Category: Sugar Bowl

Like everybody else I spent too much time Thursday and Friday watching the storm.  It did start with a little rain Thursday morning, but switched over to snow at Sugar earlier than it did down here in town, not too long after noon Thursday.

Sugar Bowl swapped out the learning center cam for a “Powder Picnic Cam”.  I’m not sure Mother Nature got the memo on cooperating, even at a foot and change the whole thing was an unreadable snowy mess, but they cleaned it off for next time anyway.  A little cheesy, but hey, compared to how much some other mountains are alienating their regulars, its hard to complain about a little cheese.

The storm wasn’t the bottomless blizzard folks get themselves a little too worked up about, but a foot or two all in isn’t anything to sneeze at and will be lots of fun to push around.

A little strange to have wait until Saturday even though the storm petered out Friday morning, but hey, that’s the early season for you.  It sounds like they’ll be more terrain open this weekend than the first couple months of the season least year, and with light snow as far as the forecast can see, its definitely putting a smile on my face.

Looking forward to a ton of fun Saturday.

-JS

Hi, I was away for Thanksgiving and took a small break from updates, and Sugar Bowl’s opening date slid from Nov 26th to today, December 6th.

I guess they just couldn’t open the mountain without me, so today is the day!  It is a a little wet out there, but I’ll make it over at least to check out the conditions.  Plus it always takes me a day or two to figure out how to gear up again.

Sugar Bowl is open for the weekend, closed during the week and then open for the season on Saturday the 13th.  Looks like we might even have a proper storm.

See you on the slopes!  -JS

Our neighbors over at Boreal are open!  Just their usual early-season mini lift and park, but hey, if I had a comp (or a pass there), I’d gear up and have fun getting out there.

Mt. Rose is open too!  No lifts yet over there apparently, just a conveyor belt so far, but looks like they’ll have more soon.

The bigger resorts have opening dates announced in time for Thanksgiving.  Northstar on the 21st and Squawpine on the 26th.

Sugar hasn’t put anything on their website yet.  December 6th is the best rumor (guess?) I’ve heard so far.  Since that’s less than 30 days out now, I can officially get Excited.  Of course it depends a lot on the weather — even blowing fake snow on Trailblazer needs the temperature to cooperate.

Getting my last bicycle miles of 2014 in until then, and hoping to be making turns soon.

 

Wow, I feel like folks are getting a little over-stoked.  Even my friends from the bay area are calling to see if they should drive up.  I guess there’s a lot of pent-up anticipation after the last few years.

Yes, there’s definitely a storm coming in.  No, it isn’t gigantic enough to get the season started or anything.  Alas, no resorts are going to open.  Not even our neighbor Boreal, who would usually have the snow guns going in time to open something by Halloween without a storm.

Sugar looks to get about a foot to a foot and a half.  Perhaps just a tease, perhaps another storm on the way next weekend?

I’m going to relax, make a fire and dream about making turns on opening day.

-JS

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Inspired by Unofficial Alpine,  I thought we Sugar Bowl skiers needed a site of our own.

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-John Snow