Jim Schley

Saturday was a pretty sweet ski day as several days of light snowfall added up to bolster the base of snow in the woods and generally freshen conditions. We spent most of the day finding nice lines in woods on Castlerock and Heaven’s Gate. We found some nice powder! We got a few more inches of new snow Saturday night, but unfortunately there was about an hour of light freezing rain in the middle of it that really screwed things up. Trails off Gatehouse and North Lynx were still pretty fun, but other trails suffered with a very slick surface underneath the three or four inches of new fluff. Stein’s looked super-nice at the top with a ton of new snow blown in, approaching boot-top in the troughs. The bad news was that the trail was unskiable with an unedgeable surface underneath that new snow. Woods remained pretty good as the new crust remained easily breakable where it landed on top of softer snow surfaces. More snow, please. 111/111 trails open at Sugarbush. 119 inches of snow so far this season.