The "Sugarbush Thread"

[Cheetah440]

We really haven't had that many big synoptic events, lots of upslope and as CD said, it's drier and sublimates quicker.

 

[flakeydog]

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

 

[Lotso]

Forecast has improved as far as nighttime temps, which will preserve snowpack and make grooming effective. Today was warm, though. Very fun on Stein's

 

[Lotso]

"Reimergasse" is back.


The mind reels.

Will be nice skiing this weekend, on groomers

 

[Hawk]

I skied yesterday. It was interesting. sleeper was the only trial that finally softened. Today will be interesting at MRG.

 

[Rob Katz]

first run at mrg had me a little pessimistic but it softened up and was pretty fun

 

[vtboarder]

Who ordered a second helping of winter without the side of snow?

 

[KustyTheKlown]

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.

 

[Hawk]

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]

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.

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.