Forty years after last stepping foot on the property, Patti Fitz-Gerald was overcome. From 1960 to 1973 her parents, Jean and Boylan “Doc” Fitz-Gerald, had run Paleface Ski Center and Dude Ranch on Jay’s Bassett Mountain, a family-friendly hill just down the road from looming Whiteface Mountain. After the Fitz-Geralds sold Paleface, a couple of other owners took it on until it was purchased as a private estate in the 1980s.
And with that one family it
