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I burn more calories walking back to the car than I do skiing at sugarloaf. Backpack beers always in order
I find sugarloaf's parking lot shuttle to be fine, just sucks its a pain to go back for beers, but stash a small cooler pack in the lodge and keep a few in the jacket.
At Lincoln it's a slight uphill from either the back lot or the first row, then the stairs. I find the easiest way is around the backside of the hotel, still a slight uphill but no stairs. Can't use the backside if you need to stop for a lift ticket first though or at least you'd have to go down again to get one.Add me to the list of people bewildered as to how some are calling Sugarbush "the worst" - I mean, it's certainly not the best by any means, but it's a level walk of not an extreme distance. If anything, it's the staircases once you arrive at Sugarbush that are worse than the parking lot/walk.
At Lincoln it's a slight uphill from either the back lot or the first row, then the stairs. I find the easiest way is around the backside of the hotel, still a slight uphill but no stairs. Can't use the backside if you need to stop for a lift ticket first though or at least you'd have to go down again to get one.
Unless you get in the first lot the uphill at Mt. Ellen is considerably steeper.
In any event neither area is a level walk.
That means booting up in the car which I rarely do except on spring days. I would still need to get a ticket too.You can also go strait go strait to the village double if you don't mind starting your day on the beginner hill. If you time it right you can park right in front of it.
I remember Cannon and Mount Sunapee having a pretty horrible set up. Bolton Valley's kinda sucked too. Other than that, most places seem pretty convenient for me.
Then you should go to the tram and get a whole lot more goods...and earlier.☺but at zoomer you only have to take 1 lift to get to the goods.
Then you should go to the tram and get a whole lot more goods...and earlier.☺
I don't dump on too many mountain's parking, but...
Bromley is brutal.
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Bromley's like Elk in Pennsylvania with the cattle car in which you freeze your ass off. A least get a heated bus. I don't mind remote parking if the transportation system to the base area is decent.
Alex
Lake Hopatcong, NJ
if you can get in the upper lot, and near the snow, at Elk it's pretty nice though
Actually Elk "could" have great parking in the lots down by the west side chair but only if you have a ticket. I cannot understand why they don't put up a little booth (or automated ticket selling machine) down there to access the mountain. Its a fun little mountain but with things like their ticket structure, parking, and overall location I doubt I will ever ski there again.
Alex
Lake Hopatcong, NJ
They should let people take the lift up that one time unless they thought they would get gamed.