Sugarbush Experience: Whats Good & Whats Bad

[tyrolean_skier]

I agree with you about Spring Fling. I will speak with the event organizer about next year.

Thank you Win for listening. My husband likes to watch the whole competition and videotape the competitors including our son so having it on Spring Fling will enable him to get there faster. I know other parents that like to do the same thing as him so you will please them as well.

[Crippity]

hi mrs g,
i meant keep on with the foolishness of arguing about resorts (actually i had no idea the real definition, just sounded like a good word at the time but wasn't meant as anything towards sugarbush as i have stated it is one of my favs.)
Cheers

[SkiDork]

Win Rules!

[skiadikt]

courtesy of alpine zone, i realize the complaints were for mt ellen, but here's a report from lincoln peak this past saturday touting excellent conditions. kudos once again to win for being standup.

http://forums.alpinezone.com/46149-suga ... ckpot.html

[Mister Moose]

So I go over to Sugarbush's website to see if they are getting all snow, and find:


"At this early hour, we've already received 3 inches of snow, and we suspect a lot more coming through today...tonight...and into Thursday! Yes, there may some sleet mixing in this afternoon. But, it shouldn't affect our projected snow totals."

Whereas on Killington's:

"Enjoy fresh tracks on Wednesday here at Killington Resort as the National Weather Service has issues a Winter Storm Warning with up to a foot of new snow by Thursday morning!"


Sugarbush is showing a photo that conveys excitement, but conditions that are much more likely to be experienced by a ticket purchaser. Killington shows conditions only available to the first riders up the lift, or those with access to trails before they are opened. Sugarbush acknowledges the sleet in the forecast, Killington blithely ignores it.

[Bubba]

And Killington's includes a typo...

[Mister Moose]

So Killington might have meant they are the ones with issues?

[tyrolean_skier]

courtesy of alpine zone, i realize the complaints were for mt ellen, but here's a report from lincoln peak this past saturday touting excellent conditions. kudos once again to win for being standup.

http://forums.alpinezone.com/46149-suga ... ckpot.html

Lincoln Peak must have gotten more snow that Mt. Ellen because according to the parents that were there for the competition, they said it had only snowed about 3 inches there and by the second run it was all skied off.

Edit: He had a different report for Mt. Ellen on 1/2 that sounds more like the conditions that were described by SkiDork and Spin & Win:

http://forums.alpinezone.com/46148-suga ... ellen.html

[Highway Star]

So I go over to Sugarbush's website to see if they are getting all snow, and find:


"At this early hour, we've already received 3 inches of snow, and we suspect a lot more coming through today...tonight...and into Thursday! Yes, there may some sleet mixing in this afternoon. But, it shouldn't affect our projected snow totals."

Whereas on Killington's:

"Enjoy fresh tracks on Wednesday here at Killington Resort as the National Weather Service has issues a Winter Storm Warning with up to a foot of new snow by Thursday morning!"


Sugarbush is showing a photo that conveys excitement, but conditions that are much more likely to be experienced by a ticket purchaser. Killington shows conditions only available to the first riders up the lift, or those with access to trails before they are opened. Sugarbush acknowledges the sleet in the forecast, Killington blithely ignores it.

On top of that, the weather.com box on the front page and snow report page shows "light freezing r*in"..............

[johnny the jibber]

it may be freezing r*in in rutland, where the forecast is from, but its sleeting here.

[skiingsnow]

Sugarbush yesterday or the day before had up something about "x inches of fresh snow" and had a big grand pic of it. They did the same thing around when they opened, they had this thing talking about a ton of snow and a pic showing someone skiing deep snow, but had it up well past the event.


Sugarbush has an old photo not even from this season, Killington is displaying a photo from a few days ago, inviting you to watch their videos.

[TacklingSnowmenSteve]

I am an ilegal alien to the bush.. cheaper housing... less crowded. I am really enjoying my trips there..

trips to bush 3..

trips to kton 0..

the only thing I miss is the night life and my friends there.

Although I am secretely in love with Win...

[Mister Moose]

Sugarbush yesterday or the day before had up something about "x inches of fresh snow" and had a big grand pic of it. They did the same thing around when they opened, they had this thing talking about a ton of snow and a pic showing someone skiing deep snow, but had it up well past the event.


Sugarbush has an old photo not even from this season, Killington is displaying a photo from a few days ago, inviting you to watch their videos.

Uh, so what's your point here?

And why do you say Sugarbush's photo is not from this season?

[ozzy]

Killington is displaying a photo from a few days ago, inviting you to watch their videos.

of which most footage is shot on terrain that is inaccesable to the public at the time of the video shoot..

seriously though you can spin the piss out of a lot of things. How come you're not in sales?

[skiingsnow]

Sugarbush yesterday or the day before had up something about "x inches of fresh snow" and had a big grand pic of it. They did the same thing around when they opened, they had this thing talking about a ton of snow and a pic showing someone skiing deep snow, but had it up well past the event.


Sugarbush has an old photo not even from this season, Killington is displaying a photo from a few days ago, inviting you to watch their videos.

Uh, so what's your point here?

And why do you say Sugarbush's photo is not from this season?

Point is, Sugarbush has done what Killington had done, which was nothing wrong with to begin with.


That photo was on their site last season.