For Sugar Bowl Skiers & Riders
A little storm for us this Thursday. Â No snow in town yet, but Sugar Bowl is getting a little dusting.
Sugar bowl sure looks nice with a fresh coat.
Another one still looks on track for Saturday , but it might be a bit too warm. Â Keeping my skis crossed it stays cold enough to snow the whole storm. Â A layer of our good old Sierra cement for a base would be perfect.
-JS
Looks like Sugar is serious about their opening date. Â Snowmaking is underway! Â Here’s some pictures from their web cams yesterday afternoon.
For those of you who aren’t satisfied unless its the real deal, it looks like we might be getting a decent storm in the Thursday night to Saturday range. Â Keeping a close eye on this one and thinking positive!
Sugar Bowl has announced an opening date! Â November 26th. Â That’s right, just 15 short days away.
After a sunny week bicycling and worrying over the forecast, I was totally prepared for a December opening like last year, but it seems Sugar is stepping up their game.
See you soon! Â -JS
Our neighbors over at Boreal are open! Â 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! Â 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. Â Northstar on the 21st and Squawpine on the 26th.
Sugar hasn’t put anything on their website yet. Â December 6th is the best rumor (guess?) I’ve heard so far. Â Since that’s less than 30 days out now, I can officially get Excited. Â 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. Â Even my friends from the bay area are calling to see if they should drive up. Â I guess there’s a lot of pent-up anticipation after the last few years.
Yes, there’s definitely a storm coming in. Â No, it isn’t gigantic enough to get the season started or anything. Â Alas, no resorts are going to open. Â 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. Â 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, Â I thought we Sugar Bowl skiers needed a site of our own.
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-John Snow
