The "Sugarbush Thread"

[KustyTheKlown]

There’s a lot of J1s around too. Most lifts are swarming with South American kids.

Uhhh so, there’s one entrance to the woods to skiers right on the long traverse over to Inverness. No tracks. Would I be making a bad creeky play there?

 

[slatham]

How familiar are you with sugarbush’s usual snowmaking plan? Birch is usually very late in the plan. There are numerous other routes they haven’t touched yet with snowmaking that are typically earlier in the plan than North Lynx terrain. Based on where they’ve made snow so far and what they still have left I have no reason to think Birch would have been touched by now under any normal circumstances. Maybe if they didn’t run out of water and were further ahead with other trails it would be coming up soon…but even that’s not a guarantee.

Yes that’s a good point given the water issues they had. It’s hard to keep track of all the issues lol.

To be clear I am a huge fan of the ‘Bush with family just down the road. I do however think they have a management issue.

 

[Lotso]

Lower Fis was fantastic, well worth the traverse out. Inverness lift re-opened. Walt's was big fun, as was the t-bar track and right of that on Inverness.

 

[Steveskio]

There's a big difference between Paradise and Upper CR/ME vs the lower elevations of Castlerock that are more-so the issue on CR.

Also, where do you get that the Mansfield Snow Stake is almost double the average? It is 10" above average for this time of year (about 35% higher than average). It is still under 40" overall. Let's not pretend we have mid-winter depths out there. We don't.

I take issue with people claiming staffing issues with no basis for that claim simply because a couple lifts aren't running that have other logical reasons for not running. There's a lot of valid criticisms of SB so far this year...but CR and NL not running aren't two of them...

Fair enough CD. It was double b4 the rain and warmth. After skiing it, there is certainly a lot of snow, even down low.
Great day today, even Steins was a worry free rock day!

 

[Newpylong]

There is not enough snow to run CR lift right now it would be trashed in an hour. Also not a shot they would be making snow on North Lynx this early regardless of circumstances.

 

[ducky]

There’s a lot of J1s around too. Most lifts are swarming with South American kids.

Uhhh so, there’s one entrance to the woods to skiers right on the long traverse over to Inverness. No tracks. Would I be making a bad creeky play there?

That can be really good. Big rock (10') to jump or go around near the entrance, then break slightly right. Comes out on the NR Traverse eventually but you can stay in a while.

 

[Cheetah440]

CR would be beat to death if they opened the lift right now. Absolute death. It’s good that it’s closed. The hike is worth it. The terrain would lose its jazz in 15 min if the lift was open. Some good things require work/the people who work deserve the rewards.

I love hiking to CR, always such a treat

 

[SurfMoon]

There’s a lot of J1s around too. Most lifts are swarming with South American kids.

Uhhh so, there’s one entrance to the woods to skiers right on the long traverse over to Inverness. No tracks. Would I be making a bad creeky play there?

Can be good but yes creeky indeed, ended up knee deep in water in that region on a negative 10+ deg day. Boots froze solid on the slide brook lap back to my vehicle at South.

 

[nhskier1969]

Killington may have sold for $150 million but they have antiquated lifts overall (aside from S6 and Northridge) and their snowmaking system is vastly behind the times. Nothing new about either of those systems at K. On a new lift basis, Sugarbush actually has more newer lifts than K right now!

Killington has a much better lift system than Sugarbush. Most of Killington's main lifts are newer except for superstar which is being replaced at the end of the year. If Sugarbush wants to charge the same price as the big resorts in the Northeast, they need to up their game.