Cheetah440
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We really haven't had that many big synoptic events, lots of upslope and as CD said, it's drier and sublimates quicker.
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The "Sugarbush Thread"
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March 2012, we got blasted with 70s-80s and most never recovered. Sugarbush was down to just Steins run pretty quick and they closed April 8th. A late April storm was not enough to reopen, plus most had already closed by then and were not prepared to reopen. Luckily we are nowhere near that scenario
Hawk
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I skied yesterday. It was interesting. sleeper was the only trial that finally softened. Today will be interesting at MRG.
Rob Katz
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first run at mrg had me a little pessimistic but it softened up and was pretty fun
KustyTheKlown
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saturday was pretty good. ripcord skied well from the first time i touched it at 8:30. nice corn that you could butter knife into. lapped it for a while. moved over to north lynx and lapped over there for a while. sleeper chutes were fun, soft, bumpy. by about 1 PM bumps started to be skiable. birdland first, then the ungroomed side of murphys. now 130 pm, steins looks ok. and it was. good enough to do it twice. then did a few fling laps because i wanted to give organgrinder more time in the microwave. 2:40 hit organ once. skiable but not exactly fun. not worth doing twice. hit ripcord once more and then finished on fling. nice 7+ hour session, mostly good spring skiing.
today at stratton was bad. took 4 runs. under 7000 vert and left at like 10 AM. at least i am home now tho! it was freezing. they had 4 groomer routes open. they didnt even bother grooming out a lot of routes. they do have a good amount of snow on all main runs tho, so the corn harvest will be good when it comes.
today at stratton was bad. took 4 runs. under 7000 vert and left at like 10 AM. at least i am home now tho! it was freezing. they had 4 groomer routes open. they didnt even bother grooming out a lot of routes. they do have a good amount of snow on all main runs tho, so the corn harvest will be good when it comes.
Hawk
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Ya....... it was 13 degrees this morning when I woke up with 20 mile an hour winds. Hard and fast for sure. After a day at MRG yesterday I did not have a great taste for that shite!
slatham
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In direct sun, Bromley softened up. If it wasn’t in direct sun, it was firm fast and locked in. So I can imagine what Stratton was like.
NewEnglander77
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It's been quiet around here lately.
Seeing a few other mountains in the region doing a refresh with snowguns, including Jay Peak. I understand the work involved and I'm not faulting Sugarbush for having already closed up shop, however a refresh could go a long way right now.
Saturday would have been a great day to ride slidebrook over to Ellen. Just saying.
Seeing a few other mountains in the region doing a refresh with snowguns, including Jay Peak. I understand the work involved and I'm not faulting Sugarbush for having already closed up shop, however a refresh could go a long way right now.
Saturday would have been a great day to ride slidebrook over to Ellen. Just saying.
Sugarloaf even fired up snowmaking.
Newpylong
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Anyone making snow right now is up against the wall on a core route to make an advertised closing date... For 95% (including the Bush) it would be a giant waste of money.
A huge letdown of March after the roll we were on in Jan/Feb will definitely quiet things down...
As for Slidebrook - even if the lift was fixed and operational you would have had insufficient snowpack to run it by Saturday... The amount of snow lost in the last twoish weeks is utterly depressing.
drjeff
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Yup, as great as January through early March was, the reality is the natural snow pack atleast could benefit from a couple of thaw/freeze cycles over the course of the season to get some denser, slower melting base snow under the lighter, less dense, quicker to melt snow that accumulated over that 10 week or so span
Smellytele
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While I love Spring skiing I think I would rather have a season with no thaw/freezes.
100%
And that's especially true in recent years where it seems the thaws always came within days of decent storms. So many times we'd get a hit on Wednesday and then rain by the weekend.
My life circumstances now place a much lesser value on April turns than in the past too. Lacrosse for my kids already started last week and games begin a week from Saturday.
KustyTheKlown
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march has sucked and been annoying but the entire early season was so good. late november and december too. one thaw around new years. wish the spring delivered more but the winter was best in a decade for me
SpyHop
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My question is, why can't Slidebrook be accessed with ATV's if there isn't snow? Why do you need snow cats?
I don't think requiring snowcat access was always a requirement. Maybe their insurers or the state made the request, but I don't believe this was a requirement of the installation.
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