The "Sugarbush Thread"

Tin · Dec 15, 2016

Was torn between Bush and Pico today. Grabbed a ticket for Pico last night, then see this image when I get up to check snow reports....:dunce:

Streamers be sneaky.

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tumbler · Dec 15, 2016

This will not be a pond filling rain, most of the liquid wil be absorbed by the snow pack. Pond fillers are the 2 days of the 45+ degree and heavy rain. I think it will be au natural for a while until the January thaw the nwe pray for liquid so they can resurface. Keep the snow coming and I won't be complaining!

Duncanator24 · Dec 15, 2016

Anybody know if season pass pickup is only at the Lincoln Base area or can this also be done at Mt Ellen? I am going tomorrow with some friends who have to pick up passes. Was hoping we could just go direct to Ellen before all of the untouched powder is gone.

Hawk · Dec 15, 2016

As far as I know all season pass facilities are In the farm house at Lincoln Base area. You can only get day passes at North.

Hawk · Dec 15, 2016

Duncanator24 said:
Anybody know if season pass pickup is only at the Lincoln Base area or can this also be done at Mt Ellen? I am going tomorrow with some friends who have to pick up passes. Was hoping we could just go direct to Ellen before all of the untouched powder is gone.

You will be challenged to see much untouched power at North. People have been skinning, hiking and skiing over there for 3 weeks solid. Not to mention that GMVS has access also.

benski · Dec 15, 2016

Hawk said:
You will be challenged to see much untouched power at North. People have been skinning, hiking and skiing over there for 3 weeks solid. Not to mention that GMVS has access also.

Still should be awesome packed powder and woods.

WWF-VT · Dec 15, 2016

Hawk said:
You will be challenged to see much untouched power at North. People have been skinning, hiking and skiing over there for 3 weeks solid. Not to mention that GMVS has access also.

There will be plenty of untracked powder at Mt Ellen tomorrow. Patrol and mountain operations have been real hard asses on skinning lately and GMVS doesn’t duck ropes. I walked my dog around the base area for the last six days and saw first hand what was happening. Inverness opened a few days ago so GMVS has not been using the GMX and Summitt chairs.

Hawk · Dec 15, 2016

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I was speaking from my experience. Just saying.

cdskier · Dec 16, 2016

Well sugarbush is officially 100% open, but north Lynx is via hiking at the moment. Mt Ellen was lots of slabby wind packed powder this morning. I might have been better off taking some runs at LP instead of going over to ME.

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thetrailboss · Dec 16, 2016

cdskier said:
Well sugarbush is officially 100% open, but north Lynx is via hiking at the moment. Mt Ellen was lots of slabby wind packed powder this morning. I might have been better off taking some runs at LP instead of going over to ME.

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Interesting. Get it while the getting is good!

WWF-VT · Dec 16, 2016

MT. ELLEN
-4°
Base

-12°
Mid

-13°
Summit

Add some wind and you have a nice warm day in VT....

rocks860 · Dec 16, 2016

WWF-VT said:
MT. ELLEN
-4°
Base

-12°
Mid

-13°
Summit

Add some wind and you have a nice warm day in VT....

Yep, that sounds like the last couple years I've been there. Few years ago it was -22 at the summit of LP the first day we were there

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tumbler · Dec 16, 2016

cdskier said:
Well sugarbush is officially 100% open, but north Lynx is via hiking at the moment. Mt Ellen was lots of slabby wind packed powder this morning. I might have been better off taking some runs at LP instead of going over to ME.

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bit lame to claim 100% open when having to hike uphill to ski NL. I'm ok with ridgleline hike to CR

Hawk · Dec 16, 2016

tumbler said:
bit lame to claim 100% open when having to hike uphill to ski NL. I'm ok with ridgleline hike to CR

I don't think the lift is inspected and ready to go. Hey just like CR, it was way better last weekend before the masses got there.

cdskier · Dec 16, 2016

Hawk said:
I don't think the lift is inspected and ready to go. Hey just like CR, it was way better last weekend before the masses got there.

I also heard they are short on lift operators at the moment and still have quite a few open positions. If that is true, that could also explain NL not yet running.

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cdskier · Dec 17, 2016

tumbler said:
bit lame to claim 100% open when having to hike uphill to ski NL. I'm ok with ridgleline hike to CR

And today NL (and CR) lifts are both running...I'm actually a bit disappointed to see the CR lift running.

Plowboy · Dec 18, 2016

tumbler said:
This will not be a pond filling rain, most of the liquid wil be absorbed by the snow pack. Pond fillers are the 2 days of the 45+ degree and heavy rain.

This is a pond filling rain. Lockwood, Slide and Millbrook are all running strong. It rained heavy most of the night and morning with temps at 50 degrees. Back to 0 degrees tonight and a full pond.

tumbler · Dec 18, 2016

cdskier said:
And today NL (and CR) lifts are both running...I'm actually a bit disappointed to see the CR lift running.

I guess you were not here then. CR skied fantastic, there is a lot of snow up there.

tumbler · Dec 18, 2016

Plowboy said:
This is a pond filling rain. Lockwood, Slide and Millbrook are all running strong. It rained heavy most of the night and morning with temps at 50 degrees. Back to 0 degrees tonight and a full pond.

It sure is. Looking at the river running high so full pond it is.

cdskier · Dec 18, 2016

tumbler said:
I guess you were not here then. CR skied fantastic, there is a lot of snow up there.

I was up Tues-Fri and drove back to NJ for the weekend. I'm sure it did ski fantastic, but it was nice with such limited traffic via hiking. CR probably saw far more people skiing it yesterday via the lift than it did all season via hiking so far.

May not matter too much as now the weather has had a significant impact on all the snow I'm sure. It is amazing that it is currently warmer in VT than it is in NJ.

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