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March refresh, pass sales and a closing date?

Well this has sure been a nice little refresh cycle.  I was just thinking that things were looking a bit thin out there and then BAM, how about a few small storms and empty midweek pow days?  YES PLEASE!

It’s the last day to renew your season pass, and it looks like everything is 99% sold out — hope you’ve got yours!  Now that passes are sold out, I bet our unofficial closing date of April 11th will become official shortly.  That’s just 23 days of lift-served skiing left at the Bowl this season, so get out there and get after it!

Trivia: William Wurster designed the Village Lodge.  The lodge was designed for the snow to slide off the back side.

This week’s question: What cartoon actor played the starring role in the film “Art of Skiing” made in 1941 by the Walt Disney company?

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POW DAY!

Winter returns with a sleeper Tuesday pow day!   Hit the freshies in Roller with Mean Dean all morning, then skinned up to J Bowl in the afternoon.  What a day!

Trivia.. last week’s answer: It cost $2.00 to ride Disney in 1939.  The lift was also open to non-skiers for $0.25 a ride.  Wow!

This week’s question: Before becoming the Dean of Architecture at the University of California, Berkeley, what Sugar Bowl landmark did William Wurster design?

– D. Cat

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Deep!

It wasn’t as busy as I thought on Friday after all.  Some lines in the morning but it cleared out quick.  Lots of folks getting stuck in the deep, deep snow, hehe.  Patrol cleared and opened Sisters and Sugar Bowl, because they rock.  Thanks to WillSkis for breaking trail and helping me make bad cliff area decisions, hell yeah.  🙂

Okay, Saturday is DEFINITELY going to be a zoo.  Crow’s is on the schedule though, and hoping for a skin up J bowl too!

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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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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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Opening this Friday!

Opening day is almost here!!  Better not eat too much tofurkey this holiday, because you’re gonna be up bright and early Friday!

Looks like Jerome will be spinning, and Hard Drinkin’ Lincoln too!

Sugar was selling some day tickets, but they’re already gone for opening day and weekend.

Ready to get your Sugar Gnar on, friends?  I know I am for sure.  See you in five days!

-JS