Hawk
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No wind holds or crowds at HG and castlerock today. Skied untracked Pow all day. Conditions were excellent. Glad I made the choice to ski there today. ;-)
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On a happy note , it was cool to see the fighter jet formation buzz the mountain this am. We were at the top of spring Fling when they went over. Totally ��
Agree - the no wind on HG was a nice surprise. I was expecting the opposite. We did a bunch of amazing runs on Paradise and Spills and rode singles line and pretty much skied on. Great day on the mountain. However, ended on a bit of a downer...stood at the bar at rumbles waiting a good long time to order a drink, finally got belly up to the bar, bar maid comes over to where I was standing and looks straight over my head to a tall dude behind me and took his drink order. I shook my head and walked out. Headed over to Green Mtn lodge for apres where it was 100% more civilized. I love how over there you can spread out and sit in the cafeteria seats behind the band and still enjoy listening to them and have easy access to the bar. The bartenders over there are great and super laid back. Also, those awesome views out those big beautiful windows. Everything apres should be!
Colder air slows down sound waves so yes, deep cold changes the sound a bitInteresting you mention this. I happened to be over at smuggs today for a race and saw them pass low and slow over there as well. I live here and grew up here so I am used to seeing them fly around but they caught my attention more than usual today. I think the cold altered the sound a bit, sounded different today. Back at Sugarbush tomorrow but Smugglers skied well today and it was snowing at a good clip most of the late morning/afternoon.
What I was trying to say is It's all really good no matter where you ski right now. I just can't limit myself to just Mt Ellen all the time. It's too small an area and I know it back and front as I used to ski there a lot. I look at Sugarbush as one big resort and I ski it every weekend like that, using slide brook lift, slidebrook runs, the buses and my car to get the most out of it. I think it is a waste to just limit myself to just one mountain or the other. I think that people that have the Mt. Ellen only pass like to over state how good it is over there as that is the only option they have. Don't get me wrong there are times that it is better but it's not every day.
Skied ME on Saturday. No crowd and the condition was good on groomers and great in natural terrain. Mogul skied well and found fresh powder in semi tough woods, moose runs woods, bravo woods and exterminator woods. Had a great day.
Moved to LP on Sunday. Condition was good elsewhere but great in castle rock due to low traffic. Skied Rumble and Liftlines for the first time and they were crazy fun. Such interesting trails with characters! Snow coverage on rumble was really good. Ventured into rumble woods and found a lot of untracked powder. Had one more run on Rumble at 3pm and found the snow to be tracked out a bit more comparing to morning.
This is our 2nd weekend at Sugarbush ever. Skied in both icy and good conditions. So far we are REALLY impressed. Very interesting natural terrain with great variety. Staff is really friendly and the resort is not trying to squeeze every penny out of you. Can clearly tell this is well managed. This is just our 2nd ski season and we haven’t skied many places. But among the places we skied in New England (NE ikon resorts except Stratton plus some small resorts) sugarbush is clearly our favorite in the eastwith a wide margin. We probably will still go for multi resort pass for a few seasons to sample new places. But whenever we want to commit to one place in NE for whatever reason, we can definitely see ourselves becoming season pass holders here.
So you must not have skied there very much 2, 3 or 4 years ago when North ridge was down all the time. I will agree that the terrain is good off that lift but the parts and pieces are short runs and are broken up with that flat in the middle. Again there are times that I like it but the last few years I have taken to starting at Lincoln Peak and heading over via slide brook and skiing a few runs there, ski slide brook back and take the bus. I'm not that nostalgic with the Mt Ellen base lodge like others on here.i vastly prefer ME to LP. i am a weekends only skier, so that has something to do with it. but i also think the north ridge chair at mount ellen is easily the most interesting and varied terrain anywhere at sugarbush. followed by castle rock tho.
So you must not have skied there very much 2, 3 or 4 years ago when North ridge was down all the time. I will agree that the terrain is good off that lift but the parts and pieces are short runs and are broken up with that flat in the middle. Again there are times that I like it but the last few years I have taken to starting at Lincoln Peak and heading over via slide brook and skiing a few runs there, ski slide brook back and take the bus. I'm not that nostalgic with the Mt Ellen base lodge like others on here.
Had an excellent dinner last night at Hostel Tevere, aka the Mad Burger. Best burger in town, in my opinion. My wife had Falafel with Tsatziki sauce (really good) and I had a Venison Burger special with a craft blue, triple-cream cheese and pork belly. Dinners came with choice of excellent shoestring fries or a nice green salad.