Jack M Posted October 31, 2023 Report Share Posted October 31, 2023 LFG Could be a big year... https://www.newscentermaine.com/article/weather/weather-blog/what-can-maine-expect-for-snow-this-winter-weather-noreaster/97-c0707bbf-ace2-4b48-a80d-685fef30f76b To be capped off by the total solar eclipse going straight over Sugarloaf on April 8! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trailertrash Posted November 1, 2023 Report Share Posted November 1, 2023 A new lift doesn't hurt either. The ski in/out parking lots to the new lift could really change the flow of the mountain. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhamann Posted November 14, 2023 Report Share Posted November 14, 2023 new lift, new spot, eventually. "Fat-bottomed girls you make the rocking world go round". hopefully it runs midweek. riding S M T. test samples available if interested. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack M Posted November 14, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 14, 2023 The new area is big! Hard to judge slope on foot but it looks like it could be awesome terrain for letting a GS board fly. Pic from this spring after initial cutting: 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack M Posted November 15, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 15, 2023 On 11/14/2023 at 9:21 AM, dhamann said: hopefully it runs midweek New trail map says it will run 7 days a week. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jl1 Posted November 27, 2023 Report Share Posted November 27, 2023 The website is a little vague on when the new lift will open. What is the local gossip on when it will be turning? Denise and I will be up the week of Feb 5. She got us a condo up in the Timbers this year!! I think its like our 26 th year we have been coming up and we are really looking forward to it. Sugarloaf is the best in the East in my book. Plus we met a lot of really great people over the years. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack M Posted November 27, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2023 Originally they said mid February 2024 then they moved it up to mid to late January. A Sugarloaf response in this post 3 weeks ago repeats that, but this page says late Jan/early Feb. I've walked around the area a few times now and it looks like it will be great cruising terrain. Pretty major expansion, and not just for real estate. I'm looking forward to trying it. The lift is 6574' long with 1433' vertical rise. For comparison, SuperQuad is 6800' long and 1800' vert. The runs are long! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack M Posted November 27, 2023 Author Report Share Posted November 27, 2023 A local with some connections posted elsewhere that everything is supposed to be up and running by around Christmas, but that then they will have to test and debug everything for about a month. Another guy who is working on the project posted about transporting the 76,000 lb haul rope to the bottom terminal today. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lonbordin Posted November 28, 2023 Report Share Posted November 28, 2023 I walked over there at the end of last season... they opened up a lot. The shredded chunks were huge. https://imgur.com/mJy6ac3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trailertrash Posted December 1, 2023 Report Share Posted December 1, 2023 Hayburner and Kings were worthy today, before the warm up. Snow Sunday, next week should be decent. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhamann Posted January 9 Report Share Posted January 9 (edited) Upper comp. So skinny but not for long. Great surface out there from a quick afternoon inspection prior to this foot of mixed precip over the next 24. Counting on Thursday Friday. Spillway is owed a turn or two. Edited January 9 by dhamann Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trailertrash Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 It's 14" for sure, well, it was. Full on rain now. A lot of ice in the face on the skin up this morning but worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhamann Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 fiddled around most of the morning with some snow cleanup, molding insoles to new liners, etc. since lifts were all on hold and saw the change from snow/mix to full on wet around 9. forecast said a change coming around noon so suited up and headed out around 11. drenched gore-tex until midway up skyline. then snow started to fly. the winds helped "dry" things a bit at the top. some sleet for a half hour and then stopped around 12:30. got a good couple of hours of heavy slashing and looking for the goods. skidder was kinda done so i called it. tomorrows another day. same flexible approach, but keeping a keen eye on temp drop/winds/etc. slopes should drain well and groom out good if they have half care. i hope they groom everything. noticed the headwall got narrower by at least 12' with that new line of guns. completely ruining one of my favorite lines. glad they have pads on the guns. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack M Posted January 10 Author Report Share Posted January 10 1 hour ago, dhamann said: noticed the headwall got narrower by at least 12' with that new line of guns. completely ruining one of my favorite lines. glad they have pads on the guns. Wtf? Sluice Headwall? Do the guns swing out of the way, restoring previous width? Guess I'll find out this weekend but Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trailertrash Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 No, it's roped off on skier's left. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack M Posted January 10 Author Report Share Posted January 10 Sugarloaf absolutely confounds me sometimes. Hopefully it's temporary. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhamann Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 34 minutes ago, Jack M said: Sluice Headwall? that headwall. the fixed gun footings/posts are positioned into the slope away from lift towers at least 12'. the arms of the new guns are swung into lift towers for storage, but assume they swing over slope as needed when making snow. friggin sugarloaf! for goofy, no more transitional heelside into a nice toeside at the steepest fall line part of the headwall to rail off of. if you do, it is at least 12' smaller of a radius to work with now. i got one of those skinny tankers to demo tomorrow. probably do a power "hour" to warm up with bxfr and then futz with the tanker to feel what i need to feel with the tanker. closest thing they had in current demo fleet to what i was looking for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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dhamann Posted January 10 Report Share Posted January 10 pretty much. i drive four hours and hope conditions are appropriate for these two turns a few times a year. no soup for you! at least the lift towers aren't in gondi line. may have to try that tomorrow, but don't know if it'll be ready. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhamann Posted January 11 Report Share Posted January 11 No comment on today’s conditions. Tomorrow will be better. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trailertrash Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 From tomorrow until the end of next week will have great carving conditions getting better every day. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack M Posted January 18 Author Report Share Posted January 18 It turns out our memories aren't what they used to be. It has been pointed out to me with photographic evidence that those guns were there last year. Maybe the rope placement is a little more cautiously out into the trail this year, but, the guns were already there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dhamann Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 i wasn't around last year, so i guess that's why it popped out to me. ropes are definitely bumped and the guns (if new last year) definitely are the culprit. bummer. i do remember it being listed open really early in December last year. go figure. maybe we need to work a little bit on mountain awareness? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trailertrash Posted January 18 Report Share Posted January 18 I can confirm the headwall was carvetastic today. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jack M Posted February 3 Author Report Share Posted February 3 New lift spins February 9. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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