Come out and support the patrol dogs!
Dog Ball 2026 — Sunday August 30th, 1-5pm
I’ll have some extra drinks and veggie snacks for those weirdos who don’t like beer and meat 😉
Remembering Reese Dawg, 2011-2026
He was the best. Love you forever Reese.
Memorial events:
- Musical celebration (dogs welcome!), Wednesday July 8th, Truckee Regional Park – Lower River BBQ, 6:30pm
- Vegetarian Shiva, Thursday July 9th, Pour House Truckee, 5pm
- Mountaintop ashes scattering and full moon party (dogs welcome!), Saturday August 1st, contact for location
This one goes to 11: Closing day party & cave rave
It’s been… a season. Let’s send it off in style.
In celebration of this season’s 290 319 inches, please join the Unofficial Sugar Bowl Ski Team for the eleventh yeiar of our annual closing day cave party!
Disco Cat, DJ Foxy, G-Love Gordyceps and DJ Maximus Prime 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 5th, 2026
Where: Disney cave
Directions: Disney cave is located between Eagle and Avalanche. With minimal coverage this year, the recommended route is to take Donald Duck about halfway down and then do a hard traverse to skier’s right, aiming for the downhill (left) side of the giant rock.
Fire on the mountain
Here I was, going to write a relaxing article about what’s new this season, when our little mountain was suddenly all over the news.
Seems like there was a fire at at the mid-mountain ,lodge Tuesday evening after closing. No one was inside. I’m guessing that it will be closed for the season until repairs can be done over the summer?
Finally… welcome back!
A restricted re-opening, a power outage yesterday… I’ve sure been waiting to get back on the mountain.
Can’t wait to see you all out there and do something besides Pine laps, haha!
Opening day pine laps
Sugar managed to farm some snow from the failed attempt at Jerome and get White Pine open. A dozen die-hards and a dozen little groms had Pine all to ourselves this mellow opening day. What can I say? I had more fun than I thought I would.
The weather outlook is still grim, even for snowmaking temperatures let alone any natural precip. 🙁
A carpet-only weekend..?!
Well, this isn’t the beginning of the season I signed up for. Reading Sugar’s announcement, not only is Jerome a no-go, but they can’t even spin Pine?
This is one sad leopard right here. 🙁
So… Friday?
I don’t want to jinx it, but could Friday be the day? Pine and Jerome? Can’t wait to lap the white ribbon with you all, if that’s all we’ve got, I’ll be out there making the most of it.
No turns November
Given the warm weather lately, it’s no surprise that Sugar pushed back their opening date again… hopefully only one more week until Dec 5th.
Alas, the waiting continues… have a great holiday and can’t wait to ride the white ribbon with you all soon!
An honest opening day
So you might have seen an earlier, Nov 21th opening day in the news, or or on the official “Hours” page. Today I even heard a rumor Bridget (our CEO) confirmed it in a conference Zoom call with local town leaders.
Sure would be nice to see you all in just 15 days, but this cynical guy will believe it when day tickets go on sale for the 21st. Right now that’s still saying Friday the 28th. And the weather until then isn’t looking the best for snowmaking.
Think snow (or at least cold) and can’t wait to see you!