nhskier1969
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Please remind me, how far south is Stratton from Sugarbush? I guess it was really cold in Southern Vermont, Stratton is planning on opening up Wednesday.
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The "Sugarbush Thread"
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BodeMiller1
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BodeMiller1
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They're all shooting for as much open terrain as possible for T-Day. I don't ski until there's a decent base; the woods are always there.
Shredmonkey254
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guess that means we are not driving up to the valley this weekend either. just what the locals like! will go spend our money elsewhere while the snow on top of the mountain appears to just sit there, wasting away, not melting the last several days.
No they aren't. They said yesterday their original plan was to open Wednesday, but they pushed it back to Friday and even that remains "as fluid as the weather".
wish this wasn't the truth.
Going to have to watch my god awful football team (giants) get humiliated
Happy Holidays!
MadPadraic
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I think it might have been 2018 when the Friday after TG was the best single day of the season. We had Cannon passes that year, and the front five opened entirely on natural snow. I swear this isn't an old-age made up memory.
Shredmonkey254
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Heck, look at the Sugarbush website. The image they show is Castlerock last year - Thanksgiving weekend! Surprised they are still advertising that...
Maybe this coming storm will deliver the goods!
Hawk
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Says you. I have not missed a 3 or 4 day ski weekend for thanksgiving ever! I'm not sure what other people have done over the years but I have skied in October at least 10 years of my life. Hell I almost skied in September once at Killington. It is what you make of it. That being said, this year is definately the worst I have experienced.
I've pretty much given up watching them at this point. I watched 1 quarter on Sunday and then decided to make better use of my time by working on Christmas lights.
lol I have not watched a Giants game yet this season. Been fishing or lately skiing.
The only competition the Giants might win this season is whether they or the equally hideous Jets are the worst team in football.
I wish they would allow hiking to the snow they made up high, pipe dream they would have to groom it out and then allow you to access it. They have really tightened the belt on the skinning policy over the years.
FB says Sunday now.
I think 2021-22 started about as slowly and the first half of December was not much better. Of course the lifts were running slightly earlier but they were downloading on Super Bravo in those days. The upcoming cold shot will mean a lot of terrain expansion over the next two weeks.
Assuming they have water...that's been raised a couple times in this thread recently as a possible concern. Anyone know how the water levels in the pond and Mad River are doing?
nhskier1969
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Sugarbush needs a realistic game plan each year. It's going to get harder and harder to open the bottom first. Their first priority should be upper mtn. If it's cold enough at the base then start blowing on Gatehouse. Seems every year when there isn't enough cold weather at the bottom Sugarbush will start making snow on the top but then abandon that strategy when it gets cold at the bottom. It seems like they flip a coin everyday debating where they should make snow.
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