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Monthly Archive for March, 2010

Back to good Spring skiing on Saturday with warm temps in the 40′s and bright sunshine. Runs down Ripcord were just as fun as it gets. Unlike lower on the mountain where the snow was a bit rotten and sticky from a string of warm weather leading up to the weekend, the upper mountain had [...]

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Saturday was a tough day at the mountain. Reports of a fantastic, sunny string of spring-like weekdays leading up to the weekend were not welcome on a cloudy, dreary, windy, Saturday morning where apparently temps dropped just low enough on Friday night to freeze the snowpack completely solid. It was unexpected, too,  as temps were [...]

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Sunshine! Saturday and Sunday were two spectacular spring days with bluebird skies and temps in the upper thirties and low forties. Saturday brought the Castlerock Extreme Challenge competition to Liftline. Middle Earth and Castlerock Run both skied extremely well with fantastic cover and soft snow. There were a couple spots in the shade with nice [...]

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Fifty-six inches of snow fell at Sugarbush from Wednesday through Saturday morning. FIFTY-SIX INCHES! It was pretty unreal. The bottom-line was that the snow was very deep everywhere on the mountain. The quality and consistency of the snow varied widely, though. It was very wet near the base, with a high liquid equivalent to the [...]

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