The "Sugarbush Thread"

[slatham]

I would have also thought another snow-making route off your brand new lift would have been more of a priority than Steins...

Hummmm……

1) They don’t want to make snow next to lift on a crowded weekend?
2) They want to hit Steins while they have ideal temps down low?
3) Coin toss!

 

[cdskier]

Hummmm……

1) They don’t want to make snow next to lift on a crowded weekend?
2) They want to hit Steins while they have ideal temps down low?
3) Coin toss!

1) They've made snow plenty of times on RC when the lift has been running on a weekend (not wanting to have guns running on Hot Shot/Waterfall on a weekend on the other hand is more logical, although even that has been done in the past). The trail is wide and the hydrants are the opposite side from the lift. Unless you have a lot of wind there is not typically an impact on the lift from what I've seen over the years.

2) You likely won't have enough run time on Steins before temps warm up to finish it, so why not work on RC where you can keep running longer and then shift down to Steins Tuesday when it cools back down?

3) Certainly possible...

4) With the way things have been going...maybe there's an issue with a pipe or pump feeding RC!

5) If they still have guns running on Hot Shot/Waterfall, perhaps they don't have capacity to run RC/Lower RC at the same time (I'm very tempted to say Steins is less hydrants than RC/Lower RC would be).

Honestly though I really don't know if ever recall Steins being started before Ripcord in recent memory.

 

[thetrailboss]

And they aren’t getting any % of real estate sales at all whatsoever?

I don’t care enough to look around very much tbh but I doubt there isn’t some kind of deal that gives them a percentage of the real estate sales. Can you quote your source on that?

Correct. Not on Mayflower side. But they are salivating to get rid of the Snow Park lots and develop that. So that’s how they benefit. It is relatively limited.

 

[thetrailboss]

New update:

State of the Mountain 1/10/25 - SugarBlog

The road to redemption starts in 2025. So far, that road has led us to greener (see translation: whiter) pastures. In fact we've received snow every single day this year, totaling 30" since January 1st. If you skied before New Year's, you'll know that this new snow has been transformative...

blog.sugarbush.com

Alterra sending staff to help with lifts

I seem to recall someone in here recently saying that they should do that……