K2Trav's Sugarloaf

Yesterday's Pow day continued today, winds last night filled everything in for round 2.  Today was sunny and temps in the low 20s and no wind.  Conditions are absolutely amazing, everything is Powder or Packed Powder. Skyline, Superquad, DRC and Sawduster are running and snowmaking is going on on Whiffletree and The Park.  More snow is on the way this weekend

Today was amazing 8+ inches of incredible POW, Sugarloaf is buried, ropes dropped almost everywhere

The skiing this past week has been amazing, one of the best starts Sugarloaf has seen.  Conditions are mostly Powder and Packed Powder.  Skyline, Superquad, DRC, and Sawduster are now open, Snubber will open soon.  Sluice, Spillway, and Comp Hill opened with natural snow and they were amazing. Snowmaking on Sluice, Skidder, Narrow Gauge, The Birches.  Another storm is on the way for monday

A great morning today, sunny skies and temps in the mid 20's, few inches of new snow yesterday made conditions even better.  Kings Landing, Hayburner and Tote Road were all groomed and in great condition, they left candyside to drain another night.  Double Bitter is pretty good, great cover considering no snowmaking on it. Snowmakers continued today on Skidder, Narrow Gauge, Cribworks, The Landing and Spillway X-Cut, Skidder and Narrow Gauge look like they will be open soon as will skyline.

Today started off cloudy but ended up snowing quite hard most of the afternoon.  The Superquad is still the only lift open but Skyline should be open soon.  Conditions today were pretty good and will only get better as the week goes on.  Kings Landing, Hayburner and Tote Road were groomed and mostly packed powder, Double Bitter is ungroomed and has decent coverage.  Bullwinkles opens soon. Snowmaking today on Candyside, Lower Winters Way, The Landing, The Birches and Lower Narrow Gauge.

After the 6-8 inches of  very wet snow we got on Thursday, conditions vastly improved and built an amazing base to build on in the next few weeks.  Conditions so far this year have been quite good, hardly a hint of any ice.  Tote Road, Kings Landing, Hayburner, Scoot and Double Bitter are now open although they all lead to Lower Tote Road.  Double Bitter is open with only natural snow and has decent coverage.  Snowmaking has resumed on Skidder and Narrow Gauge and should start on Candyside soon.

Skiing was good on monday, sunny and temps in the 20's, Tote Road and Kings Landing are holding up quite well considering the traffic, it is starting to get a little scratchy but not too bad.  Snowmaking  on Gondi Ext, Tote Ext, Narrow Gauge, Hayburner and around Bullwinkles.

Opening day was amazing, soft powder, packed powder, no ice to be found.  Tote Road and Kings Landing were both open and temps were in the high 20's.  A group of kids got to the quad at 4:30 am for 1st chair.  Some natural snow is in the forecast so we could see up to 10 inches by sunday and Snowmaking is set to resume on Saturday on Hayburner and Candyside.  Snowguns are set up and ready to go around Bullwinkles.

http://wskitv.com/quadcam/

After Sunday's rain There is certainly plenty of water for snowmaking now.  Cold Temps have finally returned and the guns fired up once again this morning, hopefully nonstop from now on.  No official word on opening day yet, but looks like prob Thurs or Fri.  Right now temps are in the mid 20's and guns are running all the way down Tote Road.

Snowmaking this morning top to bottom on tote road

The Sugarloaf Snowmakers went to work yesterday, firing up guns on Tote Ext and Upper Tote Road. Opening day is right around the corner

Sugarloaf has been Sold!

Between thursday night and saturday morning over a foot of snow fell, it was wet and heavy, makes for a great base, Hiked to the top of Spillway then skied upper Gondi line to lower boomauger and whiffltree, really fun and worth it.

The North end of Spring Farm swim hole isn't really a secret anymore. Great place to cool off

Hiking The Pierre Trail down thru Rookie River

Took a ride up the Superquad sunday afternoon. Hiked over to Timberline and down to Bullwinkles, down spurline across peavy x cut and over to the lower portion of The Pierre trail which follows Rookie River.

Its hot out there, how about some pics  of places to cool off.  Packards pool, North end of Spring Farm and The Town Pool

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0hDKhulFVQ

The weather this afternoon didn't look promising but the clouds cleared out just in time for the 2nd summer concert of the 2016 summer concert series to begin.  It was a great crowd of people, prob over 200.

The Mountain Bike Race this weekend went off great, over 300 racers, spread over the 100k, 50k and 25k races, plus a kids race. The weather turned out to be perfect, some sun, some clouds, not too hot.

Wednesday temps were in the 80's, Got 6 lawns mowed and did some brush clearing then went or a bike ride.  Jabba the Hut, TOAD, Buckshot and Sunny Breeze are all amazing, The new hurricane trail is a blast, such a fun ride down.

Work on The Comp Center is progressing

Sugarloaf held there first free summer concert Fri night, Great Show.

Mostly rainy today with thunderstorms and some sun throughout the day.  Hiked To Reed Brook Falls today.  Just south the Vet office on Route 27 is the trailhead, the falls is 1/2 mile up.

The end of the season is here, the mtn is closed mid week, but will reopen this weekend  April 30th and May 1st.  Most likely we'll be skiing on Skidder, Hayburner, Kings and Tote with Service by The Superquad.  The Beach bar will probably be the only food option open during the day.  The Rack Will be open Sat and Sun for Happy Hour and Snappy's Dogs

First time Ever going to Smalls Falls, i will go back seems like a cool spot, but this time only went for Smalls to the Wall, an amazing event with some amazing Kayakers.

Tuesday, I woke up to pics of pow above peavey, got up there and it was amazing, hardly anyone out and plenty of untracked pow to be found, temps got to the 40's by noon and it became quite heavy.  Tuesday only Sluice, Spillway, Hayburner, Kings, and Tote were Open and groomed, it was warm, temps in the high 40's but there was a cool breeze