The "Sugarbush Thread"

thetrailboss · Jan 25, 2016

Here's one of my shots of Brambles from 2011:

Snowmonster on it....where he is standing used to be trees IIRC:

This is the part that I think they regraded:

thetrailboss · Jan 25, 2016

2010 looking down...

I think this is a shot of it in 2008:

dlague · Jan 25, 2016

djd66 said:
I rode slidebrook on Sunday around 1ish the lift stopped for 15 minutes. Made 1 run at my Ellen and then decided to head back as conditions at south were much better. On the ride back the lift stopped again for about 15-20 mins. I was with my 11yo daughter - and we were freezing! Not sure why the issue was, but I don't think I will be riding that lift anytime soon. I wish the slidebrook chair had bubbles or were a gondola. Discussions during the wait were about the probobility of a lift evac. (I had the pleasure of being in the heavens gate evac with my son 2 years ago). I have not had many issues with the lifts at Sugarbush, but I hope they get these issue worked out.

My wife were talking about that. We were discussing which chair would be the worst and that chair came to mind for both of us. The valley before you get to Mt Ellen the chair is pretty high and above the tree line.

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Newpylong · Jan 26, 2016

WWF-VT said:
You must be thinking of a different Brambles. GMVS just started snowmaking on Brambles last year -IIRC. It used to be all natural snow with just some blow over from Inverness. It gets a lot of sun and used to be all soft moguls with limited traffic off the Inverness chair.

Nope. I'm a GMVS '99 grad and when I was there from 95 to 99 snow was made on it every year and we trained SL there when they were doing GS on Inverness. Only the top was natural above the crossover.

Perhaps they stopped that practice in the interim years?

I just asked someone who still works there and they said it's since been widened, with pipes being installed on the actual trail vs dragging through woods.

shadyjay · Jan 26, 2016

I had the fun pleasure a week or so ago of setting up Brambles for snowmaking. There is no pipeline on Brambles, and hoses need to be stretched through the woods from Inverness. Luckily the Inverness pipeline is on skier's left and to reach Brambles, some hydrants needed 2 lengths of 75' hoses (x2 for air AND water) and others, 1 75' and 1 25'. What they DID do was install tower mounts this year on the lower half, but that's it.

TrailBoss' 2008 shot of Brambles above (2nd post, 2nd pic) is still accurate. Top is still narrow and trees. One of my favorite runs at the MEllen. Hardly any traffic and easy to find good snow, as long as its not closed for racing/training. After all, it better be good snow over there... it's a long hike for me on my board from Elbow/main mtn, across Northway, though I can usually keep speed to avoid flatting out, until I get to top of the Inverness chair.

thetrailboss · Jan 26, 2016

shadyjay said:
I had the fun pleasure a week or so ago of setting up Brambles for snowmaking. There is no pipeline on Brambles, and hoses need to be stretched through the woods from Inverness. Luckily the Inverness pipeline is on skier's left and to reach Brambles, some hydrants needed 2 lengths of 75' hoses (x2 for air AND water) and others, 1 75' and 1 25'. What they DID do was install tower mounts this year on the lower half, but that's it.

TrailBoss' 2008 shot of Brambles above (2nd post, 2nd pic) is still accurate. Top is still narrow and trees. One of my favorite runs at the MEllen. Hardly any traffic and easy to find good snow, as long as its not closed for racing/training. After all, it better be good snow over there... it's a long hike for me on my board from Elbow/main mtn, across Northway, though I can usually keep speed to avoid flatting out, until I get to top of the Inverness chair.

Interesting. Are we correct that it was regraded at some point in the last ten years or so?

Newpylong · Jan 26, 2016

shadyjay said:
I had the fun pleasure a week or so ago of setting up Brambles for snowmaking. There is no pipeline on Brambles, and hoses need to be stretched through the woods from Inverness. Luckily the Inverness pipeline is on skier's left and to reach Brambles, some hydrants needed 2 lengths of 75' hoses (x2 for air AND water) and others, 1 75' and 1 25'. What they DID do was install tower mounts this year on the lower half, but that's it.

TrailBoss' 2008 shot of Brambles above (2nd post, 2nd pic) is still accurate. Top is still narrow and trees. One of my favorite runs at the MEllen. Hardly any traffic and easy to find good snow, as long as its not closed for racing/training. After all, it better be good snow over there... it's a long hike for me on my board from Elbow/main mtn, across Northway, though I can usually keep speed to avoid flatting out, until I get to top of the Inverness chair.

Thanks for the correction Shady. That makes more sense to me and now that I look back he said "snowmaking equipment" not pipes.

Way back when I made snow we used to run fans hundred and hundreds of feet from hydrants. No fun.

neversummer · Jan 30, 2016

I was actually looking for the sugar low blood but I'll check in at Sugarbush would build the Leo

Smellytele · Jan 30, 2016

neversummer said:
I was actually looking for the sugar low blood but I'll check in at Sugarbush would build the Leo

Scotty - Is that you?

neversummer · Jan 30, 2016

Nope Grover here

rocks860 · Jan 30, 2016

I'm glad I'm not the only one who didn't understand that

neversummer · Jan 30, 2016

thetrailboss · Jan 31, 2016

neversummer said:
I was actually looking for the sugar low blood but I'll check in at Sugarbush would build the Leo

Say what?

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MEtoVTSkier · Jan 31, 2016

My Scotty translator doesn't even work on that one...

:dontknow:

Smellytele · Jan 31, 2016

MEtoVTSkier said:
My Scotty translator doesn't even work on that one...

Time to ban

ScottySkis · Jan 31, 2016

thetrailboss said:
Say what?

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catsup948 · Jan 31, 2016

Might be a stupid question. Xwhaler and I are heading to the Hyde Away Tuesday night. We have decided to just got for it no matter the weather Wednesday. Would Sugarbush be on complete wind hold with what appears to be south to southwest winds? Rain and warm temps actually would be decent skiing otherwise.

rocks860 · Jan 31, 2016

Depends on the winds. Summit, heavens gate and north Lynx will sometimes go on wind hole with everything else open

cdskier · Jan 31, 2016

I honestly can't remember which direction of wind impacts Sugarbush the most. There are times the entire mountain is shut down, and times just one lift is impacted. I've always thought it would be a good idea to make note of the direction of wind when they have various holds...but never actually did it.

WWF-VT · Jan 31, 2016

Status update for Sun, Jan 31

"With a warm front coming in for the next couple of days and to preserve the condition of the trails, we'll be closing all natural snow terrain tomorrow morning. "

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