Sugarbush Cat Skiing

[Treeskier]

Thanks Win, Hope it is a great weekend...I am doing my good turn for the weekend and will not be up. Hope everyone has a great time! I head there where tracks last Friday at our neighbor's hill. Fall foliage is spectacular!

[quadburn]

I'll never forget skiing down that long lost lift line above Inverness back in 1974. Me and my pals bought a one-ride ticket up the single chair at Mad River, hiked a quarter mile south along the Long Trail. paused to take in the extraordinary view of Mt. Ellen accross the bowl, and then dropped in.

[Tin Woodsman]

I'll never forget skiing down that long lost lift line above Inverness back in 1974. Me and my pals bought a one-ride ticket up the single chair at Mad River, hiked a quarter mile south along the Long Trail. paused to take in the extraordinary view of Mt. Ellen accross the bowl, and then dropped in.

Would be a difficult trick to repeat now with 35 years worth of growth blocking your path these days. I understand it's intensely shwacky, at least on the old liftline itself.

If they want to run a cat up there, as Win claimed today on AZ, then they are going to have to do quite a bit of work on the under story.

[Hawk]

Tin, what make you think somebody already hasn't............Oh never mind.

[win]

work is what requires permitting!

[Tin Woodsman]

Tin, what make you think somebody already hasn't............Oh never mind.

Yoooooouuu!

I was talking about the old liftline itself, rather than the environs. At least as of March 2001, it was a brutal shwack fest in that deepest of winters.

[Tin Woodsman]

work is what requires permitting!

I need a tissue.

[Hardbooter]

The stuff above Inverness where that lift line used to be is super flat. I don't think it would be worth the hike or a drive up in a cat. The stuff between there and exterm is hikable though and I bet it's good. I'm not sure how anyone would get a cat anywhere near that terrain without cutting a road. My guess is that the cat skiing will be in-bounds but during off hours or something. Come to think of it, it's not clear to me what they might use it for other than a sleepover at Alan's Lodge.

I can't make it to community weekend so I'd love it if someone would post the answers to these questions during the weekend. Thanks.

[BushMogulMaster]

The stuff above Inverness where that lift line used to be is super flat. I don't think it would be worth the hike or a drive up in a cat.

??? Not quite!

The area in red was the general area where the original expansion was planned >30 years ago. It's a nice mix of Intermediate, Upper Intermediate, and Advanced pitch terrain.

[Treeskier]

Having skied it twice. It has good pitch up top and then mellows out. It would make a great sunny bowl at North for intermediates, much the way North Lynx aspires intermediates at South. Both times I skied it, was when our snow depths where at our highest and it was still very very thwacky and over grown. The sunny bowl fosters lots of growth!

[bill-now]

I find it interesting that the lift that was proposed for above Inverness is shown on the 1971 USGS map.

See: http://sugarbushhistory.com/ellen.png

[BushMogulMaster]

I find it interesting that the proposed lift above Inverness is shown on the 1971 USGS map.

See: http://sugarbushhistory.com/ellen.png

Probably because the line was cut, and there were plans to install the lift at the time of the survey.

[Strat]

I find it interesting that the proposed lift above Inverness is shown on the 1971 USGS map.

See: http://sugarbushhistory.com/ellen.png

Probably because the line was cut, and there were plans to install the lift at the time of the survey.

Ahh, sugarbushhistory.com! Haven't thought about that in a while, eh BMM?

[BushMogulMaster]

I find it interesting that the proposed lift above Inverness is shown on the 1971 USGS map.

See: http://sugarbushhistory.com/ellen.png

Probably because the line was cut, and there were plans to install the lift at the time of the survey.

Ahh, sugarbushhistory.com! Haven't thought about that in a while, eh BMM?

Funny, I was just about to mention that it's due for a MAJOR overhaul and update! I wrote a 12 page research paper on the history of Sugarbush and analyzing different ownership practices for my Intro to Ski Area Ops class last year, and I need to implement that somewhere into the site. Definitely need to get a new photo gallery going, and maybe get some vid up. Also time to update the SVNE page.

Maybe I'll find the time later this month. I'm still trying to catch up on www.mogulskiing.net -- my primary focus at the moment.

[Strat]

I find it interesting that the proposed lift above Inverness is shown on the 1971 USGS map.

See: http://sugarbushhistory.com/ellen.png

Probably because the line was cut, and there were plans to install the lift at the time of the survey.

Ahh, sugarbushhistory.com! Haven't thought about that in a while, eh BMM?

Funny, I was just about to mention that it's due for a MAJOR overhaul and update! I wrote a 12 page research paper on the history of Sugarbush and analyzing different ownership practices for my Intro to Ski Area Ops class last year, and I need to implement that somewhere into the site. Definitely need to get a new photo gallery going, and maybe get some vid up. Also time to update the SVNE page.

Maybe I'll find the time later this month. I'm still trying to catch up on www.mogulskiing.net -- my primary focus at the moment.

I definitely want to check out that paper - did you do additional research, or just work off of the materials we had already? The site definitely needs some work, but it's tough being at college and working on the side interests as well, a fact which I am now quite aware of, haha...