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Happy season and a happy new year!

just time for a quick recap of the early season…

Opening weekend with rain Friday, snow Saturday and then some ridiculous lines on Jerome.   Never seen anything like that at Sugar before.  Fortunately, terrain opened rapidly after that.  Some great pow days and lots of sunshine inthe early season so far.

It’s been great to see and make turns old and new friends.  Plus, there’s been lots of great costumes and helmet bling out there, and it’s not even spring yet!

We’ll be back shortly with some opinions about recent changes and such, and more of the usual stoke.  In the meantime, if YOU have an opinion on the new park location or anything else Sugar, feel free to get in touch.

Holiday crowds were here with us one final weekend, and now things are back to normal.  See you out there making some hot laps!

Just another Truckee local who spends too much time at Sugar Bowl.

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See you tomorrow!

Why don’t we kick off the season with a wet Sierra storm?  On the bright side, it’s exactly what we need to get the base started and make sure there’s no weak layer at the bottom of the snowpack.  On the other hand, I’m not feeling motivated to wait outside in the rain for a cookie and some champers, haha.  I’ll wait for the changeover to snow and some free refills.

What a start to the season!  See you out there!

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T-100 days (or less?)

Well, my personal crystal ball was telling me Nov 30th would be the day, but I heard a rumor Sugar sent an email out saying the 23rd.  Wonder why I didn’t get it?   Brief moment of panic while I made sure I renewed my pass last spring, hehe.

This summer sure went quick! Can’t wait to be back at the Bowl.

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Ninth annual closing day party & cave rave!

In celebration of this season’s 488 inches, please join the Unofficial Sugar Bowl Ski Team for our NINTH annual closing day cave party!

Disco Cat,  DJ Foxy and special guests are scheduled to spin tunes for your earballs.   Wear a costume, bring some nosh & drink or just your fine-ass self.

When:  Closing day, Sunday, April 28th

Where:  Disney cave

Directions: Disney cave is located between Eagle and Avalanche.  Take the spine toward Disney Nose… there will be a sign for Eagle dropping to skier’s left, take it.   Then ski underneath (downhill side) the giant rock on skier’s right.  Alternately, you can take Donald Duck about halfway down and then do a traverse to skier’s right, aiming for the downhill (left) side of the giant rock.

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Return of the Palisades

Just time for a quick recap … the big one (ten and half feet!  but super windpacked), first spring, return of winter with a series of decent pow days, and second spring is just around the corner.

Yup, the Palisades reopened for the second time this season… and the second season in a row!  And I’m not talking about some Other Resort, we had our Palisades long before those fools.

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In like a leopard…

Yup, the beginning of March has brought with it a proper Tahoe storm, the kind measured in feet.  Looks like blizzard conditions might quiet down a little Sunday and allow us to get out there and play?  I’ll be there with my pow tails on.

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Sleeper pow day

Wow.  What a great powder day!  Not totally bottomless, but more than enough.  I wasn’t complaining about the occasional scratchy sound from my tails.

Not sure why no one showed up.  Even for the Bowl, it was empty.  And half of the regulars never made it to Crow’s… open weekdays this season!  I found an orange circle that said “Powder shot” and it was all mine.  🙂

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Beacon park is open!

Woo!  The best park at Sugar is now open!

Not beacon park

Beacon park is located at the bottom of Overland.  You need a beacon to play.  😉

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Welcome home

It’s been a minute since Sugar opened with just a thin white road or two off Jerome.  Someone on the chair said 2017.. sounds right?  In any case, I was super happy to make any turns at all.  Reese met some friends to play with, the sun came out in the afternoon, it’s great to be back on snow.

Hoping for something in the forecast soon…

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Bonus Season!

In which the Unofficial Sugar Bowl Ski Team visits those Other Mountains, sporting our helmet ears and rocking beats.

I’m pretty sure we ran into the other team Unoff at Sherwood last week, we definitely made turns and traded stickers with Team Tie Dye, and I was super thrilled to run into all you Sugar peeps out there too!