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Sugar Bowl, CA Report: Still Winter on Donner Summit

Vintage Film Footage (1930) of backcountry skiing on Donner Summit, pre-Sugar Bowl | YouTube – Bela Vadasz Report from March 22, 2021 Brought to you by Sugar Bowl Resort The Spring Equinox was over the weekend, but it sure felt like winter at Sugar Bowl on Monday. After a weekend of instructor training with an AIARE Level 1 Avalanche Course […]

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Mike Bartholow | March 26, 2021
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The History of Sugar Bowl Ski Resort | 75-Years of Powder

Sugar Bowl ski resort on Donner Summit, CA has had a storied 75-year history. Sugar Bowl installed the first chairlift in California and the first gondola on the West Coast. Charlie Chaplin filmed scenes for his movie “Gold Rush” there in 1924. Walt Disney was an original investor in the ski resort and the land that Sugar Bowl sits upon was first purchased from the Southern Pacific Railroad for $10 per acre in 1923. Today, Sugar Bowl is a skiing and snowboarding hotspot and has the rowdiest inbounds terrain in California: The Palisades. […]

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SnowBrains | January 30, 2019
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