SUGARLOAF: 2005 Alpinezone Ski Area Challenge

[Vortex]

I found the answers informative. I think they know the week areas they have. Ie slow lifts IMO. I also think the Asc resorts all seem to be saying the same thing.... The length of the season will remain consistant. That is the most important issue to me. I have found All ASC responses very good and to the point.

 

[ALLSKIING]

Unfortunately, that is the way the industry is going...

Its the way of the world things go up in price and will continue to go up.

 

[ALLSKIING]

Wow, lift tickets for next season will be $62.00, I think that is a little expensive for the mountain's location, but it is a costly place to operate.

wont be going there ever again...

Come on Awf170 you can't let $62 stop you from skiing one of the best mountains in the east.

 

[BillontheHill]

I apologize if I wasn't completely clear on ticket prices but they will be $61 midweek and weekends and $62 during holiday times.

bill

 

[thetrailboss]

I apologize if I wasn't completely clear on ticket prices but they will be $61 midweek and weekends and $62 during holiday times.

bill

Hey...thanks for the follow-up! Hope to get up there soon! :wink:

 

[awf170]

Wow, lift tickets for next season will be $62.00, I think that is a little expensive for the mountain's location, but it is a costly place to operate.

wont be going there ever again...

Come on Awf170 you can't let $62 stop you from skiing one of the best mountains in the east.

no that one thing isnt going to stop me but lately me and my dad has been getting more and more fed up with sugarloaf, more and more expansive, management getting worse, and just little things that annoy us. So i might go again but not a few trips a season like before. My opinion sugarloaf has incrediable skiing/mountain i just hate everything else about it.

 

[Vortex]

See this brings me back to the Asc Bronze pass. At the current price of $369. That is 6 days of skiing. Then its free for the rest of the time. I am tied to Loon and like that, but the variety and cost makes the Asc deal seem so very reasonable. If you made 3 weekend trips in the past that would be the Pass price. Austin, you have great points and you seem to work well with you parents in going over things. This one to me is easy to figure. Just sounds like you could enjoy the places you like at a cost that works. MY thoughts not intended in an offensive way.

 

[awf170]

See this brings me back to the Asc Bronze pass. At the current price of $369. That is 6 days of skiing. Then its free for the rest of the time. I am tied to Loon and like that, but the variety and cost makes the Asc deal seem so very reasonable. If you made 3 weeeknd trips in the past that would be the Pass price. Austin, you have great points and you seem to work well with you parents in going over things. This one to me is easy to figure. Just sounds like you could enjoy the places you like at a cost that works. MY thoughts not intended in an offensive way.

Vermont just seems better now, stay in burlington, better food, then ski sugarbush and MRG
heard good things about stowe but too expensive and crowded(went there once and hated it) only way i would go again was with a local who knew all of the O.B. terrian

and for the bronze pass i just copy what i wrote for a post on T4T

i find the pass useless... okay atitash-why go there when you can go to wildcat, same deal with someday bigger, sugarloaf is in the middle of no where... mount snow, go to magic instead or drive north farther... killington just drive to sugarbush or mrg or stowe. So pretty much every time there is a ASC ski area there is a better ski area just as close

thats just my opinion so no one get mad against my dislike of ASC.. the only place i would probably use the pass is sunday river and sugarloaf but still probably not 6 times

 

[thetrailboss]

Yep, Burlington is a good base of operations for ski trips. An hour to MRG, Sbush, Bolton (30 min), Smuggs, Stowe, and about 90 min to Jay.

 

[awf170]

Yep, Burlington is a good base of operations for ski trips. An hour to MRG, Sbush, Bolton (30 min), Smuggs, Stowe, and about 90 min to Jay.

really wanna give bolton a try... looks fun and no crowds and lots of snow

 

[thetrailboss]

Yep, Burlington is a good base of operations for ski trips. An hour to MRG, Sbush, Bolton (30 min), Smuggs, Stowe, and about 90 min to Jay.

really wanna give bolton a try... looks fun and no crowds and lots of snow

You've summed it up quite well. Slow lifts and difficult access road though. :x

 

[Vortex]

I see your points. Sugarloaf and Sunday River are in my top 5 so I see where we differ. If I was to combine lodging and skiing in this region it would be Sugarloaf. Everything is right there. Park the car and take it in. 1 Day or 2day trips not worth it for me. Multi day trips will be more frequent here.

 

[JimG.]

heard good things about stowe but too expensive and crowded(went there once and hated it) only way i would go again was with a local who knew all of the O.B. terrian

Stowe rocks! I don't know all the OB terrain, but I could certainly show you some superior tree skiing. The Riverbed is one of the sweetest tree shots in the east.

 

[awf170]

heard good things about stowe but too expensive and crowded(went there once and hated it) only way i would go again was with a local who knew all of the O.B. terrian

Stowe rocks! I don't know all the OB terrain, but I could certainly show you some superior tree skiing. The Riverbed is one of the sweetest tree shots in the east.

nice, i love river bed skiing, as you all know wildcat has some awsome ones. Those chutes off goat look sick too. Everyone made goat seem so hard, didnt see that bad to me. Stowe seems like an awsome mountain just too many people for the small trails

 

[loafer89]

I am with Bob, I love Sugarloaf, for me it is #1 in the east. It's nice to get to a mountain where what you see is what you ski (quite literally).

As for riverbed skiing, I am still picking the splinters out of my @ss after following a friend down Rookie River at Sugarloaf.

We plan to take another 7-10 day vacation at the loaf next season, with the ASC bronze pass it just makes sense for us.

 

[awf170]

I am with Bob, I love Sugarloaf, for me it is #1 in the east. It's nice to get to a mountain where what you see is what you ski (quite literally).

As for riverbed skiing, I am still picking the splinters out of my @ss after following a friend down Rookie River at Sugarloaf.

We plan to take another 7-10 day vacation at the loaf next season, with the ASC bronze pass it just makes sense for us.

man i love rookie river... also cant dog has a sweet river if you go really far in... cant dog is incredible, one of the best glades around

 

[ALLSKIING]

I agree with you Austin at skiing MRG and Bush its hard to do better then that.

 

[JimG.]

Stowe seems like an awsome mountain just too many people for the small trails

Gotta hit Stowe on the weekdays, it's like a different place compared to weekends.

 

[Geoff]

I enjoy skiing Sugarloaf but the place does have many down sides:

* Many days, it could be renamed "Mount Wind Hold"

* Parking is a disaster

* It lacks in apres ski and dining

* It suffers from the ASC malaise. Minimal maintanence for many years and a staff that's tired of the shoestring budget.

Personally, I try to get most of my Sugarloaf days midweek in April when nobody is there and the snowfields have buttery corn snow. Unfortunately, they've stopped running all the lifts midweek at that time of the year so you often can't ski the whole mountain.

 

[loafer89]

The problems that I have with Sugarloaf are:

1) Lifts that are ancient and slow.

2) Lack of ANY summit facilities

3) Lodging is VERY expensive

I do not agree that they have a parking problem??

I do not know if they would be better off without ASC as the previous owner, SKII, bought the place for the tax break that a money losing area like Sugarloaf provided.

That place needs to be owned by someone with deep pockets, or a multi-area company like ASC to absorb some losses that operating Sugarloaf can incurr.