Conditions Report
One issue that keeps coming up at Squaw and Alpine is icy groomers. Many people ski and ride a run of man made snow and the run turns icy. Sugar Bowl isn’t experiencing this.
Many of Sugar Bowl’s runs are natural snow only and they’ve been left to nature. Lots of fun chalky moguls made Sugar Bowl a good time today. The groomers aren’t icy either.
Sugar Bowl has the chairs Lincoln, Christmas Tree, White Pine, Jerome Hill, & Nob Hill open.
Skiing off Lincoln in chalky moguls was the place to be today. Hellman’s chute was our favorite.
An east wind was blowing all day, but it wasn’t a cold day as the high was 42F. Clear skies today, no clouds.
PHOTO TOUR:
here’s the real deal from someone who has skied Sugar Bowl almost every day since opening
it’s fair, at best
the top of Lincoln is terrible in the afternoon – small rocks are everywhere and everyone’s ski’s and boards are getting totally trashed – forget Lincoln after 11am
yes, there are some nice chalky bumps left of lake view before it flattens out
the moguls under lincoln are icy with rocks – forget Vanderbilt or anywhere else for off-pisted
trailblazer is crowded and getting more so – it will be a zoo after Christmas – the snow’s ok in the morning before it gets chewed up
the top of pioneer is good, bottom is icy and chewed up by 11am
it’s all good for training and drills, and anyone who skis all the time – it sucks for the public coming after the 25th – fortunately most are kids happy to be playing on the mountain
no snow in forecast for next 3 weeks
Well Yes. Wednesday (4 days ago) the GROOMERS were fine.
The ungroomed runs (3) off the top of Lincoln were hard.
Open runs (many) elsewhere were Icy and I saw no one else
on them when I skied them.
Today, there were small sections of ice on groomers though it wasn’t too bad (optimism?). As said above, ungroomed stuff on top of Lincoln were pretty hard. Took 3 runs today and called it a day, probably would wait a couple more weeks given the shitty weather report.
Yikes….glad to be skiing in montana.