Has Stowe gone groomer crazy

kingslug said:

Just spent 3 days at Sugarbush where conditions where great..and almost everything was open..and mostly ungroomed. Now im looking at Stowes trail report and most of the upper double d runs are closed and almost everything is getting groomed...
We have only been going there steadily for 2 years. Is this normal?..or is this Vail ??

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kingslug said:

Guess they also open harder terrain more than stowe as well..middle and lower goat not open yet..
SB has everything off the HG chair open

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cdskier said:

Sugarbush is known for their patrol being very aggressive with opening terrain even with exceptionally thin cover. I'm a big fan of that.

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deadheadskier said:

Not a Vail thing. They've always groomed a lot of their terrain. I moved there in 95 and it has been the case since at least then.

Only major changes since that time is they used to let Upper Hayride regularly bump up, especially before widening and regrading it around 98 and all of Upper Spruce was natural and ungroomed except for Sterling.

Consistent ungroomed terrain back then was:

Lower Gulch
Centerline
Upper Hayride (except for during UVM Super G training)
Lookout
Starr
Upper National and skiers left of Lower National
Skiers Right Tower 13 pitch on down for Liftline
Goat
Bypass
Waterfall
Chin Clip
Upper Smuggs
Main Street
Whirlaway


Sugarbush has always left more natural bumped up terrain than Stowe.

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