remember it could be worse

[Edgnar]

$66 Holiday Rates... gotta love Sugar. And the bus loads of Floridiots pay it without hesitation to ski mud/grass.

Today is probably the best day this season, 2 inches of fresh. Let the shitshow begin...

Hmm, when I lived there the ticket price was fucking $70 for those SWEET conditions. Sugar can be good when they get some real snow though. I lived there one year when we had an 8 inch day, and the skiing was awesome (this is north carolina we are talking about). I worked at an even smaller hill out there before I moved to CO. I remember teaching snowboarding one day in January and I should have been teaching wake boarding, there was a 20 foot puddle in the middle of the teaching area.

[dark_star]

Wow, I feel slightly, slightly better about not being able to go out due to the lack of snow

[doughboyshredder]

Ha Ha, why don't you take a trip there and let me know how FUN it is. You could do a T.R. all about the soul of the sport.

Those poor people don't look like they're having fun, they look like theyre...surviving?

I lived in Charlotte / Lancaster for a year, 8 years ago.
I drove to Sugar one day. I couldn't bring myself to do it. The slopes were barely covered in snow,yet packed with people and the lift lines were some of the worst I'd ever seen.
I went to appalachian a couple times, and hawksnest a couple times. I realized I was going to have to give up on snowboarding if I stayed there. I moved home that summer.

[Blackbeard]

Cataloochee has been at capacity the past 2 days, keep in mind they only have 50 acres of terrain and an uphill capacity of about 2,200/hour. Floridiots love going to NC for skiing over the holidays. Cat's FB page the past 2 days:

"The ski area is at capacity at the current time and will reopen at 4:30pm. Tube World is sold out for the rest of the day and will be open tomorrow from 10am until 10pm."

Too bad they don't have a webcam for Tube World.

[SB]

Dang, place is looking pretty good now. Better than most places here in the mid-Atlantic.

[montanaskier]

from when this thread started to now is pretty amazing.

[Jay P]

hahahaha holy shit, I just witnessed 5 crashes simultaneously. This is fucking awesome

[givethepigeye]

Its better than nothing. Last Christmas we spent a couple of days up there w/ family - it snowed 12" or so on the 26th. You think the mud is bad, you should see a boot top powder day.

It is what it is - my only complaint is that it could be managed a wee bit better - no corrals, slow lifts w/ limited vert and full on "Euro style" lift loading - that combined with never-evers, church groups and the like makes for a junk show of epic proportions.

That said, mid week (other than Xmas) when is snows, and its been a while between trips out West - I hold my nose and pay the man - low turns are better than no turns

[alpinevibes]

two falls within 20 seconds of opening the page. WROD win!

[eastvailshoots]

too bad we dont have a webcam for this place. http://www.cloudmont.com/

girl i worked with this summer was from here. didnt believe here when she said they had a ski resort, but alas... skiing in alabama

[montanaskier]

cloudmont is the shit yo! You can find a TR or 2 here if you search.

[deepsquat]

The second it started I saw two knuckle-dragers collide. They were flat out for at least a minute. The one got up and left while the other was still down. Awesomeness.

[-Devin-]

What is that white material they are on today?

[RockBoy]

Just saw a double ejection... once he regained his composure from such a high impact, life altering crash, he packed it up and walked the rest of the way right down the middle of the madness.

This is addictive.

[SB]

they are at it again

http://www.skisugar.com/sugarlive/

[montanaskier]

man, they've come a LONG way since the beginning of this thread when it was all mud and grass.

[philth]

Funny, these scenes could have been at Steamboat last weekend during the "Texas Week Music Fest"

[BackCountryNC]

Conditions should be near perfect this weekend. Too bad it's MLK weekend.

[pagamony]

Actually, the bad winter so far might have scared some touristas off so those people might not have it so bad. I haven't been to sugar in about 20 years, and after one nice day at Loveland in the snow a week ago i don't think I'll break that streak this year. Unfortunately, the best skiing starts at RDU.

[givethepigeye]

Conditions should be near perfect this weekend. Too bad it's MLK weekend.

QFT

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[snowswine]

A couple observations:


1. Could they possibly fit any more people onto a trail. It almost liked planned destruction

2. The actual surface conditions look better than all of Tahoe right now.

must stop watching.....

[montanaskier]

http://www.skisugar.com/sugarlive/indextop.phtml

the summit is open for skiing the steeps

[snowswine]

^^^^^^Wow! Is that a hotel in the background? It' fucking huge! I had no idea so many people actually stayed multiple days at a place like this.

Also, that run looks steeper that anything in the Tahoe basin right noe, FML.

[givethepigeye]

They are condos - it looks really out of place and worse in person. Lots of folks are up there in the summer - its a good 10-15 degrees cooler - which makes a huge difference.

http://sugartop.com/

[pagamony]

those condos were built fast in advance of the NC ridge law that banned those things. really crappy view of them from the trails on calloway peak / grandfather mountain. but it kinds of reflects general development in the area. ugh.