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Loaf is cranking now, but their total nominal capacity is half of Sunday River's, so it takes more time to move the water. They (and Saddleback) usually benefit from more natural snow, but that last liquid event took a toll (Sugarloaf had a fair bit open on natural snow before that).
There's noticably more snow on the ground at the bottom of the Sugarloaf access road then on Sunday River road. I haven't poked around off the groomed enough at either to tell you how, if at all, that translates to snow on the mountain.We were at Sunday River this past Monday and Tuesday, then Sugarbush Thursday - Saturday. There is next to no snow at elevation in Maine compared to Vermont, not a chance you would be skiing a natural snow run those two days compared to being able to ski them at Sugarbush, assuming you could get to them
Last few early-mid winters have been rough for ME. But March and April are as dependable as you’ll get for conditions here.
They hammered Lolla for days and I know Road Runner got another coat along with AmEx. Beyond that, not much. I was bit surprised the only running guns all weekend were Lolla, Excalibur (which was absolutely exceptional man made when the rope dropped), Paradigm, Wildfire and Bear Paw. Felt like they had more in the system they could have been doing, especially Sunday after Lolla came offline.
Sort of. They could be going faster as in hitting Airglow or Vortex while they hit Lost Princess and T72. Granted, those Method guns on T72 pour out some water all at once.
To me, they always seem to slow coming out of Xmas /NY and then accelerate going into MLK. That said, with how behind we are from the warm November and how cold and dry it is now, I would think they would want to flex their muscle they have been building up the last 4 years or so and absolutely blow the doors off the place.
My daughter, who along with the rest of her college ski team has been up at SR for about a week now, says that the snow surface has been quite good (granted she's mainly been around the Barker area for training purposes). She definitely is looking forward to checking out the Ice Igloo over at Jordan today, as today is her 21st birthday... what could possibly go wrong!
January 9? Well done, you did a much better job of gaming the youth ski race calendar than us.My daughter, who along with the rest of her college ski team has been up at SR for about a week now, says that the snow surface has been quite good (granted she's mainly been around the Barker area for training purposes). She definitely is looking forward to checking out the Ice Igloo over at Jordan today, as today is her 21st birthday... what could possibly go wrong!
Kind of screwed up with the younger kid though (just barely) his birthday is 12/29.... Really made a difference when he went up to U14's!
Well, if she has your credit card - you will be impressed by the size of the bill!!! Not cheap to drink there, but certainly worth it on her birthday. It's a cool place!My daughter, who along with the rest of her college ski team has been up at SR for about a week now, says that the snow surface has been quite good (granted she's mainly been around the Barker area for training purposes). She definitely is looking forward to checking out the Ice Igloo over at Jordan today, as today is her 21st birthday... what could possibly go wrong!
