On-mountain improvements at Sugarbush, Mount Snow & Magic resorts include glades
Monday, September 28, 2009 at 02:31 PM
OK folks, ski resort crews are making snow in Colorado and they have had some natural snowfall at higher elevations, too. Later this week, Vermont mountaintops may actually see some early snowflakes. Ski season is creeping closer!
As part of our update on on-mountain improvements being made at Vermont ski resorts, here's a quick recap of what's been happening at Sugarbush, Mount Snow and Magic Mountain ski resorts that will impact your enjoyment of the snow during the 2009 - 2010 ski season.
Sugarbush Ski Resort
Sugarbush spent the summer expanding and adding 75 acres of new wooded terrain at both Mt. Ellen and Lincoln Peak. They say the expansion is part of an effort to create new challenges for skiers as well as to remove some of the “fear factor” from gladed skiing; some of the new areas have gentle slopes and plenty of white space between the tree bark.
(More details below in comments section...)
Mount Snow
Mount Snow is completing infrastructure improvements to its snowmaking system and the resort has made additions to its fleet of groomers. The ski resort has been preparing new features and rails for the Carinthia freestyle terrain park, as well.
Magic Mountain
Magic Mountain has been repairing snowmaking lines and increasing snowmaking capacity. The resort has also done more thinning in off-piste areas of the mountain for additional lines in their glades. More selection in the glades is a good thing, non?
Photo: Sugarbush's Castle Rock lift as seen in February 2009 on a glorious powder day.
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1. Skimaven | Monday, October 19, 2009 at 06:18 PM
I received a good query from Jarek in Waterbury, Vermont, today. He was asking about the glades at Sugarbush. So I checked in with the resort and got the scoop on the new glades. As of today, Oct. 19, these new glades are not shown on Sugarbush's Web site, but the resort says the new trail map should be posted soon. Here's the deal:
New or expanded glades on Sugarbush's Lincoln Peak are accessed off the Super-Bravo and Valley House chairlifts:
-New Stein's Woods between Egan's Woods and Stein's Run
-New Christmas Tree Woods between Stein's Run and The Mall
-New Gangsta's Grotto (wow, who came up with that one!) between The Mall and Twist
-New Sap Line between Lower Twist and Lower Moonshine
-New Race Course Woods on skier's right of Lower Snowball
New or expanded glades on Sugarbush's Mt. Ellen Peak are accessed from the Green Mountain, North Ridge and Sunshine chairs:
-An extension of Exterminator Woods to skier's left of Lower Exterminator
-New Moose Run Woods to skier's right of Tumbler Woods
-New Ellen's woods between Lower FIS and Graduation