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Stormy Wednesday

I don’t need to check, I’m sure Squawpine didn’t run anything close to the top.  Mt. Rose was straight up closed.

Here at Sugar Bowl, those of us who braved the “blizzard”-in-progress were treated to Disney, Judah and Lincoln!  Kudos to Sugar patrol and ops who still know how to open in a storm!  Best in Tahoe.

Winds weren’t too bad in the end, visibility was decent, no crowds or lines, couldn’t ask for a better storm day of freshies and free refills!  Things didn’t get too “blizzardy” until the afternoon.  Tomorrow could be a bit tougher if the forecast holds, heavy snow all day.  Friday is going to be a zoo.

p.s. Trivia!  Last week’s answer: False.  Miners from Nevada City were hired to do the drilling for the steel towers.  All the concrete was hand-mixed and poured on-site.

This week’s question: Ski Magazine once called Sugar Bowl the “Rools Royce of California Skiing.”  True or False?

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Feet not Inches

A little dust on crust teaser Saturday… but hell yeah, we finally have a real Tahoe storm on the way!  Five feet to start, incoming Tuesday night.  Ten snowflakes in the forecast with more feet on the way.

I’ve got my powder tails ready!  Storm skiing, here I come!

– Disco Leopard

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Trivia Tuesdays and a stormy forecast

Last week’s answer: False.

During the 1950s, Bill Klein became a chief tester for Head’s popular metal-edged ski.   Howard Head offered Klein a one-fourth interest in his company for $15,000, but Klein declined.  Head later sold his business for 9 million dollars.

 

This week’s question:

To save money, prisoners from San Quentin helped to install the footings for the 13 towers on the Mt. Disney chairlift in 1939.  True or False?

 

P.S. There’s finally SNOW in the forecast!  Do your dances!

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Trivia Tuesdays

Last week’s answer:  Hannes Schroll

Schroll was an accomplished ski racer winning over 100 international ski titles including the heart-stopping Marmolata Race in the Italian Alps, which was considered the fastest downhill course in its day.

 

This week’s question:

Sugar Bowl Ski School Director Bill Klein was offered a one-fourth interest in the “Dynastar” company in the early 1950s.  True or False?

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Trivia Tuesdays

Nicknamed the “Red Devil of Tyrol”, name the famous Austrian who founded Sugar bowl in 1938.  Hint: He loved to yodel.

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Terrain is OPEN!

No Disney on Thursday as predicted, but we did get it Friday and a ton more.  Patrol has been blasting a bunch and we got to reap the rewards.  Disney, then the rest of Disney (except Nancy’s and Sugar Bowl).  On the Lincoln side, Silver belt, ’58’s and the Sisters.  Wow.  It’s still bony and early season, but off-piste options have really opened up.

Looks like Judah opens today, maybe J-Bowl and/or Sugar Bowl?

Watch out for leopards!

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Pow day Monday!

Easily the busiest I have seen Sugar yet this season, and crowded and claustrophobic for a minute in the pre-opening Jerome line, but everyone spread out pretty quickly after that.

What a pow day!  I sure needed that.  Not too much new terrain just yet even though there were blasts going off all morning… Klein’s.. and upper Lakeview reopened.

Disney was spinning (not open) in the afternoon.  Official unofficial prediction is a Thursday opening.  🙂

– Disco Cat 🙂

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Storm skiing!

Well, I sure forgot how tough it can be to ski the storm.  New this season: wet mask.  Yuck.  See you tomorrow for bluebird Monday!

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Opening weekend!

It happened!  Springtime conditions in November.   Definitely thin and bony out there, but lots of fun to be had.  Dreaming of bottomless turns in the eponymous Sugar Bowl, until then, going big in Two-and-a-half Chutes will have to do.  🙂

Ten suns in the forecast today… do your early season snow dances!!

-JS

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Last-minute Lincoln Loss

Opening day is here!  Lincoln was scheduled, but now it is out for the day, leaving us with… Jerome… and Tree?  This is going to be a shitshow…

See you there?