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The "Sugarbush Thread"

Lotso

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While this past weekend was both awesome and frustrating at the same time, there's only one thing that matters...

The Ohio State University clinched the National Championship.
True, but lost to UMIch the past 4 years, which is also fun. Glad they were able to do what Michigan did the year before :cool:. Take that, SEC...

Thought after the opening drive by ND, they'd be sunk, but impressive comeback. Props to Ohio.
 

ducky

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I think it is time for all the unsatisfied customers to move along. You are 100% correct and nothing is going to change this year. Epic is a much better product and you deserve better. It is the obvious choice. We appriciate your patronage and hopefull you will come back in a few years once we smooth things out.
My sentiments exactly.
 

WinS

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Totally Internal at Sugarbush. When Win left he appointed John Hamond as the new chief. There was no canidate review process as far as I heard. John was already high up in the organization and has been a part of Sugarbush for like 30 years.
There are actually quite a number of current Sugarbush employees who were at Sugarbush when I purchased it in 2001. While I added to this, these employees have all been great members of the team and really care about Sugarbush. John was my recommendation when I retired in the fall of 2020 and Alterra accepted it. He started right out of UVM as a full time ski patroller and was the Director of Mountain Operations for many years before I sold to Alterra in 2020. Alterra has not inserted anyone into the Sugarbush management team. Conversely, a number have received nice promotions. Amber Broadaway is the President of Solitude and a few in marketing, technology and marketing have received promotions to work within Alterra, and my understanding is that they can do the job remotely from right here in the Valley. I was delighted to see this, because I know the talent we had her and a number of things we were doing very well. The health benefits they offer are also much a benefit than I could have provided which is also great to see. Alterra does not micro-manage, but they obviously have performance expectations as any owner would.
 

WinS

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PS: Stein’s was awesome yesterday under the towers and even better when the towers were shut off in the afternoon. Frigid but great skiing yesterday.
 
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KustyTheKlown

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the weekend of the 10th steins under the guns was a blast. i did it 3x in a row and i never ski the same thing multiple times in a row
 

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I think it is time for all the unsatisfied customers to move along. You are 100% correct and nothing is going to change this year. Epic is a much better product and you deserve better. It is the obvious choice. We appriciate your patronage and hopefull you will come back in a few years once we smooth th

PS: Stein’s was awesome yesterday under the towers and even better when the towers were shut off in the afternoon. Frigid but great skiing yesterday.
I skied Steins first run and never did anything else 10 laps & back to work for the afternoon. So nice to ski good Gun POW.
 

KustyTheKlown

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good gun pow can be so fucking fun. i was giddy on steins 2 weeks ago. i also recall a day on talisman at magic where i was first down under the guns and it was ... magical
 
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