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Monthly Archive for January, 2008

.flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } Ski Trails at Sugarbush, originally uploaded by jimschley. We woke up bright and early on Saturday morning to a couple of inches of fresh snow. The snow kept coming down throughout [...]

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Holiday weekends always bring crowds to the ski resorts, and Saturday was no exception at Sugarbush. The crowds were the biggest they’ve been so far this year, but liftlines were manageable at the upper mountain lifts and obviously long at the base. With all of the terrain open at Lincoln Peak, it wasn’t that hard [...]

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The January thaw came and went, and it was an impressive show. Record-breaking warm temps, rain, thunder and lightning, high humidity, damaging winds… the apocalypse? hell? If you own a ski resort, I imagine, yes. Several feet of snowpack melted away, down the mountain and into the Mad River. Sugarbush was left in reasonable shape, [...]

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We finally got over to Mad River for the first time this season, and we were glad we did. The warm weather and expected January thaw arrived along with a couple inches of new snow. It made for buttery turns. I’m not sure if I’ve ever skied at MRG with such good coverage. It was [...]

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Another great ski day at Sugarbush. Unfortunately, we chose to drive back to Boston through the New Years Day storm on Tuesday instead of staying around and skiing the 15 inches of fresh powder. Responsibilities like work and neglected pets drew us back. Although skiing this Saturday did not feature lots of untracked powder, it [...]

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Danielle’s blog

Danielle has a blog now! http://www.schley.net/danielle/ check it out.

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Saturday the 29th brought warm, humid air after three inches of new snow fell overnight. This new snow improved the conditions significantly as it bonded like cement to the lower layers of snowpack. Different areas of the mountain had varied snow surfaces due to microclimate; Stein’s Run skied like it was Spring when I hit [...]

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