at above sea level ), which is traversed by the Cohos Trail ; and part of the Dartmouth Range, which contains Mount Deception, the summit of which at is the highest point in town.

With an elevation several dozen metres higher than the harbour to the south, the pond was linked to the ocean by small inclined marine railway which was used to haul boats to and from Dartmouth Cove.