Category: Sugar Bowl

Happy new year!  New Year’s Day looked to be a beautiful bluebird day for sure.  I came THIS close to buying a day ticket, especially since this season you can use your half-off tickets on yourself.  Brings this price down from ridiculous to merely expensive.  But in the end I decided to let the tourists enjoy it, dig out leisurely and take Reese Dawg out to play in the snow with his friends.  Looks like despite some crazy operational challenges (flooding?!  holy s***!), Sugar still managed to open Disney by mid-day.  Hope it was great all!

Instead I’ll be returning today with the rest of the Slightly Insane Restricted locals.  So great to be back!  See you out there friends!

P.S. The forecast is looking pretty big as well, wow.

Well there were tons of people everywhere compared to the early-season emptiness before the weekend, and a packed parking lot… but not a lift line to speak of.  Crow’s and Summit opened for the first time this season.  I don’t think I’ve ridden Summit in _years_.  I thought they only ran it on blackout dates, haha.

One week of lift-served skiing left in 2022 for the slightly restricted crowd.  Get out there and enjoy!

Feet of snow on the untouched peaks and sunshine  What more could you ask for?  The weekend’s snow settled a bit and was way more navigable without getting stuck.  Dis, Lincoln and the gates all opened up fairly early and lots of pow was crushed.

Sunshine in the forecast for now… time for this guy to break out the skins and visit Lunch Rock.

It is DEEP out there.  Sugar managed to operate Dis on Saturday and Jerome & Tree on Sunday.  Heard bombs coming from Lincoln all day long Sunday.

Monday is going to be a glorious bluebird day!  Wear your pow tails!

Sunshine, mild temps and barely anyone at the mountain for opening weekend.  What more could you ask for?

Lincoln was spinning and coverage was surprisingly good all things considered.  A little dicey up top after some traffic, but not bad at all.

And a decent storm on the way for Thursday dropping a foot and a half, maybe two.  Friday is going to be bluebird!

Sugar announced an official opening date of Friday the 25th!  Get your gear sorted and your snow tires on.  See you in three weeks!

Wow, big news for our little mountain in the off season!

First off, Sugar is now on the Mountain Collective pass, as the sole Tahoe resort, replacing Palisades and Mammoth.  Woah.  While that’s not the apocalypse of crowds that joining the Epic or Ikon ridiculousness would bring to our uncrowded haven, it for sure puts the Bowl on the radar of traveling tourists and pow chasers with a much bigger spotlight than before.  I don’t think we’re going to see a drastic increase in crowds this season because from MC passes, but I’d guess Sugar is going to start getting more attention and press.

Secondly, apparently we have a new CEO, Bridget Legnavsky, imported from New Zealand.  Quoting the Sierra Sun article, her achievements at previous mountains include things like “impressive growth in skier visits by shifting focus to terrain parks”.  Ugh.  I sure hope that’s not in our future.   Our summit spies tell me that Judah side overflow parking next to Donner Pass road has been paved, that’s not a good sign.  🙁

And to end on a high note…  it felt like summer went on forever this year, but here we are looking at six+ feet in the forecast.  Will we really get that much?  Will Sugar open?  Winter is here for sure.   I’m going to have some hot soup and watch the mountain cams.  See you soon!