The "Sugarbush Thread"

[Blurski]

Not that I ever competed in the Pond Skimming, I just got pinged that tickets are running low (limited to 110) with a link to purchase, I had no idea they charged $60 to enter, just figured it was free. $6,600 to recover some of the cost to put the event on.
I'm guessing they will charge for the CR Extreme also, last time it did that it was free but many years ago.

 

[Hawk]

It sells out. People seem to like the event. Apparently not eveybody is hell bent on cost.

 

[drjeff]

Not that I ever competed in the Pond Skimming, I just got pinged that tickets are running low (limited to 110) with a link to purchase, I had no idea they charged $60 to enter, just figured it was free. $6,600 to recover some of the cost to put the event on.
I'm guessing they will charge for the CR Extreme also, last time it did that it was free but many years ago.

Just priced out what the plastic silo liners are that most resorts typically line their ponds with before filling them, and for a 100 long by 20 foot wide pond, which is a fairly standard size pond skim pond, you need a silo liner that's about 120 feet long by 40 feet wide so that you can either bury the entry edge and/or weight the sides and end down with the type of mats typically found at the bottom run out area of a tubing hill, and that can run over $1000 befoe you ship it, then add in the hours in the cat and/or excavator to 1st build and then take down the pond after (the liner gets torn up during take down so it's a 1 time use thing at most, if not all ski areas who have to build their own pond skim pond, then if they don;t have things such as life guard style crows hooks and or rescue buoys if needed to help get a failed pond skimmer out of the pond, they need those, plus firing up the pumps for the snowmaking system to fill the pond, staff, etc, while in the big picture of what it costs to operate a ski area over the season, it's not a huge number, but it's also not an event where the operatioal budget is say less than $100 either.

The race crew that I am a part of at Mount Snow also helps run the pond skim event, so I do have some direct knowledge of the behind the scenes stuff that needs to happen to make an event, which tends to be very popular at any and every ski area that has them, happen

 

[djd66]

A few pages back in this thread there was some discussion of "fantasy chairlifts" at SB and included in that was the nugget that I responded to. It's just us bored AZ'ers chatting.

I think they could add a couple of trails off that lift (which I think Win had talked about) I know that may screw up the orchard,... but it would be nice to spread out the traffic for beginners and intermediates.