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Otto Wallingford and Dr. Camille Gardner opened Lost Valley Ski in 1961 on land between their two parcels. Wallingford, who had a degree in agricultural engineering, built the first snowmaking system in the state at Lost Valley and introduced Mainers to night skiing. But in 1971, when he started towing a cylindrical steel grate behind a tractor to turn hard snow crust into groomed powder, he made the most significant contribution to skiing. In the ski industry, the Powder Maker became an essential grooming tool. Through the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, Lost Valley had a number of different owners and management. When Scott and April Shanaman purchased the Ski Area in March 2016. With increased snowmaking efforts and modernization in 2018, numerous improvements continued. In February 2018, Lost Valley Ski, a three-barrel nano-brewery, opened in the lodge's basement. It served customers in the bar, which was open all summer as a brewpub and expanded in November 2018.